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Subject: [HistoricWashington] McMillan Park Update; Send Testimony; Tour
October 28
From the Friends of McMillan Park.
Kirby Vining
The
Zoning Commission and the Mayor's Agent for Historic Preservation have
concluded their hearings on the remand of the McMillan case from the D.C.
Court of Appeals.
Zoning held its final
meeting on September 14th and instructed that an order be written -- no
date or even estimated date for issuance of that order that will formally
conclude the proceedings.
The Mayor's Agent
for Historic Preservation held a final hearing on
September 18 and instructed parties to the case to write Findings of Fact and
Conclusions of Law for submission by November 1, after which
the Mayor's Agent will write an order concluding his side of the remand
hearings. However, members of the public have the opportunity to
submit written testimony for the Mayor' Agent remand hearings
until October 18 when the record closes. Contact us via the
phone or email for more information on testimony, which must address the points relevant
to the hearings.
We are waiting to see the orders from these two bodies and then
will decide what it is appropriate to do. Likely that will involve a
return to court -- depending, again, on what the orders say.
Opponents of the proposed development made an outstanding presentation,
and now that part is done.
In other news, DMPED/DGS/Gilbane Construction Company announced at a
recent ANC meeting that they would be starting "soon" with the
rehabilitation and stabilization phase of 'the project,' working
exclusively with the historic structures in the north and south service
courts. And D.C. Water is doing a first inspection of its 1st
Street Tunnel, staging some equipment on the extreme southwest of the park to
enter the shaft access to the tunnel
there -- work that will last a few weeks.
That's all that is going
on, at least until the orders come out from the two city bodies. And don't
forget our October 28 historic walking tour through Bloomingdale and
around the site!
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