From: WARD5@yahoogroups.com
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Sent: Thursday, September 7, 2017 1:59 AM
To: Ward 5
Cc: Daniel Wolkoff
Subject: [WARD5] Weigh in to defeat Vision McMillan Partners
"National Harbor" in Bloomingdale
Mayor’s Agent hearing will
take place on September 11, beginning at 9am and running until about 5:30pm. If
necessary a continuation hearing will be held on September 18. The hearing will
take place at 441 4th
Street NW, Room 220 South and is open to the public (you will need ID to get
through security).
If you wish to submit written
testimony please email it to me by Friday, September 8 at 4pm.
Please say "support" or
"oppose" on your letter to the Mayor's Agent determining how to
divide up our public land for massive over urbanization.
More information on the proceedings
can be found here: https://planning.dc.gov/node/ 1211347
The public is invited to submit testimony in
"opposition" or "support" for the McMillan Re-development
plan by Conglomerate VMP, Vision McMillan Partners. Just about every big
developer is in on this one. EYA, Jair Lynch and Trammel Crow are the main
partners with the DC govt.
DMPED is a partner and in clear conflict of interest, at the
same time is evaluater and regulator of it's own business deal
A "National Harbor" in historic Bloomingdale, this
development is bigger, "The Monstrosity on Michigan Avenue".
The plan includes 50 buildings, 700 condos and rentals, and two
mammoth medical office towers of 1million sq ft each. Medical offices are
speculative real estate right on top of Washington Hospital Center and 5 other
medical facilities, while East of the River goes wanting for medical
facilities, a violation of the Comprehensive Plan.
The developers TIS (Traffic Impact Study) predicts 31,000 vehicle
trips per day on congested N. Capitol and 24,000 mass transit users with no
metro closer than 1 mile, requiring 600 shuttles per day. The plan has 2900
parking spaces. Do you support this on our public green space?
McMillan Coalition for Sustainable Agriculture hopes Ward 5
residents will send in their comments with "oppose" at the top. We
need recreation space, green space to reduce the "urban heat island
effect", a Glen Echo of classes and activities for our families, a DC Wolf
Trap outdoor concert stage, and Urban agriculture in the 20 acres of
preserved underground filtration cells can produce millions of pounds of fresh
food, careers, and we can train our youth and under employed in building trades
restoring our historic site. We need a DC Central Park to offer a unified
meeting place for the community cohesion that is so sorely missing.
The developers and Deputy Mayor hired Jamie Fontaine PR firm to
"neutralize opposition", a violation of the First Amendment.
A recent article in the Intowner describes the "muck"
this deal has sunk into.....
McMillan Park links
Peoples Alternative Plan for McMillan Park
Prof. Miriam Gusevich Catholic University of America with Collage
City Studio You tube power point
National Register of Historic Places
McMillan nomination
(http://www.nps.gov/nr/feature
/places/13000022.htm ) by DC
Office of Historic Preservation architectural Historian Kim Williams. She describes a remarkably intact, fascinating,
even charming engineering marvel slated for demolition in violation of federal
law.
Bowser
and PR Firm Fontaine lied "it was never a park", The High Line in NY
was never a park, it was an elevated Railroad. They had the foresight to save
it, and a fabulous success for NY.
Bloomngdale elder Ms.Ella relates her childhood spent in the PARK,
the children called McMillan "our beach".
To ram the development down our
throats the DC govt. hired Jamie Fontaine PR firm to "neutralize
opposition", a violation of the Constitutional right to "petition the
govt. for redress of grievances".
community struggle to Save
McMillan Park, preserving the ENTIRE "GREAT PLACE", Olmsted designed
surface-park and existing 20 acres underground, creates the exciting potential
for Sustainable large scale "indoor agriculture", numerous adaptive
re-use that is allowed with Historic Preservation and building real careers,
parks are economic development.
Different than Kojo and Roger K.
Lewis model.
