Cheh's Ward 3 ANC Gerrymandering

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Or do you prefer one party rule like Russia? Thinking a plurality may be a good thing. Slinging insults less so as we try to move forward as a people who all care about America ( or in this case our city). Let's hear the guys platform. Not everyone is DC is pro bike lanes (ask the black churches bout that) or pro paving over all our greenery and building shoebox luxury condos for singletons.

What greenery is being paved over for new development in Ward 3?

The footprint of the Fannie Mae front lawn is now certainly smaller. Have you walked by? Also greenery refers to environmental impact. Developers LOVE to tout their pro building/density anti car green mantra, but they are not doing a great job with carbon credits. The massive building next to Fannie Mae was meant to be rehabbed, not knocked down and rebuilt. Do you have any idea the carbon impact with that slick move? No accountability with the developer "agreements". They just change the plan and say oops. (Also, have to say that if what they are building is what's on the photos on the construction wall, wow, ANOTHER urban loft. So boring and last decade aesthetically.) And last, you KNOW they hate single family and duplex "footprints" and would build up to the sidewalk if they could raze and replace.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:they guy's platform is on his website. He is running as a NIMBY.

Good! He'll get my vote. I think when you get down to it, most people are nimbys including in SW and SE. It makes sense for a ward anc rep to be something of a NIMBY to me, and certainly doesn't limit them from considering the city overall. They can probably walk and chew gum. But go ahead and fall in your sword

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Or do you prefer one party rule like Russia? Thinking a plurality may be a good thing. Slinging insults less so as we try to move forward as a people who all care about America ( or in this case our city). Let's hear the guys platform. Not everyone is DC is pro bike lanes (ask the black churches bout that) or pro paving over all our greenery and building shoebox luxury condos for singletons.

What greenery is being paved over for new development in Ward 3?

The footprint of the Fannie Mae front lawn is now certainly smaller. Have you walked by? Also greenery refers to environmental impact. Developers LOVE to tout their pro building/density anti car green mantra, but they are not doing a great job with carbon credits. The massive building next to Fannie Mae was meant to be rehabbed, not knocked down and rebuilt. Do you have any idea the carbon impact with that slick move? No accountability with the developer "agreements". They just change the plan and say oops. (Also, have to say that if what they are building is what's on the photos on the construction wall, wow, ANOTHER urban loft. So boring and last decade aesthetically.) And last, you KNOW they hate single family and duplex "footprints" and would build up to the sidewalk if they could raze and replace.

You've got it all bass ackwards and have no idea what you are talking.

Aside from the curb cut to reach the underground garage (which is for parking "environmentalists" like you insist on) the front lawn is unchanged.

So do you have any actual examples in Ward 3 of green space that has been converted to housing?

It would not necessarily be a bad idea to do that by the way if it were near transit and high density but I would be very surprised if you can furnish an actual example.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Or do you prefer one party rule like Russia? Thinking a plurality may be a good thing. Slinging insults less so as we try to move forward as a people who all care about America ( or in this case our city). Let's hear the guys platform. Not everyone is DC is pro bike lanes (ask the black churches bout that) or pro paving over all our greenery and building shoebox luxury condos for singletons.

What greenery is being paved over for new development in Ward 3?

The footprint of the Fannie Mae front lawn is now certainly smaller. Have you walked by? Also greenery refers to environmental impact. Developers LOVE to tout their pro building/density anti car green mantra, but they are not doing a great job with carbon credits. The massive building next to Fannie Mae was meant to be rehabbed, not knocked down and rebuilt. Do you have any idea the carbon impact with that slick move? No accountability with the developer "agreements". They just change the plan and say oops. (Also, have to say that if what they are building is what's on the photos on the construction wall, wow, ANOTHER urban loft. So boring and last decade aesthetically.) And last, you KNOW they hate single family and duplex "footprints" and would build up to the sidewalk if they could raze and replace.

You've got it all bass ackwards and have no idea what you are talking.

Aside from the curb cut to reach the underground garage (which is for parking "environmentalists" like you insist on) the front lawn is unchanged.

So do you have any actual examples in Ward 3 of green space that has been converted to housing?

It would not necessarily be a bad idea to do that by the way if it were near transit and high density but I would be very surprised if you can furnish an actual example.

The yards of the houses at Macomb and Connecticut and Norton and
Connecticut where big buildings are going in where there is or used to be green space.

[Anonymous]

I mean Wisconsin not Connecticut

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Or do you prefer one party rule like Russia? Thinking a plurality may be a good thing. Slinging insults less so as we try to move forward as a people who all care about America ( or in this case our city). Let's hear the guys platform. Not everyone is DC is pro bike lanes (ask the black churches bout that) or pro paving over all our greenery and building shoebox luxury condos for singletons.

What greenery is being paved over for new development in Ward 3?

The footprint of the Fannie Mae front lawn is now certainly smaller. Have you walked by? Also greenery refers to environmental impact. Developers LOVE to tout their pro building/density anti car green mantra, but they are not doing a great job with carbon credits. The massive building next to Fannie Mae was meant to be rehabbed, not knocked down and rebuilt. Do you have any idea the carbon impact with that slick move? No accountability with the developer "agreements". They just change the plan and say oops. (Also, have to say that if what they are building is what's on the photos on the construction wall, wow, ANOTHER urban loft. So boring and last decade aesthetically.) And last, you KNOW they hate single family and duplex "footprints" and would build up to the sidewalk if they could raze and replace.

You've got it all bass ackwards and have no idea what you are talking.

Aside from the curb cut to reach the underground garage (which is for parking "environmentalists" like you insist on) the front lawn is unchanged.

So do you have any actual examples in Ward 3 of green space that has been converted to housing?

It would not necessarily be a bad idea to do that by the way if it were near transit and high density but I would be very surprised if you can furnish an actual example.

I provided examples.

[Anonymous]

Instead of paving over more green space in Ward 3, why not turn unused office space downtown into more housing? It’s already dense and near transit. DC’s population recently dropped by 3% more than any other state in the U.S.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Instead of paving over more green space in Ward 3, why not turn unused office space downtown into more housing? It’s already dense and near transit. DC’s population recently dropped by 3% more than any other state in the U.S.

They Mayor has already implemented a program to incentive that.

It still won't solve the housing crisis.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Instead of paving over more green space in Ward 3, why not turn unused office space downtown into more housing? It’s already dense and near transit. DC’s population recently dropped by 3% more than any other state in the U.S.

They Mayor has already implemented a program to incentive that.

It still won't solve the housing crisis.

The Mayor is also incentivizing basements being made livable/rentable. Great idea that serves real people - not only condo singletons. Why not pause there and see how it goes? The "urban loft condos" are taking over DC aesthetically and in every other way. Starting to get very generic and one note round here

[Anonymous]

Why not pause? Because we have a five-figure unit deficit in the city right now, so pausing exacerbates the problem.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Or do you prefer one party rule like Russia? Thinking a plurality may be a good thing. Slinging insults less so as we try to move forward as a people who all care about America ( or in this case our city). Let's hear the guys platform. Not everyone is DC is pro bike lanes (ask the black churches bout that) or pro paving over all our greenery and building shoebox luxury condos for singletons.

What greenery is being paved over for new development in Ward 3?

The footprint of the Fannie Mae front lawn is now certainly smaller. Have you walked by? Also greenery refers to environmental impact. Developers LOVE to tout their pro building/density anti car green mantra, but they are not doing a great job with carbon credits. The massive building next to Fannie Mae was meant to be rehabbed, not knocked down and rebuilt. Do you have any idea the carbon impact with that slick move? No accountability with the developer "agreements". They just change the plan and say oops. (Also, have to say that if what they are building is what's on the photos on the construction wall, wow, ANOTHER urban loft. So boring and last decade aesthetically.) And last, you KNOW they hate single family and duplex "footprints" and would build up to the sidewalk if they could raze and replace.

You've got it all bass ackwards and have no idea what you are talking.

Aside from the curb cut to reach the underground garage (which is for parking "environmentalists" like you insist on) the front lawn is unchanged.

So do you have any actual examples in Ward 3 of green space that has been converted to housing?

It would not necessarily be a bad idea to do that by the way if it were near transit and high density but I would be very surprised if you can furnish an actual example.

The yards of the houses at Macomb and Connecticut and Norton and
Connecticut where big buildings are going in where there is or used to be green space.

That's what you came up with? As I said on transit lines this trade off is a huge environmental plus and in this case I doubt it was more than 300 square feet of grass lost. DC has the strictest green building standards in the country - don't know the specifics of this project but even without a green roof or rooftop solar this new building being constructed to meet DC's storm water retention requirements almost certainly alone makes this a greener use of this busy corner. Where there happens to be a bus stop on one of the highest frequent bus corridors in the region.

Do you have any better examples?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why not pause? Because we have a five-figure unit deficit in the city right now, so pausing exacerbates the problem.

Can you really and clearly explain this deficit and how pricey condos are the answer?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why not pause? Because we have a five-figure unit deficit in the city right now, so pausing exacerbates the problem.

Can you really and clearly explain this deficit and how pricey condos are the answer?

There is a 40+ page thread in this forum about it.
Or, you could google any of the Brookings, or DCFPI or DC Housing white papers on the topic.

[Anonymous]

Just posted on the Palisades list:
Dear Neighbors,
For those of you who have been following the ANC redistricting closely, this is an important message. The Task Force has created a new map that will be considered at the next meeting on Tuesday evening. Attached is a slide show in .pdf form of each ANC but you can find the full map in the ESRI software in the “Everyone” folder titled, “Full Proposal Built from Voice Framework”. The Task Force constructed this map from the framework of the "Neighborhood Voice” presentation given last week.

You may recall, the Neighborhood Voice presentation included components of a map, but it was not a full map. Roughly 15% of the SMDs displayed were non-conforming with populations outside the allowed 1900-2100 for SMDs.The Task Force started from this proposal and created a complete, 100% conforming map. This map will be considered alongside the map presented by the Task Force last week.

In particular, the proposed map:
completely conforms with all population and compactness directives (every SMD is within 5% of 2,000 residents);
does not split any Census blocks other than the mathematically required split of American University;
embodies the population corridor concept we have been advancing throughout our deliberations;
creates a new ANC in Middle Wisconsin with 6 SMDs (including 2 student commissioners from AU);
imposes Massachusetts Avenue as the border between Upper Wisconsin and Massachusetts-Macarthur;
includes the area east of Foxhall Road in Massachusetts-Macarthur;
establishes Reno Rd. and 41st St. as the border between Upper Wisconsin and Upper Connecticut, ensuring that all residents close to Wisconsin Avenue in the vicinity are included in the Upper Wisconsin ANC;
includes the National Cathedral, Rosedale Conservancy, and the Naval Observatory in the Lower Connecticut ANC;
includes the Foxhall Village and Colony Hill neighborhoods in the MacArthur-Mass ANC
keeps the Forest Hills neighborhood within one ANC.
Comments are welcome and the best way to do that is by emailing the Task Force at [e-mail].


Tricia Duncan
Klingle St
Task Force Member

[Anonymous]

So the Tricia/Troy ploy failed and they reverted to a more reasonable map that is much closer to what the Community Associations all proposed.

I love the way Tricia is trying to take credit for this. She should be ashamed.