Fires today in upper nw?

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Anonymous wrote:An arrest has been made in the recent arsons in Tenleytown.

Wow, look at this.

A crime is committed. The councilmember brings attention to it. The police investigate and someone is arrested.

If only we could get Frumin to care as much about violent crime as he apparently does about property crime.

This. He should be quite literally out walking the streets, calling things in, until all of this nuisance crime subsides. The sidewalk in front of City Ridge smells permanently of pot. Why is that? He could call it in. The flasher in the bank. He could call it in. Etc.

Let me know the last time he made multiple public comments, press releases or tweets about a violent crime in Ward 3.
https://twitter.com/CMFrumin/status/1727365115882918313

It’s not an exaggeration to say that he’s purposely been avoiding publicly directly addressing and bringing attention to the crime issue in Ward 3. That is until this specific case of property crime.

I think the onus should be on Frumin to explain why this seems to be the only crime that has caught his attention and is a priority for him.

It’s near his neighborhood.

If there is one consistent thing about Frumin, he is overly sensitive to businesses. It’s why the bike lanes are dead and also why he cares so much about property crime.

That’s fair up to a point. We are in danger of losing more neighborhood businesses because of crime and disorder that are spiraling out of control

Frumin should be outside every day moving from hotspot to hotspot and calling in nuisance crime on up. I'm sure District 2 takes his calls.

If he just stood outside the Van Ness or Cleveland Park metro stations for an hour he would see multiple crimes including 100% chance of open weed use and retail theft. High likelihood of carjacking or theft.

Every time I've had a friend meet me at the VN Starbucks there is a mentally ill person taking a sh&t on the plaza, despite open bathrooms feet away in both Starbucks and Giant. After the 4th time, I now invite people to Saku Saku in CP w/courtyard. Tried the one on Wisconsin but it's practically in the lobby of The PIW and a naked man ran out into traffic and had to be subdued by LE. My out of town visitor found it upsetting, not "vibrant."

More like the Tenderloin than VN and Cathedral Heights of old.

Re: Frumin, I've gone on a few MPD neighborhood walks and have yet to see him or even staff. Or Courtney Carlson, for that matter. Cheh used to be a presence in the neighborhood.

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^ by "of old" I mean a few years ago.

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Anonymous wrote:An arrest has been made in the recent arsons in Tenleytown.

Wow, look at this.

A crime is committed. The councilmember brings attention to it. The police investigate and someone is arrested.

If only we could get Frumin to care as much about violent crime as he apparently does about property crime.

This. He should be quite literally out walking the streets, calling things in, until all of this nuisance crime subsides. The sidewalk in front of City Ridge smells permanently of pot. Why is that? He could call it in. The flasher in the bank. He could call it in. Etc.

Let me know the last time he made multiple public comments, press releases or tweets about a violent crime in Ward 3.
https://twitter.com/CMFrumin/status/1727365115882918313

It’s not an exaggeration to say that he’s purposely been avoiding publicly directly addressing and bringing attention to the crime issue in Ward 3. That is until this specific case of property crime.

I think the onus should be on Frumin to explain why this seems to be the only crime that has caught his attention and is a priority for him.

It’s near his neighborhood.

If there is one consistent thing about Frumin, he is overly sensitive to businesses. It’s why the bike lanes are dead and also why he cares so much about property crime.

That’s fair up to a point. We are in danger of losing more neighborhood businesses because of crime and disorder that are spiraling out of control

Frumin should be outside every day moving from hotspot to hotspot and calling in nuisance crime on up. I'm sure District 2 takes his calls.

If he just stood outside the Van Ness or Cleveland Park metro stations for an hour he would see multiple crimes including 100% chance of open weed use and retail theft. High likelihood of carjacking or theft.

Every time I've had a friend meet me at the VN Starbucks there is a mentally ill person taking a sh&t on the plaza, despite open bathrooms feet away in both Starbucks and Giant. After the 4th time, I now invite people to Saku Saku in CP w/courtyard. Tried the one on Wisconsin but it's practically in the lobby of The PIW and a naked man ran out into traffic and had to be subdued by LE. My out of town visitor found it upsetting, not "vibrant."

More like the Tenderloin than VN and Cathedral Heights of old.

Re: Frumin, I've gone on a few MPD neighborhood walks and have yet to see him or even staff. Or Courtney Carlson, for that matter. Cheh used to be a presence in the neighborhood.

Frumin’s staff are a bunch of Millennial urbanist ideologues who think posting online equals working. There’s a reason why his constituent service is so bad and there’s a reason why his information networks are so narrow and as a result he’s only apparently sensitive to issues that affect his immediate neighborhood and not the Ward as a whole.

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Anonymous wrote:I actually attend the LDS church on Western that was destroyed by the fire on Monday. We are being told that although we won’t know an official cause for awhile, right now they are suspecting it was an electrical fire that started in the attic.

That’s so sad! I hope you didn’t lose anything irreplaceable.

Thank you! It is a sad time for our congregation.

It was a 72 year building, so I’m sure plenty of things were lost that are irreplaceable. And we still don’t know if the building itself is a complete loss or if can be rebuilt with the same charm that we all love, at least in part. But we count our blessings that it was unoccupied and that firefighters were not seriously injured when they got trapped.

A generic 72 year old building was built in the 1950s is NOT historic in DC. Stop pretending like it is. Planning probably already had that specific building slated for upzoning. While arson is bad, folks should probably be happy if this accelerates redevelopment.

The PP was talking about the LDS church on Western Ave. The Smart Growth “Density Bros” are really out of control when they are cheerleading for upzoning and mixed-use redevelopment of a burned church where a congregation worships!

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Very telling Bros.

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Anonymous wrote:An arrest has been made in the recent arsons in Tenleytown.

Wow, look at this.

A crime is committed. The councilmember brings attention to it. The police investigate and someone is arrested.

If only we could get Frumin to care as much about violent crime as he apparently does about property crime.

This. He should be quite literally out walking the streets, calling things in, until all of this nuisance crime subsides. The sidewalk in front of City Ridge smells permanently of pot. Why is that? He could call it in. The flasher in the bank. He could call it in. Etc.

Let me know the last time he made multiple public comments, press releases or tweets about a violent crime in Ward 3.
https://twitter.com/CMFrumin/status/1727365115882918313

It’s not an exaggeration to say that he’s purposely been avoiding publicly directly addressing and bringing attention to the crime issue in Ward 3. That is until this specific case of property crime.

I think the onus should be on Frumin to explain why this seems to be the only crime that has caught his attention and is a priority for him.

It’s near his neighborhood.

If there is one consistent thing about Frumin, he is overly sensitive to businesses. It’s why the bike lanes are dead and also why he cares so much about property crime.

That’s fair up to a point. We are in danger of losing more neighborhood businesses because of crime and disorder that are spiraling out of control

Frumin should be outside every day moving from hotspot to hotspot and calling in nuisance crime on up. I'm sure District 2 takes his calls.

If he just stood outside the Van Ness or Cleveland Park metro stations for an hour he would see multiple crimes including 100% chance of open weed use and retail theft. High likelihood of carjacking or theft.

Every time I've had a friend meet me at the VN Starbucks there is a mentally ill person taking a sh&t on the plaza, despite open bathrooms feet away in both Starbucks and Giant. After the 4th time, I now invite people to Saku Saku in CP w/courtyard. Tried the one on Wisconsin but it's practically in the lobby of The PIW and a naked man ran out into traffic and had to be subdued by LE. My out of town visitor found it upsetting, not "vibrant."

More like the Tenderloin than VN and Cathedral Heights of old.

Re: Frumin, I've gone on a few MPD neighborhood walks and have yet to see him or even staff. Or Courtney Carlson, for that matter. Cheh used to be a presence in the neighborhood.

If he did NOTHING else for the next few months, he could walk Ward 3 and call in disturbances like this to District 2. Stand by the Tenleytown metro at school let out, monitor PIW admittances and releases, monitor the hotspot buildings on CT. I'm pretty sure District 2 and 311 would take his calls. If not, he could have his aides follow up. Be of use Frumin. It's a salaried position with parking!

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:An arrest has been made in the recent arsons in Tenleytown.

Wow, look at this.

A crime is committed. The councilmember brings attention to it. The police investigate and someone is arrested.

If only we could get Frumin to care as much about violent crime as he apparently does about property crime.

This. He should be quite literally out walking the streets, calling things in, until all of this nuisance crime subsides. The sidewalk in front of City Ridge smells permanently of pot. Why is that? He could call it in. The flasher in the bank. He could call it in. Etc.

Let me know the last time he made multiple public comments, press releases or tweets about a violent crime in Ward 3.
https://twitter.com/CMFrumin/status/1727365115882918313

It’s not an exaggeration to say that he’s purposely been avoiding publicly directly addressing and bringing attention to the crime issue in Ward 3. That is until this specific case of property crime.

I think the onus should be on Frumin to explain why this seems to be the only crime that has caught his attention and is a priority for him.

It’s near his neighborhood.

If there is one consistent thing about Frumin, he is overly sensitive to businesses. It’s why the bike lanes are dead and also why he cares so much about property crime.

That’s fair up to a point. We are in danger of losing more neighborhood businesses because of crime and disorder that are spiraling out of control

Frumin should be outside every day moving from hotspot to hotspot and calling in nuisance crime on up. I'm sure District 2 takes his calls.

If he just stood outside the Van Ness or Cleveland Park metro stations for an hour he would see multiple crimes including 100% chance of open weed use and retail theft. High likelihood of carjacking or theft.

Every time I've had a friend meet me at the VN Starbucks there is a mentally ill person taking a sh&t on the plaza, despite open bathrooms feet away in both Starbucks and Giant. After the 4th time, I now invite people to Saku Saku in CP w/courtyard. Tried the one on Wisconsin but it's practically in the lobby of The PIW and a naked man ran out into traffic and had to be subdued by LE. My out of town visitor found it upsetting, not "vibrant."

More like the Tenderloin than VN and Cathedral Heights of old.

Re: Frumin, I've gone on a few MPD neighborhood walks and have yet to see him or even staff. Or Courtney Carlson, for that matter. Cheh used to be a presence in the neighborhood.

If he did NOTHING else for the next few months, he could walk Ward 3 and call in disturbances like this to District 2. Stand by the Tenleytown metro at school let out, monitor PIW admittances and releases, monitor the hotspot buildings on CT. I'm pretty sure District 2 and 311 would take his calls. If not, he could have his aides follow up. Be of use Frumin. It's a salaried position with parking!

An actual reasonable and responsible thing he could and should do as a councilmember is to go to each business and leave his card and tell them to call his office if they are having issues with nuisances and trouble getting 311 or MPD to respond and address. Then he obviously needs to vigorously follow-up with these businesses when the do contact his office but also to just regularly and proactively check in on them. Phil Graham may have been corrupt, but he was actually a very good politician and knew how to do this stuff right.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:An arrest has been made in the recent arsons in Tenleytown.

Wow, look at this.

A crime is committed. The councilmember brings attention to it. The police investigate and someone is arrested.

If only we could get Frumin to care as much about violent crime as he apparently does about property crime.

Well, there's still the AG who actually has to.. punish the person. Just because they were arrested doesn't mean jack-all in this town.

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Anonymous wrote:An arrest has been made in the recent arsons in Tenleytown.

Wow, look at this.

A crime is committed. The councilmember brings attention to it. The police investigate and someone is arrested.

If only we could get Frumin to care as much about violent crime as he apparently does about property crime.

This. He should be quite literally out walking the streets, calling things in, until all of this nuisance crime subsides. The sidewalk in front of City Ridge smells permanently of pot. Why is that? He could call it in. The flasher in the bank. He could call it in. Etc.

Let me know the last time he made multiple public comments, press releases or tweets about a violent crime in Ward 3.
https://twitter.com/CMFrumin/status/1727365115882918313

It’s not an exaggeration to say that he’s purposely been avoiding publicly directly addressing and bringing attention to the crime issue in Ward 3. That is until this specific case of property crime.

I think the onus should be on Frumin to explain why this seems to be the only crime that has caught his attention and is a priority for him.

It’s near his neighborhood.

If there is one consistent thing about Frumin, he is overly sensitive to businesses. It’s why the bike lanes are dead and also why he cares so much about property crime.

That’s fair up to a point. We are in danger of losing more neighborhood businesses because of crime and disorder that are spiraling out of control

Frumin should be outside every day moving from hotspot to hotspot and calling in nuisance crime on up. I'm sure District 2 takes his calls.

If he just stood outside the Van Ness or Cleveland Park metro stations for an hour he would see multiple crimes including 100% chance of open weed use and retail theft. High likelihood of carjacking or theft.

Every time I've had a friend meet me at the VN Starbucks there is a mentally ill person taking a sh&t on the plaza, despite open bathrooms feet away in both Starbucks and Giant. After the 4th time, I now invite people to Saku Saku in CP w/courtyard. Tried the one on Wisconsin but it's practically in the lobby of The PIW and a naked man ran out into traffic and had to be subdued by LE. My out of town visitor found it upsetting, not "vibrant."

More like the Tenderloin than VN and Cathedral Heights of old.

Re: Frumin, I've gone on a few MPD neighborhood walks and have yet to see him or even staff. Or Courtney Carlson, for that matter. Cheh used to be a presence in the neighborhood.

Like the Tenderloin? Hahahahahah.... hahahahahahahah... hahahahah oh man, what a good laugh you just gave me with your massively dramatic embellishment!

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:An arrest has been made in the recent arsons in Tenleytown.

Wow, look at this.

A crime is committed. The councilmember brings attention to it. The police investigate and someone is arrested.

If only we could get Frumin to care as much about violent crime as he apparently does about property crime.

This. He should be quite literally out walking the streets, calling things in, until all of this nuisance crime subsides. The sidewalk in front of City Ridge smells permanently of pot. Why is that? He could call it in. The flasher in the bank. He could call it in. Etc.

Let me know the last time he made multiple public comments, press releases or tweets about a violent crime in Ward 3.
https://twitter.com/CMFrumin/status/1727365115882918313

It’s not an exaggeration to say that he’s purposely been avoiding publicly directly addressing and bringing attention to the crime issue in Ward 3. That is until this specific case of property crime.

I think the onus should be on Frumin to explain why this seems to be the only crime that has caught his attention and is a priority for him.

It’s near his neighborhood.

If there is one consistent thing about Frumin, he is overly sensitive to businesses. It’s why the bike lanes are dead and also why he cares so much about property crime.

That’s fair up to a point. We are in danger of losing more neighborhood businesses because of crime and disorder that are spiraling out of control

Frumin should be outside every day moving from hotspot to hotspot and calling in nuisance crime on up. I'm sure District 2 takes his calls.

If he just stood outside the Van Ness or Cleveland Park metro stations for an hour he would see multiple crimes including 100% chance of open weed use and retail theft. High likelihood of carjacking or theft.

Every time I've had a friend meet me at the VN Starbucks there is a mentally ill person taking a sh&t on the plaza, despite open bathrooms feet away in both Starbucks and Giant. After the 4th time, I now invite people to Saku Saku in CP w/courtyard. Tried the one on Wisconsin but it's practically in the lobby of The PIW and a naked man ran out into traffic and had to be subdued by LE. My out of town visitor found it upsetting, not "vibrant."

More like the Tenderloin than VN and Cathedral Heights of old.

Re: Frumin, I've gone on a few MPD neighborhood walks and have yet to see him or even staff. Or Courtney Carlson, for that matter. Cheh used to be a presence in the neighborhood.

Carlson is too busy walking in her office on her treadmill in climate control to be bothered with walking outside of Forest Hills to deal with those vagrants she usually just drives by.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:An arrest has been made in the recent arsons in Tenleytown.

Wow, look at this.

A crime is committed. The councilmember brings attention to it. The police investigate and someone is arrested.

If only we could get Frumin to care as much about violent crime as he apparently does about property crime.

This. He should be quite literally out walking the streets, calling things in, until all of this nuisance crime subsides. The sidewalk in front of City Ridge smells permanently of pot. Why is that? He could call it in. The flasher in the bank. He could call it in. Etc.

Let me know the last time he made multiple public comments, press releases or tweets about a violent crime in Ward 3.
https://twitter.com/CMFrumin/status/1727365115882918313

It’s not an exaggeration to say that he’s purposely been avoiding publicly directly addressing and bringing attention to the crime issue in Ward 3. That is until this specific case of property crime.

I think the onus should be on Frumin to explain why this seems to be the only crime that has caught his attention and is a priority for him.

It’s near his neighborhood.

If there is one consistent thing about Frumin, he is overly sensitive to businesses. It’s why the bike lanes are dead and also why he cares so much about property crime.

That’s fair up to a point. We are in danger of losing more neighborhood businesses because of crime and disorder that are spiraling out of control

Frumin should be outside every day moving from hotspot to hotspot and calling in nuisance crime on up. I'm sure District 2 takes his calls.

If he just stood outside the Van Ness or Cleveland Park metro stations for an hour he would see multiple crimes including 100% chance of open weed use and retail theft. High likelihood of carjacking or theft.

Every time I've had a friend meet me at the VN Starbucks there is a mentally ill person taking a sh&t on the plaza, despite open bathrooms feet away in both Starbucks and Giant. After the 4th time, I now invite people to Saku Saku in CP w/courtyard. Tried the one on Wisconsin but it's practically in the lobby of The PIW and a naked man ran out into traffic and had to be subdued by LE. My out of town visitor found it upsetting, not "vibrant."

More like the Tenderloin than VN and Cathedral Heights of old.

Re: Frumin, I've gone on a few MPD neighborhood walks and have yet to see him or even staff. Or Courtney Carlson, for that matter. Cheh used to be a presence in the neighborhood.

If he did NOTHING else for the next few months, he could walk Ward 3 and call in disturbances like this to District 2. Stand by the Tenleytown metro at school let out, monitor PIW admittances and releases, monitor the hotspot buildings on CT. I'm pretty sure District 2 and 311 would take his calls. If not, he could have his aides follow up. Be of use Frumin. It's a salaried position with parking!

An actual reasonable and responsible thing he could and should do as a councilmember is to go to each business and leave his card and tell them to call his office if they are having issues with nuisances and trouble getting 311 or MPD to respond and address. Then he obviously needs to vigorously follow-up with these businesses when the do contact his office but also to just regularly and proactively check in on them. Phil Graham may have been corrupt, but he was actually a very good politician and knew how to do this stuff right.

You mean Jim Graham.

Of course, Sen. Phil Graham also would be better than Bowser and most of the Council.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:An arrest has been made in the recent arsons in Tenleytown.

Wow, look at this.

A crime is committed. The councilmember brings attention to it. The police investigate and someone is arrested.

If only we could get Frumin to care as much about violent crime as he apparently does about property crime.

This. He should be quite literally out walking the streets, calling things in, until all of this nuisance crime subsides. The sidewalk in front of City Ridge smells permanently of pot. Why is that? He could call it in. The flasher in the bank. He could call it in. Etc.

Let me know the last time he made multiple public comments, press releases or tweets about a violent crime in Ward 3.
https://twitter.com/CMFrumin/status/1727365115882918313

It’s not an exaggeration to say that he’s purposely been avoiding publicly directly addressing and bringing attention to the crime issue in Ward 3. That is until this specific case of property crime.

I think the onus should be on Frumin to explain why this seems to be the only crime that has caught his attention and is a priority for him.

It’s near his neighborhood.

If there is one consistent thing about Frumin, he is overly sensitive to businesses. It’s why the bike lanes are dead and also why he cares so much about property crime.

That’s fair up to a point. We are in danger of losing more neighborhood businesses because of crime and disorder that are spiraling out of control

Frumin should be outside every day moving from hotspot to hotspot and calling in nuisance crime on up. I'm sure District 2 takes his calls.

If he just stood outside the Van Ness or Cleveland Park metro stations for an hour he would see multiple crimes including 100% chance of open weed use and retail theft. High likelihood of carjacking or theft.

Every time I've had a friend meet me at the VN Starbucks there is a mentally ill person taking a sh&t on the plaza, despite open bathrooms feet away in both Starbucks and Giant. After the 4th time, I now invite people to Saku Saku in CP w/courtyard. Tried the one on Wisconsin but it's practically in the lobby of The PIW and a naked man ran out into traffic and had to be subdued by LE. My out of town visitor found it upsetting, not "vibrant."

More like the Tenderloin than VN and Cathedral Heights of old.

Re: Frumin, I've gone on a few MPD neighborhood walks and have yet to see him or even staff. Or Courtney Carlson, for that matter. Cheh used to be a presence in the neighborhood.

If he did NOTHING else for the next few months, he could walk Ward 3 and call in disturbances like this to District 2. Stand by the Tenleytown metro at school let out, monitor PIW admittances and releases, monitor the hotspot buildings on CT. I'm pretty sure District 2 and 311 would take his calls. If not, he could have his aides follow up. Be of use Frumin. It's a salaried position with parking!

An actual reasonable and responsible thing he could and should do as a councilmember is to go to each business and leave his card and tell them to call his office if they are having issues with nuisances and trouble getting 311 or MPD to respond and address. Then he obviously needs to vigorously follow-up with these businesses when the do contact his office but also to just regularly and proactively check in on them. Phil Graham may have been corrupt, but he was actually a very good politician and knew how to do this stuff right.

You mean Jim Graham.

Of course, Sen. Phil Graham also would be better than Bowser and most of the Council.

Of course Jim Graham. The former Senator from Texas was actually named “Gramm” so the most famous Phil Graham Washingtonian was probably the old Washington Post publisher. All of which would be preferable to the current city leadership.

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Anonymous wrote:I actually attend the LDS church on Western that was destroyed by the fire on Monday. We are being told that although we won’t know an official cause for awhile, right now they are suspecting it was an electrical fire that started in the attic.

That’s so sad! I hope you didn’t lose anything irreplaceable.

Thank you! It is a sad time for our congregation.

It was a 72 year building, so I’m sure plenty of things were lost that are irreplaceable. And we still don’t know if the building itself is a complete loss or if can be rebuilt with the same charm that we all love, at least in part. But we count our blessings that it was unoccupied and that firefighters were not seriously injured when they got trapped.

A generic 72 year old building was built in the 1950s is NOT historic in DC. Stop pretending like it is. Planning probably already had that specific building slated for upzoning. While arson is bad, folks should probably be happy if this accelerates redevelopment.

I didn't call it historic, I called it old. And I'm calling you mean for cheering at the thought of an arsonist burning down a church (although the evidence so far is that it was an electrical fire).

It was a church that has been in constant use for worship and fellowship for 72 years. It has great meaning for those of us who choose to attend and we are sad about its loss. Whatever you thoughts are about religion or my specific religion, you should have enough kindness in you to feel sorry for others who have lost something important to them.

And its isn't in DC, it's just across Western Ave in Maryland so I think it's safe from your upzoning.

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Anonymous wrote:I actually attend the LDS church on Western that was destroyed by the fire on Monday. We are being told that although we won’t know an official cause for awhile, right now they are suspecting it was an electrical fire that started in the attic.

That’s so sad! I hope you didn’t lose anything irreplaceable.

Thank you! It is a sad time for our congregation.

It was a 72 year building, so I’m sure plenty of things were lost that are irreplaceable. And we still don’t know if the building itself is a complete loss or if can be rebuilt with the same charm that we all love, at least in part. But we count our blessings that it was unoccupied and that firefighters were not seriously injured when they got trapped.

A generic 72 year old building was built in the 1950s is NOT historic in DC. Stop pretending like it is. Planning probably already had that specific building slated for upzoning. While arson is bad, folks should probably be happy if this accelerates redevelopment.

I didn't call it historic, I called it old. And I'm calling you mean for cheering at the thought of an arsonist burning down a church (although the evidence so far is that it was an electrical fire).

It was a church that has been in constant use for worship and fellowship for 72 years. It has great meaning for those of us who choose to attend and we are sad about its loss. Whatever you thoughts are about religion or my specific religion, you should have enough kindness in you to feel sorry for others who have lost something important to them.

And its isn't in DC, it's just across Western Ave in Maryland so I think it's safe from your upzoning.

Greater Greater Washington and Smart Urbanism don’t stop at the DC line.

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Anonymous wrote:I actually attend the LDS church on Western that was destroyed by the fire on Monday. We are being told that although we won’t know an official cause for awhile, right now they are suspecting it was an electrical fire that started in the attic.

That’s so sad! I hope you didn’t lose anything irreplaceable.

Thank you! It is a sad time for our congregation.

It was a 72 year building, so I’m sure plenty of things were lost that are irreplaceable. And we still don’t know if the building itself is a complete loss or if can be rebuilt with the same charm that we all love, at least in part. But we count our blessings that it was unoccupied and that firefighters were not seriously injured when they got trapped.

A generic 72 year old building was built in the 1950s is NOT historic in DC. Stop pretending like it is. Planning probably already had that specific building slated for upzoning. While arson is bad, folks should probably be happy if this accelerates redevelopment.

The church will re-build, sorry.