Mary Cheh has turned Cleveland Park/Cleveland Park North into her personal political asset

[Anonymous]

Has anyone asked why the ANC chairman attended the New Year's Eve party at Mar-a-Lago? He is close with Brooke Pinto whose father has known ties to Trump. Perhaps someone should ask the Councilwoman what is going on.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Has anyone asked why the ANC chairman attended the New Year's Eve party at Mar-a-Lago? He is close with Brooke Pinto whose father has known ties to Trump. Perhaps someone should ask the Councilwoman what is going on.

Do you have any proof of this? Is there a link?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Has anyone asked why the ANC chairman attended the New Year's Eve party at Mar-a-Lago? He is close with Brooke Pinto whose father has known ties to Trump. Perhaps someone should ask the Councilwoman what is going on.

Why would mary cheh have any idea what an ANC commissioner is doing on a new years eve?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's quite clear that Mary Cheh and her staff sold out to Big Development some time ago, and they don't value neighborhood character, green space or historic preservation very much. During Cheh's meeting with a Northwest DC community group on the Comprehensive Plan amendments a few months ago, her chief of staff stunned everyone by stating that trying to preserve the iconic Uptown Theater wasn't worth the effort and then asserted that dense, mixed-use development at the Uptown "is exactly what we want there." Cheh didn't correct him.

Good for her. Thank god the iconic facade is protected as part of the historic district but let's not pretend a theater is viable there.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It's quite clear that Mary Cheh and her staff sold out to Big Development some time ago, and they don't value neighborhood character, green space or historic preservation very much. During Cheh's meeting with a Northwest DC community group on the Comprehensive Plan amendments a few months ago, her chief of staff stunned everyone by stating that trying to preserve the iconic Uptown Theater wasn't worth the effort and then asserted that dense, mixed-use development at the Uptown "is exactly what we want there." Cheh didn't correct him.

Good for her. Thank god the iconic facade is protected as part of the historic district but let's not pretend a theater is viable there.

Facadomy is not historic preservation. And a 6 or 7 story glass box of upscale flats on top of the Uptown would change its appearance considerably. Cheh helped to save the Avalon, but she wants to redevelop the Uptown? Maybe an earlier poster was correct - for some reason she just does not like Cleveland Park.

[Anonymous]

If there is a neighborhood group that can pull together the money to buy the theater and program it as a non-profit and have it be viable from there, then terrific. God speed.

But short of that, it isn't viable as a theater any longer. It could be renovated with a multi story (not 6 or 7 as the hyperbole poster above falsely claims) addition to include housing.

[Anonymous]

Apparently the little library in Tenleytown is getting multiple stories thrown on top soon (not historically equivalent I know). But is anyone looking at the traffic impact of all these new units? Traffic has been a crawl on Wisconsin and parking in the neighborhood an absolute mess of illegally parked MD and VA vehicles.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Apparently the little library in Tenleytown is getting multiple stories thrown on top soon (not historically equivalent I know). But is anyone looking at the traffic impact of all these new units? Traffic has been a crawl on Wisconsin and parking in the neighborhood an absolute mess of illegally parked MD and VA vehicles.

Don't you know that all of these new residents don't believe in having cars. They will take Metro or those little scooters that block the sidewalk. And they love bikes, so they will need to build bike lanes on Wisconsin. And by not building parking on site, the developer will pass the savings on to residents in lower prices, naturally.

Just don't tell the new Urbanists that they won't be eligible for RPP for the cars that they won't drive. They get vey snippy about that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If there is a neighborhood group that can pull together the money to buy the theater and program it as a non-profit and have it be viable from there, then terrific. God speed.

But short of that, it isn't viable as a theater any longer. It could be renovated with a multi story (not 6 or 7 as the hyperbole poster above falsely claims) addition to include housing.

Thanks to Mary Cheh, the price for a non-profit to buy the Uptown just went up significantly. Under current zoning, building height on that parcel is limited to 40-45 feet, about the height of the Uptown. Therefore, the owner or a developer could repurpose the Uptown for something else, but couldn't build higher or add windows to the facade. However, Cheh recently pushed the DC Council to increase the Future Land Map designation for the block to "medium density residential." While this sounds innocuous, in DC zoning-speak this translates to zoning categories that allow buildings of up to 110 feet high, including a habitable penthouse floor. So now the Uptown site is infinitely more valuable to real estate speculators and developers for its dense development potential, and a nonprofit will have to find 2 or 3 times the funds that they would have needed six months ago to purchase and save the Uptown.

Not sure whether Cheh is an idiot, simply indifferent, or a devious developers' tool. But she just screwed the community and fans of the Uptown across the area.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Apparently the little library in Tenleytown is getting multiple stories thrown on top soon (not historically equivalent I know). But is anyone looking at the traffic impact of all these new units? Traffic has been a crawl on Wisconsin and parking in the neighborhood an absolute mess of illegally parked MD and VA vehicles.

Do you have a link about this? It's very difficult to build on top of an existing building. There's no reason to overbuild a structure such that more building can be built on top of it at a later date; you'd go all in on height at once.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Apparently the little library in Tenleytown is getting multiple stories thrown on top soon (not historically equivalent I know). But is anyone looking at the traffic impact of all these new units? Traffic has been a crawl on Wisconsin and parking in the neighborhood an absolute mess of illegally parked MD and VA vehicles.

We desperately need better traffic/parking enforcement in this city.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
Facadomy is not historic preservation. And a 6 or 7 story glass box of upscale flats on top of the Uptown would change its appearance considerably.

Nice strawman argument.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
Do you have any proof of this? Is there a link?

Of course there's no proof. There never is. It's probably the same two or three bitter people in Cleveland Park spinning up these conspiracy theories. Their groupthink has left them far outside reality. Their sky is forever falling. Their beliefs are so firmly held that they cannot fathom someone disagreeing with them unless an ulterior motive is at play.

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Anonymous wrote:
Do you have any proof of this? Is there a link?

Of course there's no proof. There never is. It's probably the same two or three bitter people in Cleveland Park spinning up these conspiracy theories. Their groupthink has left them far outside reality. Their sky is forever falling. Their beliefs are so firmly held that they cannot fathom someone disagreeing with them unless an ulterior motive is at play.

I am not sure what game you are playing, but you are the person who posted the message about Mar-a-Lago. You have also reported that post multiple times saying that it is libel. So, why did you post something for which you say there is no proof and that you have reported as libel? That is very strange behavior. Can you explain it?

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Anonymous wrote:
Facadomy is not historic preservation. And a 6 or 7 story glass box of upscale flats on top of the Uptown would change its appearance considerably.

Nice strawman argument.

It's very relevant from the standpoint of adding to an historic structure. The Ward 3 Vision-GGW crowd would love to get rid of the historic district, but it's a fact.