Development at Superfresh in AU park

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I hope the mayor puts at least some homeless housing there, there is no reason the same areas keep getting all of it. Also maybe a few dozen low income housing units for single mothers and their kids so that those kids can get the benefits of Janney and bring some diversity to the school which it sorely needs.

Yes people who live in the city should not be able to buy themselves out of the things that characterize city living: density and diversity, economic and racial.

Why not? People do that all over the world, and all over DC to greater or lesser degrees, not just WOTP. Otherwise everyone would live EOTR.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'd rather have nothing than that!

Exactly. But developers try to shove it all down the neighborhood's throat. Look at Macomb St. People wanted a renovated grocery store and they got two blocks of Cathedral Commons instead, which has put a lot more traffic on nearby streets.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:http://www.marycheh.com/contact-us/

Email Mary Cheh and tell here you support low income housing in AU park super fresh site.

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Cut and paste and email the mayor too!

Let's tell Mary Cheh that we support low income housing in Forest Hills, where she lives. But it seems that she ensures that things like the homeless shelter, DC facilities and low income housing never happen in her neighborhood. She's the personification of the know it all, limousine liberal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I hope the mayor puts at least some homeless housing there, there is no reason the same areas keep getting all of it. Also maybe a few dozen low income housing units for single mothers and their kids so that those kids can get the benefits of Janney and bring some diversity to the school which it sorely needs.

Isn't Janney going to be 10 percent 'at risk' quota kids?

[Anonymous]

Doesn't AU Park deserve to have its own Cathedral Commons?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:http://www.marycheh.com/contact-us/

Email Mary Cheh and tell here you support low income housing in AU park super fresh site.

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Cut and paste and email the mayor too!

Let's tell Mary Cheh that we support low income housing in Forest Hills, where she lives. But it seems that she ensures that things like the homeless shelter, DC facilities and low income housing never happen in her neighborhood. She's the personification of the know it all, limousine liberal.

Chen proposed her own neighborhood as one of the five 'not Glover Pk/developer boondoggle' sites. In fact, the exact address that she proposed on the record, to the Council, is about 3 blocks from her home address, on Albemarle st.

You get your own opinions, but not your own facts.

[Anonymous]

* cheh

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:http://www.marycheh.com/contact-us/

Email Mary Cheh and tell here you support low income housing in AU park super fresh site.

[e-mail]

Cut and paste and email the mayor too!

Let's tell Mary Cheh that we support low income housing in Forest Hills, where she lives. But it seems that she ensures that things like the homeless shelter, DC facilities and low income housing never happen in her neighborhood. She's the personification of the know it all, limousine liberal.

Chen proposed her own neighborhood as one of the five 'not Glover Pk/developer boondoggle' sites. In fact, the exact address that she proposed on the record, to the Council, is about 3 blocks from her home address, on Albemarle st.

You get your own opinions, but not your own facts.

That was a complete straw man, because the property listed is not owned by the DC government, which would have had to pay market rate for the site. So it wasn't going to happen. There was also a suggestion of locating the shelter next to the Best Buy or on land owned by St. Ann's behind Janney. But that would have been creepy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Doesn't AU Park deserve to have its own Cathedral Commons?

aka "Schlock Square"? No thx.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:http://www.marycheh.com/contact-us/

Email Mary Cheh and tell here you support low income housing in AU park super fresh site.

[e-mail]

Cut and paste and email the mayor too!

Let's tell Mary Cheh that we support low income housing in Forest Hills, where she lives. But it seems that she ensures that things like the homeless shelter, DC facilities and low income housing never happen in her neighborhood. She's the personification of the know it all, limousine liberal.

Chen proposed her own neighborhood as one of the five 'not Glover Pk/developer boondoggle' sites. In fact, the exact address that she proposed on the record, to the Council, is about 3 blocks from her home address, on Albemarle st.

You get your own opinions, but not your own facts.

That was a complete straw man, because the property listed is not owned by the DC government, which would have had to pay market rate for the site. So it wasn't going to happen. There was also a suggestion of locating the shelter next to the Best Buy or on land owned by St. Ann's behind Janney. But that would have been creepy.

the fact that that house is not owned by the District doesn't make the proposal a straw man; it's your cynicism telling you that. In fact, the Albemarle property was a viable site, available at a fraction of a fraction of the cost of the Glover Park proposal, due to the latter's developer attachments. Recall that district-owned MPD site wasn't, and still isn't, a foregone result.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How about this choice....a grocery store with apartments above or a homeless shelter/low income housing? Homeless can walk through AU Park everyday to metro/bus stop, Janney for their kids, library, Chick-fil-A, CVS, and all other shops on Wisconsin Ave in Tenleytown and beyond. Now make your choice!

I sent an email to the links provided asking that density bonuses be explored at the super fresh site to up the low income housing for more diversity in AU park and Janny.

Now you've really given it away... This is just about sticking it to the rich people. I'm sure Mary Cheh is going to listen to you and follow the advice of non-constituents.

So your argument is that putting affordable housing in nice areas is sticking it to rich people? And what is inundating a middle class area with it then? Why shouldn't they be load balanced! I for one think increasing density to allow the developer to pull off a 50/50 spilt would be great for the area and the city. I am a ward 3 voter and I too sent an email stating as much.

[Anonymous]

Traffic on Mass avenue and Wisconsin will be hell. Especially on narrow Mass, with the Westbard and AU developments...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Traffic on Mass avenue and Wisconsin will be hell. Especially on narrow Mass, with the Westbard and AU developments...

so what, is AU part entitled to clear traffic too?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:http://www.marycheh.com/contact-us/

Email Mary Cheh and tell here you support low income housing in AU park super fresh site.

[e-mail]

Cut and paste and email the mayor too!

Do you actually live in the neighborhood?

Of course not. It's intended to rile you up. No one in the neighborhood would actually propose building a few hundred low income units in their backyard.

You're right, let's just keep building them in other people neighborhoods. Completely fair that some places have multiple homeless complexes and low income housing where other areas have none. This project should get a density bonus for low income units end of story.

Actually, it is fair, its called having money and its what happens ina democracy. Some people can afford to live in nicer places. So9me people can't. That' s life.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Traffic on Mass avenue and Wisconsin will be hell. Especially on narrow Mass, with the Westbard and AU developments...

It's not going to increase traffic much bc it will mostly be people in the neighborhood using these stores.