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

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Cheh admits the Hearst project has been "failure after failure" and says she has no idea when it will be finished.

http://www.icontact-archive.com/archive?c=653228&f=109&s=27705&m=924636&t=e9e88f3478ef96a84e6da9a6a941197473e9c0f17a04da6fc6e40bf22670a9a5

Because she is the one who hired the contractor and runs the bureaucracy?

Yes, it is the perfect spot for a pool. She listened to her constituents who wanted an outdoor pool in the Ward. She got the money for it. At that point, her job was supposed to be done. DGS and the corresponding agencies - DPR and the Mayor's office are where the failure has occurred. Let's hold them accountable.

Cheh was advised by park users that the park has a severe hydrology issues, and that is exactly what is apparent now. But once Cheh makes up her stubborn mind, she listens to no one and hears nothing to sway her from her opinion.

Maybe Cheh should have left the trees and just had them excavate an a natural swimming hole - Hearst Springs pool.

[Anonymous]

DGS could have said it wasn't feasible.

She is a lawyer, not an engineer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DGS could have said it wasn't feasible.

She is a lawyer, not an engineer.

Gosh I'm not either..I just live in the neighborhood and it's apparent there is aassive.underground river there

[Anonymous]

Mary Cheh pushed this and so did a lot of people on this board - refusing to listen to valid concerns about the way the DC government executes big projects and the environmental hurdles that needed to be addressed.

Both Cheh and the pro-development crowd discounted those concerns. They were wrong.

Ultimately, the pool will be built and it will be an asset to the neighborhood. But those neighborhood concerns were legit and turned out to be based on predictable delays. They should have been respected.

When the pool eventually opens there will be other concerns. They include a pool that will be empty and unused for almost nine months a year. The other will be ongoing upkeep of this project and the huge amount of money spent. It's going to go into decline within a couple of years. There is now a lot more concrete up there and it's going to become a huge eyesore over the next decade.

[Anonymous]

"pro-development crowd" who are taxpayers who were tired of traveling to other DC neighborhoods to take a dip.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:"pro-development crowd" who are taxpayers who were tired of traveling to other DC neighborhoods to take a dip.

What ever the resons. You were pro-development of a pool. And driving to Georgetown or Wilson or Francis is hardly a sacrifice. At the end of the day, neighbors have been through two years of construction on a project that should have taken six to eight months.

[Anonymous]

It's really time for Mary Cheh to move along. If she were more plugged in to her job, she would have driven the project harder. Posting a few sentences on a blog two years into a failed process does nothing to absolve her of responsibility.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's really time for Mary Cheh to move along. If she were more plugged in to her job, she would have driven the project harder. Posting a few sentences on a blog two years into a failed process does nothing to absolve her of responsibility.

I am not sure what more she could have done. She got the funding for the pool and the mayor to build it. She has had countless on site and phone meetings. Ultimately, she did her job and the mayor failed at hers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:"pro-development crowd" who are taxpayers who were tired of traveling to other DC neighborhoods to take a dip.

What ever the resons. You were pro-development of a pool. And driving to Georgetown or Wilson or Francis is hardly a sacrifice. At the end of the day, neighbors have been through two years of construction on a project that should have taken six to eight months.

And there is the rub. You assume everyone has the ability to hop in a car to go to a pool and thus, we should all drive to someone else's neighborhood and burden them with our cars rather than burden your neighborhood with their cars. I've got news for you...some of your neighbors don't have the extra car to hop in to. As a taxpayer, I asked Councilmeber Cheh to help fill the gap in public outdoor pools across the city by supporting on in Ward 3. There were hundreds of not thousands of Ward residents who asked her about this from when she was first elected until she got the Mayor to act.

So I say, thank you Mary Cheh, for listening to the constituents from across the Ward who fully support this new pool and cannot wait until it is finally opened!

And to the bolded part, that isn't Cheh's fault. She can push, she can prod, but ultimately, it is not her job to physically construct the pool.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Cheh admits the Hearst project has been "failure after failure" and says she has no idea when it will be finished.

http://www.icontact-archive.com/archive?c=653228&f=109&s=27705&m=924636&t=e9e88f3478ef96a84e6da9a6a941197473e9c0f17a04da6fc6e40bf22670a9a5

Because she is the one who hired the contractor and runs the bureaucracy?

Yes, it is the perfect spot for a pool. She listened to her constituents who wanted an outdoor pool in the Ward. She got the money for it. At that point, her job was supposed to be done. DGS and the corresponding agencies - DPR and the Mayor's office are where the failure has occurred. Let's hold them accountable.

It's a major construction project in her ward, one that she pushed for. To finally take notice of the project's well-publicized problems nearly two years after construction began isn't exactly a profile in leadership.

She didn't "just take notice" - she is expressing the same displeasure we all share. It isn't her job to oversee the construction.

She took her sweet-ass time to notice a massively flawed project in her ward. There are literally zero other similarly sized projects in ward 3.

But keep excusing her inattention.

Cheh has been too busy with her plan to upzone Cleveland Park to pay attention to the mismanagement of the pool project and the denuding of once beautiful, green Hearst Park.

[Anonymous]

denuding by taking out all of the 60 year weeds off the hills

[Anonymous]

May Chen needs to find a new neighborhood to destroy with her middle brow developer pals.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:denuding by taking out all of the 60 year weeds off the hills

Clear cutting the slopes, with no plan to reforest them, has only made a bad drainage problem worse. To be fair to Cheh, she’s neither a forester nor a hydrology engineer; she’s just a professor in a second or third rate DC law school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:denuding by taking out all of the 60 year weeds off the hills

Clear cutting the slopes, with no plan to reforest them, has only made a bad drainage problem worse. To be fair to Cheh, she’s neither a forester nor a hydrology engineer; she’s just a professor in a second or third rate DC law school.

And you troll anonymously on mommy forums for a living?

[Anonymous]

Mary Cheh should face her constituents in Cleveland Park and explain why she was right and they were wrong. It looks a lot like they were right and she was wrong right now. Everything they feared has come true so far. What is she going to do to make sure it doesn’t get worse?