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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Nancy MacWood has been a respectable public servant for her neighborhood, but she has taken positions that have materially harmed her neighbors and the commercial area and now for almost 20 years, we can see the results very starkly.

Yes, she is very smart and knows alot about zoning and historic preservation, but sometimes when you are so focused on your little corner of the world, time passes by before people notice that, whoa, maybe she was wrong and now what do we do?

She was wrong on Giant.
She was wrong on the NCS Gym - which could have been open for neighborhood use;
She was wrong on the Commercial Overlay that has negatively impacted the Connecticut Avenue strip and until Cathedral Commons/Giant, was negatively impacting that area.

And no, she would never have been able to beat Mary Cheh. Perhaps if she had run in 2006 when Kathy Patterson stepped away, she might have had a chance, but no way, since.

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You should stop peddling this lying trope.  Do you know that Commissioner MacWood had the ANC hire an architect and asked Giant to engage with the ANC and the community on a new store back in 2005?  This was several years after Giant/Ahold breached an agreement with the DC government to build a new store.  MacWood brought Giant back to the table.

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That's great. But she won her first election on the back of working against the original proposal in 1999, which was for a modest two-story building and *gasp* a three story parking garage, 1 and 1/2 of which would have been underground, and no north parcel development. Killing that original proposal is what led to the, what, 15 year delay in a new grocery store for the neighborhood and forever made Cleveland Park a laughing stock across the city. Look at how money has flowed to all corners of the city and now our commercial strip is stale.[/quote]

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