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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Totally agree OP -- the Save McMillan movement was one of the weirdest "grass roots campaigns" I've ever encountered and I group up in a town that is pretty much defined by it's  NIMBYism where people would protest a stoplight or a bridge renovation on reflex. I have never seen people campaign against their own self interest so hard before.  Why would you be against not only a community center and public space in yoru neighborhood but also commercial spaces that might serve your community as well as development that will better link your community to the neighborhoods around it. Bizarre.

I do think one problem in DC is that a lot of longtime residents are deeply skeptical of development because of past experiences with either the city failing to actually hold developers to promises (the city rolls over for developers and doesn't even hold them to their own proposals most of the time both during and after construction) or failing to put any effort into matching a development with the neighborhood. City planning in DC is extremely weak and that empowers the people who want to oppose everything because so many people have had negative experiences that it makes people cynically say "they'll just screw it up so why bother."[/quote]

yeah totally. but this wasn’t just the normal DC native skepticism of development, which is understandable. This weird strain is connected to a Ralph Nader paranoia about any public-private projects and also includes campaigns against developing that plaza in Dupont and building condos over the police station on U, and fighting over building libraries…

https://washingtoncitypaper.com/article/207188/ralph-nader-and-dc-public-libraries/[/quote]

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