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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]+1.  It is as if the PP is saying that we pay more, so we should not have to deal with the problems inherent in living in a city. Because I live in Ward 1 and we would be happy for PP to "pay less" and deal with the same burden on this issue that we do. [/quote]
I've posted it before, and I'll post it again.  I'm happy to help DC deal with its problems, but I just don't want them irresponsibly dumped a couple blocks from my house, based on some backroom deal that Bowser and her cabinet cooked up.  It's not a question of rich vs poor either, because I know many of those Capitol Hill rowhouses are far more expensive than my modest 3BR.  I deal with my share of city problems.  I saved up for 15 years to move from my old neighborhood to my new one, just to gain a little better lifestyle for my kids.  But now, I'm seeing a likelihood that some of the problems I left are about to be dropped on me again.  And it's not just about me, because if they don't end up near me house, it sounds like they'll just be pushed a mile away to someone else.  That's not leadership; it's just shuffling the problems around the city.

Also, as I posted before, I'm not even necessarily opposed to a shelter in my neighborhood, but I want Bowser to make the neighborhood part of that discussion, and to have a clear plan in place for how she's going to make sure the shelter residents will be good neighbors.  If some developer wanted to plop a new apartment building or commercial strip down in my neighborhood, there would be loads of zoning hearings where the developer would have to justify why its project wouldn't hurt the neighborhood and explain how its tenants would be good neighbors.  So why is there no similar process for Bowser's shelters?[/quote]

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