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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Relax everyone. The spot where the shelter may be is still a patch of grass.

Your true colors are showing. [/quote]

The biggest threat to a shelter being built at that location would be the crony deal that underlies it.[/quote]

Yeah, I heard that the developer would make some outrageous amount in rent. And I also heard that the Glover Park site was identified at the last minute because Bowser needed a site in Ward 3 and the other one they were looking at (I think maybe in the Murch district) couldn't be secured quickly enough to meet the Mayor's announcement. WOuld love someone in the know to post some details of the facts.  [/quote]

It seems that the Glover Park developer also gets to hitch a ride on the mayor's skirts, to get a coveted upzoning of this property.  Reportedly the zoning commission will consider all variances and zoning changes needed for any of the shelters together as one package, which makes it very difficult to have individualized considerations of impacts and other factors -- as is normally the case in a zoning change or special exception. This is of enormous financial benefit to the developer who then will own a parcel zoned for much greater density than before, with the support of the Bowser administration and all without having to go through a closely contested zoning with neighbors as opposing parties.  Once the shelter lease is over, he's free to redevelop the property densely as a matter of right.  [/quote]

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