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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Great article in today's metro section about mayor and council selling out to developers in Ivy City. Residents want green space for recreation and children to play, developers have addressed affordable housing, mixed business, but not actual open air for humans to live and breathe. Seems a theme and that CP residents are not the only ones concerned with the city's vision of how they should live.[/quote]

Your post makes no sense - did you read the actual article?

The re-development includes open space and the restoration of the school for community usage and is supported by both the Ward 5 Councilmember and the local ANC.

Not sure what you mean  by "open air for humans to live and breathe" as this will have no impact on that and will actually take a fenced in surface parking lot re-develop it into housing.  Seems like something CP residents, who don't want new housing in their own neighborhood,  could get behind?

And Ivy City residents could come over to Rock Creek Park for some of that "open air."[/quote]

I did read the article. The thrust was that the Ivy City residents were not pleased with the proposed green space and that the Mayor snuck in the back door to a celebration with developers while the neighborhood protested outside. [b]Again, density, density and developers[/b]. Did you read the article?[/quote]

I think that you mean "Density, developers and donations"![/quote]

Those awful people building housing!  Like the housing you live in![/quote]

Uh, huh.  Look at the DC General debacle.  If you think that closing DC General is all about helping the homeless, think again.  It's about the mayor making a prime site available to her developer/crony/supporters.  Look at how they already started demolition on the complex before people moved out to new shelters (most of which haven't been built yet).  They finally had to slow demolition when  lead and asbestos concerns were raised.  But it's clear that the homeless are an afterthought to turning the property over to Greater Greater Development.[/quote]

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