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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To sell Cathedral Commons at the zoning board, the developers offered to install a round planter with benches on the corner of Wisconsin and Idaho, by the present eyeglasses store. Kind of appropriate, because if you blink as you go past there you will miss seeing it. That was the big "community amenity" that CC provided. If they got by with such a paltry thing in order to get PUD density, what makes you think that the Fannie purchaser will build a community pool ?! More like a little fountain perhaps....

Seriously? What about ten years of lawsuits and design changes. [/quote]

It's interesting because under the holdings of a couple of recent DC Court of Appeals decisions, Cathedral Commons likely would not get built in its present form today.[/quote]

+1.  Unfortunately it's too late for that.  When I see the finer design and craftsmanship of the new Park Van Ness development on Connecticut Ave, as compared to the cheap dreck design quality of Cathedral Commons, it's sad.  Perhaps it was too much to expect anything more than lesser quality mediocrity from any project in which Giant was the co-developer.  I empathize especially with those people who live on Idaho near Macomb, who got a tractor-trailer loading dock and a four-story blank wall built next to their homes in a RESIDENTIAL zone, no less.  That's another good example of Mary Cheh ignoring her constituents -- in that case their plea that she help to broker a compromise solution on the loading facility.  Now the same families are going to have a 6-story homeless shelter built next to their homes.  As a result of DC's planning decisions, these folks have lost $$$ in market value on their properties and likely will lose more.  They'd probably have a good claim against DC for that.[/quote]

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