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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hearst anti pool person, I think we need to look at what's going on in CP abs Tenleytown at large. I am not personally anti pool but your point hits home that there's been a lot of development ans the height requirement also seeks to be becoming fungible in the hands of our civic leaders. However, when you focus just on the pool, or someone else on the homeless shelter, and someone else about Sidwwll and someone else about gds it seems like NIMbY whining. How do we  have a discussion to looking at how this pace of development overall is impacting traffic parking trees and ambiance. I think the city would like to keep it on thr divide and conquer level. Is there any person or group who is connecting the dots to form a grounded rebuttal for some of these proposals or even some aspects of these proposals (to tweak or scale them back)?[/quote]

Another crazy post.

There has been virtually no development in Cleveland Park except for the Giant project which is barely bigger than what it replaced and smaller than what surrounds it - the neighborhood unfortunately has succeeded in killing every proposal that has come along.

There are no proposals to change the height limit right now - the DC Council decided that it should not even have the option to vote on it.

Oddly in part because there has been no development the neighborhood is getting two new lower private schools that will cater to a largely suburbanite clientele who will mostly drive so in that sense the neighborhood is getting what it deserves - if those plots of land had been developed for housing they would have almost certainly generated less traffic and parking demand but those projects are both essentially matter of right with minimal neighborhood input which is probably not a coincidence.

What impact has their been on trees or parking to date when we've essentially had no development?  The city has been planting an impressive number of trees the last 4-5 years and the tree canopy in Ward 3 is in fantastic shape.

It is not hard to connect the dots - you live in a city and cities usually change or die.  Most of DC is changing and is thriving.  Cleveland Park is not changing and it is not thriving.

Maybe you can't see the forest for the trees.  Or maybe you forgot to take your geritol again but neither the truth nor what is going on is particularly complicated.[/quote]

That's a new one, that the Sidwell campus should be developed as high rise condos, and that the trees we have are enough and are in fantastic shape.  And we didn't realize that the Greater Greater Washington Development Lobby was so strongly in favor of paving Hearst.   [/quote]

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