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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Financing it is not my problem. I was born and raised in DC including a childhood in Tenleytown. gds needs to rethink what it's doing. It's reputation as a progressive school is getting trashed. It's weird obsession on this board with Harvard and how it compares to other schools and their celebrity students makes it seem like a wannabe school that is turning its back on its history. I want Tenleytown to evolve, but I don't trust the smart growth crowd anymore. What I thought was an interesting approach to urban planning now seems like a front group for rich private school families and developers.[/quote]

Wishful thinking is great. I would love unicorns that fart rainbows too, but that won't address the empty spaces and blight in the neighborhood. You say you want organic growth, whatever the hell that is, but don't offer solutions to how to fill the vacant spaces such as the former car dealership. Yes, financing isn't your problem, because you don't own the land and are playing armchair property owner. If you have a real solution, put the money together and develop the property as you wish. In the mean time, the rest of us in the neighborhood want to add the retail and affordable housing that this project should provide. It is better than tumbleweeds.

(and I agree with the ANC that there should be more affordable housing than the less than minimal amount GDS is proposing).[/quote]

"Blight in the neighborhood"?  Please.  Perhaps Greedy Developer $chool and its developer partners are not willing or able to live within the zoning regs and the comprehensive plan, insisting instead on a PUD that busts both and is based on some hypothetical transfer of density from its campus parcel, which they never plan to use for anything other than a school.  (This hypothetical density transfer is the key that explains why the Team of Aces and developer partners in the shadows are using the school as the front purchaser for the Wisconsin property.  Once all zoning approvals are obtained, the school is free to sell out to them because the necessity of having a single property owner with a unified development scheme goes away.)

If the GD$ front group can't develop them under current zoning and the comprehensive plan, they should sell the Wisconsin Ave parcels.  Some other developer will be perfectly happy to build as a matter of right under existing zoning.  GD$ is trying to stuff a two-fer down the neighborhood's throat:  a school that is more than 100% bigger AND a development that violates existing zoning in multiple ways.  And don't forget that if GD$ gets the PUD it wants, then that will become the base line and precedent for other projects to demand PUDs and special exceptions and soon zoning and the comprehensive plan are history in Tenleytown.[/quote]

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