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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ugh, Langley for Bloomingdale? Langley makes no sense, my preschooler is supposed to cross North Cap twice a day? That's our "neighborhood"? I think not. So upset about this. Will definitely be at the community meeting. [/quote]

Are you planning to have your preschooler walk to and from school alone?[/quote]

Yep, just going to tuck a little child's sized pistol in his pull ups and wish him luck.

[b]Have you ever cross North Cap?[/b] There are approximately 2 places, total, to do it and every single one of them is a death trap. I'm afraid to do it myself, let alone with a 4 year old during rush hour.

Beyond that, this is not our neighborhood. The new plan isolates Bloomingdale from its surrounding community; it makes no sense. They're trying to "integrate Eckington" but drawing a line around a six block strip of Bloomingdale is not going to do it. I'm a 15 second walk from "LeDroit Park" and 10 minutes from the closest corner of Eckington. [/quote]

Yes I've crossed N Cap, many times, across the T overpass and Rhode Island overpass. It's perfectly fine, and that's what you'd do to get to Langley from west of N Cap, because Langley is just south of T. It is a bit strong to describe the T overpass or the Rhode Island overpass as death traps. Crossing at Florida, maybe you have a point there.

I understand that you're upset about being zoned out of (Seaton? Garrison?), and it sounds like you are on the western end of Bloomingdale. But you are stretching it a little saying that Le Droit Park is part of your broader neighborhood and Eckington is not. Long term, anything that re-unites Bloomingdale and Eckington is beneficial. These were basically one and the same neighborhood with North Cap running down the middle, prior to the freeway conversion of North Cap. Plus, Eckington is gentrifying as fast as Bloomingdale, as is Stronghold, so based on the boundary for the new Langley I think this could actually be a pretty strong ES.

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Seaton and Garrison; would have been happy with either. 
 
Yes, I am on the west side and actually I can literally see LeDroit Park from my backyard, whereas I was not exaggerating that it would take me 10 minutes to even be in the closest corner of Eckington, let alone Langley EC which is 0.6 miles away from me. I don't think it's a stretch at all to say that Bloomingdale is closer to LeDroit Park. Most residents use the Shaw metro and are consistently walking through LeDroit Park, I pass through it several times a day. I can honestly say that in three years of living in this neighborhood not a single thing has caused me to have to go over to Eckington. I've only crossed North Cap on voluntary walks over to the cemetery. I really think you'd be hard pressed It looks like the adoption program is only for new trees @dcddot This one's at least 15 years old. I just want to keep it around longer. Looks sick! to find Bloomingdale residents who think of Eckington as their "neighborhood" because, right or wrong, it is literally across a freeway. [/quote]

You do know that the park at LeDroit used to BE the neighborhood school? They tore it down & built the park. Langley has been the in-boundary school for most of Bloomingdale since then. Is this news to you?[/quote]

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