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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's quite clear that Mary Cheh and her staff sold out to Big Development some time ago, and they don't value neighborhood character, green space or historic preservation very much.  During Cheh's meeting with a Northwest DC community group on the Comprehensive Plan amendments a few months ago, her chief of staff stunned everyone by stating that trying to preserve the iconic Uptown Theater wasn't worth the effort and then asserted that dense, mixed-use development at the Uptown "is exactly what we want there."  Cheh didn't correct him.[/quote]

The Uptown is already protected by historic preservation. I am guessing his point is that the use may no longer be viable. If that is the case, there are two solutions. Either it sits empty as a former theater that no one is able to run or, it gets adaptively reused into some other use.

Which do you prefer?[/quote]

How does an 8 - 10 floor building of upscale flats, rising from the Uptown's facade "protect" the Uptown?  But this is what Cheh and her staff seem to want.  The Upscale Flats at the Uptown wouldn't not longer be an iconic theater.  And it wouldn't be historic preservation.  It would be facadomy.[/quote]

This is what Cheh needs to spearhead- not flats. The Uptown should stay a theater, lecture space, music space, local shool.perfomancea etc . This article is about a community that saved it's jewelbox theater and uses it for that today.

"The smallest theatre in the world - Umbria" https://www.itinari.com/the-smallest-theatre-in-the-world-umbria-he54[/quote]

The theater is not owned by the DC Government. So in order for it to be transformed as you suggest, either the city would need to buy it, or someone would need to create a business plan that shows what you suggest is viable in some form or fashion. I think some of the neighbors are already working on that with the Main Street (funded by Cheh) and Cheh;s office.

So what was your point?[/quote]

The new ANC commissioner for the area (Sauleh Siddiqui) ran on a platform to save the Uptown.  Then he was elected and his constituents asked him for his plan.  Nothing.  Turns out, he doesn't have one.  [/quote]

It really isn't the role of an ANC Commissioner or a Councilmember to decide what happens with a piece of privately owned property.[/quote]

It is the role of the ANC Commissioner and Councilmember to hear concerns and advocate for the preservation of a treasured neighborhood landmark and the historical character of a Main Street business District ^
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