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See I don't get the motive for the latter.  I mean it was coming to come out sooner or later, obviously.  Only case I have seen is that there was an upzoning that might not have gone through if this were known.  But its an upzoning on one parcel, and given that there IS likely to be a short path to the north entrance, and eventually a south Mezzanine I think the upzoning might have gone through anyway. I just don't see that as motivation for some nefarious plot to hide things from the public.  [/quote]

What are you basing this "there IS likely to be a short path the the north entrance" on?  Real movement in that direction would mute my screaming dramatically, but:
--it was not included in the July 2017 RFP revision, even though it could have been
--it is not scoped or funded at this time, nor will it be part of the contract awarded this month
--There are two big retaining ponds in the way of that solution right now, plus the need to rise high over the CSX tracks to meet the north mezzanine - at an ADA compliant angle.  None of this has been studied at this point in terms of feasibility.

So like...sounds great, but without a plan to buy it or pay for it...I remain skeptical.

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It is to be proposed by the bidder.   They want to do the design process with the community, and could not have done so until the issue became public, AFAICT. [/quote]

[b]There's no reason they couldn't have asked bidders to study feasibility and present options for the community though, as part of their July 2017 RFP amendment.[/b]

The fact that they did not... is meaningful, I think.

We also know the city can't find anything in writing from WMATA saying this was confidential (and one email to the contrary) - so as far as I'm concerned, "until the issue became public" was in Alexandria's hands to control.[/quote]

I am not quite sure of that, but I am sure we will be hearing more about the details of the procurement process.

And again, I do not see anything in the FOIA documents in which anyone at T&ES actually says "yeah, WMATA says the NDA does not apply"  I do not think we have yet seen staff's side of things on this.   But anyway, it seems clear that staff's decision not to open a public discussion of 'path C' was consistent with their belief they should not share the absence of a southern mezzanine.[/quote]

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