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RFK was a great stadium for football & concerts and easy to get to![/quote]

So what? I want a RFK property for DC residents and not suburban fans.[/quote]
RFK is on Federal land[/quote]
And why is that relevant? Soldiers home is in federal land and there is an approved site plan for a mixed use community there. Why would the federal government object to housing at the RFK site? They could just treat it like a BRAC facility and request bids from developers, in coordination with DC. [/quote]

There is a stipulation that the RFK land has to be used for sports in some manner.  I'm not sure if the new soccer complex there meets that requirement and I don't believe it has to be exclusively used for sports but if the new fields don't meet the requirement whatever goes in there needs to include some sports use or alternately there will need to be some Federal legislation to change the usage.

Having said that I don't think that anyone expects that to be that big of a hurdle but who knows if the Republicans are back in charge and Snyder gets enough support on the DC Council it could make things tricky.[/quote]
There is no such stipulation, I’m not sure where you get that from. It’s U.S. Park Service land. The only thing needed to turn it into a mixed use community is enabling legislation from Congress, which should not be difficult to obtain. What is preventing that from happening is that Holmes-Norton won’t introduce legislation until there is agreement between the Council and Mayor on what to do with the site. The mayor adamantly wants to build the Dan Synder a taxpayer funded stadium. The council wants anything but a taxpayer funded stadium. That’s it. That’s what is holding up turning acres of Metro accessible land into a new neighborhood of tens of thousands of homes. [/quote]

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