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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The amount of time Cleveland Park has been under construction is mind boggling.   [/quote]

When NIMBYs delay projects, that is what happens. so much of everything could have been completed years ago.[/quote]

“The Promenade” is a total joke, a heat island that cost millions of dollars of taxpayer money with barely any trees, plants or seating.  The ANC rep that the hope is that bars and businesses will provide seats and water flowers.[/quote]

Yeah.. all that white concrete creates so much more heat than the black asphalt there used to... oh wait..[/quote]

Somehow it does seem to.  It is hotter than it was.  Probably because it's nothing but an open expanse of concrete.  FFS at least put some lampposts or planters on it.  It's useless wasted space at the moment.  What is it supposed to accomplish?  It has no raison d'etre.[/quote]

It was an open expanse of concrete before as well.[/quote]

I get that you hate parking and are trying to hype this thing but gimme a break.  It's pointless at the moment and a net negative.  [b]Maybe things will change after the vacuum cleaner and frame store get pushed out.[/b][/quote]

The ANC is working on it.  Didn’t several ANC commissioners pose for a photo while giving the finger to these local businesses?[/quote]
They won’t stop until it’s all chain stores. That’s their “vibrant“ goal. [/quote]

The Smart-Aleck Growth group has grown tiresome and ridiculous.[/quote]

The old CP civic community group people that had a pause button smashed on CP from 1975 to like 3 years ago is way freaking worse.[/quote]

There was an insular rotation of long time residents who worked between the ANC, CPHS and the CPCA to provide cover for total stasis in Cleveland Park other than the Metro opening, for the better part of 40 years. They all got to the point of dying off of old age, so the grip was loosened, but the city and neighborhood is so far worse because of their efforts. The ONLY good thing they did was help stop the 1950's highway plan from being enacted.[/quote]

Is it any better today with a group of petulant ANC commissioners with progressive pretensions yet who allow a Trumper lobbyist to set their agenda on all local development matters?[/quote]

Cleveland Park is a thousand times better today with the closed service lane and more housing coming in.[/quote]

Why aren’t there any trees on the so-called Prominade? At the end of the day it seems it was all about creating more streetery space for some favored bars, rather than an attractive sidewalk for pedestrians.  [/quote]

Did you participate in the design process to ask for trees or did you just fight the project all together?[/quote]

Are you saying that this thing was intentionally designed to be nothing but an open expanse of concrete?[/quote]

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