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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wow -, this is why we don't get good people in public positions.  Bill is trying to help people being hurt by the mayor. And he is being subject to personal attacks just for doing his job. Noone is perfect and I don't think silly neighborhood squabbles should distract from housing reform.

Will the needy residents of DC be better off without him as an advocate? Guess y'all think so. You must be a bunch of developers. 
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It's not "silly neighborhood squabbles". He has actively lobbied against a trail that would make it a million times safer to get around the neighborhood by bike or by walking. Instead, students must risk their lives on one of the busiest streets in NW DC if they want to bike to the new high school. All this because he and his neighbors didn't want to deal with the indignity of people actually using public land behind their houses? WTF?

I'm not a member of the housing board and so can't speak to his behavior there. I guess it is possible that there are people who act completely selfishly on some issues - as he and his fellow NIMBYs have done on the trolley trail - and completely magnanimously on others. But those people are not common and I'm not inclined therefore to give him the benefit of the doubt.[/quote]
It’s incredible that you can reduce everyone to your own metric of YIMBY/NIMBY good/bad. What a sad way to live.[/quote]

Imagine that someone could launch a campaign to selfishly deny their neighbors' kids a safe way to get to school and then, horror of all horrors, be judged on the basis of those actions! What a world we live in![/quote]
Imagine someone who thinks their pet cause of a neighborhood sidewalk is more important than ensuring adequate housing for tens of thousands of highly vulnerable people.

Whatever takes someone to that conclusion should probably take a step back to recalibrate their priorities. [/quote]

You seem to have completely missed the point, so let me sharpen it for you. No one is saying that low-income housing is more important than road safety or vice versa. What is being said is that those involved in the "Save Don't Pave" campaign - and especially those who lobbied government for the cause - have spread misinformation in service of naked self-interest, which they prioritized over the safety of children in the community. Such behavior undermines claims that they can be trusted to act benevolently on other public issues and reinforces claims that their character may not be suited to the position to which they had been appointed.[/quote]
LOL. Apparently it not only makes no difference to you and also whatever accomplishments the only person on the DCHA Board that was actually trying to ensure that the agency was living up to its obligations to house people has done because you disagree with them about a sidewalk in your neighborhood. As I was saying, you seriously need to step back and get a grip.[/quote]

LOL? LOL??? Will you be laughing when some kid gets killed on MacArthur Boulevard when they could have been using the Palisades Trolley Trail had Bill and his neighbors not blocked it? I won’t be laughing and I doubt the kid’s family will be either.

And all for what? So Bill and his neighbors don’t have people walking and biking on the public land behind their house? So that Bill and his neighbors can continue to enjoy near-guaranteed parking in the Rec Center lot?

Bill and his neighbor’s actions have worsened the safety and quality of life of others in the neighborhood. It’s not a great surprise to learn that some of his colleagues on the DCHA feel the same way about his contribution there.[/quote]

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