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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The financials of the Bowser's plan were laughable and amateurish. [b]Bowser's team was counting on hysterical and anti-inclusion backlashes from the identified communities especially in NW, in order to switch the stage from math to a political duel (NW versus SE). Nothing of this happened, communities, ANC Commissioners and Council members all stayed very cool, defending the inclusion principle but rejecting the financial projections and the plan of building public facilities on private leased properties[/b] (with leasing prices agreed at several orders of magnitude above market prices...especially for Ward 3).

Bowser's plan sucked, would have generated a 30+ year damage to the District finances, and a misuse of public resources to return political favors.

Voters are not impressed with Bowsers' hysterical yells at Mendelson , while trying to transfer on the Council the responsibility of any delays in the closing of DC General.

She and her team are revealing themselves for what they are..... Citizens, communities, ANC members and Council members have given them a lesson of civil sense, integration and solidarity values, transparency and good governance principles.

Same is happening in this forums. A handful of contributors trying to light a fire, with community members replying with facts and solid arguments about the inadequacy of the plan (thanks Glover Park poster with kids above Stoddert age).[/quote]

Bowser's plan was a joke, on that I agree. However, I am not giving credit to affected communities just yet.  These people are expert, world class level NIMBYs. No longer do they stand in the street with placards reading, "Keep X out of my town".  No, they state that they are "for inclusion" while simultaneously opposing every practical method to actually implement the shelter plan in reality.  Watch as the Council's plan gets put through the ringer and ground down to nothing that could possibly be effective for homeless families.

DC General will still be open five years from now.
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Your accusation of "NIMBYism" is not shown by current news stories about the new sites chosen by the DC Council.  As stated by the DC City Paper, the Ward 6 location is only causing concern there because, as before, the community was not given notice of the location.  But they're not crying foul about it now, until they learn more.  Neither are any of the other Wards expressing any kind of concern.  So, I think you need to check your disapproval of these communities until they try to change the new sites.  IMO, they were all really mad at Bowser for her original plans, not the Council's new one.[/quote]

I'll believe it when they begin laying the foundations and not a second before.[/quote]

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