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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Exactly. The city went through a three year engagement process with dozens of public meetings. The ANCs up and down Connecticut Avenue support the project as well as the Mayor, the Councimember and DDOT.

It is only now, AFTER the public engagement and votes and AFTER the money has been designated, that people are trying to use their entitled clout to reverse the decision because they happen not to like it.

They could have attended the same public meetings everyone else did. They could have spoken up on the neighborhood email groups etc. But the ANC commissioners and DDOT have all noted the overhwhelming  support from the community on this issue.

In other words, the complainers are the deep, but very vocal minority on the issue.

If you want to get involved and live in Ward 3, then reach out to the Ward 3 bikers group. If you are a DC or regional resident, then reach out to WABA.[/quote]

People didnt even know this was happening. I didnt know until I saw the DCUM thread. People have busy lives. [/quote]

Many people knew. If you read this forum, or any of the neighborhood emaill groups, or receive CM Cheh's newsletter or the ANC email notices, you would have known about it.

Really, you had to be living under a rock to miss it, and the fact that part of it happened during COVID meant the meetings were online, which meant even more people than normal participated.[/quote]

Our neighborhood doesn't have an email group (what is that?), I didn't know Cheh had a newsletter and we never got one though we've lived here for over 20 years, and the ANC stopped emailing years ago.
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Sorry you aren't engage with your community, but really, how is it that thousands of your neighbors are engaged with their government, but you aren't? That really isn't anyone else's fault.[/quote]

I am engaged in my community. But not in any of the ways that you seem to say were the only ways to hear about this. Our ANC person doesn't send out anything; I used to get email from the ANC and my email hasn't changed. I never got a newsletter from Cheh, and I would expect she has everyone's home addresses. How is it my fault to not know about something I never got?

And wouldn't it be better to find a way to make sure the people who live here actually have access to information and know about these things you mention instead of blaming people who never got notice?[/quote]

what else should they do? please tell us.

ancs hold their meetings on the same day every month usually and provide avance copies of the agenda. it is not hidden. [/quote]

Some of the the things you claim they are doing, which they aren't.[/quote]

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