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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was informed of this thread and want to say that I am sick and tired of being blocked in every morning. Something has to be done. Period. [/quote]

Have you complained to the school rather than an anonymous website? And when you say "blocked in" do you mean by traffic or someone actually parking their car in front of your driveway? FWIW, I live within two blocks of a private HS in DC, and I KNEW when I bought the house that there would be traffic related to the school. No one forced me to buy my particular house. I bought it fully aware that there was going to be increased traffic in the mornings and in the afternoons, that there were going to be sporting events and school events where families parked everywhere in my neighborhood. Unless a student is blocking my driveway in an *illegal* manner, I have never had the occasion to complain to the school. There was one incident when students were driving recklessly, racing each other at extremely high speeds through the neighborhood, and I complained directly to the principal. The matter was straightened out right away, and the students were suspended. So, it's not like I don't empathize, but it really strikes me as irrational to choose to live in an urban area, which is close to shops, business, and schools, and then complain about the traffic that is logically expected from proximity. [/quote]

This ignores that GDS had only a high school in the neighborhood when pp likely bought their house. Traffic control was literally a condition for GDS to expand, so your comparison makes no sense.[/quote]

Way to lose the forest for the trees. You choose to buy an expensive house in an urban area that is full of schools. FWIW, the HS near me expanded. And BTW, Tenleytown lost St. Ann's and saw an increase in student population at Deal and Janney. Populations shift--the urban-ish nature of Tenleytown did not. [/quote]

All irrelevant. The school had to, and did, agree to an enrollment cap and traffic management in order to expand its campus. Expansion would not have been possible had GDS not made those commitments.

Your response is telling as to how GDS parents view the school’s agreements. [/quote]

There you go again.  Nowhere in the agreement is there any restriction on Wisconsin Avenue.   You keep saying there somehow is one,  but it's not there.   The ANC does a great job of harassing and shaking down people,  which is a reason why the neighborhood is so dumpy.  Most good developers simply move on.   That's why you all are stuck with a string of fast food places.  You've made a mess of you neighborhood. [/quote]

...and let's add the additional outrageous shakedown Jon did in the hearing to force GDS to hand over 4M!   For filing a report late?  BTW, it is not as if the ANC could not have reminded GDS to send in the form.  Did they do that?  Nope.  They waited passively until they went crazy and started the shake downs of GDS and its parents.  Talk about retroactive rationalizing.  It is so juvenile as to be laughable.

Nice try on the shake downs.[/quote]

Ohh, and then, in another bizarre exercise of supposed power, there was the newer ANC guy who spent 10 minutes talking about what a TOUGH, STRONG and AGGRESSIVE lawyer he is, but had decided not to cross examine GDS even though he does that work all day.   WE ARE SCARED!!!!!  And thank you for exercising your omnipotent powers in such a graceful way.  But it is good to know that you are a strong and aggressive man and leader.   We sure know that for now!

I mean, thank God we have such a strapping, strong, aggressive man bringing his powers to the ANC.  And, also, thank God he decided not to use those powers in the hearing.  I mean, all he wanted to know was what he should tell his constituents.  How about tell them your ANC colleagues are insane?  That they are shaking people down?   How about:  show them the actual agreement, which supports GDS parents on the merits and absolutely does not support the ANC?  How about, be an influence for balance and judgment.  But, man, thank goodness we didn't see the cross examination!

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