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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t think it’s the same person. The person on the GP listserv clearly knows this issue inside and out. Since this board is anonymous, I get the sense that lots of people masquerade as knowing more than they do.

But this is the usual aggrieved playbook: claim the process was rigged, or nobody listened to you, or the decision makers have an agenda. How about, instead, your arguments were heard but failed to persuade. Or, your arguments are persuasive at the micro level, but they are hollow when the bigger picture is considered. Or, they reek of rank hypocrisy and self-entitlement. But, sure, it’s Mary Cheh’s fault, or some guy who sometimes treats ignorant yet assertive posters on a listserv as punching bags. [/quote]

Not sure who you are responding to, but GP seems to pretty united in keeping a walkable school and just want Stoddert made bigger so more students can attend, even if it means more OOB kids come to the neighborhood. They are being surprisingly YIMBY. They literally want building in their backyards.

If Foxhall wants a new school so kids in that neighborhood can walk to school, good for them. Don't drag Glover Park into that fight. They even killed their only grocery store.[/quote]

And Stoddert has now been given bags of money in the FY23 budget to address, right now, it’s overcrowding now and into the future. The city has given Glover Park families what they asked for and yet your community leaders are still out there spreading half-truths to stop the new school at Foxhall.

The Key community is not wailing on to all and sundry that Stoddert is getting it’s issues addressed immediately and they have to wait an extra couple of years to get their issues sorted, so why this beggar-thy-neighbor crap from Glover Park?

But notion that Glover Park is led by progressive YIMBYs is belied by facts. Facts like October 2021 ANC3B 5-0 resolution that strongly opposed a DDOT proposal to install bicycle lanes that would have made it safer for Ward 3 residents to get to school, work, and wherever else (https://anc3b.org/wp-content/uploads/ANC3B-bike-lane-resolution-signed-11-18-21-1.pdf), an argument that they felt the need to bolster by making up things about ANC3D.

Yes, there are NIMBYs in Foxhall and the Palisades. And there are also ample people in those neighborhoods who are sick of their quality of life being adversely affected by half-truths spread by a small number of people who want nothing in their neighborhood to change ever. This thread is good evidence of that. What is your point, exactly?[/quote]

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