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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just tired of that stretch of CT Ave getting hosed.  Ward 3 is a big place to spread around shared sacrifices.  What is Palisades doing?  What is Spring Valley doing?  What is Chevy Chase doing?  What is Friendship Heights doing? What is Barnaby Woods doing?  Looking at you Mary Cheh. [/quote]

McLean Gardens got the homeless shelter in a non-transparent process that got rushed through the Council.  It’s not just Connecticut Ave.  But I take your point.  And I just cant get over how folks in those other neighbors love to get on their high horses and lecture others about Ward 3’s responsibly to “share the burden” and “do our part.” [/quote]

McLean Garden is a private development not a neighborhood so McLean Gardens didn't get the homeless shelter though anyone who reads about DC politics on DCUM knows there is an aggrieved McLean Gardens resident who endlessly posts on DCUM complaining about the shelter site which was picked as part of very legal and normal DC Council legislation and which was then discussed at endless ANC meetings stretching out over a couple of years.  But part of the community garden was sacrificed for a parking lot for the police so Ms. McLean gardens keeps on bitching about it.

In any case no idea what either of the PP's are complaining about as Ward 3 really bears very little of the burden of DC's undesirable infra.

Perhaps the Van Ness poster can come back on here to clarify what they are even talking about - UDC has been in Van Ness for almost 50 years and the new student center is a big improvement as is the Park Van Ness building and overall the Van Ness area is much more vibrant than it was 10 years ago.

Same thing with the west end of Cleveland Park where the Giant and Ward 3 homeless shelter is located - aside from the shelter what burden are the sheltered elites in Cleveland Park having to bear?[/quote]

Wow, you are EXACTLY the kind of short sighted person that the DC Govt needs in order to further its ineptitude. This thread is not so much about a location as it is about policy and execution. What is the policy that allowed a secret quarantine site to be established and what are the terms that it is being operated under. This was spelled out clearly above with people even plainly asking about the locations of other sites. But your desire to agitate forced you to your same tired old tropes and trying to turn this into an  'elites of Cleveland Park' argument.

People love throwing loaded language around when they have no argument. So go ahead, don't question how this program is being run. Apparently the city does not want to answer any questions anyways, because yesterday they took the opportunity to clarify nothing.

Bottom line is that there are five contracted quarantine sites being operated BY hotels in the city providing a 'safe' space for those that don't have other options. Nobody has any additional information about these sites, including, our elected representatives. There are some of us who feel that if this is worth doing, it should be done properly in a manner consistent with the cities overall COVID strategy. If we cannot do the little things properly is there any reason to believe that the larger parts of the COVID strategy are being run any more coherently? Mary Cheh even mentioned in her statement that this is a matter of trust between the City and it residents, even its elected representatives.

But you go ahead. Instead of holding the city accountable, go ahead try to turn this into some sort of Ward 3 vs the city argument where you get to take shots at communities that have existed for 70 years because they are 'elite'. I am sure that you will feel better about your perceived 'social re imagining'.

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