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[quote=Anonymous]Some nice excerpts:

"I'll start by taking a breath and lamenting the state of our society. One of the more pernicious aspects of modern life is that people think they can act with impunity without ever having to own an iota of their blatant hypocrisy. I'm finding the stance of those in the Foxhall Community Citizens Association disgusting. We hear that this proposal for two schools came out of nowhere, but of course that's not the case. Just read the FCCA newsletter. We hear that there was no community engagement. Again, the FCCA newsletter invited community members to advise the mayor. We heard in previous meetings about the city not having an interest in the building currently leased to Lab. Once again, left unsaid is that the FCCA worked behind the scenes to have this building deemed historic, thereby making it less attractive for the return of a public school, a decision that was lauded and welcomed by the FCCA. And now when we listen to JP express concern about the lease terms for Lab, there is no mention that the FCCA sent a letter to the mayor lauding Lab as a good neighbor, or that the FCCA declined to join the campaign raising concern about the Lab lease two years ago. Or that JP voted against the ANC joining the Keep Old Hardy public campaign . . . I don't view schools as threats, but rather community assets. To what end? Why these contortions? Let's listen to the FCCA president on why they like Lab from March 2019. Quote, "We have a very low impact usage of that school right now in terms of community, negative impact. I don't get any complaints about it, and there's no traffic." End quote. These same people then claim that they're the most impacted. Them, not the students going to school in trailers on a playground. Them. Not the students who don't have enough time to eat lunch because there are too
many students in the cafeteria. Them. Not the students that no longer have a gymnasium. They're the most impacted, my rear end. The ANC should not be part and parcel of this travesty by sending any letter to the city
built upon these falsehoods. You're better than this, each and every one of you, including JP. If you look at the argumentation you see what this is about. This is about maintaining a low impact, no traffic use of that site, everyone else be damned. You can see the argumentation. There's no engagement with the fact that there are two thousand seat deficit now in Ward 3. That there was a community group for years recommending multiple
new schools are needed. None of that's mentioned. That's all you need to know."

And another:

"What we're seeing here is a classic NIMBY
playbook. I think it needs to be called out. It's used in many contexts when projects you don't like are going forward, you demand more process, process, process. And you pound the table. "I want more process." And when the process doesn't work out, then you sue and litigate. And that's what happens with residential developments in this part, in this ANC and in Ward 3, and it's what is seemingly happening right now."[/quote]

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