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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So the ANC in 3/4G finally got around to surveying the community and it looks like us folks at the Chevy Chase Voice were better at getting our people out in force to respond.  We defeated the GGG/WABA people who tried as usual to stack the deck with outside ANC votes against the actual community's wishes.  So now the mayor will cancel this project, right?

https://anc3g.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/CCLS-Survey-Overall-Summary-Data.pdf

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I completed the survey and voted for redevelopment of the community center / library without housing.  HOWEVER, the survey didn't drill down to maybe the next level and ask if I was in favor of redevelopment with housing if that is the only way to get the community center / library redeveloped.  I am a 100% yes answer to that question as well.

The current community center / library are awful...I will agree to just about anything built on top of brand new, modern facilities if that is the only way to get those facilities.

To other posters suggesting that somehow a super majority of the community needs to agree to development, that is utter nonsense.  NOTHING would ever get built anywhere if that was a standard.  This is why zoning laws exist.[/quote]
So you completed the survey and the results didn’t agree with your opinion so there is something wrong with the methodology? This is hilarious.[/quote]

No, just that I am not alone in believing it is a binary choice.  My preference is to have a new community center / library without housing...but without a doubt my highest preference is to have a new community center / library no matter what.  If something has to be built on top in order to make it happen, then I honestly couldnt' care less what gets built on top.[/quote]

My problem is the mayor holding replacement of the library and community center hostage to giving a public asset away on lucrative terms to a favored crony developer.   That smells.[/quote]

Uh, the mayor had money in the budget 5 years ago for this, and the ANC asked her to hold off because it proposed adding the affordable housing. You have it backwards. The community asked for this and now a bunch of blue hair cranks are up in arms of basically nothing.[/quote]

Even if true, a lot has changed in five years.  The voucher fiasco, crime spiraling, DC’s tepid response.  No one trusts DC to manage this well for the community.[/quote]

The proposed housing is not voucher housing. Why do you assume people who want to live in affordable housing cause crime? This housing is designed for people who work at Broadbrnach Market or at [b]the fire station down the street[/b], or at Lafayette as a teacher or building engineer. Do you think those people are engaged in the crime spree?[/quote]

Why are we building apartments for the Chevy Chase MARYLAND fire department?  While I appreciate that Maryland covers us in DC perhaps it might be better to build a fire or police station of our own.[/quote]

Fessenden and CT is your friend.[/quote]
There are already tons of apartments around there. So your imaginary fire fighters and teachers already have a lot of multi-family housing options.[/quote]

How much do you think firefighters and nurses or teachers make? there is a reason they all live in West virginia or deep in Howard country.[/quote]

Since the city is driving away rent control, they will have to keep living there. None of them would qualify for the voucher freebie giveaways.[/quote]

And the units being discussed for Chevy Chase are not vouncher freebie giveaways. What is your point?[/quote]

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