Anonymous
Post 04/01/2025 07:59     Subject: CCDC Redevelopment Plans
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Opinions? I think it is ridiculous that the city is circumventing the easement the land is subject to when it was originally given to the city. AU park has a perfect site for this development. And the whole”affordable housing” is BS and just being used as a way to justify it. There are plenty of vacant apartments in this area the city could offer, with incentives to the property owners, if they truly cared about affordable housing. Additionally there is not infrastructure that supports the additional cars and new students to the zoned school system.

https://dc.urbanturf.com/articles/blog/the_8_proposals_pitched_for_a_hotly_debated_site_in_chevy_chase/23344?fbclid=IwY2xjawJXkzhleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHdiCaiitjnFbdsYgEzCgSPEn3EdVs3cKWDVBd8g2mHnJM2O6zf5nVwnGMA_aem_qyLCL8af-8X9wKZ83Wl27g


This is your uninformed opinion. Legal minds wholly disagree.

The city has to rebuild the library and community center. A partnership like this that adds new housing on city land is the best public use and certainly more cost effective than DCHA buying apartment buildings that are not available currently.


No it isn’t. And no one is suggesting buying apartment buildings. There are vacant apartments (look at the building at Conn and Nebraska for example - still full of empty units- which they promised would have retail on the ground floor) The city could provide tax incentives for leasing vacant units. Putting the public library and community center under apartments is ridiculous . The reality is not many people within the community are going to there anymore or go to a DCPR class, I certainly don’t want to go to a library in an apartment building affordable housing or otherwise. A free standing library and community center are what is needed. Building apartments on top is circumventing the easement plain as day.


Then someone should sue over the easement violation.
Anonymous
Post 04/01/2025 07:21     Subject: CCDC Redevelopment Plans
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Opinions? I think it is ridiculous that the city is circumventing the easement the land is subject to when it was originally given to the city. AU park has a perfect site for this development. And the whole”affordable housing” is BS and just being used as a way to justify it. There are plenty of vacant apartments in this area the city could offer, with incentives to the property owners, if they truly cared about affordable housing. Additionally there is not infrastructure that supports the additional cars and new students to the zoned school system.

https://dc.urbanturf.com/articles/blog/the_8_proposals_pitched_for_a_hotly_debated_site_in_chevy_chase/23344?fbclid=IwY2xjawJXkzhleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHdiCaiitjnFbdsYgEzCgSPEn3EdVs3cKWDVBd8g2mHnJM2O6zf5nVwnGMA_aem_qyLCL8af-8X9wKZ83Wl27g


This is your uninformed opinion. Legal minds wholly disagree.

The city has to rebuild the library and community center. A partnership like this that adds new housing on city land is the best public use and certainly more cost effective than DCHA buying apartment buildings that are not available currently.


No it isn’t. And no one is suggesting buying apartment buildings. There are vacant apartments (look at the building at Conn and Nebraska for example - still full of empty units- which they promised would have retail on the ground floor) The city could provide tax incentives for leasing vacant units. Putting the public library and community center under apartments is ridiculous . The reality is not many people within the community are going to there anymore or go to a DCPR class, I certainly don’t want to go to a library in an apartment building affordable housing or otherwise. A free standing library and community center are what is needed. Building apartments on top is circumventing the easement plain as day.
Anonymous
Post 04/01/2025 01:01     Subject: Re:CCDC Redevelopment Plans
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:They should build another elementary or middle school here.


The area desperately needs another ES and MS but it also needs a library and community center. We'll never get those things back if this goes through.


All of the proposed designs include a library and community center.


Some are just glorified common rooms that are more of a building amenity than a community amenity. Those are also always the first thing to go when building starts. Renderings are architecural vapor ware.


Nothing you wrote makes any sense nor can you provide any actual examples to clarify whatever it is you are trying to say.

All of the RFP's require a community center and library as big as the ones that are there today.

Though in 24 years of living within walking distance the only thing I've ever done at the Community Center is vote and attend the meeting this past Saturday.

But please let us know what you mean by "renderings are architectural vapor ware."
Anonymous
Post 04/01/2025 00:03     Subject: CCDC Redevelopment Plans
oof some of those are brutally ugly.
Anonymous
Post 03/31/2025 23:52     Subject: CCDC Redevelopment Plans
Lawyers have already looked at the easements. It is a non-issue. Try something else to block people you don't like from living in the neighborhood.
Anonymous
Post 03/31/2025 22:11     Subject: CCDC Redevelopment Plans
Anonymous wrote:Opinions? I think it is ridiculous that the city is circumventing the easement the land is subject to when it was originally given to the city. AU park has a perfect site for this development. And the whole”affordable housing” is BS and just being used as a way to justify it. There are plenty of vacant apartments in this area the city could offer, with incentives to the property owners, if they truly cared about affordable housing. Additionally there is not infrastructure that supports the additional cars and new students to the zoned school system.

https://dc.urbanturf.com/articles/blog/the_8_proposals_pitched_for_a_hotly_debated_site_in_chevy_chase/23344?fbclid=IwY2xjawJXkzhleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHdiCaiitjnFbdsYgEzCgSPEn3EdVs3cKWDVBd8g2mHnJM2O6zf5nVwnGMA_aem_qyLCL8af-8X9wKZ83Wl27g


It it legal for them to circumvent the easement and who would have standing to sue and enforce the easement? Could neighbors sue about violating the easements?
Anonymous
Post 03/31/2025 20:39     Subject: CCDC Redevelopment Plans
Anonymous wrote:Opinions? I think it is ridiculous that the city is circumventing the easement the land is subject to when it was originally given to the city. AU park has a perfect site for this development. And the whole”affordable housing” is BS and just being used as a way to justify it. There are plenty of vacant apartments in this area the city could offer, with incentives to the property owners, if they truly cared about affordable housing. Additionally there is not infrastructure that supports the additional cars and new students to the zoned school system.

https://dc.urbanturf.com/articles/blog/the_8_proposals_pitched_for_a_hotly_debated_site_in_chevy_chase/23344?fbclid=IwY2xjawJXkzhleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHdiCaiitjnFbdsYgEzCgSPEn3EdVs3cKWDVBd8g2mHnJM2O6zf5nVwnGMA_aem_qyLCL8af-8X9wKZ83Wl27g


This is your uninformed opinion. Legal minds wholly disagree.

The city has to rebuild the library and community center. A partnership like this that adds new housing on city land is the best public use and certainly more cost effective than DCHA buying apartment buildings that are not available currently.
Anonymous
Post 03/31/2025 17:00     Subject: Re:CCDC Redevelopment Plans
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:They should build another elementary or middle school here.


The area desperately needs another ES and MS but it also needs a library and community center. We'll never get those things back if this goes through.


All of the proposed designs include a library and community center.


Some are just glorified common rooms that are more of a building amenity than a community amenity. Those are also always the first thing to go when building starts. Renderings are architecural vapor ware.
Anonymous
Post 03/31/2025 16:30     Subject: Re:CCDC Redevelopment Plans
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:They should build another elementary or middle school here.


The area desperately needs another ES and MS but it also needs a library and community center. We'll never get those things back if this goes through.


All of the proposed designs include a library and community center.
Anonymous
Post 03/31/2025 16:16     Subject: Re:CCDC Redevelopment Plans
Anonymous wrote:They should build another elementary or middle school here.


The area desperately needs another ES and MS but it also needs a library and community center. We'll never get those things back if this goes through.
Anonymous
Post 03/31/2025 15:15     Subject: Re:CCDC Redevelopment Plans
Anonymous wrote:They should build another elementary or middle school here.


Yep. But because the city is in thrall to GGWash supporters who strident goal in live is to live near other white people, that's not happening.
Anonymous
Post 03/31/2025 13:58     Subject: CCDC Redevelopment Plans
Anonymous wrote:Opinions? I think it is ridiculous that the city is circumventing the easement the land is subject to when it was originally given to the city. AU park has a perfect site for this development. And the whole”affordable housing” is BS and just being used as a way to justify it. There are plenty of vacant apartments in this area the city could offer, with incentives to the property owners, if they truly cared about affordable housing. Additionally there is not infrastructure that supports the additional cars and new students to the zoned school system.

https://dc.urbanturf.com/articles/blog/the_8_proposals_pitched_for_a_hotly_debated_site_in_chevy_chase/23344?fbclid=IwY2xjawJXkzhleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHdiCaiitjnFbdsYgEzCgSPEn3EdVs3cKWDVBd8g2mHnJM2O6zf5nVwnGMA_aem_qyLCL8af-8X9wKZ83Wl27g


This is why you should never, ever, give in to the YImBY cult. They are always going to take whatever they can, don’t ever trust them at their word.
Anonymous
Post 03/31/2025 13:40     Subject: Re:CCDC Redevelopment Plans
They should build another elementary or middle school here.
Anonymous
Post 03/31/2025 13:27     Subject: CCDC Redevelopment Plans
Anonymous wrote:Opinions? I think it is ridiculous that the city is circumventing the easement the land is subject to when it was originally given to the city. AU park has a perfect site for this development. And the whole”affordable housing” is BS and just being used as a way to justify it. There are plenty of vacant apartments in this area the city could offer, with incentives to the property owners, if they truly cared about affordable housing. Additionally there is not infrastructure that supports the additional cars and new students to the zoned school system.

https://dc.urbanturf.com/articles/blog/the_8_proposals_pitched_for_a_hotly_debated_site_in_chevy_chase/23344?fbclid=IwY2xjawJXkzhleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHdiCaiitjnFbdsYgEzCgSPEn3EdVs3cKWDVBd8g2mHnJM2O6zf5nVwnGMA_aem_qyLCL8af-8X9wKZ83Wl27g


Why not build this in Chevy Chase and also build a similar building in AU Park?
Anonymous
Post 03/31/2025 11:35     Subject: CCDC Redevelopment Plans
Opinions? I think it is ridiculous that the city is circumventing the easement the land is subject to when it was originally given to the city. AU park has a perfect site for this development. And the whole”affordable housing” is BS and just being used as a way to justify it. There are plenty of vacant apartments in this area the city could offer, with incentives to the property owners, if they truly cared about affordable housing. Additionally there is not infrastructure that supports the additional cars and new students to the zoned school system.

https://dc.urbanturf.com/articles/blog/the_8_proposals_pitched_for_a_hotly_debated_site_in_chevy_chase/23344?fbclid=IwY2xjawJXkzhleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHdiCaiitjnFbdsYgEzCgSPEn3EdVs3cKWDVBd8g2mHnJM2O6zf5nVwnGMA_aem_qyLCL8af-8X9wKZ83Wl27g