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Anonymous wrote:Isn't the city council blocking an underground parking lot for the fannie mae redevelopment project in their misguided war on driving? This would simply force the developer to enlarge the projects footprint and knock down trees for an above ground parking area. Meanwhile, they give all kinds of variances for this shelter project. It seems like our council just wants to spread architectural blight up and down Wisconsin avenue, so it can be as ugly and congested as other recently "developed" areas. I guess that's their idea of equity.

Where did you hear this? First of all the Council doesn't get involved in individual zoning cases. Second, the developer has indicated that he's got the city agencies at his back. An underground garage there is a good, needed thing, although not the developer's proposed new Wisconsin access for trucks and cars. It would put another light about 100 feet from an existing one at Rodman and 250 feet from the other light at Fannie/Post Office. This will create even more gridlock in an already congested area. The developer should use the existing Wisconsin access, but it clearly wants to put trucks on the periphery of its site (next to existig McLean Gardens residences on Rodman) rather than create noise for the on-site residences that the developer wants to sell.

Neither of these posts are true. Either use links and supporting evidence or stop spreading false information.

With large tract review, the city has very little to say or weigh in on with this project with respect to parking or anything else. And the plans show using the existing light between the site and Cafe Ole.

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Anonymous wrote:Isn't the city council blocking an underground parking lot for the fannie mae redevelopment project in their misguided war on driving? This would simply force the developer to enlarge the projects footprint and knock down trees for an above ground parking area. Meanwhile, they give all kinds of variances for this shelter project. It seems like our council just wants to spread architectural blight up and down Wisconsin avenue, so it can be as ugly and congested as other recently "developed" areas. I guess that's their idea of equity.

Where did you hear this? First of all the Council doesn't get involved in individual zoning cases. Second, the developer has indicated that he's got the city agencies at his back. An underground garage there is a good, needed thing, although not the developer's proposed new Wisconsin access for trucks and cars. It would put another light about 100 feet from an existing one at Rodman and 250 feet from the other light at Fannie/Post Office. This will create even more gridlock in an already congested area. The developer should use the existing Wisconsin access, but it clearly wants to put trucks on the periphery of its site (next to existig McLean Gardens residences on Rodman) rather than create noise for the on-site residences that the developer wants to sell.

Anonymous wrote:Isn't the city council blocking an underground parking lot for the fannie mae redevelopment project in their misguided war on driving? This would simply force the developer to enlarge the projects footprint and knock down trees for an above ground parking area. Meanwhile, they give all kinds of variances for this shelter project. It seems like our council just wants to spread architectural blight up and down Wisconsin avenue, so it can be as ugly and congested as other recently "developed" areas. I guess that's their idea of equity.

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Anonymous wrote:So are they ever going to start construction or they did just close that parking lot for ****s and giggles?

The first step is to build a multistory parking garage next to the police station. Unfortunately for the folks who live nearby in McLean Gardens, the parking garage will be open, concrete beam construction, and there will be no screening or greening of the garage.

I heard the garage was supposed to be completed in six months so that parking in the neighborhood won't be so screwed up, they haven't even broke ground yet on the site yet....I suppose six months really means a year and a half...

It's running on DC time.

This. I suspect this entire project won't be finished until a least 2020. The originally said 2019.

I'm betting 2021 with the way things are going (aka no indication that work will start anytime soon).

Cheh's taken this on as her pet project, but I wish that she'd also focus on basic constituent services as well. Large swaths of her ward have yet to see a first pick up of leaves, which sit in piles on the streets. DPW's pickup dates were weeks ago.

There are many areas in Cheh's ward 3 where no leaves have been picked up this season. Maybe Cheh should hire the homeless to do it? DPW seems dysfunctional.

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Anonymous wrote:So are they ever going to start construction or they did just close that parking lot for ****s and giggles?

The first step is to build a multistory parking garage next to the police station. Unfortunately for the folks who live nearby in McLean Gardens, the parking garage will be open, concrete beam construction, and there will be no screening or greening of the garage.

I heard the garage was supposed to be completed in six months so that parking in the neighborhood won't be so screwed up, they haven't even broke ground yet on the site yet....I suppose six months really means a year and a half...

It's running on DC time.

This. I suspect this entire project won't be finished until a least 2020. The originally said 2019.

I'm betting 2021 with the way things are going (aka no indication that work will start anytime soon).

Cheh's taken this on as her pet project, but I wish that she'd also focus on basic constituent services as well. Large swaths of her ward have yet to see a first pick up of leaves, which sit in piles on the streets. DPW's pickup dates were weeks ago.

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Anonymous wrote:So are they ever going to start construction or they did just close that parking lot for ****s and giggles?

The first step is to build a multistory parking garage next to the police station. Unfortunately for the folks who live nearby in McLean Gardens, the parking garage will be open, concrete beam construction, and there will be no screening or greening of the garage.

I heard the garage was supposed to be completed in six months so that parking in the neighborhood won't be so screwed up, they haven't even broke ground yet on the site yet....I suppose six months really means a year and a half...

It's running on DC time.

This. I suspect this entire project won't be finished until a least 2020. The originally said 2019.

I'm betting 2021 with the way things are going (aka no indication that work will start anytime soon).

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So are they ever going to start construction or they did just close that parking lot for ****s and giggles?

The first step is to build a multistory parking garage next to the police station. Unfortunately for the folks who live nearby in McLean Gardens, the parking garage will be open, concrete beam construction, and there will be no screening or greening of the garage.

I heard the garage was supposed to be completed in six months so that parking in the neighborhood won't be so screwed up, they haven't even broke ground yet on the site yet....I suppose six months really means a year and a half...

It's running on DC time.

This. I suspect this entire project won't be finished until a least 2020. The originally said 2019.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So are they ever going to start construction or they did just close that parking lot for ****s and giggles?

The first step is to build a multistory parking garage next to the police station. Unfortunately for the folks who live nearby in McLean Gardens, the parking garage will be open, concrete beam construction, and there will be no screening or greening of the garage.

I heard the garage was supposed to be completed in six months so that parking in the neighborhood won't be so screwed up, they haven't even broke ground yet on the site yet....I suppose six months really means a year and a half...

It's running on DC time.

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Anonymous wrote:So are they ever going to start construction or they did just close that parking lot for ****s and giggles?

The first step is to build a multistory parking garage next to the police station. Unfortunately for the folks who live nearby in McLean Gardens, the parking garage will be open, concrete beam construction, and there will be no screening or greening of the garage.

I heard the garage was supposed to be completed in six months so that parking in the neighborhood won't be so screwed up, they haven't even broke ground yet on the site yet....I suppose six months really means a year and a half...

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Anonymous wrote:So are they ever going to start construction or they did just close that parking lot for ****s and giggles?

The first step is to build a multistory parking garage next to the police station. Unfortunately for the folks who live nearby in McLean Gardens, the parking garage will be open, concrete beam construction, and there will be no screening or greening of the garage.

Anonymous wrote:So are they ever going to start construction or they did just close that parking lot for ****s and giggles?

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Anonymous wrote:When did Union Station become a de facto homeless shelter? I returned on the train the other evening, and there must have been 100-150 people on the floor in the corridors and sleeping on the front benches. It wasn't a cold night, either. I support shelters, but train stations and public libraries were not intended to be those shelters.

They should've just converted Tenley Library into a shelter, it's already one practically right now.

Didn't DC originally want to build a condo building on top of the Tenley library, part of which would have been built in the Janney playground? Too bad that couldn't have been a mixed-use multifamily building to include homelsss families.

No, it would have been on top of the library. Wasted opportunity not to have those taxpayers - property and income tax, in the city coffers.

Would have been a good opportunity to integrate low income and homeless housing with more upscale dwellings. But Janney is quite full, so the homeless kids would have to be bussed elsewhere to school, like to Eaton or Hearst.

Why should the homeless be bussed? Send the Janney's kids to Eaton or Hearst and keep the homeless at Janney. A much better opportunity to integrate the poor with the upscale, wouldn't you say?

That would be politically untenable, or unTenleyable if you like. The Idaho Ave site is about the only one that really works in Ward 3, because it is next to a police station and a shopping center, and the kids will go to Eaton, which is still is very OOB in its enrollment. That means, fewer Ward 3 voters to get pissed off and push back. Cheh knows that if they had put the shelter next to AU Park (the church site north of Best Buy was a possibility) and the kids went to Janney, there would have been a firestorm.