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"As greent said, GGW raises awareness of issues related to this issue locally and regionally that might otherwise be difficult for its readers to find."

Thats the point. This isn't an "issue", any more than some rube wanting a permit to build a house in the District walking into DCRA without a clue and being shocked at walking out without said permit, is an issue.

This whole thing reminds me of the hipster rage on the blogosphere when those two guys recounted their story of opening a diner on H Street. The story was all "whine" and no personal accountability. They, like this Denu guy had zero idea of what they were doing, yet expected everyone to jump through their hoops on their schedule. Who knew you couldn't just buy some camper off ebay, park it somewhere in the District and open for business the next day? Golly gee...inspections, permits, zoning? Well...those just "stifle" me.

GGW used to have a voice in the process. While thats been nearly taken away at this point by this administration, I would think that GGW wouldn't want to be completely relegated to the "ignore" pile by striving not to turn into the Fox News of the blogosphere.

Pick your fights. Elevating every rubes so called story of urbanist injustice all the way to the Department of Interior or the Mayors office just guarantees that no one is going to ever listen to you.

And I agree with someone above..., "you" may want the NPS to turn over responbility of its acreage to the District, but I wouldn't want to see how quickly these places fall into complete disarray if that were the case. The NPS service has responsibility over thousands of acres of park land in the District alone, many times more than DPR currently has (900 acres). DPR does an "eh" job with the 48 million a year that it gets. It's budget would have to increase 4-5 fold to take responsibility from NPS. Good luck convincing the Mayor and Council to start eating that reacurring cost year in and out.

by freely on Aug 1, 2011 1:48 pm • link • report