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DPR is at least humble enough *sometimes* to know that it doesn't have the resources to maintain some of its facilities at the level they need to be and is thus willing to work with private partners like they have done with the Jellef/Maret and Bundy/KIPP Shaw campus fields. With local resources like the DC Master Gardeners program, it's boggling why DPR (and its contracted so called "landscape architects") can't figure out the best landscaping plans.

Mr Brown should stick to the original plan to provide low income housing -- in mixed income level developments and maybe add school maintenance (which should have been in the sham/shortsighted budge to begin with). DPR should be renegotiating its union contracts so that the staff that sit around at rec centers can take some time each day/week to maintain the landscaping around Rec Centers like Kennedy.

It's a shame that with billions of dollars of local development coming to the Shaw and nearby area (Marriott, CityCenter, CityMarket, UNCF and others) local leaders couldn't target some resources to better maintain the rec center that will serve residents in each of these developments.

Maybe shifting maintenance to DGS will do the trick. Pulling out a water hose, mulching trees and shrubs, picking up litter isn't going to kill anyone; it all makes the DPR facilities more enjoyable and shows that our tax dollars are being put to good use for the benefit of everyone in the community.

I'm fine with the NPS having some arcane national agenda and standards, but (preaching to the choir here) they should at least work cooperatively with local leadership in each jurisdiction on local priorities.

When is NPS putting in a reasonable number of bike racks, if not also a CaBi station, at the new King Memorial? The more convenient bike facilities the new Memorial has, the more local people will take time to appreciate it which seems to fit with their objectives.

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by CCCA Prez on Aug 30, 2011 12:50 pm • link • report