Comment by ceefer

Fri, 21 Sep 2012 17:01:17 EDT

Daniel Wolkoff,

Great idea for McMillan and thanks for pointing out what's already happening in Brookland with the flooding thanks to over-urbanization (I have first-hand experience, having experienced flooding at my house there).

But that train has already left the station. DC wants to be Manahattan. Thanks to the height limits, the only way DC can pack 'em in is to gobble up every piece of available land. Once that happens, they'll start knocking down everything that's not suitable for for "mixed-use".

Wait! They're already doing that.

Comment by oboe

Fri, 21 Sep 2012 09:32:39 EDT

What?!? Four private parking spaces are going to be converted to mini-parks for several hours tomorrow?!? WAR ON DRIVERS!

Comment by Daniel Wolkoff

Fri, 21 Sep 2012 06:01:06 EDT

As the district govt. and it's prefered developers gobble up all the remaing land for "mixed use development" our only parks will be in prefered upper NW and cute activities like this. McMillan is a Central Park which the city needs as recreation ,culture, art and performance. The reservoir and mcMillan Sand Filtration Plant need to be rejoined, for jogging, walking , picnics,, and preservation as open green space, like the 500% more that is so nicley manicured for the prefered section in upper NW.
The environmental problems of Bloomingdale
and LeDroit Park flooding will be improved by the restoration of McMillan Park. The city is on acollision coourse , and we cannot go back once historic Mcmillan is demolished aand built over.What do you think the addition of 2000 toilets will do to the problem there? Our city officials are too busy building the city of the future(overubanization)to take responsible care of the city we live in now as you see the flooding horror ignored for years.We have to get on this govt. , and defend this park,which is surroounded by development, onthe AFRH, the hospital center, CUA, 901 Monroe, and the destruction of the brookland green for WMATA to over develope the CUA-Brookland metro. They complain we have 1000 new residents a month coming to DC. Obviously the profit making development community want to build a brand new housing unit for each one. We see the alternatives, they don't regardles of the impact and enourmous difficulties. Tunnel vision is always a path to waste and disaster. The City Council Committee on Economic Development was shown a brilliant design alternative by Miriam Gusevich,,check it out, on the sept.19 "roundtable" hearing.toward the end of the video, her abreviated presentation shows "world class" site design preserving and reusing the lower acres of galleries, as City Market, urban waterworks, and recreation. There are perfectly brilliant ways to accomplish this reclaimation that will save the green roof on the surface to benefit the flooding problem. You just have to be open to other input than the tired EYA/Vision mcMillan Partners struggle to force a cookie cutter suburban style development on a special historic and env. site. Gusevich also preseerves the largest section as unified park space, the views and still includes housing and comercial development. DC govt. hasn't had the good sense to plant trees and other rain absorbing mitigation for the 27 years they have wasted the 25 acres..Just let the sewage back up into our neighbors house,,, and keep building, paving, and removing the mature trees. If planted when the city acquired McMillan in 1987,, we would have a deep forest there of tall healthy trees by now, place to hike, urban agriculture,, all too intelligent!

Comment by Weiwen

Thu, 20 Sep 2012 13:07:08 EDT

Baltimore's is at 800 North Charles. Just down the road from where I live (moved there, still work in DC, still frequent GGW).

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