PRESS RELEASE, DC FOR REASONABLE DEVELOPMENT, CONTACT CHRIS OTTEN, (202) 656-5874 Mayor’s Proposed Changes to DC Comprehensive Plan “Unlawful” and “A Gift to Developers”; More than 130 DC Residents Wrote Letters at Hearing Deadline Demanding An End to Displacement Washington, DC — In late November 2020, spanning two Council hearings consisting of 10+ hours of […]
———- Forwarded message ——— From: SaveMcMillan ActionCoalition <smac.dc@gmail.com> Date: Thu, Dec 24, 2020 at 9:06 AM Subject: PRESS RELEASE: McDuffie Ignores Ward 5 Residents’ Request for Meeting About Asbestos Health Risks at McMillan Park — Complaints may be filed with Board of Ethics and Government Accountability; Independent Auditor; and Inspector General To: SaveMcMillan ActionCoalition <smac.dc@gmail.com> […]
For Release December 16, 2020 Contact: Robin Diener, Library Renaissance Project 202 431-9254 DC Public Library Director Questioned about Proposed Closure of Shepherd Park Branch Last week 87 people zoomed into a special meeting of the Shepherd Park Citizens Association (SPCA) to hear from DC Public Library director Richard Reyes-Gavilan about the […]
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/local-opinions/dcs-growth-is-tied-to-the-amended-comprehensive-plan/2020/12/10/f89509dc-399c-11eb-9276-ae0ca72729be_story.html D.C.’s growth is tied to the amended Comprehensive Plan Opinion by Neil Albert Dec. 11, 2020 at 9:00 a.m. EST Neil Albert is president and chief executive of the DowntownDC Business Improvement District. It would be in the best interests of D.C. residents and businesses for the D.C. Council to approve the amended Comprehensive Plan — and […]
Media release December 14, 2020 Contact Nick DelleDonne 703-929-6656 Mendelson Opens Up on Comp Plan at Empower Session “More density does not necessarily mean more affordable housing in DC,” said DC Council Chair Phil Mendelson at a meeting of the citywide organizing group Empower DC on Dec. 12. The Empower session followed […]
Contact: William Jordan Park Morton Equity Team 202 500 0699 whj@melanet.com Tenant Council Urges DC Council Not Pass Bill on Tues., Continues to Fight Displacement from Public Housing & Demand Equity The Council @ Park Morton, representing residents at the city’s Park Morton public housing complex adjacent to Georgia Ave. in NW, are urging […]
PRESS RELEASE November 23, 2020Contact: Linwood Norman, smac.dc@gmail.com202-656-3012 Residents Ask Councilman McDuffie to Investigate Asbestos, Air Pollution Concerns at McMillan Park DC Agency Fails to Provide Asbestos Environmental Reports More than a dozen Ward 5 residents are asking their Council representative Kenyan McDuffie to investigate potential asbestos and air pollution health risks at McMillan Park, following […]
Media release November 23, 2020 Contact Nick DelleDonne 703-929-6656 Who‘s the Man behind the Curtain? ‘Mayor’s Agent’ OKs Masonic Temple Lot Division Role of Planning Dir. Trueblood Questioned The city’s conflicted process of approving development projects came more sharply into focus on November 6 when the Mayor’s Agent for Historic Preservation approved the subdivision of […]
PRESS RELEASE November 5, 2020 Contact: Linwood Norman, smac.dc@gmail.com202-656-3012 McMillan Park Water System Likely Built With Asbestos, Posing Health Hazard to City Reservoir & Neighborhoods DC Officials Cannot Prove Environmental Impact Study Was Ever Completed McMillan Park’s 25-acre water filtration system is a massive concrete structure likely composed with asbestos and, if demolished, would pose a severe health […]
Media release October 22, 2020 Contact Nick DelleDonne 703-929-6656 DECAA Considers Lawsuit of DDOT’s 17th St. Bike Plan Addressing District Department of Transportation’s (DDOT) 17th St. Bike Plan at a meeting of Dupont East Civic Action Association (DECAA) Monday, Oct. 19, ANC Commissioner Ed Hanlon (SMD 2B09) presented the case that the Plan is […]