Category: Ward 5

City Council Using Holidays to Rush Through Privatization of McMillan Site Without Proper Planning

Washington, DC – Tomorrow, Tuesday, December 2, 2014, the DC City Council intends to take a vote on disposing 25-acres of public land located in close proximity to Congress, the McMillan Park and Sand Filtration Site. http://lims.dccouncil.us/Download/32678/PR20-1081-CommitteeReport1.pdf The Deputy Mayor’s Office of Planning and Economic Development (DMPED) is asking the Council for full negotiation rights […]

McMillan, Barry Farm Project Approvals Foretell Zoning Rewrite Deliberations

For Immediate Release, Monday, October 6, 2014 McMillan Coalition for Sustainable Futures, 202-631-7292 At the end of September 2014, the DC Zoning Commission deliberated and made some initial decisions to approve two very controversial projects that would giveaway large tracts of public land to private developers and create “mixed-income” communities — Barry Farm & McMillan […]