Media release March 8, 2021 Contact Nick DelleDonne 703-929-6656 Mendo Hopeful of Getting Comp Plan to Council by the End of March DC Council Chair Phil Mendelson said tonight he is ‘hopeful” of getting the Comp Plan to the Council by the end of March. A public hearing in November last year heard a […]
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The Washingtonj Post/Opinion by Minnie Elliott Opinion | D.C. is funding displacement at Brookland Manor. It can’t stand. – The Washington Post March 5, 2021 at 9:00 a.m. EST Minnie Elliott is president of the Brookland Manor/Brentwood Village Residents Association. I am an 83-year-old great-great-grandmother and president of the Brookland Manor/Brentwood Village Residents Association. As a […]
Media release January 5, 2021 Contact Nick DelleDonne Dupont Gadfly 703-929-6656 While Rome Burns – DC’s Comp Plan Unmasked “The [Mayor’s amendments to the DC Comprehensive] Plan fails to reckon honestly with the city’s inequities and past failures, laying the groundwork for repeating the same mistakes in the future.” Thus begins […]
Media release January 6, 2021 Contact Nick DelleDonne Dupont Gadfly 703-929-6656 Like Roads and Sewers – A New Model to Reach DC Housing Goals The affordable housing crisis in DC is a political crisis. The Mayor’s collaboration with developers to #BuildMore is not getting us where we need to go. All we get is more […]
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 […]
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 […]
Media release October 20, 2020 Contact Nick DelleDonne 703-929-6656 DECAA Applauds Mendelson on Comp Plan Delay The Dupont East Civic Action Association (DECAA) applauds Council Chair Phil Mendelson’s announcement yesterday that the Council vote on the Comp Plan will be next year, when the new Council will take office. This will give time for individuals, civic and […]
PRESS ALERT JULY 14, 2020Contact: Linwood Norman, smac.dc@gmail.com, 202-656-3012 Ward 5 Residents Ask CM McDuffie to Defund McMillanUse Money for Public Health, Education and Housing Needs Facing Constituents Hardest Hit by COVID-19 Health Pandemic Washington, DC – Ward 5 Residents including those living around McMillan Park are asking Councilmember Kenyan McDuffie to Defund the controversial […]
SaveMcMillan.org/defund Media advisory, Monday, July 6, 2020Contact: Linwood Norman, smac.dc@gmail.com, 202-656-3012 The DC City Council is being asked by Black residents in the District to use the Council’s newly adopted “racial equity lens” to analyze and then defund the McMillan Park redevelopment plan, because it will intensify displacement in a city that is one of […]