Month: November 2020

Tenant Council Urges DC Council Not Pass Bill on Tuesday, Continues to Fight Displacement from Public Housing & Demand Equity

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: Residents Ask Councilman McDuffie to Investigate Asbestos, Air Pollution Concerns at McMillan Park — DC Agency Fails to Provide Asbestos Environmental Reports

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 […]

Who’s the Man behind the Curtain? ‘Mayor’s Agent’ OKs Masonic Temple Lot Division – Role of Planning Dir. Trueblood Questioned

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: 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

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 […]