{"id":174,"date":"2017-03-17T20:49:57","date_gmt":"2017-03-17T20:49:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dcfeedback.com\/fit2print\/?p=174"},"modified":"2017-03-29T06:10:11","modified_gmt":"2017-03-29T06:10:11","slug":"174","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dcfeedback.com\/fit2print\/dc\/citywide\/174","title":{"rendered":"Mayor and Council “Railroading” McMillan Park"},"content":{"rendered":"

PRESS ALERT: Save McMillan Action Coalition, smac.dc@gmail.com<\/small><\/small><\/p>\n

Administrative “Railroading” of McMillan Park Court Reversal Paid For by DC TaxPayers; Mayor and DC Planning Officials Submit 17 Exhibits with 300 Pages 10 Days Before March 23 Hearing<\/em><\/h1>\n

Washington, DC — On March 13, 2017,<\/strong> more than fifteen exhibits consisting of more than three hundred pages of reports, narrative, and argument were published on the record by the Applicant in the McMillan Park zoning case, a case vacated by the DC Court of Appeals back in December. www.savemcmillan.org\/legal<\/a><\/p>\n

In typical development zoning review the vast bulk of submissions by the Applicant would be available at least several weeks before any hearings.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Applicant looking to privatize and demolish the historically landmarked McMillan Park site is a consortium of many of DC’s favored developer teams (known as Vision McMillan Partners<\/a>) with the direct help of the Deputy Mayors Office for Planning and Economic Development<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Friends of McMillan Park, a group of DC residents seeking to protect the historic park and who want a design competition to develop a reasonable alternative to the Mayor’s proposed McMillan Town Center, immediately filed a request to defer the hearing<\/a> so their counsel can review and prepare for the hearing on now set for March 23.
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On March 16, 2016, DC for Reasonable Development filed a motion in support of the Friends’ request for deferment, filed a motion in support of the Friends’ request for deferment<\/a>, but the Secretary of the DC Zoning Commission said she would not bring the filing to the Commission.<\/p>\n

In an email to the Secretary, Chris Otten, co-faciltator with DC for Reasonable Development<\/strong>, described this whole situation as a form of administrative “railroading.” Secretary Sharon Schellin<\/strong>, later said she was “acting at the direction of the Chairman of the Commission [Anthony Hood]<\/strong>.” See Email Chain<\/a><\/p>\n

The Zoning Commission held a closed door gathering back in January where they decided they would deal with the Court decision vacating their decision to destroy McMillan Park. https:\/\/twitter.com\/dc4reality\/status\/823669538344628226<\/a><\/p>\n

The Commission decided they will use a “limited-scope” hearing of the McMillan Park case on March 23, 2017. Rehearing Notice<\/a><\/p>\n

[breaking]<\/em> The Zoning Commission says they will review the request for deferment from the Friends of McMillan Park on Monday, March 20. March 20 ZC Notice<\/a><\/h5>\n

The Zoning Commission Case for McMillan Park is ZC Case No. 13-14.<\/a><\/p>\n

Because of the prescribed connection with the city, it is the taxpayers footing the bill for the lawyers, experts, and paid consultants pushing for zoning entitlements to construct high-rise medical office spaces and more then 600 luxury housing units at McMillan Park.<\/p>\n

“This violates the due process clauses of the US Constitution, 5th and 14th amendments, among other unethical breakdowns being perpetrated here,” said Daniel Wolkoff with McMillan Coalition for Sustainable Agriculture<\/strong>. “The no-bid contracting wired to the Mayor and Council’s favorite developers, the hiring of the Fontaine PR company with our tax money to pull off a public disinformation campaign, the ignorance of our historic preservation covenants at this nationally landmarked site, the list goes on and on. It’s criminal.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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