{"id":294,"date":"2019-09-03T22:48:12","date_gmt":"2019-09-03T22:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dcfeedback.com\/fit2print\/?p=294"},"modified":"2020-12-24T20:41:36","modified_gmt":"2020-12-24T20:41:36","slug":"pr-mcmillan-park-supporters-gather-to-kill-the-inside-land-deal-by-dc-city-council-complaint-letter-asks-ag-racine-to-step-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dcfeedback.com\/fit2print\/dc\/294","title":{"rendered":"PR: McMillan Park Supporters Gather To \u201cKill the Inside Land Deal” by DC City Council; Complaint Letter Asks AG Racine To Step In"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

PRESS UPDATE: Save McMillan Park Action Coalition<\/strong>
Contact: Linwood Norman, SMAC.DC@gmail.com<\/a>, (202) 656-3012\u202c <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

McMillan Park Supporters Gather To  \u201cKill the Inside Land Deal” by DC City Council; Complaint Letter Asks AG Racine To Step In<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Washington, DC — On Saturday, August 31, more than twenty-five McMillan Park supporters gathered<\/a> to protest the Mayor\u2019s illegal demolition underway at this historic landmark on the National Register of Historic Places.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The holiday-weekend gathering was a mere fraction of thousands of McMillan Park supporters<\/a>\n who previously signed a petition for the DC Council to preserve the \n25-acre park located at Michigan Ave. and North Capitol Street. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\n McMillan Town Center project, which would permit the demolition of up \nto 90 percent of the park in order to carve up the land for massive \ncommercial use, has been flawed with irregularities — including the \ndevelopers who have contributed to the Mayor\u2019s election campaign and \nusing tax payer dollars to hire a PR firm to \u201cneutralize public opposition<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Citing\n the need for open competition, the D.C. Auditor urged the D.C. Council \nin 2015 to competitively rebid the entire McMillan project in this scathing letter to the D.C. Council Chairman<\/a>.  See the Washington Post article<\/a> about the City Auditor\u2019s concerns about the project. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOnce\n again in her rush to take action, the Mayor is overlooking the reality \nof the situation, given her strong desire to reward the project\u2019s \ndevelopers who have contributed money to her,\u201d<\/em> said Mary Bolton, member of DC for Reasonable Development. \u201cWe\n had no choice but to go to our elected Attorney General, Karl Racine to\n defend the process of law that protects our special landmark.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

McMillan\n Park’s historic landmark includes irreplaceable features such as \nunderground water filtration vaults and the surface landscaping designed\n by Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr. The District of Columbia acquired the open park<\/a> from the Army Corps of Engineers in 1986 after the underground water purification facility was decommissioned.
On\n August 31, McMillan Park supporters painted a large banner that said \n“Save McMillan, Our Central Park” and “Kill the Inside Deal” which was placed at the park\u2019s construction entrance<\/a> to prevent construction crews from continuing to destroy the park\u2019s turf and the domes of the park\u2019s underground waterworks.
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“We took the streets because Mayor Bowser is tearing down our green space and doing so illegally,”<\/em> said Jimmie Boykin, a supporter of the Save McMillan Park campaign, who has lived on North Capitol Street since the 1960’s. “We want our park reopened so my family and I can go up there and look at all the downtown monuments and breathe clean air.”<\/em> \u00a0Mrs. Boykin\u2019s sentiments match that of Mrs. Ella\u2019s story of McMillan Park<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

The Washington Post published an article<\/a> about Saturday’s August 31, 2019, McMillan protest<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Today, September 3, 2019<\/strong><\/em>,\n McMillan Park defenders attempted to visit DC\u2019s Attorney General Karl \nRacine at his office.  They left a letter and complaint asking for his \nintervention.  Park supporters await a response while illegal demolition\n activities continue at the site.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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PRESS UPDATE: Save McMillan Park Action CoalitionContact: Linwood Norman, SMAC.DC@gmail.com, (202) 656-3012\u202c McMillan Park Supporters Gather To  \u201cKill the Inside Land Deal” by DC City Council; Complaint Letter Asks AG Racine To Step In Washington, DC — On Saturday, August 31, more than twenty-five McMillan Park supporters gathered to protest the Mayor\u2019s illegal demolition underway […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,14,13,49,3,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dc","category-historic-sites","category-mcmillan-park","category-public-property","category-w1","category-w5"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dcfeedback.com\/fit2print\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dcfeedback.com\/fit2print\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dcfeedback.com\/fit2print\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dcfeedback.com\/fit2print\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dcfeedback.com\/fit2print\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.dcfeedback.com\/fit2print\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":295,"href":"http:\/\/www.dcfeedback.com\/fit2print\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294\/revisions\/295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dcfeedback.com\/fit2print\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dcfeedback.com\/fit2print\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dcfeedback.com\/fit2print\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}