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From: SaveMcMillan ActionCoalition<\/b> <smac.dc@gmail.com<\/a><\/a>><\/span>
Date: Thu, Feb 6, 2020 at 1:43 PM
Subject: PRESS ALERT — Ward 2 Candidates Asked to Oppose McMillan Park Giveaway
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>> PRESS ALERT <<
CONTACT LINWOOD NORMAN, SAVE MCMILLAN ACTION COALITION, SMAC.DC@GMAIL.COM<\/a><\/a>, 202-656-3012<\/span><\/font><\/b><\/div>\n

Ward 2 Candidates Asked to Oppose More Taxpayer Money for McMillan Redevelopment Project<\/font><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Feb. 6, 2020 — For immediate release<\/b><\/p>\n

Washington, D.C. \u2013 In preparation for Thursday\u2019s Ward 2 City Council candidate forum sponsored by the Sierra Club, the Save McMillan Action Coalition (SMAC) is tweeting all the candidates to ask if they will \u201coppose more taxpayer money for the current McMillan plan.\u201d \u00a0<\/p>\n

https:\/\/twitter.com\/dc4reality\/status\/1225453614887505926<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

McMillan Park is a 25-acre green space located at Michigan Avenue and North Capitol Street in northwest Washington that is on the Register of Historic Landmarks. The park is the subject of continuing court suits as the adjacent community seeks to thwart plans by developers for a massive development there that would increase vehicular traffic by 20,000 additional vehicle trips daily, in addition to other environmental concerns. <\/p>\n

The tweet to Ward 2 candidates describes how the DC Government is paying for planners, architects and other pre-development costs, including at one point, a Baltimore public relations firm to \u201cneutralize public opposition.\u201d As of 2015, DC had paid $78 million to the developer, according to the New York Times (June 23, 2015).<\/p>\n

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The tweet includes a nine-point list outlining what\u2019s wrong with the current plan, including environmental, transportation and historic preservation problems and the lack of truly low-income housing in a project that will be built entirely on public land.\u00a0 It also points out that the temporary stay granted by the D.C. Court of Appeals regarding an illegally-issued City demolition permit now offers a \u201cfresh start window for an innovative, pro-environment, pro-community project with real affordable housing.\u201d
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\u201cNow is the time to ask for big commitments,\u201d said SMAC organizer David Schwartzman. \u201cUnder DC\u2019s new Fair Elections campaign funding program, large and corporate donations are disallowed. The city matches qualified local contributions of $50 or less, and all declared Ward 2 candidates so far are participating. These candidates should not feel beholden to big donors like the city\u2019s favored developers. We hope to see evidence of that in the candidates\u2019 responses.\u201d<\/span><\/i>
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———- Forwarded message ———From: SaveMcMillan ActionCoalition <smac.dc@gmail.com>Date: Thu, Feb 6, 2020 at 1:43 PMSubject: PRESS ALERT — Ward 2 Candidates Asked to Oppose McMillan Park Giveaway >> PRESS ALERT <<CONTACT LINWOOD NORMAN, SAVE MCMILLAN ACTION COALITION, SMAC.DC@GMAIL.COM, 202-656-3012 Ward 2 Candidates Asked to Oppose More Taxpayer Money for McMillan Redevelopment Project Feb. 6, 2020 — […]<\/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-329","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\/329","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=329"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.dcfeedback.com\/fit2print\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":421,"href":"http:\/\/www.dcfeedback.com\/fit2print\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329\/revisions\/421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dcfeedback.com\/fit2print\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dcfeedback.com\/fit2print\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dcfeedback.com\/fit2print\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}