{"id":383,"date":"2020-09-11T11:38:59","date_gmt":"2020-09-11T11:38:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dcfeedback.com\/fit2print\/?p=383"},"modified":"2020-12-24T20:56:05","modified_gmt":"2020-12-24T20:56:05","slug":"decaa-at-large-forum-to-cover-local-citywide-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dcfeedback.com\/fit2print\/dc\/383","title":{"rendered":"DECAA At-large Forum to Cover Local, Citywide Issues"},"content":{"rendered":"
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For release: September 11, 2020<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Contact: NICHOLAS DELLE DONNE <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

delledonne.n@comcast.net<\/a><\/a><\/span><\/u>\u00a0(703 929 6656)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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DECAA At-large Forum to Cover Local, Citywide Issues<\/span><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

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The Dupont East Civic Action Association (DECAA) will hold a virtual forum for at-large city council candidates Thursday, September 17, 2020 at 6:30 pm.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/b>The public is invited to submit questions via DECAA\u2019s website at\u00a0www.KeepDupontGreen.org<\/span><\/a>, under the tab for DC Council At-Large Candidates Forum and by email at\u00a0decaavote@gmail.com<\/a><\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Candidates are expected to face questions on the following:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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–Homelessness, notably encampments are increasing in Dupont Circle and citywide.\u00a0<\/b>The District says that homelessness should be rare, brief and non-recurring.\u00a0\u00a0How would you reduce homelessness in COVID-19?<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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–The luxury apartment building proposed by the Masons for the green space in back of the Scottish Rite Temple along 15 St. NW is of particular interest to DECCA and the Dupont East community.\u00a0 Among other things, it would eliminate scarce green space, be out-of-scale with the historic Black neighborhood, build units underground limiting light and air and offer only the minimum affordable housing. Will you support a possible land exchange to preserve the historic open space?<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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–The proposed development of the historic McMillan\u00a0Sand Plant (McMillan Park) involves issues of environmental protection, affordable housing, direct taxpayer support for developers, access by Black neighbors to the open space and more.\u00a0 Twelve\u00a0candidates, Ann Wilcox, Ed Lazere, Will MerrIfield, Markus Batchelor, Vincent Orange, Mario Cristaldo, Keith Silver, Franklin Garcia, Kathy Henderson, M\u00f3nica Palacio, Jeann\u00e9 Lewis and Marya Pickering have all raised serious questions about the city\u2019s current plan.\u00a0 What is your position?<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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–Expanding bike lanes often can possibly limit access to businesses and endanger pedestrians, including on 17th<\/sup>\u00a0and 15th Streets in Dupont East.\u00a0 Will you recognize the interests of pedestrians, businesses and others before expanding bike lanes?<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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–Are you participating in public campaign financing or soliciting private and corporate campaign funds? Why?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Join Zoom Meeting<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

https:\/\/us02web.zoom.us\/j\/82538246632?pwd=QXpXc0JCeG9tMnBZTXlEdEJxVnNHZz09<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

+1 929 205 6099 US (New York)<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Meeting ID: 825 3824 6632<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Passcode: DECAA<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Visit DECAA\u2019s website and sign our petition.\u00a0https:\/\/<\/span><\/i>www.KeepDupontGreen.org<\/span><\/i><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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For release: September 11, 2020 Contact: NICHOLAS DELLE DONNE delledonne.n@comcast.net\u00a0(703 929 6656) \u00a0 \u00a0 DECAA At-large Forum to Cover Local, Citywide Issues \u00a0 The Dupont East Civic Action Association (DECAA) will hold a virtual forum for at-large city council candidates Thursday, September 17, 2020 at 6:30 pm.\u00a0\u00a0The public is invited to submit questions via DECAA\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,67,69,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dc","category-planning","category-transportation","category-w2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dcfeedback.com\/fit2print\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383","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=383"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.dcfeedback.com\/fit2print\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":452,"href":"http:\/\/www.dcfeedback.com\/fit2print\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383\/revisions\/452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dcfeedback.com\/fit2print\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dcfeedback.com\/fit2print\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dcfeedback.com\/fit2print\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}