Hello Scott,
This wouldn't be the first time that this has occurred. We had that happen in 5A when there was the vote on 901 Monroe. The ANC voted 6 (in favor) : 5 (against) : 1 abstention. In this case, to so many of us, this was due to influence by developers and probably downtown who wanted to support the developers - as you can see in the clear violation of logic and verbiage by Office of planning.
It really sucks when ANC representation does not even listen to actual members in their community who were pretty much shut down from speaking. Furthermore, it was negligent that the commissioners who voted for didn't even read the Comp. Plan or the Area Plan: and if they did, they obviously didn't comprehend it or just simply chose to ignore it. Then Corey Griffin (who was commissioner at the time) wrote some Blah Blah Blah letter about how his duty was to the City - just so that he could get some future support from his ANC, the developers and downtown. I would have never expected him to turn his back on those seniors for downtown, developers, future campaign support. This was going to be pushed down our throats by Zoning but it made it easier to grease it with the "approval vote' of our encouraged ANC and the BOGUS vote at our Brookland Civic Assoc.
Furthermore, some of the other Commissioners never even met with their constituents or brought it up to them (at their SMD meetings) regarding the project so they were also truly derelict in their duties to the ones that it obviously affected - the Seniors living adjacent to the proposed property and everything that the community did over the years of Small Area Planning.
Now they talk about some "trash cans" for seniors -- I laugh at the slick marketing for 2014. Well, our Seniors over here can afford their own trash cans if the trade off is that our CM and his crew speak up VOCALLY and ADAMANTLY for our kids education, our schools, the wants of our community who actually LIVE here that would be affected.
SO you know, even though we appreciate them "looking out" for our Seniors as they should and we will take the "free trash cans", our most of our Seniors here probably all own their own home outright and those who don't are minimal and some live in the apartments/senior bldgs who don't need trash cans. So - throw some under the Developers Bulldozer and try to blow smoke for future support sucks.
By the way, that's the same Blah Blah Blah approach to the Carbarn at the Spingarm Campus as well as the nothing about School Closures and no stance about IVY CITY and the BUS DEPOT -- only an illegal closed door session - without even having the Chair of the ANC notified.
You need to see where this "support" initiative is coming from -- lots of tentacles and encouragement coming from somewhere. We have a more pressing issue than putting up all that development -- we have folks who are under the stress of being flooded out and all folks can think about is "development. I am not anti-development, but at some point we need some park space, some soccer fields for organized sports for our children and most important, we need to safe guard our neighbors from the stress of being flooded with SEWAGE.
Let's move into this new push of development with a different focus. The Problem is that the Sh*t is not coming up in their homes!!! Little do they know the Sh*t is going to affect them or their kids or their friend's kids or someone they know. The Chickens will come home to Roost -- just speaking from experience.
Rob Ramson.
On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 10:11 AM, scott@scott-roberts.net <scott@scott-roberts.net> wrote:
Looks like the `no confidence` resolution being mulled by the Bloomingdale Civic Association regarding ANC 5C and McMillan made the radar of Washington City Paper Housing Complex reporter Aaron Wiener.
Bloomingdale Group Prepares Vote of No Confidence in ANC Over McMillan
Posted by Aaron Wiener on Nov. 6, 2012 at 5:25 pm
[http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/housingcomplex/2012/11/06/bloomingdale-group-prepares-vote-of-no-confidence-in-anc-over-mcmillan/]
If you needed more evidence that passions run high when it comes to development of
the McMillan Sand Filtration Site, the Bloomingdale Civic Association`s got you covered.
The organization, upset by ANC 5C`s decision to support the plan over objections
from some community members, has prepared a vote of no confidence in the
neighborhood commission—and it doesn`t spare any bombast. It begins:
WHEREAS, as noted in the 1863 Gettysburg Address, the United States of America is a
democracy wherein ``government is of the people, by the people, and for the people``;
and concludes:
THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the Bloomingdale Civic Association has NOCONFIDENCE in ANC
5C`s representation of community/constituent concerns inmatters related to the
McMillan Sand Filtration Site development;
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Bloomingdale
Civic Association will activelyencourage other Civic Associations affected by
the McMillan Sand Filtration Sitedevelopment to consider issuing similar
resolutions of `no confidence`;
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Bloomingdale
Civic Association will activelyseek assurances from District Officials that the
recently authorized ANC 5E (which incorporates most of the communities abutting
the McMillan Site), upon its constitution, will have rights of advisement,
comment and `great weight` on all matters related to the McMillan Sand
Filtration Site development.
The 80-plus-member Civic Association, whose membership is limited to Bloomingdale
residents who pay the membership fee ($20 for adults), has mostly opposed the
plan for a while now. But according to John Salatti, a vice president of the
Civic Association, the current objection is more to the ANC`s lack of
consideration of community input than to its actual position.
``It`s no so much that they voted to approve,`` says Salatti. ``It`s how they voted to
approve.`` The ANC, he says, aggravated the community by going ``out of its way
to extol the virtues`` of the plan.
The no-confidence vote is scheduled for Saturday, and Salatti thinks it`s likely to
pass if the same kinds of people show up who have objected to the plan in the
past. He believes the Civic Association`s membership is reflective of the broader
Bloomingdale community when it comes to views on McMillan, though not
demographically—the neighborhood is about 60 percent black and 40 percent
white, he says, while the Civic Association is about 70 percent white and 30
percent black.
Of course, a vote of no confidence would have no direct effect—particularly since
ANC 5C is about to be dissolved in the redistricting of Ward 5. But Salatti
hopes it`ll send a message.
``Like most anything that any civilian does, it has no impact,`` he says. ``Given its
druthers, the city is going to do whatever it wants to do. But it does make
clear to the powers that be``—he rattled off a few, including the new ANC
commission that`ll represent the area, Ward 5 Councilmember Kenyan McDuffie,
Council Economic Development and Housing Committee Chairman Michael Brown, and
Mayor Vince Gray—``that we understand who holds the big levers here, but we are
still going to hold you vocally and publicly accountable.``__._,_.___
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