Great,
Now if they listen to me about the site for the Trolley Barn and Bus Parking at the Former Benning Road Trash Facility and that "Water Tax" to keep the schools open, we would have temporary solved 4 of our major issues.
Then we can focus them on how to get our kids to read and do math at the Algebra level and making the Spingarm Campus into a Serious Campus for our Kids -- With access to a Golf Course.
This stuff ain't that difficult.
Rob.
On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 5:40 PM, scott@scott-roberts.net <scott@scott-roberts.net> wrote:
I doubt that the development plans for the McMillan Sand Filtration site will be impacted by the just-announced plans to store some storm runoff on the site. The first ``phase`` (my term, not the term of the developers) of the Vision McMillan Partners plan would likely be the new medical office buildings along the northern side of the site; the runoff diversion action announced today would be at the southern end of the site. So both projects could co-exist, with cautious planning.
City Plans to Use McMillan Site to Divert Bloomingdale Floodwater
Posted by Aaron Wiener on Dec. 6, 2012 at 4:04 pm
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/housingcomplex/2012/12/06/city-plans-to-use-mcmillan-site-to-divert-bloomingdale-floodwater/
Hobbit farm today, storm runoff storage tomorrow?
Earlier this afternoon, the mayor`s office sent out notice that a mystery announcement
would take place tomorrow morning at the McMillan Sand Filtration site on North
Capitol Street, at which Mayor Vince Gray and others will reveal and break
ground on a ``major infrastructure project.``
But Mike DeBonis beat them to it—the revealing, that is, not the groundbreaking. http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-politics/dc-offers-new-plan-to-divert-storm-runoff-before-it-floods-bloomingdale-ledroit-park/2012/12/06/85499b4a-3fd7-11e2-ae43-cf491b837f7b_story.html .
DC Water and the city government, he reports, are planning to use the site to
divert stormwater that`s been flooding the Bloomingdale neighborhood this year.
The long-term plan is to construct a Metro-sized tunnel under First Street to
alleviate flooding, but that won`t be ready until 2016 at the earliest. So
officials want to start work immediately on converting some of the site`s
defunct filtration cells into runoff storage tanks, a task that could be
finished by spring 2014. Three acres at the southwest corner of the site will
also be used to bore the tunnel.
But there`s a catch: These measures could delay or interfere with the city`s plans
to redevelop the McMillan site into a mixed-use community of housing, retail,
and a medical center. D.C. Water first began exploring the possibility of using
McMillan for flooding relief in September.
DeBonis reports that ``officials believe that the flood relief plan will not
significantly alter the development plans.`` We`ll see if that holds.__._,_.___
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