A look at what's going on in Trinidad, on H Street, and in the larger area north of Capitol Hill.
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
Reminder- ANC5B Meeting Tonight
Don't forget about tonight's ANC5B meeting regarding the Gateway Market Residences zoning hearing on Thursday. Tonight's meeting is at 6:30 at Joe Cole [1200 Morse].
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I'm conflicted on this one. On the one hand I oppose the developer's attempts to avoid the planning process (as well as elected officials' support of this) and I oppose any public subsidy to the project whatsoever. But I don't necessarily oppose a new building going up there. So what is the exact question the ANC will be having its binding vote on?
I don't like the developer, but anything is better than what's there now. It comes down to what's better: instant progress or deferred perfection? I am gonna go with instant progress in this case. It will get the ball rolling on other projects in the area and serve to further revitalize that part of the neighborhood.
i think you need to better define what you mean by progress. Any old new building isn't necessarily progress. It is change. But is it change for improvement, or just change?
The kind of attitude you express typifies what happened on H Street for 20 years. Arguably, those new buildings, H Street Connection and the office buildings on the 600 block, led to little if any progress in the great scheme of things.
As I always say, in the end, except in very rare circumstances, developers always get what they want. All we can do is try to improve a project, mostly on the margins.
Rob, the ANC can either give full approval, full rejection, or conditional approval. So there is room to look at this and ask for changes without an outright rejection.
Like many (but not all) of you, I favor redevelopment of this site and hope to see it happen in the very near future. I'm somewhat irked at this project though, because from what I've heard the developer wants to have the retail face inwards as oppose to facing the street. I don't get that design and think that would generate less foot traffic. But I'm not a developer so I don't know.
I believe the ANC has taken on this issue and hope they can work with the developer to have the retail face the street rather than the storage rooms.
Off topic: Here is a nice article that mentions SOVA and Sidamoe: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/22/AR2008072200514.html?hpid=features1&hpv=local
Also off topic, but Courtland Milloy's column this morning says there have been 24 homicides in Trinidad to date this year. That can't be right can it? Maybe he means 24 people have been shot?
esingles - There have been 24 homicides in District 5 (which includes Trinidad) so far in '08. I didn't see a place where the data was broken down any further than that (so I don't know if all those homicides occured in Trinidad, or if some of them occured elsewhere in District 5). Sad statistic anyway you look at it. I think the number of people that have been shot would be much, much higher.
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I'm conflicted on this one. On the one hand I oppose the developer's attempts to avoid the planning process (as well as elected officials' support of this) and I oppose any public subsidy to the project whatsoever.
But I don't necessarily oppose a new building going up there.
So what is the exact question the ANC will be having its binding vote on?
I don't like the developer, but anything is better than what's there now. It comes down to what's better: instant progress or deferred perfection? I am gonna go with instant progress in this case. It will get the ball rolling on other projects in the area and serve to further revitalize that part of the neighborhood.
-S
i think you need to better define what you mean by progress. Any old new building isn't necessarily progress. It is change. But is it change for improvement, or just change?
The kind of attitude you express typifies what happened on H Street for 20 years. Arguably, those new buildings, H Street Connection and the office buildings on the 600 block, led to little if any progress in the great scheme of things.
As I always say, in the end, except in very rare circumstances, developers always get what they want. All we can do is try to improve a project, mostly on the margins.
Rob,
the ANC can either give full approval, full rejection, or conditional approval. So there is room to look at this and ask for changes without an outright rejection.
Like many (but not all) of you, I favor redevelopment of this site and hope to see it happen in the very near future. I'm somewhat irked at this project though, because from what I've heard the developer wants to have the retail face inwards as oppose to facing the street. I don't get that design and think that would generate less foot traffic. But I'm not a developer so I don't know.
I believe the ANC has taken on this issue and hope they can work with the developer to have the retail face the street rather than the storage rooms.
Just my two cents...
Off topic: Here is a nice article that mentions SOVA and Sidamoe:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/22/AR2008072200514.html?hpid=features1&hpv=local
Also off topic, but Courtland Milloy's column this morning says there have been 24 homicides in Trinidad to date this year. That can't be right can it? Maybe he means 24 people have been shot?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/22/AR2008072202795.html
esingles - There have been 24 homicides in District 5 (which includes Trinidad) so far in '08. I didn't see a place where the data was broken down any further than that (so I don't know if all those homicides occured in Trinidad, or if some of them occured elsewhere in District 5). Sad statistic anyway you look at it. I think the number of people that have been shot would be much, much higher.
Wow, that is sad. Thanks Mose. I wonder how many of those 24 are still unsolved...
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