{"id":571,"date":"2020-11-01T21:09:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-01T21:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dc4reality.org\/updates\/?p=571"},"modified":"2020-10-15T19:43:06","modified_gmt":"2020-10-15T19:43:06","slug":"mcmillan-park-demolition-is-not-smart-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dc4reality.org\/updates\/571","title":{"rendered":"McMillan Park Demolition is NOT Smart Growth"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Ward 2 Councilmember Brooke Pinto Supports Defunding The Giveaway of McMillan Park, Further Exposing Greater Greater Washington as a PR Team for Mega-Real Estate Speculators<\/em><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Ward 2 Councilmember Brooke Pinto has been added to the growing list of DC officials and candidates<\/a> calling for the controversial McMillan Project to be defunded and\/or competitively re-bid, seeking substantial changes to the project like including much more public green space and much more truly affordable housing for families. For example, there isn’t one affordable housing unit for a family of four with an income less then $60,000 specifically set in the current project, among many other issues<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pinto’s position on McMillan was highlighted by the Elections\/Endorsement Committee<\/a> of the online bloggers, Greater Greater Washington, in a post about the 2020 Ward 2 City Council race in a section called, “Brooke Pinto gives some very concerning answers<\/a>.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That Pinto suggested the McMillan project as a cost burden to DC demonstrates one of two things: either she is opposed to new housing and offices in DC on sites that have gone through years of public review (probably unlikely), or she is so unaware of long-running District issues, having never voted in DC before running for office, that she is basing her position on a fringe element that supported her in the primary rather than a detailed understanding of the issue.<\/em><\/p>Greater Greater Washington Elections Committee on Brooke Pinto Ward 2 Council Race 2020<\/a>.<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

GGW just added a seventh person (a former Jim Graham staffer) to their Elections Committee<\/a>. Four of the seven committee members are white men who describe those who support public open green space and a competitive rebidding<\/a> of the McMillan project as a “small group” and “fringe element” of District residents. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

GGW desperately supports the city’s current plan to pay private developers $75M<\/a> to take the 25-acre site from the public and construct 2+ million square feet of medical office space, parking garages, retail, housing, and recreation space. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In part, GGW’s desperation to #BuildMore is determined by those who sit on the GGW board<\/a>, like Mr. Adam Weers a principal for Trammell Crow<\/a> who’s company is set to profit in a big way from the giveaway of McMillan Park. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ward 2 Councilmember Brooke Pinto Supports Defunding The Giveaway of McMillan Park, Further Exposing Greater Greater Washington as a PR Team for Mega-Real Estate Speculators Ward 2 Councilmember Brooke Pinto has been added to the growing list of DC officials and candidates calling for the controversial McMillan Project to be defunded and\/or competitively re-bid, seeking […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dc4reality.org\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dc4reality.org\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dc4reality.org\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dc4reality.org\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dc4reality.org\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=571"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.dc4reality.org\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":574,"href":"http:\/\/www.dc4reality.org\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571\/revisions\/574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dc4reality.org\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dc4reality.org\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dc4reality.org\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}