Bundy Lot Meeting
By golly I hate meetings, but you wouldn't know that because I keep attending them.These are my quick points to keep from rambling. The rambling will be in another post:
* Office of Property Management (OPM) won't be handling how the land will be used. It will be Park and Rec's problem.
*There is approximately 37,000 sq ft in the building.
*OPM will have a clearer assessment of the building's parking needs in 30 days.
*OPM Director stated that she was, "not trying to over park anything."
*The land transfer from the Federal to the District government is expected to go through sometime this fall.
*After several promises of other locations, the DC government settled on the Bundy School as a location for the multidisciplinary team response to child abuse in 2004.
*Prior to Home Rule in 1973, DC school land was owned by a mix of the municipal body and the federal government, so the assumption that the lot belonged to the DC government was a natural error.
*(not from the meeting) Up until recently the DC government had no clue as to what land it owned, best illustrated in the case of vacant residential properties.
*Si, from MVSQ neighborhood association stated that we welcome Safe Shores and (okay memory fuzzy) as a neighbor? hoping they will be a good neighbor? Regardless, we welcome Safe Shores, and her comment got a good round of applause from the pro-parking and pro-green space folks.
*Martin of the CCCA neighborhood association mentioned there are plans in the works for playgrounds/parks (didn't write this down) at Scott-Montgomery and NJ and O.**
*The proposal for a dog park was pushed forward by a group, not the ANC.
*When the land transfer occurs then Parks & Rec can evaluate the dog park application.
Now if there is anything factually wrong with my notes, please inform me with comments. No anonymous comments, those are deleted at whim.
**It will be interesting to see how the proposed people parks/ playgrounds get used. There was play equipment in the park near the other Northwest Co-Op here in the TC. However, no parent in their right mind would let their kids play on it because of the bad adult behavior in and around that equipment. That's changing, but still more adults, hang out in that area than kids.
Labels: animals, city services, development
posted by Mari @ 9.7.09
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"*After several promises of other locations, the DC government settled on the Bundy School as a location for the multidisciplinary team response to child abuse in 2004."
this govt settlement involved no community residents and but did involve the then zoning admin. who skipped town after making the zoning change.
*Prior to Home Rule in 1973, DC school land was owned by a mix of the municipal body and the federal government, so the assumption that the lot belonged to the DC government was a natural error."
natural error? i'm going to use that lame excuse for incompetence too.
*(not from the meeting) Up until recently the DC government had no clue as to what land it owned, best illustrated in the case of vacant residential properties."
BS, they always knew.
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Kwame didn't know. I remember him being at a BACA meeting a few years back admitting the City wasn't entirely sure what land was theirs when the audience complained of DC owned vacant houses being a nuisance.
Seems like a lot of people want a tot lot and dog park. A few blocks away is one of the largest community centers in DC, why not let the tot lot go on those grounds? I think we have enough green space in Shaw to allow for both people, kids, and dogs live in some kind of harmony...
TH
Thank you for attending the meetings and passing along such helpful info!
feel free to read my ramblings:
http://lifein.mvsna.org/index.cfm/2009/7/10/Bundy-Meeting-recap
more info here:
http://friendsofbundy.wordpress.com/2009/07/10/key-points-from-opm-meeting/
oh and about 3 years ago OPM was instructed to create a database of City owned property - which they did. They probably don't know it exists...oh look! here it is complete with handy interactive map:
http://dcatlas.dcgis.dc.gov/opm/dcproperties.aspx
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