After a holiday hiatus, there wil be another town meeting on the Braddock Road Metro small area plan tonight 6 to 9 p.m. at Jefferson-Houston School (1501 Cameron Street).
We've been promised draft design guidelines as well as more information from consultant Sarah Woodworth on developer costs and profit margins for townhome, office or hotel construction.
See you there ...
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And yet I just got an e-mail from the city saying that the Madison Development will be heard by Planning on the 4th and City Council on the 15th. So now 3 major developments (Madison, Payne St. Condos and Monarch) will have been approved without the guiding hand of a masterplan. This begs the question - Why are we all wasting our time at all these meetings?
You mean tonight isnt another Lego night where we get to play with blocks and listen to stories about how vibrant are streets are about to become?
Really, what do you folks want? To languish in a long-neglected, crime-infested area, with such "gorgeous" scenes of empty warehouses and clothes hanging on lines? Or shall we finally move forward and go ahead with the plans for the Madison, Jaguar, and Payne Condos? We already lost out on Harris Teeter because of all the foot dragging. Let's not blow it again.
To # 3 above: No one wants to "languish in a long-neglected, crime-infested area, with such "gorgeous" scenes of empty warehouses and clothes hanging on lines." What I do want is a masterplanning process that informs the development taking place, not development happening randomly and then creating a masterplan to match what has been built. Does this not seem logical to you? If all the development is going to precede the masterplan then the planning process that we have been involved in all these years really doesn't matter at all.
"To languish in a long-neglected, crime-infested area, with such "gorgeous" scenes of empty warehouses and clothes hanging on lines?"
If you vista is as awful as you describe then did you not look around prior to your property purpose? Given last night's discussion of mixed income housing you may still see clothes hanging on lines. You write like the Grinch stole you Christmas.
"The planning process we have been involved with all these years"
Exactly. Therein lies the problem. While other developments are flourishing, ours is dying, all because folks like you don't care how long it takes. Hence, PG continues to be a dumping ground.
"because folks like you don't care how long it takes."
You've got it all wrong. I have no problem with the development and the improvement of the neighborhood. I just don't understand why, if developments are all going forward anyway, we have the planning process in the first place? The city has spent millions in consultants fees and staff time and we are no closer to a final plan. Just scrap the planning process and revert to what the current zoning code requires. That is de facto what is happening when each one of these developments goes forward.
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