Comments on: Tenleytown Library Project Moving Forward Despite Fenty Expectations

By: Tenleytown Library Project—Rally Tomorrow! - Housing Complex - Washington City Paper

Tue, 24 Feb 2009 22:09:44 +0000

[...] you want more details, check out these recent updates: Tenleytown Library Project Moving Forward Despite Fenty Expectations 11/21/2008 and Albert Stands Ground On Tenleytown Library Project [...]

By: Albert Stands Ground On Tenleytown Library Project - Housing Complex - Washington City Paper

Thu, 22 Jan 2009 19:17:59 +0000

[...] library shut down in 2004. Since then, the community and the city have gone back and forth on how to rebuild the facility, [...]

By: in the know

in the know — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 00:47:32 +0000

There’s no such thing as “Tenleytown library’s board.” DCPL has a Board of Trustees and they’ve made the decision that the stand-alone project will move ahead. There’s not a single entity going back and forth about mixed-use. There are (recurring/changing) factions that want to use the library site/project to advance other agendas and then there are people who just want our library back ASAP.

By: Washington City Paper: Housing Complex - Benning Library Groundbreaking Today

Washington City Paper: Housing Complex - Benning Library Groundbreaking Today — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 22:16:25 +0000

[...] case. But every time a library needs to be rebuilt, the drama is epic. Recently I wrote about the Tenleytown library’s board, which has been going back and forth with the city for years about how to construct their branch [...]

By: in the know

in the know — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 13:30:17 +0000

No, that’s not what the developer had in mind. LCOR has always said it wanted 174 units of housing. And that “grassy area adjacent to Janney school” which the apartment building would have covered is the school’s soccer field. DMPED press releases (which is essentially what the WBJ has reprinted here and you are quoting) have to be read a little more critically.

Despite Fisher’s assertion, this has never been an argument about density/development. It’s an argument about whether public facilities needs should come first on public land. Happily, in this case, at least one of the agencies (DCPL — but I expect DCPS will ultimately do the same) finally fought back against DMPED’s depredations.

And the Mayor has backed the agency up — an ANC 3E Commissioner has announced on the local listservs that his Ward 3 Neighborhood Services rep called her Friday afternoon to confirm that the library would be breaking ground in the next few months.