Comments on: NIMBYs for Mendo: How Could D.C.’s Next Council Chair Affect Development?

By: Battle Lines Drawn Over Zoning Update - Housing Complex

Battle Lines Drawn Over Zoning Update - Housing Complex — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 15:32:40 +0000

[...] Chairman Phil Mendelson, no great friend of development, had fun batting back some of the [...]

By: danny o.

danny o. — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 08:34:14 +0000

PS: Smart growth requires smart people, like Mendelson.

By: danny o.

danny o. — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 08:32:58 +0000

Comical that people expect to find facts and balanced reporting in your column. Hopefully, there will be higher standards @ your new job.

By: Susan Ballickerton

Susan Ballickerton — Sat, 07 Jul 2012 19:20:21 +0000

Oy vey. Let us have a look at all of the neighborhoods which have had new development activity over the past 10 years (Logan Circle, Columbia Heights, Shaw, Chinatown/Gallery Place, Mount Vernon Triangle, etc.) and compare them to any of the many neighborhoods which have sat fallow. I don't even have the mental energy to enumerate the litany of reasons why (smart) development is beneficial for all. Who pays for the fire, police, library, school teachers, and so forth? Yes that's right the people living in the buildings that you opposed! Maybe we should send these people to Virginia where their tax dollars would be more welcome.

By: race is fun for the whole family

race is fun for the whole family — Mon, 02 Jul 2012 14:10:12 +0000

No one injected race in this article, so I figured I'd do it just for fun. Mendelson doesn't care about black people.

LOL.

By: anon

anon — Fri, 29 Jun 2012 14:53:35 +0000

Will the new CP owner have a quota for uses of the term "NIMBY" like the current one? All development plans no matter how hare-brained or inappropriate = good, anyone addressing any concerns with developers' divine inspiration = NIMBY

By: цarьchitect

цarьchitect — Fri, 29 Jun 2012 14:13:39 +0000

OK, so it's simplistic when 7/8 of the articles listed are notorious NIMBY positions in Ward 3, and one of them is a slightly more complicated situation that still should probably result in development?

By: Sammy

Sammy — Fri, 29 Jun 2012 13:55:02 +0000

If Fox News had a correspondent job on development issues, Lydia D would fit right in. Fair and balanced? Actual reporting? Does she do 'shoe-leather' interviews of her subjects before spouting off? Nah.

By: Bloomingdude

Bloomingdude — Fri, 29 Jun 2012 13:52:00 +0000

I hate to be critical, but this article is ridiculously simplistic in its view that anyone who opposes any development is a NIMBY. I have news for you. By that definition, 100% of this country is NIMBY. If you doubt that, imagine a plan to put a garbage dump beside your house. NIMBY!

As for McMillan, the Bloomingdale neighborhood has supported some development of the site but opposed the current plan which would demolish 80% of it. Like the people who advocated for a Central Park in NY and the Emerald Necklace in Boston, we're NIMBYs.

As for Mendelson, he is doing his job when he listens to the people, and the people oppose wholesale destruction of our nation's and city's historic sites.

By: Barrie Daneker

Barrie Daneker — Fri, 29 Jun 2012 13:47:41 +0000

I agree. Chairman Mendelson wrote this letter to HPRB about McMillan without talking to the community. He spoke with former ANC Salatti and the tree hugging group who is attempting to stop the development of McMillan for the 3rd time in 25 years. I along with several members of the DCDSC and the community requested a meeting with him on this topic and got no response. It would be in the interest of the Chair to respond to this request. I cannot understand why he would write a letter prematurely and then refuse to meet with other community leaders on this development. Hello Chairman Mendelson I along with other community leaders would still like to have a meeting prior to the 7-12-12 HPRB meeting!!!