It was an hour and a half into the Zoning Commission’s tenth hearing on American University’s campus plan this fall, and chairman Anthony Hood was asking how the school planned to respond to days of testimony from neighbors, mostly complaining the plan would bring a crush of new cars to their residential streets. Hood leaned [...]

In the last few days, a wordless little ditty on the historic elements of the McMillan Sand Filtration Plant site hit the internet. Made by Bloomingdale resident Snorre Wik, it's part of an attempt by local leaders to press for as much historic preservation and park space on the McMillan site on North Capitol Street [...]

There have been so many plans for development of the McMillan Sand Filtration Site that if you put them together in a slideshow, it might make for a dramatic film—except with no clear heroes or villains, and no happy ending. Yet, at least.
The most recent main characters are trying to provide one. In their first [...]

Three weeks ago, the design and development teams tasked with the redevelopment of the McMillan Sand Filtration Site started over on the long, painstaking process of doing something with the area that neighbors could accept. After another couple of salons with interested residents, the planners came back to St. Martin's Church on Saturday morning with [...]

EYA-representative Aakash Thakkar, center left in the blue shirt, opens the tour.
On Saturday morning, I joined roughly 100 other people for a tour of the McMillan Sand Filtration Plant.
Given the weekend morning time, I figured the crowd would be docile and relatively quiet. But true to what's now becoming classic McMillan, there was an early [...]