Density, Traffic and Quality-of-Life
The 25-acre McMillan site is located at the center of numerous planned development projects. How will the combined structural density and increased congestion impact our neighborhoods?
To date:
• No comprehensive or credible traffic or transportation study has been completed &/or made public.
• No environmental impact or stormwater & aquifer management studies have been completed &/or made public.
• No historic preservation study has been submitted for review. Although the study has apparently been completed, EYA has refused to release the results.
• No land value assessment of this prime 25-acre parcel has been made available.
• No definitive total of what this will cost DC taxpayers (most recent estimates were $60-80 million dollars for initial site preparation)
• No answers as to if & how EYA will secure financing for a project of this magnitude.
• No response regarding the profit that EYA stands to make from the private development of this PUBLIC land.
• Despite numerous requests, EYA has yet to provide ANY documentation regarding the above issues.
• Repeated community requests for needed public services have gone unheeded in "new" plan iterations.
• Plans proposed by EYA offer less than 2 acres of public park
• EYA proposes to destroy all historic underground filter cells
| NEARBY PLANNED DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITY | ||
| | ||
| LOCATION | ACRES | OWNER |
| McMillan Sand Filtration Site | 25 | District |
| Soldiers Home - East Campus | 49 | Federal |
| Soldiers Home - West Campus | 65 | Federal |
| Rhode Island Ave / Brentwood Metro | 27 | WMATA |
| Marriott Hotel & Conference Center | 6 | District |
| Catholic University | 9 | private |
| Georgia Avenue / HU Town Center | 2 | multiple |
| Brookland / CUA Metro | 7 | WMATA |
| New York Avenue Metro | n/a | multiple |
| North Capitol Street Retail | n/a | multiple |
| Fort Totten Metro | n/a | WMATA |
| … and others | | |
