McMillan development and ANC Danneker

[Jonathan Gitlin]

From Scott Roberts' email this morning:

``I have a tendency to believe that most people I represent want to see development there,`` said Barrie Daneker, a Bloomingdale advisory neighborhood commissioner and member of the McMillan Advisory Group. ``The McMillan water filtration plant has never been a park. It`s never going to be a park. It`s an industrial site with grass on it.``

Well, since the people he mostly represents are the developers, at least he's being honest!

[The Commish]

Dear Mr. Gitlin,
I am confident in all the work that others along with myself have done
over the past 4 years of proposals about McMillan and the out reach
that has been done to the community and will continue to be done, will
result and a balanced plan of mixed use development at the McMillan
Sand Filtration Industrial Site.
I hear over an over from a minority in the community about un-backed,
half baked, and pie in the sky ideas for McMillan that not only have
surfaced now but over the past 30 years. As a new comer to the
neighborhood, your statement that I represent the developers is out of
line. I represent the rational voters of my SMD who overwhelmingly
support mixed use development of the site. The site as cost the city
millions to maintain over the past 30 years for a site man has no
walked on for over 100 years.
Our community lacks many necessary amenities and service that have
been lacking for years, we need affordable housing, elderly
independent housing units weaved that plan, a grocery store, a sit
down full service food establishments, along with JOBS!
These are the interests of the people in my SMD and ward 5C, there is
a balance between open space currently at 8 acres in the plans so far,
which is 1/3 of the site along with 1/3 being retail/office/hotel/
commercial space and the remaining 1/3 as housing in which 20% of that
will be affordable/elderly/workforce housing.
I thank you for your comments and interest in McMillan.