Comments on SAP Including
Alternate Concept Plans and Discussions
Click here for alternate concept plans
from community members.
Click here for WMATA's comments on the
draft small area plan. (pdf file 162k)
Maps used by ANC Commissioner Sara Green
in her testimony before DC Council on May 14, 2002.
Research paper (MS Word) on conflict and
this site plan by Takoma Park Resident David Schneider
- Testimony
of Historic Takoma on May 14, 2002. (This link takes you to the Historic
Takoma website).
- Comments of Frances Phipps, March 19,2002,
on the Final Plan.
- Comments of Historic Takoma Inc. on the
October 2001 Draft Plan.
- Comments of Douglass Willinger on the
October 2001 Draft Plan.
- Comments of Washington Region Network
for Livable Communitities, www.washingtonregion.net,
October 31, 2001, by Rob Inerfeld, Member, Board of Directors, and Takoma
Park, Maryland resident, on the October 2001 Draft Plan.
- Comments of Loretta Neumann, October
31, 2001, Vice President and Co-Chair, Takoma DC Historic Preservation
Committee of Historic Takoma, Inc., and resident on Piney Branch Road,
NW, on the October 2001 Draft Plan.
- Comments of Alan Abrams, October 31,
2001, Aspen St., NW, on the October 2001 Draft Plan.
- Comments of Leonard Rubin, October 31,
2001, Blair Rd., NW, on the October 2001 Draft Plan.
- Resolution and Comments adopted by the Takoma
Park City Council, October 29, 2001, on the October 2001 Draft Plan.
- Comments of A. R. Giancola, P. E.
Member Citizens Group, Past President Plan Takoma, Past DC Chair of theGateway
Coalition and founding board member of the Gateway Georgia Avenue Revitalization
Corporation, October 29, 2001, on the October 2001 Draft Plan.
- Comments of Lou Lieb, ANC4B03, October 10, 2001,
on the October 2001 Draft Plan.
- Comments of Cristina Himes, Whittier St., NW,
October 5, 2001, on the October 2001 Draft Plan.
- Community Concept Plans
Concept plans for the metro site by members of the
community, including professional community planners.
- Plan Takoma Survey.
In December of 2000 Plan Takoma surveyed 99 households on their
membership list and obtained responses from 37 of them. The
survey asked about the development of townhouses on the Metro site and
the Small Area Plan process generally. Below are the survey, the results
and some comments about it.
- Letter from twenty-one Takoma Area Residents
on February 10, 2001 to Andrew Altman, Director, DC Office of Planning,
discussing concerns about the substance of and the process for the Takoma
Metro Site Small Area Plan.
- Letter from Sara Green, ANC Commissioner
4B01, on February 15, 2001, to Robert Rigsby, Corporation Counsel
for Washington DC, about the role of Advisory Neighborhood Councils and
of City Council with regards to the Takoma Metro site planning process.
- Letter from ten greater Takoma area residents
on February 20, 2001, to Linda Cropp, Chair of the DC City Council, regarding
concerns about the way the Office of Planning and WMATA (Metro) have handled
development of the Takoma Metro site.
- Testimony of Ruth Foster, Takoma resident,
on February 20, 2001, at the DC City Council Office of Planning Oversight
Hearings regarding concerns about the Takoma Metro site planning process.
- Summary of Testimony of Sara Green, ANC
Commissioner 4B01, to the February 20, 2001, DC City Council Oversight
Hearings on the Office of Planning.
- E-mail discussion on the Takoma DC Listserve
about the Takoma Theater and the history of the Takoma Metro site.
- Historic Takoma's Viewpoint (Dec., 2000)
(137k pdf file)
This document is a summary of the planning process through December of 2000
prepared by Historic Takoma.
Submit Your Comments to the District of Columbia
Planners
Comments about the planning process and ideas can be sent to Rosalynn Frazier
at the District of Columbia Department of Planning at rosalynn.frazier@dc.gov
