Letter to the Editor: Mayor Euille on the Eco-friendly Waterfront Plan
Mayor Euille explains that the Waterfront Plan is eco-friendly and address threats to the health of the Potomac River.
To the Editor: Over the last week, the media and local activists have tried use an environmental group’s ranking of the Potomac as “America’s #1 Endangered River” as evidence against the City’s Waterfront Plan. To set the record straight: the Waterfront Plan comprehensively addresses the major threats to the health of the Potomac River. In fact, each of the Plan’s major initiatives will substantially reduce, not increase, negative impacts on the environment. The changes proposed in the Plan combine government actions and requirements on private development to significantly reduce pollution caused by stormwater runoff and improve the quality of the water that enters the Potomac. Just in the Waterfront’s “core area,” from Robinson Terminal …
Tony Kupersmith
5:37 pm on Thursday, May 24, 2012
That's not what is shown in the massing models and artist's renderings - many roofs are gabled...and I hope you are not suggesting that the Plumbers and Pitpfitters, not to mention the TF, buildings are an architectural model for new construction. BTW I don't believe that 160,000 additional square feet of build-out and a 3.0 FAR in the up-zoning will contribute any more surface area on the roofs. more ›