The Fort Washington Inevitability (Silver Spring, Bethesda: insurance, violent crime, hotels)

[molukai]

Originally Posted by pgtitans

I think some of those are probably good, but realistically just a pipe dream.

We'll see.

[HurricaneDC]

Originally Posted by molukai

To all the closet and blatant NIMBYs on this thread:

-Tear down the crappy rural houses and build huge upscale malls in its place.
- Incorporate Fort Washington into its own city with its own competent administration and policing
- Widen all the primary ingress/egress roads in anticipation for the upcoming developments in NH
- Eminent Domain all areas that have resisted efficient modernization/urbanization plans in key areas
- Build a library and encourage a new breath of cultural diversity into the area
- Push out all the people that want Fort Washington to remain the best example of a depressed backwater 10 minutes from a major city further out.
- Lobby heavily for the Metro to extend out toward the Oxon Hill/Fort Washington region from the NH base point


If God is my witness, my undying goal is to expedite the inevitability of the above points as fast as humanly possible.

Signed,
One of those newcomers that wants to change what isn't working and make it work

Nothing like moving to the countryside and trying to turn it into, well, not the countryside maybe your next move can be to turn Rock Creek Park into a massive condo development.

A library would certainly be good though.

[molukai]

Fort Washington shouldn't be countryside. But it should be considered a naturally scenic area in contrast to the other outlying areas of DC proper. I fully support retaining that charm. I just refuse to allow a place I invested heavily in to remain a crummy backwater in DC's front steps.

[justtitans]

Originally Posted by molukai

Fort Washington shouldn't be countryside. But it should be considered a naturally scenic area in contrast to the other outlying areas of DC proper. I fully support retaining that charm. I just refuse to allow a place I invested heavily in to remain a crummy backwater in DC's front steps.

Are you going to run for office for something? I think that actually might be a good idea because it does sound like you have some good ideas for the area.

[UrbanScholar]

Originally Posted by pgtitans

Are you going to run for office for something? I think that actually might be a good idea because it does sound like you have some good ideas for the area.

Second that

[molukai]

I would be honored to serve the citizens of Fort Washington in whatever leadership capacity that I can. Let's all work toward a brighter Fort Washington!

[SmoothGuy]

Originally Posted by molukai

To all the closet and blatant NIMBYs on this thread:

-Tear down the crappy rural houses and build huge upscale malls in its place.
- Incorporate Fort Washington into its own city with its own competent administration and policing
- Widen all the primary ingress/egress roads in anticipation for the upcoming developments in NH
- Eminent Domain all areas that have resisted efficient modernization/urbanization plans in key areas
- Build a library and encourage a new breath of cultural diversity into the area
- Push out all the people that want Fort Washington to remain the best example of a depressed backwater 10 minutes from a major city further out.
- Lobby heavily for the Metro to extend out toward the Oxon Hill/Fort Washington region from the NH base point


If God is my witness, my undying goal is to expedite the inevitability of the above points as fast as humanly possible.

Signed,
One of those newcomers that wants to change what isn't working and make it work

Good ideas

[bowian]

Originally Posted by molukai

To all the closet and blatant NIMBYs on this thread:

-Tear down the crappy rural houses and build huge upscale malls in its place.
- Incorporate Fort Washington into its own city with its own competent administration and policing
- Widen all the primary ingress/egress roads in anticipation for the upcoming developments in NH
- Eminent Domain all areas that have resisted efficient modernization/urbanization plans in key areas
- Build a library and encourage a new breath of cultural diversity into the area
- Push out all the people that want Fort Washington to remain the best example of a depressed backwater 10 minutes from a major city further out.
- Lobby heavily for the Metro to extend out toward the Oxon Hill/Fort Washington region from the NH base point


If God is my witness, my undying goal is to expedite the inevitability of the above points as fast as humanly possible.

Signed,
One of those newcomers that wants to change what isn't working and make it work

Nos. 1, 4 and 6 made me chuckle. Methinks you would be settling in for screams of rage and resistance, and years-long lawsuits, with those solutions.

[HurricaneDC]

Originally Posted by bowian

Nos. 1, 4 and 6 made me chuckle. Methinks you would be settling in for screams of rage and resistance, and years-long lawsuits, with those solutions.

It's the big government way.

[UrbanScholar]

Originally Posted by bowian

Nos. 1, 4 and 6 made me chuckle. Methinks you would be settling in for screams of rage and resistance, and years-long lawsuits, with those solutions.

That's par for the course since FW/OH will fight anything inferring change. Look how long they battled to build the National Harbor, the current lawsuit to stop Tanger from being built, and the pending lawsuit against building a Walmart next to the elementary school. For an area always complaining about the lack of ammenities there is not shortage of attempts to block commerical development. Some argue that these developments are too close to residential developments but given the abundance of housing in the area what project wouldn't be. That said let them come if it increases the number of options (recretional, eating, others).