Mark Mueller accumulated comments on last night's ANC 5E unconditional vote on VMP `s master plan for McMillan

Mark Mueller accumulated comments on last night's ANC 5E unconditional vote on VMP `s master plan for McMillan

See this message from ANC 5E08 Commissioner Mark Mueller:
I have been getting a small flood of emails from community asking about ANC5E`s vote to send a letter of support for the McMillan Development. Rather than answer each email, I`m sending this bulleted fact list regarding ANC5E vote last night.Commissioner Barnes did not supply a draft letter to the Commission before or during the ANC meeting, so the Board approved a letter they did not see. No draft is available for the community
No Civic Association around McMillan (Stronghold Bloomingdale) were approached for input on such a support letter.
Commissioner Quinn (also President of Bloomingdale Civic Association) stated that she is against such a letter since the Civic Association did not have time to give input on most recent plan.
The vote goes against ANC5E Bylaws, which state:
Section 8. Commissioners shall seek the support/non-support of their respectivecivic association(s) prior to requesting placement of a developer or anyone seekingANC 5E support on the ANC 5E agenda for a vote.Bloomingdale Commissioners Mark Mueller and Teri Janine Quinn protested such a letter at this time
Commissioner Mueller stated also that a letter of pure support does a disservice to the community we are supposed to be advocating for if it does not state clearly the unmet community wishes/demands.
Commissioner Barnes (also Chair of the McMillan Advisory Group (MAG)), surprised the MAG Board on Nov 14 with a Letter of pure Support, which the MAG Board strongly voted against at this time.
A support letter goes against quantitative evidence that there are major community concerns6000 petition signatures,
900 community surveys,
many protest emails against the support letter,
overwhelming majority spoke against land surplus at the Mayor's surplus meeting
There has not been any quantitative proof of majority supportReasons given for supporting the letter by Commissioner Smith-Steiner:
Councilman McDuffie supports it
This has been going on a long time