Council Receives Citywide Requests to Rescind West End Emergency land disposition

Ralph Nader, founder

For Immediate Release

Contact: Robin Diener
202/387-8030
cell 431-9254

Council Receives Citywide Requests to
Rescind West End Emergency land disposition

WASHINGTON, D.C. – September 17, 2007 – Community activists today delivered to Council and the Mayor copies of petitions and letters calling for the rescission of the West End emergency resolution of July 10, 2007 collected over the summer.

Also included are more than 200 “pledges” by citizens not to re-elect officials who “give away” public property and lands.

A rally is scheduled for tomorrow morning, Tuesday September 18, at 9 am, outside the Wilson Building asking for Council to:

• Rescind the West End emergency;
  
  
• Follow the law: 1) Complete and publish the citywide inventory of property, 2) Develop a citywide Master Facilities Plan -- the existing one you’ve heard of is schools only, 3) Constitute a Planning Commission. All are required under title10 of the DC Code;
  
  
• Fix the law: 1) Prohibit emergency legislation for disposition of public lands, 2) Develop guidelines for the disposition of public property and for public inclusion in that process, including early consultation with ANC’s instead of after the fact, as it now stands, 3) Amend the Library Enhancement Act of 2006 to mandate public inclusion in developing a strategic plan for libraries.

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