Tivoli land parcels resources on line

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The many vacant acres of land surrounding the new Columbia Heights METRO Station have been kept undeveloped by the ineptness and inaction — and by the deliberate policy — of the city government for nearly thirty years. This land is popularly known as the “Tivoli parcels” because the historic Tivoli Theater is a key property on it. Now, the Redevelopment Land Agency has prepared a Request for Proposals (RFP), seeking developers for the land parcels. This RFP is now being rushed with unseemly haste through the City Council on the pretense that there is a “crisis” and “emergency” requiring immediate action.

Here are the background papers and related documents.

Closing of a Public Alley in Square 2837, S.O. 92-195, Reinstatement Act of 2001, Bill 14-229
Letter by Jim Graham, Ward One Councilmember, to the Mayor, February 16, 1999
Testimony to the DC City Council Committee on Economic Development, July 22, 1998
- Geoffrey Griffis, Washington Architectural Foundation
- Kateri Ellison, Chairperson, Development Corporation of Columbia Heights
- Gary Imhoff, DCWatch
- Eric Graye, President, Save the Tivoli, Inc.
- David McIntire, resident, Columbia Heights
- Scott McLarty, member, Green Party
Testimony of Duryea Smith, DC Department of Housing and Community Development, to the City Council’s Committee on Economic Development, July 6, 1998
Map of the Tivoli parcels
Redevelopment Land Agency Public Offering Document to Dispose of Fourteenth Street Urban Renewal Parcels 15, 24, 26, 27, 29, and 38 Emergency Approval Resolution of 1998, PR 12-888
Redevelopment Land Agency Public Offering Document to Dispose of Fourteenth Street Urban Renewal Parcels 15, 24, 26, 27, 29, and 38 Emergency Declaration Approval Resolution of 1998, PR 12-887
Letter from Marion Barry, Mayor, to Council Chairman Linda Cropp, asking for emergency legislation, July 2, 1998
Letter from Richard Monteilh, Director, Department of Housing and Community Development, to Charlene Drew Jarvis, Chair, Committee on Economic Development, asking for emergency legislation, July 1, 1998
Redevelopment Land Agency proposed competitive public offering, June 25, 1998
Redevelopment Land Agency draft prospectus request for proposals, June 25, 1998
Letter from Robert Moore, Director of the Development Corporation of Columbia Heights, attacking the Washington Architectural Foundation and denigrating the community’s input and the charrette that it itself sponsored, June 22, 1998
Washington Architectural Foundation suggestions to improve the draft Redevelopment Land Agency Request for Proposals, June 1998
Redevelopment Land Agency staff memorandum and Board Resolution No. DC-RLA-98-222, May 21, 1998
Materials from the Columbia Heights Economic Development Planning Session (Charrette), sponsored by the Development Corporation of Columbia Heights, the D.C. Chapter of the American Institute of Architects, and the Department of Housing and Community Development, November 1997 (This is an external link to the Columbia Heights Neighborhood site maintained by David McIntire. McIntire has also provided a page on which you can send an E-mail message on this issue to those councilmembers with E-mail addresses on this page.)