Their support is very valuable to you and to the future of this City. They not only represent votes but contributions in time and financial support. They help finance programs that assist the less fortunate. Forest City s proposal is so clearly superior to the others that it will be obvious that political favoritism determined any other choice. The decision on development is of crucial importance to the future of Columbia Heights and those voters are likely to vote their disapproval in high numbers, in my opinion.
Forest City has overwhelming support in Columbia Heights.
I am also a Board member of Change, Inc and Change All Souls and have lived in Columbia Heights since 1974. I attended all the meetings concerning development and in speaking with residents heard almost universal support for Forest City with every person I talked with. The only exceptions were from the few that have a personal relationship with Bob Moore, financial and otherwise. He, of course, had no answer for that. If Mr. Moore was acting on behalf of the community he could have made a standard arrangement with all the developers and then remained neutral as to choice.