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<p align="center" style="margin:0in;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:7.5pt;color:#3E3E3E">Robert F. Kennedy Stadium in 1988. One big parking lot. Not much economic benefit for DC. Photo: Ken Hammond, March 1, 1988, Public Domain</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:#3E3E3E"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<h1 align="center" style="margin:0in;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:17.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#1A6319">DC Councilmember Charles Allen on finding better uses for taxpayer dollars and District lands.
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<p align="center" style="margin:0in;text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:#3E3E3E">"...NFL stadiums are a poor use of land that have proven to be bad investments of your tax dollars. They take up acres of prime real estate for stadiums that
sit dark more than 90% of the year, require enormous amounts of parking to accommodate events, and don't create the promised economic activity and jobs." - Charles Allen, Council of the District of Columbia, Ward 6</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:#3E3E3E"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:#3E3E3E">On <b>September 26<sup>th</sup> @ 7:30 PM</b>, join the
<b>DC Environmental Network</b>, <b>Councilmember Charles Allen</b>, and other advocates, for a
<b>DCEN Environmental Leaders Assembly</b> focused on the future of the Robert F. Kennedy Stadium planning area. At this assembly Councilmember Charles Allen will expand on
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<b><span style="color:#2C74FF;text-decoration:none">his concerns</span></b></a> including:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt">The 190 acres alongside the Anacostia River could be so much more than oceans of asphalt for surface parking and a 60,000 seat stadium.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#3E3E3E;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-size:10.5pt">On average, most NFL stadiums only hold 10 to 20 events annually outside of eight NFL home games, meaning the stadium sits empty more than 300 days a year. An enormous space that sits empty doesn’t spur economic growth and doesn’t
help the surrounding community, as study after study has demonstrated.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#3E3E3E;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-size:10.5pt">Make no mistake - people drive to NFL games and they're going to park somewhere, regardless of how much is available. At San Francisco's new stadium, they had to rent out all of the parking lots at a nearby amusement park. Where
do you think people will park around RFK if there isn't enough parking for fans?<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#3E3E3E;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-size:10.5pt">Nationwide, since 1997 we've seen the NFL pit communities against each other while collecting more than $6.7 billion dollars from taxpayers to build stadiums for privately-owned teams. Overall, local taxpayers end up footing around
half the bill for a new NFL stadium. <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#3E3E3E;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-size:10.5pt">The costs of these projects are always higher than estimated. The five most recent newly-constructed NFL stadiums have surpassed more than $1 billion dollars each!<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#3E3E3E;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-size:10.5pt">As a DC resident, I don't want to see DC hoodwinked into paying for a billionaire's stadium. The District needs our tax dollars to create new housing at all levels, support local DC entrepreneurs who run small and local business,
take urgent steps forward to shift to a 100% clean energy environment, build larger and modern schools for our growing city, fund our Metro system, and in general spend money to make life better and easier for DC residents.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#3E3E3E;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-size:10.5pt">Sitting on the banks of the historic Anacostia River, a new stadium and all of the traffic and trash that would come along, would set the Anacostia River's improvement back. RFK has never had to meet standards set by the National
Environmental Policy Act, and I am concerned any deal worked out under the outgoing Congress would try to extend the exemption to holding the site accountable to environmental standards.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:#3E3E3E">Environmental leaders and activists will listen to Councilmember Allen's rationale, share ideas, and ask questions about how a new football stadium deal might impact the District's
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<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:#3E3E3E">All are welcome. You must register below to participate in this conversation.
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<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:#3E3E3E">The DC Environmental Network has had a long-standing concern with sports stadium deals including the baseball stadium public financing boondoggle that brought us Nationals Park.
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<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:#3E3E3E">With over 70% of District residents opposing public financing of any kind for the duration of deliberations on the stadium, DCEN, the DC Fiscal Policy Institute, and other partners, led a city-wide
campaign <b>that successfully reduced some of the cost that might have hurt taxpayers who struggle the most</b>. Looks like we may have to do this again.
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<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:#3E3E3E">We have always believed that the billionaire sports barons should cover all the costs of any private sports facility, both the construction of a new stadium or facility, and the cost of maintaining
those facilities over the years.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:#3E3E3E">The DC Environmental Network, and others, have also spoken out as loud as we could to share the shady and unsustainable fundamental economics of stadium deals:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt">Economic research on the impact of professional sports stadiums suggests that any proposal to provide public funds to build a new professional sports stadium in the District of Columbia likely will not generate notable economic
or fiscal benefits for the city.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#3E3E3E;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">
<span style="font-size:10.5pt">Most studies find that new sports stadiums do not increase employment or incomes. Some even find that stadiums have a modest negative effect on local economies. The reason appears to be that sports stadiums do not increase overall
entertainment spending but merely shift it from other entertainment venues to the stadium.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#3E3E3E;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">
<span style="font-size:10.5pt">Research also suggests that a stadium alone will not revitalize a neighborhood in DC. Because sports stadiums are not used most of the year, they do not stimulate much development outside the stadium.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#3E3E3E;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">
<span style="font-size:10.5pt">A new soccer stadium cannot be expected to generate a net increase in economic activity in the Washington metropolitan area, but it may shift some entertainment spending from the Maryland and Virginia suburbs into the District.
Nevertheless, the economic benefits to the District are not likely to outweigh any large proposed stadium subsidy.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#3E3E3E;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">
<span style="font-size:10.5pt">The District could use taxpayer dollars more effectively to build a green economy, reduce carbon emissions to combat the climate crisis, and meet the economic needs of struggling residents.
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<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:#3E3E3E">In short, it is dubious to justify the use of public funds to subsidize construction of a new professional stadium in Washington DC on economic development grounds. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#3E3E3E">Are you coming to the DCEN chat on the future of RFK Stadium?<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p style="margin:0in"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:#3E3E3E">LOCATION</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:#3E3E3E"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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