Council dissolves waterfront corp., revokes hospital tax break

The D.C. Council Tuesday handed Mayor Adrian Fenty command of multibillion dollar developments on the Anacostia River waterfront and in the inner city, brushing aside concerns that the government is taking on too much responsibility.

In its unanimous final passage of the Fiscal Year 2008 Budget Support Act, the legislative vehicle to implement the District’s $5.9 billion spending plan, thecouncil also revoked property tax breaks enjoyed for years by the owner of the floundering Greater Southeast Community Hospital, and restored $250,000 of a $500,000 grant to the Historical Society of Washington, D.C., it had previously eliminated.