Preview: ANC 5D December 2020 Meeting

Here are some quick notes for the ANC meeting happening tonight on Zoom at 7pm. You can watch live or check it out later on YouTube. Here is the agenda, which is subject to change. I’ll recap the meeting tomorrow.

• This is the last meeting of the current ANC. The newly elected members will be sworn-in soon. Only Sydelle Moore (5D05) and Bernice Blacknell (5D04) are returning. The agenda seems pretty light, and this could be why.
  
  
• The consent calendar has three items: a new Transit Committee member, One Eight Distilling in Ivy City wants a patio and Las Gemelas, a new restaurant in La Cosecha near Union Market, seeks an alcohol license.
  
  
• I expect more details in the meeting, but there’s a voting item simply called, “Violence Interrupter Support Funding.” The ANC has previously voted to use some of its considerable budget to support the efforts of violence interrupters here. The Attorney General-backed Cure the Streets operates in Trinidad, and the mayor-backed J & J Monitoring works in Carver-Langston. No violence interrupters work in Ivy City. This may have gotten a whole lot more complicated this weekend, when Cotey Wynn, a violence interrupter in Trinidad who has presented before the ANC, was charged with a murder from 2017.
  
  
• Rarely do you see an ABRA protest on the agenda, but there is an item about 7 Food Store, a corner store in Carver-Langston on Benning Road. This probably means some residents or commissioners are seeking to prevent the store from having a certain kind of alcohol license.
  
  
• There is also a resolution regarding zoning in Ivy City. If you’re not up to date on the Comprehensive Plan, this might be a little hard to follow, but the gist is that this resolution would be a statement on behalf of the ANC that it disagrees with the plans to allow development at the old Crummell School and the land around it (see last month). I would guess that this comes from Empower DC, an advocacy group that typically works closely with the commissioners from Ivy City.
  
  
• It looks like the medical service Cityblock Health (which I think presented previously under another name) is back, asking for a Certificate of Need, a step towards becoming a health provider in the city.