tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38901249947631335972024-03-13T10:11:28.058-04:00District TrinidadianA neighborhood news site for Trinidad in Northeast D.C.Josh Kramerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05014745511414949348noreply@blogger.comBlogger52125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3890124994763133597.post-9039180556062596062022-06-17T10:17:00.001-04:002022-06-17T10:17:21.307-04:00Blog update and ANC 5D Meeting June 2022<p><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Some news up top:</b></span></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-bd81a529-7fff-862d-f2b7-72ce6ecfa9b9"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This is a recap of the June ANC 5D meeting, and </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">the ANC does not meet in July and August</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. This </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">blog is going on hiatus</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> for much longer than that though, because my wife and I are </span><a href="https://joshkramer.substack.com/p/-updates-and-recs?s=w" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">traveling around Asia for a whole year.</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> I invite you to follow along on </span><a href="https://joshkramer.substack.com/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">my newsletter</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. If anyone is interested in stepping up and continuing to cover the ANC meetings while I’m away, I would really encourage it, and I would do anything I could to help them get started. Thank you for reading, and I’ll decide what form this will take next when we return next summer. Keep your eyes on the #ANC5D hashtag on Twitter.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">To reflect a little: yes, these meetings can be exhausting after a long day of work, but it’s nice to learn about things that are happening in the neighborhood, and how much work people are putting in to make our community better. Things are changing, but it’s never all bad news at one of our meetings. It’s often interesting and surprising too. I’ve seen firsthand that our commissioners do so much work, for free, constantly. This term especially, they’ve been really effective and proactive. In my opinion, this is due in large part to Commissioner Sydelle Moore’s leadership. Need quantifiable proof? After years with a six figure, unspent budget, the ANC is spending tens of thousands of dollars out in the community! </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ok, getting to this month’s meeting. I missed the May meeting, but the minutes are </span><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/10UesKqQeEA80b01wkZ6uea9qR41LtOm9pufmwI0VrVo/edit" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">here</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, and the video recording is </span><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/10UesKqQeEA80b01wkZ6uea9qR41LtOm9pufmwI0VrVo/edit" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">here</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. For June, all commissioners were present except for Zachary Hoffman. Here’s the June </span><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Q09oI-tPto_-p6IKwbgepj_Y5Jy2OjQfWvpiQHEecn0/edit" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">agenda</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, and the recording will likely be posted </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnY6gmsK2lKttEOG7cHIpYQ/featured" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">here</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> soon.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In a change, the </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">commissioner reports are coming at the start of the meeting</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> as opposed to the end. I think it’s good for more neighbors to hear what their representatives are working on, even if it often can sound like a list of complaints about city agencies and nagging reminders. Moving forward, It will be important to keep these fast in order to not slow things down. Commissioner Sauceda-Guzman says he’s interested in trying to bring back </span><a href="https://trinidadneighborhood.org/category/events/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Trinidad Day</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. Commissioner Cobb says there may be more options for traffic-calming measures on Trinidad Avenue and Montello Avenue. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In other news, the </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ANC district boundaries are changing</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">! We’re getting two new ANC districts, which means that starting next year we’re going to have nine commissioners, up from seven. The boundaries of the ANC itself will not change, but the districts are shifting around a bit, with a bit more blending between Trinidad and Carver-Langston, and Ivy City and Union Market/Gallaudet are now getting their own districts. I’ll be sad to miss the election, but I’m looking forward to following along from Asia. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiTtS6-DxfVbaHQbuzbBSg58Pk_hMAEiLc3oewliRH9_E_N_X96NY-2NeR9AhdOf8-FECtALKK1J7u9E0Jf4QqvFV7pKDhAseToaiym7u2EjCvVD0iDJ0tGfJvacq4geE8e23jScykHRi3ghpBnZvizJZKfCCB66ArpmThMynAZeDjef1DbW89Vkdycqw" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="922" data-original-width="1356" height="436" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiTtS6-DxfVbaHQbuzbBSg58Pk_hMAEiLc3oewliRH9_E_N_X96NY-2NeR9AhdOf8-FECtALKK1J7u9E0Jf4QqvFV7pKDhAseToaiym7u2EjCvVD0iDJ0tGfJvacq4geE8e23jScykHRi3ghpBnZvizJZKfCCB66ArpmThMynAZeDjef1DbW89Vkdycqw=w640-h436" width="640" /></a></div><br /><i>Above, the current district boundaries. More detail at <a href="http://openanc.org">openanc.org</a> </i></span><div><i><br /></i><div><i><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiyBY9GcfzuZkReJFcS17PdqiZXSvn5pqVilcO3ImVemF93wPsaFO7Taxn8DqqXVW2eTtHKQ7IDTJYP7PMuJnzyvp6COjv2XWFPbfYWVyusgaC7aMfnpf4B6lyDPSCJb080JCugCCf2SYbStEKpUhZ4lnFqwuy0yjmdj5EskWW8EBZ7EqttWWFSI3TD-A" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1878" height="408" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiyBY9GcfzuZkReJFcS17PdqiZXSvn5pqVilcO3ImVemF93wPsaFO7Taxn8DqqXVW2eTtHKQ7IDTJYP7PMuJnzyvp6COjv2XWFPbfYWVyusgaC7aMfnpf4B6lyDPSCJb080JCugCCf2SYbStEKpUhZ4lnFqwuy0yjmdj5EskWW8EBZ7EqttWWFSI3TD-A=w640-h408" width="640" /></a></div>The new boundaries. Full map <a href="https://chairmanmendelson.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/B24-700-ANC-Redistricting-Act-PACKET.pdf" target="_blank">here</a>.<br /></i><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">MPD Public Safety Report from Lt. Zunnobia Hakir: </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Crime is slightly up over last year. (Crime typically rises in summer.) There is a </span><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/02/18/dc-crime-bowser/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">new program</span></a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> that has replaced the </span><a href="https://mpdc.dc.gov/page/summer-crime-prevention-initiative" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Summer Crime Prevention Initiative</span></a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> that was active in Carver-Langston since 2010, although it seems to be primarily focused on Wards 7 and 8. Lots of questions about drug selling at the intersection of Neal and Orren streets. “Drug dealing is definitely being investigated, but it’s really more of a behind-the-scenes kind of thing,” says Lt. Hakir. See crime for ANC 5D with </span><a href="https://crimecards.dc.gov/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">the crime cards</span></a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mayor’s Office report from Nokomis Hunter: </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mayor Bowser is currently running for a third term in the democratic primary on June 21. </span><a href="https://dcboe.org/Elections/2022-Elections" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Early voting</span></a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> is open at Trinidad Rec, and ballots have been mailed out, which you can return in the mail or at drop boxes (there’s one at Wilson Elementary.) There’s a new</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> “</span><a href="https://mayor.dc.gov/release/mayor-bowser-launches-black-homeownership-strike-force-combat-racial-wealth-gap" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Strike Force</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">” for Black homeownership. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ward 5 Councilmember’s Report from Doni Crawford: </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Budget for fiscal year 2023 was passed by the Council. Kenyon McDuffie is not running for reelection (he was planning on running for Attorney General, but … <a href="https://dcist.com/story/22/04/18/dc-elections-board-kenyan-mcduffie-not-eligible/" target="_blank">welp</a>). 730DC has a </span><a href="https://medium.com/seventhirty-dc/730dcs-2022-spring-primary-guide-for-washington-dc-433126bbf5de" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">great election guide</span></a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> with info on the folks running to replace him. Things got a bit confrontational between Comm. Sauceda-Guzman and Crawford, about a perceived lack of communication, and an interest in having Councilmember McDuffie come to the ANC. Comm. Sauceda-Guzman said it “feels disrespectful, that no one cares about us.” It’s awkward, but kudos for Sauceda-Guzman, standing in for Comm. Sydelle Moore, for being tough on behalf of the ANC.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Trinidad PEPCO Substation Demolition from Travoris Culpepper:</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This substation, in an alley in Trinidad, hasn’t been active since the 1990s. Some of the equipment has been removed, but the demolition has been postponed until further notice. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Downtown DC Public Restroom Initiative from Marcia Bernbaum: </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This began as a campaign from the People for Fairness Coalition, resulting in a law passed in 2018 for two </span><a href="https://dcpublicrestrooms.org/dc-public-restroom-law/law-22-280-status-of-implementation/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">public restroom pilot projects</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. The working group has recommended two sites in ANC5D: the Starburst plaza and the corner of 17th and Benning. The final plan and details have not been finalized, but this would be a one year pilot, with an evaluation of its effectiveness. Comm. Sydelle Moore has safety concerns, and calls the 17th and Benning location a “definite no” for her. Fun fact: The Lincoln and Jefferson Memorials are the only two 24/7 public restrooms within DC. The ANC voted to support the project conditionally, supporting a daytime-only location in Starburst Plaza: </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">APPROVED</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> unanimously. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjaJ6-pe3TYoG02OYinmsUO7zl0nmtpl80rS_lXrgVotZPwDRLcXsKSsD3xXjEp6TJN6FSKFRAaoylMLRxib_gW30pd4SOND3Dw-daHMpEChBsKeNKxzQbf2Dst843VpNysp3ITJEH5BsCqQoZAtbripSunAqqjrHih0wHCh8GxAtvHvHY2p8TSDFaCFw" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="1800" data-original-width="2880" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjaJ6-pe3TYoG02OYinmsUO7zl0nmtpl80rS_lXrgVotZPwDRLcXsKSsD3xXjEp6TJN6FSKFRAaoylMLRxib_gW30pd4SOND3Dw-daHMpEChBsKeNKxzQbf2Dst843VpNysp3ITJEH5BsCqQoZAtbripSunAqqjrHih0wHCh8GxAtvHvHY2p8TSDFaCFw=w640-h400" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Jubilee Jobs - Scholarships for Ward 5D Residents from Kevin Murt, 440 Penn Project: </span><a href="https://www.jubileejobs.org/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Jubilee Jobs</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> is a non-profit, DC-based job-placement nonprofit organization. About a third of their candidates are returning citizens with criminal records. 440 Penn Street NE is a new mixed-use development in Union Market, and they’re going to be partnering with Jubilee Jobs as a community benefit and offering scholarships to local residents.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Gallaudet/6th Street Development Project from Robbie Saclaride, Nick Anderson, JBG Smith: </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This is a huge redevelopment project around Union Market and Gallaudet University, that’s been in the works for years. This is the second stage of the process, </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666984558105px; white-space: pre-wrap;">which is more design focused,</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"> for Parcel 4, behind Union Market. These presentations are often full of fancy architect jargon, but they are usually pretty visually interesting.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiCQ7o4G93G1Jucy1AoJK4br9IHYJ3vnNXIZQFkp6uPjqkejjqXl2AQD6dOWk5WXTvPFmrdjkpqAyMIXzem8EASlo8tPvt8KZqjphtn0pq_4IDrjPuu7W_GJdFV3NxFuQMMMBFz24PDa60M4Buto7-3n4lzXksq7l4Tn13vT_t3hit5rYefiGqAq6VaJQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="1800" data-original-width="2880" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiCQ7o4G93G1Jucy1AoJK4br9IHYJ3vnNXIZQFkp6uPjqkejjqXl2AQD6dOWk5WXTvPFmrdjkpqAyMIXzem8EASlo8tPvt8KZqjphtn0pq_4IDrjPuu7W_GJdFV3NxFuQMMMBFz24PDa60M4Buto7-3n4lzXksq7l4Tn13vT_t3hit5rYefiGqAq6VaJQ=w640-h400" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhqdForN2G-YpRQwlMK_CoMiZyFXWrCvNF8rruxSRs1enYBNSHvTDm8758dPtuHibdgXu0olOqj8wt_t_mnLzF9YrKRz7ZOP3uNdzvuxbGeLb7qG-uYczC8NFYNFYjJCAWi7VcgTi1Zd1bGUFg-ej_leTLGMvfl-9UhIzorMWfNFqcMZJghxlhC3rkTiw" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="1800" data-original-width="2880" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhqdForN2G-YpRQwlMK_CoMiZyFXWrCvNF8rruxSRs1enYBNSHvTDm8758dPtuHibdgXu0olOqj8wt_t_mnLzF9YrKRz7ZOP3uNdzvuxbGeLb7qG-uYczC8NFYNFYjJCAWi7VcgTi1Zd1bGUFg-ej_leTLGMvfl-9UhIzorMWfNFqcMZJghxlhC3rkTiw=w640-h400" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Voting on ABRA License Request </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">for Selina Union Market at 411 New York Ave, from Kevin Cruz: </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A new hotel and co-working space catering to digital nomads in the Union Market area requests a temporary alcohol license while they await a permanent license. There are six other US </span><a href="https://www.selina.com/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Selina</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> locations. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">APPROVED</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> unanimously. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Voting on amended </span><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jG5XIvODAnDXmFKMNLsI1Q5PZW0UzdVzVOuDKLKEPpM/edit?usp=sharing" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2022 Crummell School Resolution</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> from Comm. Rhodes:</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">APPROVED</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> unanimously </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(except for Comm Cobb abstaining for work)</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">PUD Feedback: </span><a href="https://app.dcoz.dc.gov/CaseReport/CaseReportPage.aspx?case_id=22-21" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2229 M Street</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> from Marcus Goodwin:</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> This is a proposed eight story, 120 unit development project for seniors at the end of Maryland Avenue in Carver-Langston, near the closed southern entrance to the Arboretum. Neighbors have concerns about parking and the overall height.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Summer Grant Requests from Thelma Duren: </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Greens and Grounds program is returning from last year, with some recycled resources from the last time. Last year, the program seemed to be a great success and a great use of ANC funds. Comm. Cobb was concerned about both of these grants taking a majority of the remaining ANC budget. The Summer Camp program is for 30 kids, ages 5-13. Comm. Moore proposes fully funding the Greens and Grounds and funding some of the key parts of the Summer Camp. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">APPROVED</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> unanimously. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pfjRplpRpB3unq8yPjhLyFkexRZb83oS/view?usp=sharing" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Workforce Development (Greens and Grounds)</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> - $7,570 </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1mvoTEFZlIyAhZRU4NmkLrfhIY0FE5oFT/view?usp=sharing" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Summer Camp & Back To School Supplies</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> - $16,450</span></p><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" /></div></div>Josh Kramerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05014745511414949348noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3890124994763133597.post-38093475314242823002022-04-13T09:20:00.002-04:002022-04-13T09:20:54.426-04:00Drawn Commentary: ANC 5D Meeting April 2022<p>When I started going to ANC meetings, I would sit in the audience (back when they met in person) and draw up <a href="https://medium.com/seventhirty-dc/why-you-should-go-to-your-local-anc-73965d2beb61" target="_blank">my notes</a>. This month I'm returning to my roots and drawing the meeting instead of writing about it. You can find the agenda <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TmjlVdR_nV_DmAlHiM3m_qTYvRxuBYA5oMM5cDgrhe0/edit" target="_blank">here</a> and the YouTube video does not appear to be up yet but will presumably be uploaded to the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnY6gmsK2lKttEOG7cHIpYQ/featured" target="_blank">ANC 5D channel</a>.</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgCle6jdCCKJNY4-kQmCN4HtFbwIfMqGNS96bRUUAH-KtQvubG-GJsYbTQo8l3yM5YpCPv1dOrjLQolJ4sf_M7DVuGLU1Pkfdur4ix8tMYXxGVRO7RMUzNLo9DDAvW4d0P1fO0r2yfebMsieFQrhy2UWgN7hwxyz-Psskt4a6MleCC_vk3BBoT0Bl598A" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="630" data-original-width="1200" height="336" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgCle6jdCCKJNY4-kQmCN4HtFbwIfMqGNS96bRUUAH-KtQvubG-GJsYbTQo8l3yM5YpCPv1dOrjLQolJ4sf_M7DVuGLU1Pkfdur4ix8tMYXxGVRO7RMUzNLo9DDAvW4d0P1fO0r2yfebMsieFQrhy2UWgN7hwxyz-Psskt4a6MleCC_vk3BBoT0Bl598A=w640-h336" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiE-iIGWgAc30MZCqbaeSW6HUewCDY8G4ZVkxkayKQb20BcUbPjW_CBqGIahpuwnfi3VRa4ppfadDETJaf5eEqgZKB8XN1UB5JaPW_CQv6nDpBIqS3dS8Orfa8WpSKEUd8wDrAGi4rHVm67rA7rnej7jsJH7w768qj0KfukQDZtNKe_DkkRt9k21ktiKg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="630" data-original-width="1200" height="336" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiE-iIGWgAc30MZCqbaeSW6HUewCDY8G4ZVkxkayKQb20BcUbPjW_CBqGIahpuwnfi3VRa4ppfadDETJaf5eEqgZKB8XN1UB5JaPW_CQv6nDpBIqS3dS8Orfa8WpSKEUd8wDrAGi4rHVm67rA7rnej7jsJH7w768qj0KfukQDZtNKe_DkkRt9k21ktiKg=w640-h336" width="640" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p>Josh Kramerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05014745511414949348noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3890124994763133597.post-41074878678265712592022-03-10T11:00:00.007-05:002022-03-10T11:00:47.587-05:00The Oklahoma Ave Metro Station and the March 2022 ANC 5D Meeting<p><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><p><span id="docs-internal-guid-df30dabd-7fff-08a8-fdfc-732aee62cf4a"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">OK, quiz time: there was one station in Metro’s </span><a href="http://ddotfiles.com/maps/DCMetroMaps/1970/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">original comprehensive plan</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> in the late 1960s that was never built because community members spoke up and said “not in my backyard.” </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Where was it? </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Hint: it <a href="https://thekojonnamdishow.org/shows/2019-08-15/debunking-the-georgetown-metro-myth#:~:text=There%20was%20only%20one%20station%20that%20was%20shut%20because%20of%20community%20protests%2C%20and%20this%20is%20where%20the%20myth%2C%20I%20think%2C%20really%20misleads%20people.%20It%20was%20the%20Oklahoma%20Avenue%20station%20that%20was%20planned%20for%20near%20what%20was%20then%20RFK%20Stadium." target="_blank">wasn’t Georgetown</a>. </span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEitS9RV1VzbrVErWrPDUCXQGDKKQTY66X76546RtmxUmO3sXAUkFFWi0HBc-PVunp3q2OgfMgeEHXsEFfMxez3nHkQnNyRFKunKiVUNF7-aUq5CqBLTFH2h3QwNlq2npzjwyFJYnkmtr2UgH348vkXWAgQV8eKqoUfDYTg2fhoPjZ9GClWemUxVleRYSg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="1116" data-original-width="1520" height="470" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEitS9RV1VzbrVErWrPDUCXQGDKKQTY66X76546RtmxUmO3sXAUkFFWi0HBc-PVunp3q2OgfMgeEHXsEFfMxez3nHkQnNyRFKunKiVUNF7-aUq5CqBLTFH2h3QwNlq2npzjwyFJYnkmtr2UgH348vkXWAgQV8eKqoUfDYTg2fhoPjZ9GClWemUxVleRYSg=w640-h470" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-c0a846ce-7fff-99df-0362-a0373416c858"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-7bfa2712-7fff-5a37-9d95-8c2d6c72d654"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">That’s right, there was actually an above ground station planned for near the intersection of Benning Road and Oklahoma Avenue, in the RFK Stadium parking lot. From a <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1977/06/12/neigbors-unity-wins-fight-against-metro-station/68600569-b885-4807-aa6d-68b6e1214783/" target="_blank">1977 Washington Post article</a>:</span></span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></p><blockquote>"It would have shaken the foundations of the houses," Mrs. Beam, now 68, said indignantly last week. "We would have heard the rumbling of the trains. And this —" she waved her arm toward the vast empty parking lot north of Robert F. Kennedy Stadium — "this would have been a big parking facility."</blockquote></span><p></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgi0l4KXn_-6gqhcVR_oVgZ042LMG4mycoesfyeUZPNCuNzTHAqjDuUAY1Q15ZSivpHW-v1_rbQGLTClIR546u8pBdsTnxQxrd5FjgCSzIAjRQA75PDR8AWEEy4ykm2FHTc3l0Keckj5M8NwzvmbCcplPdWbE6CbuZ-nEQ5V6Wkhn1yLEGxTL8PKquGVA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="3776" data-original-width="5532" height="436" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgi0l4KXn_-6gqhcVR_oVgZ042LMG4mycoesfyeUZPNCuNzTHAqjDuUAY1Q15ZSivpHW-v1_rbQGLTClIR546u8pBdsTnxQxrd5FjgCSzIAjRQA75PDR8AWEEy4ykm2FHTc3l0Keckj5M8NwzvmbCcplPdWbE6CbuZ-nEQ5V6Wkhn1yLEGxTL8PKquGVA=w640-h436" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span id="docs-internal-guid-8d9c8240-7fff-7fdd-6897-d13f8217b318"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mrs. Beam (first name not given in the article) and her neighbors, including the still active Kingman Park Civic Association, kicked into gear: </span></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></p><blockquote>For the next few weeks they met in churches and local schools, with the neighbors and Metro officials arguing over alternatives for the proposed station. Put it underground, said the neighbors. That would cost $40 million, said Metro, and even then commuters would still use the parking lot. All right, said the neighbors — eliminate the station.</blockquote><p></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A half century later, the stadium sits empty, but the site remains a parking lot and the surrounding neighborhoods are more vibrant than ever, with no Metro station anywhere nearby. However, as you’ll see at the bottom, there’s still interest in building an infill station — a station that connects to an existing line — at Oklahoma Avenue. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This week Vice Chair Commissioner Sauceda-Guzman led the beginning of the meeting, and the standing presentations were brief and pretty light on content this month. The vote on whether to support NoMa BID’s proposed new entrance to the NoMa Metro station was bumped from the consent calendar, a signal that there was an interest in discussion and debate before voting. Comm. Hoffman and Cobb voted to keep it on the consent calendar, and Comms. Sauceda-Guzman, Rhodes, Blacknell and Latoya Moore all voted to move it off. (Comm. Sydelle Moore arrived late due to a conflict.) Here’s </span><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_DcFkVsOkR6zHIFuDfpE5B133SUeBmYUv-Hk5Bup_jE/edit" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">the agenda</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> for this month, and here’s the </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgwxU3uwZqE" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">YouTube link</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">MPD Public Safety Report from Lt. Zunnobia Hakir: </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Violent crime is slightly up over last year, including more assaults with a deadly weapon, said Lt. Hakir. Property crime is down. Lt. Hakir said that lots of officers are on standby to deal with disruption from potential truck convoys. You can explore February’s crime stats for </span><a href="https://dcatlas.dcgis.dc.gov/crimecards/all:crimes/all:weapons/dated::02012022:03012022/in:ANC:5D" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ANC5D here</span></a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mayor’s Office report from Nokomis Hunter: </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">There have been changes to the </span><a href="https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/coronavirus/dc-drops-mask-requirement-in-restaurants-stores-gyms/2986684/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">mask requirements</span></a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> in the District. Street sweeping is back. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">🙃 </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ward 5 Councilmember’s Report from Kelly Cislo: </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Silas Grant is moving on to another regular meeting. The budget oversight process is underway. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A presentation from Sports Wagering Oversight & Regulation Director Peter Alvarado: </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">DC runs its own GambetDC Retail program. Union Oyster Bar near Union Market wants one of these self-service machines, and they asked the ANC for approval back in </span><a href="https://districttrinidadian.blogspot.com/2021/12/commentary-anc-5d-meeting-december-2021.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">December</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. (More below.) Ward 5 has the most lottery retailers (64 out of 334), and six sports betting locations. Cash does exchange hands with sports betting, but there’s a limit. Businesses can’t cash out winnings of over $600. Each retailer has to submit a detailed plan and be approved by the Office of Lottery & Gaming. The Office typically consults with MPD and ABRA, and often reassess a license after the first 60 days. According to</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666984558105px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Director Alvarado, t</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">he purpose of the machines is to raise revenue for the city’s general fund, and it isn't set up to put money back into the communities where sports betting happens. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Consent calendar (non-controversial items voted on collectively): </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/10ltwQbwB2UCn8vW9dF3gE2SqZhrWgkXe/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=106219257468989622206&rtpof=true&sd=true" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Supporting the Metro for DC Amendment Act of 2021</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/17J7N097RNI88bF2fozDyLX47mez7MeTx/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=106219257468989622206&rtpof=true&sd=true" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Supporting with Amendments the Safe Routes to School Expansion Regulation Amendment Act of 2021</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1x-M2efGbycLCQaTvUW8t3QY3H1wq6Lww/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=106219257468989622206&rtpof=true&sd=true" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Supporting with Amendments the Walk Without Worry Amendment Act of 2021</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1OJlZKpiYA3UhJzLYhxN4hiTgyF87OLwk/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=102207848829134441333&rtpof=true&sd=true" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Opposing Zoning Changes to Allow By-Right WMATA Bus Facilities</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1OJlZKpiYA3UhJzLYhxN4hiTgyF87OLwk/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=106219257468989622206&rtpof=true&sd=true" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ZC 22-07: Opposing Changes to Allow By-Right Bus Facilities</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">APPROVED</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> unanimously</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A presentation on </span><a href="https://app.dcoz.dc.gov/CaseReport/CaseReportPage.aspx?case_id=20707" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">1146 16th St. NE</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> from Eric Teran: </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This is a development project at 16th and Meigs NE. They plan two large, 4 bedroom units. They haven’t spoken to the neighbors yet. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Voting on </span><a href="https://app.dcoz.dc.gov/CaseReport/CaseReportPage.aspx?case_id=20680" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">801 20th St. NE</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> from Eric Teran: </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This plan was presented </span><a href="https://districttrinidadian.blogspot.com/2022/02/commentary-anc-5d-meeting-february-2022.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">last month</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. Terran said they are now only asking for a zoning exception to extend the building another eight feet in the back. He said they are trying to accommodate requests about making it feel less like a massive rectangle. Comm. Sydelle Moore said that the nextdoor neighbor is opposed, and again said she was wary of this setback changing precedent. “I am not in favor of the extension,” said Moore. She moved to </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">reject </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">supporting the extension of the building. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">APPROVED</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> unanimously (except for Comm Cobb abstaining for work)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgRErSjLs-VnXCyl-ItajrApdDBVh0YivBxZmBojkpdu2EgOQgyMfolYYeLHTUtj9XIH4FkIOgjH6wCtvxaGT8FBPRPXla4cBYw7ylYkTit51BoN1XBhs59eQphAFwwD_9WHiH_tX0nHc2WxGw8tbeI1P2PLDDWEkyHEED15Qfp7isf5j-qrO_fU-6hrA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="2520" data-original-width="4480" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgRErSjLs-VnXCyl-ItajrApdDBVh0YivBxZmBojkpdu2EgOQgyMfolYYeLHTUtj9XIH4FkIOgjH6wCtvxaGT8FBPRPXla4cBYw7ylYkTit51BoN1XBhs59eQphAFwwD_9WHiH_tX0nHc2WxGw8tbeI1P2PLDDWEkyHEED15Qfp7isf5j-qrO_fU-6hrA=w640-h360" width="640" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Voting on public land sale letter on 1961 H St. NE: </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This is a proposed sale of city land to a developer. For more on this property, see </span><a href="https://districttrinidadian.blogspot.com/2022/02/commentary-anc-5d-meeting-february-2022.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">last month</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. Comm. Sydelle Moore cited an ongoing investigation and land review as reasons to not approve the sale. Comm. Moore moved to not support land sale. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">APPROVED</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> unanimously (except for Comm Cobb)</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Voting on sports betting at Union Oyster Bar from Michael Bingham: </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">See above for more on sports betting. They plan to have two machines, down from a plan for five. Comm. Sydelle Moore said there are security concerns, because of robberies around Union Market. Bingham said the bar already hires security officers and keeps a log, and they will wand people at the door to check for firearms. The ANC advises on community support, and the Office of Lottery & Gaming approves or rejects the application. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">APPROVED</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> unanimously.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Voting on </span><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IkR2eb9tCjJfMItd-xMLg6Ym-ekdc48O/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=106219257468989622206&rtpof=true&sd=true" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Supporting New NoMa Metro Entrance and Requesting Infill Station</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">:</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> There was a presentation on this </span><a href="https://districttrinidadian.blogspot.com/2022/02/commentary-anc-5d-meeting-february-2022.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">last month</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. It was bumped from the consent calendar for discussion. Comm. Cobb wrote the letter in support of NoMa Bid’s plans. The commissioners said that WMATA has listed ANC5D as a potential site for future Metro stations, and this letter also requests the construction of one. Comm. Sauceda-Guzman said he did not think the additional, proposed entrance to the NoMa Metro was necessary. “In the name of racial equity, I don’t believe it does much for 5D,” he said. “We need more Metro access and this doesn’t help.” </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Comm. Hoffman added, “Infrastructure’s important. It can have an intended use and it can have a real world use.” Ultimately, it’s up to DC Council to decide whether to fund the NoMa entrance, and Comm. Cobb said that Ward 5 Councilmember Kenyan McDuffie supports the NoMa Metro Entrance. Comm. Moore proposes conditional support for the NoMa plans based on reciprocal support for an infill station at Oklahoma Avenue. Comm. Blacknell said, “They always treat us bad, no matter what,” I think referring to WMATA. Find more context for the station </span><a href="http://www.alexblock.net/blog/2021/11/26/wmata-infill-stations-oklahoma-ave-and-river-terrace/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">here</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. Final wording of the resolution </span><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IkR2eb9tCjJfMItd-xMLg6Ym-ekdc48O/edit" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">here</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">APPROVED</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> unanimously.</span></p><br /><br /><br />Josh Kramerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05014745511414949348noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3890124994763133597.post-55287158159209417692022-02-09T13:45:00.001-05:002022-02-09T13:45:47.391-05:00Commentary: ANC 5D Meeting February 2022<p><br /></p><p><span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgyXiNUB76xw1wgDsWM4Y2HwDmmAOfQw-QkLLuETdAt89wbcVzGmv_c9nXYTyMsEphuqPFmQDNXMGh_lgxDK87fLDYz4k4nqmMcXEOT534xjH1xKbI44kUAgYjkN8tFDIHFOEug0qkzeadQEEiDVZZf9eUsIyCusJgzBogZKdjglO--_TcSbZ89PvAgkw" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="1800" data-original-width="2880" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgyXiNUB76xw1wgDsWM4Y2HwDmmAOfQw-QkLLuETdAt89wbcVzGmv_c9nXYTyMsEphuqPFmQDNXMGh_lgxDK87fLDYz4k4nqmMcXEOT534xjH1xKbI44kUAgYjkN8tFDIHFOEug0qkzeadQEEiDVZZf9eUsIyCusJgzBogZKdjglO--_TcSbZ89PvAgkw=w640-h400" width="640" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p><p><span id="docs-internal-guid-62aa0d01-7fff-1ab2-a75c-c2110f6c2609"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">There was a wrinkle in this month’s ANC meeting, when only Commissioners Sydelle Moore, Sauceda-Guzman, and Cobb made it for roll call. With Comms. Latoya Moore, Rhodes, Hoffman and Blacknell out, the Committee lacked a “quorum,” or majority necessary for voting. This is extraordinarily rare for this term — all seven commissioners have been present for most meetings. One or two voting actions were tabled for next month, but otherwise the meeting proceeded normally. The agenda is </span><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bNKPgt8W0mpP2_XxVkiKqlktJCR6oQYbC7oNsvaHLRk/edit" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">here</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, and the Youtube recording is </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soqqHjoLaQI" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">here</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></span></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-0ab728ff-7fff-1ea1-3f34-b47cec85fce1"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">MPD Public Safety Report from Lt. Zunnobia Hakir:</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Crime is down overall, which is normal for this season. Lots of guns are being picked up locally in traffic stops. According to Lt. Hakir, guns are coming into the city in lots of ways, including guns from Virginia and Maryland that are being stolen out of cars, as well as </span><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/09/us/politics/ghost-guns-explainer.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ghost guns</span></a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and 3D-printed guns.</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> The Lieutenant claimed that MPD was “defunded” in fiscal year 2021, but the reality is a little </span><a href="https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/verify/defund-police-mpd-black-lives-matter-protests/65-29baa332-d23d-40b3-82e1-6e0e8d8de384" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">more complicated</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. Commissioner Cobb pushed back on that, and the Lieutenant replied that the budget changes did impact hiring and training. A neighbor had a comment challenging the claims about hiring and officers sitting in cars. Overall, it was very civil!</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mayor’s Office report fr</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">om Nokomis Hunter:</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">There’s a</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">new Ward 5 Covid Center, with lots of vaccination, masking, and testing resources, open every day except Monday. It’s located at </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2300 Washington Place, NE, near the Rhode Island Metro. More </span><a href="https://coronavirus.dc.gov/release/mayor-bowser-launches-new-covid-centers-wards-5-and-6" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">info here</span></a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. The indoor mask requirement is still in effect through the rest of the month. There are ongoing </span><a href="https://mayor.dc.gov/fy2023-fairshot-budget" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">budget engagement forums</span></a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ward 5 Councilmember’s Report from Silas Grant: </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Grant said there was a fire in Ivy City yesterday (I can’t find any more information, please share if you have it). It’s budget season for DC Council. There is </span><a href="https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/OurWard5FY2023" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">a survey</span></a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> so you can tell Councilmember McDuffie what you’re interested in for the city budget. Amusingly, there is an annual competition in the Councilmember’s office to see which rep can get the most survey responses, so if you want to help Silas win, be sure to </span><a href="https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/OurWard5FY2023" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">respond here</span></a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A presentation on 2229 M St. NE Senior Housing from Marcus Goodwin: </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This was presented by former DC Council At-large candidate Marcus Goodwin. This is a preliminary presentation for a 120-unit development meant to be entirely affordable housing for seniors 55+, just south of the closed-up National Arboretum entrance in Carver-Langston. (The Arboretum </span><a href="https://www.cfa.gov/system/files/meeting-materials/3-arboretum_fence_presentation.pdf" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">seeks to re-open</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> that entrance to walking and biking, but does not have the work scheduled). </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 14.666666984558105px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiMVZDBVDmDeIeWVo_kBhLXvm-NHvqNfMLFyubDNRKru53u2OI_IZXAfUZG-MjzkiVveyQzcrji61CbVgq9gVKnNKoilMdJ1mOUCHl9vj55r7yqrWNmfQbPElBEnOHAgGEhpG7RDppOBIvsJsm1Px6AjCldq0J4yqMNlXhPGKFjJ3Epul27hy2My9gINw" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="1800" data-original-width="2880" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiMVZDBVDmDeIeWVo_kBhLXvm-NHvqNfMLFyubDNRKru53u2OI_IZXAfUZG-MjzkiVveyQzcrji61CbVgq9gVKnNKoilMdJ1mOUCHl9vj55r7yqrWNmfQbPElBEnOHAgGEhpG7RDppOBIvsJsm1Px6AjCldq0J4yqMNlXhPGKFjJ3Epul27hy2My9gINw=w640-h400" width="640" /></a></div></span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The details of what specific levels of affordable housing will be determined later based on funding methods. Commissioner Moore noted that this project, at eight stories, would be dramatically taller than all the structures around it, and that as the process continues, the ANC might seek to have the design change to better fit in with the neighborhood. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiZw1req7-YjSyakQd5YIah_WFcF95JdKw-Ig2cbyd1nfkC-P9J6UcwoIq002P2ZwGdECLhmcSz-XBxFsXYqFVyhz0qLwGuuBL_TJD_RiaL_1I6VQv5BhKOnGfHahIHjPHYQOHm71LsNzzcAbnOJCPvqKXlfn_-Y9I5DNjzSDoiRAgpjuMWNMRVf2PGFA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="1800" data-original-width="2880" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiZw1req7-YjSyakQd5YIah_WFcF95JdKw-Ig2cbyd1nfkC-P9J6UcwoIq002P2ZwGdECLhmcSz-XBxFsXYqFVyhz0qLwGuuBL_TJD_RiaL_1I6VQv5BhKOnGfHahIHjPHYQOHm71LsNzzcAbnOJCPvqKXlfn_-Y9I5DNjzSDoiRAgpjuMWNMRVf2PGFA=w640-h400" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Presentation on </span><a href="https://app.dcoz.dc.gov/CaseReport/CaseReportPage.aspx?case_id=20680" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">801 20th St. NE</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> from Eric Teran: </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The developers of a rowhouse in Carver-Langston want permission to expand the building one floor up and about 8 feet further back, and make it into three units. This property is in Commissioner Sydelle Moore’s district, where there have been a few notable examples of illegal construction, some of which Teran cited as comparison properties. Comm. Moore took issue with this and escalating zoning precedents. “It’s not that we’re making a one-off decision, it’s a decision that affects 50 homes,” she said. She went further to say she wouldn’t approve this request as presented. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Presentation on NoMa BID from Brian Smith: </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This was an update on the progress on a new entrance to the NoMa/Gallaudet Metro station from the Business Improvement District. It will provide more direct access to points east, including basically all of ANC 5D. It is in neighboring ANC 6A, which pushed the developer of a new building on 3rd Street, </span><a href="https://www.trammellcrow.com/en/projects/eastern/midatlantic/armature-works" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Armature Works</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, to make a “cut out” for the new entrance. The BID is asking for $50 million dollars in the next city budget (it had </span><a href="https://thedcline.org/2021/08/02/washington-business-journal-a-pedestrian-tunnel-connecting-union-market-to-the-noma-metro-is-on-hold-heres-why/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">almost made it</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> into previous budgets). They are seeking a letter of support from ANC 5D. </span></p><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjpse1DdQMG05upZgk4e0U0XCSp95_ZM-dzImvpYa_jbuE98fPwxCR4rd4YB5hMKLU-bOEJhdNZQjHxCPwVVbPDhkF_5Ty1B0aGWdDB5vozb8kXgONt8qOG_fWs9ANPYp1bM4sGWvozAyRraUZQqZntTDc6RdEqD24eWkBoFTNVVsk7Bf5GbrHuKNSF-w" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="1800" data-original-width="2880" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjpse1DdQMG05upZgk4e0U0XCSp95_ZM-dzImvpYa_jbuE98fPwxCR4rd4YB5hMKLU-bOEJhdNZQjHxCPwVVbPDhkF_5Ty1B0aGWdDB5vozb8kXgONt8qOG_fWs9ANPYp1bM4sGWvozAyRraUZQqZntTDc6RdEqD24eWkBoFTNVVsk7Bf5GbrHuKNSF-w=w640-h400" width="640" /></a></div><br /></div><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">There were a lot of questions about who’s paying for the work on the station. As someone who used to write a lot about transportation, in my opinion $50 million is not as much as it sounds like in terms of subway-building projects. Transportation is expensive, but by nearly every conceivable measurement, this stuff pays for itself over time. It makes sense to invest in improving our safe connections to Metro, even if it only seems like it saves a few minutes of walking.</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Also, I think it's worth supporting ANC 6A in the interest of local partnership and solidarity. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(Couldn’t vote tonight due to lack of quorum)</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sports Betting at Union Oyster Bar: </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tabled due to lack of quorum</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ongoing case 1961 H St. NE:</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> According to Commissioner Moore, this triangle-shaped property keeps getting sold to new developers and the ANC and BZA keep rejecting each new plan. Sounds like a pyramid-shaped scheme!</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Community questions and announcements:</span></p><br /><ul style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">If you want to help your community and get paid to do it, you could get trained to report illegal construction as a </span><a href="https://dcra.dc.gov/service/resident-inspector-program" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">DCRA resident inspector.</span></a><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">DC has a free mediation process provided by </span><a href="https://communitymediationdc.org/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Community Mediation DC</span></a></p></li></ul>Josh Kramerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05014745511414949348noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3890124994763133597.post-46889225636047087652022-01-13T09:49:00.001-05:002022-01-13T09:49:05.536-05:00Commentary: ANC 5D Meeting January 2022Hey everyone. This was a simple-enough ANC Meeting this month. All Commissioners were present. The agenda is <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/10hWxF5r2u8XL5tjvg4wTWbJmBLDGuYmrBR8faqPfQ2c/edit" target="_blank">here</a>, and the YouTube recording is <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4pjsIbCXro" target="_blank">here</a>, although only about half of it was recorded this month. It seems like more people are calling in to the Zoom, which is good, but there was only mixed success in them being able to talk. The ANC unanimously re-elected the officers from last year and approved the security fund and schedule: the ANC will continue to meet every second Tuesday of the month at 7pm on Zoom, except for July and August. The officers are:<br /><br /> Secretary: Latoya Moore<br />Treasurer: Stephen Cobb<br />Vice Chair: Zachary Hoffman<br />Chair: Sydelle Moore<div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhNbKh5zHIw7DAuF_4bbCqoouQ4e-NOfMZnTHHoIrYwKPwm2tDauodtIFNIaTwftJp7F_qcbvvnku1m85gmAaqFjZhzsLrMdHzeagzYVPABoTB7rtAcsRX9Ft9d8JLalMFQNkydT8YNRXLMOg4OWhNltm7yijFqCr7bba4fdY3qcnYao9BEEsXLFm8glg=s2880" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1800" data-original-width="2880" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhNbKh5zHIw7DAuF_4bbCqoouQ4e-NOfMZnTHHoIrYwKPwm2tDauodtIFNIaTwftJp7F_qcbvvnku1m85gmAaqFjZhzsLrMdHzeagzYVPABoTB7rtAcsRX9Ft9d8JLalMFQNkydT8YNRXLMOg4OWhNltm7yijFqCr7bba4fdY3qcnYao9BEEsXLFm8glg=w640-h400" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div><br /><div><b>MPD Public Safety Report from Capt. Jerome Merrill:</b> There were some arrests in connection to robberies at nearby construction sites. The ANC continues to work with the police, ABRA and Councilmember McDuffie’s office to deal with violence around corner stores on Benning Road. Reminder: there are no <a href="https://washingtoncitypaper.com/article/473821/the-right-to-loiter/">loitering laws</a> in DC.<br /><br /><b>Mayor’s Office report from Nokomis Hunter: </b>There are at-home rapid tests (<a href="https://coronavirus.dc.gov/rapidantigen#map">check live availability here</a>) at Woodridge library (each person can have four tests each time), and PCR tests you can take at home and drop back off for testing at Trinidad Rec Center (<a href="https://coronavirus.dc.gov/testyourself">check live availability of these here</a>, scroll down). Proof of vaccination will be required at restaurants and many indoor places as of <a href="https://coronavirus.dc.gov/vaxdc">January 15</a> (not church, museums and grocery stores).<br /><br /><b>Ward 5 Councilmember’s Report from Silas Grant:</b> If you remember the issue about the Ward boundaries from <a href="https://districttrinidadian.blogspot.com/2021/12/commentary-anc-5d-meeting-december-2021.html" target="_blank">last time</a>, that has been resolved at the Council level. The final map was approved, and kept the Armed Forces Retirement Home in Ward 5. Now the ANC boundaries will be up for consideration. <br /><br /><b>DDOT Safety Update, Dalando Baker:</b> An explainer for how to request a Traffic Safety Investigation from DDOT if you think something about the roadway is dangerous. This is a new process that replaces requests at the ANC level. Baker explained the steps, from the initial 311 request through four more steps. I’m cautiously optimistic, but often it has taken repeated resolutions and years of followthrough to see any improvements. Several Commissioners asked about specific intersections and roadways.<br /><br /><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MLPWLPF8wSOYtbNgj_hwLv2XzXHbIXcP/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=114742721112805051974&rtpof=true&sd=true">Alley Closure - 1728 Montello Ave. NE</a>: <i>Unanimously approved. </i><br /><br /><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rFmL1R6Y2joKV8Af5l7zWzlzbX2XxYtUjb8ivW6zk-8/edit">Traffic Calming on Montello Ave NE and Trinidad Ave NE</a>: Commissioner Cobb explained that DDOT has been resistant to slow down these streets because they don’t want to slow the buses with speed bumps or stop signs. There are two things DDOT is open to: concrete curb extensions and contraflow bike lanes (just painted lanes going against the one-way vehicle traffic, like on G Street and I Street) to slow down traffic. Commissioner Hoffman suggested adding that the ANC has already passed measures to slow down these streets. <i>Unanimously approved. <br /></i><div>Hiring a <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_RIN9wCUna6D7yeS1c-Z1QqTeQgSJ9IfkEb-2Ai5B84/edit?usp=sharing">Architectural Design Professional</a> for no more than forty hours a year: Making a professional available to neighbors to review various projects. <i>Unanimously approved. </i></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div></div></div>Josh Kramerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05014745511414949348noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3890124994763133597.post-12710644325875614032021-12-15T09:41:00.001-05:002021-12-15T09:41:07.166-05:00Commentary: ANC 5D Meeting December 2021Hello and welcome to my recap of the final ANC 5D meeting of 2021! In previous years, at in-person meetings, occasionally someone would bring a spread, or at least some cookies, to the last meeting. In lieu of that, I hope you have a Merry Christmas if you celebrate and Happy Holidays. Here is <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WTnp-vuDJy06_QiUkDUqFc8P4Ow3AA66ef18_6WCULI/edit">this month’s agenda</a>, and I could not find the YouTube recording.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-gU81XWxvyik/Ybn5K8ocNBI/AAAAAAAAoGk/ZRWoaajy7DAyPXy1RsfRKIIknDbQ6bU-gCNcBGAsYHQ/Screen%2BShot%2B2021-12-14%2Bat%2B7.17.38%2BPM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="1800" data-original-width="2880" height="400" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-gU81XWxvyik/Ybn5K8ocNBI/AAAAAAAAoGk/ZRWoaajy7DAyPXy1RsfRKIIknDbQ6bU-gCNcBGAsYHQ/w640-h400/Screen%2BShot%2B2021-12-14%2Bat%2B7.17.38%2BPM.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><b>MPD Public Safety Report from Capt. Jerome Merrill:</b> A KIPP student was shot this past Friday and there was also another recent murder. Both homicides are under investigation. Some commenters were eager for more police presence at Starburst Plaza.<br /><br /><b>Special Update on Violence at KIPP from Reps. Zachary Parker & Jacque </b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; display: inline !important; text-align: center;"><b style="font-weight: bold;">Patterson (on the State Board of Education): </b>This was the second incident this year involving the death of a KIPP student. Patterson (at-large and KIPP Chief Community Engagement & Growth Officer) says it has less to do with the school and more activity outside of school. There have been Violence Interrupters working with schools. “People kind of knew that this kid shouldn’t have been walking home by himself,” he said. He later explained that there was a known threat to the murdered child, but it wasn’t elevated to the appropriate adults in time to prevent violence. A lot of bullying begins on social media, says Patterson.</div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>Parker (Ward 5 rep, running for Councilmember McDuffie’s seat next year) says the BOE ombudsman’s office will assist in situations where bullying is taking place. “Safe passage” resources for protecting students walking to and from school have been pledged by Mayor Bowser but haven’t kicked in yet.<br /><br /><b>Mayor’s Office report from Nokomis Hunter:</b> At-home COVID vaccinations now available for kids 5-11. There are many ways to get <a href="https://coronavirus.dc.gov/page/get-vaccinated">vaccines now</a>. The mask <a href="https://wtop.com/dc/2021/12/dc-issues-mask-advisory-but-mandate-will-not-return-as-of-yet/">advisory</a> is still in effect.<br /><br /><b>Ward 5 Councilmember’s Report from Silas Grant:</b> The Councilmember was disappointed by <a href="https://www.elissasilverman.com/redistricting">the final redistricting plan</a> and is still advocating for retaining the current Ward 5 boundaries (including the Armed Forces Retirement Home). “In our opinion this looks like a land grab,” says Grant. Redistricting is not supposed to reflect development speculation. The Councilmember is arguing that Ward 5 should not see changes because our population falls within <a href="https://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/silverman/pages/1548/attachments/original/1635782336/2021-10-30_Subcommittee_Discussion_Map_FINAL2.pdf?1635782336">the acceptable range</a> (about 82-90,000 each). “There is no need for this change,” says Commissioner Moore. “It’s just not right.” Ivy City Violence Interrupters will be arriving soon, and Grant thinks as soon as January. <br /><br /><b>BASIS DC Public Charter School Introduction from Alexander Rose-Henning: </b>Rose-Henning presented about the small Penn Quarter charter school, (grades 5-12) which serves about 25-30 families from ANC5D (about a third of the school) and has staff members who live within the ANC. Took some tough questions from neighbors about the school;s past handling of <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/officials-scrutinize-special-education-services-at-basis-dc/2013/08/04/adb16fe2-f880-11e2-afc1-c850c6ee5af8_story.html">special-education</a>.<br /><br /><b>17th & 19th Street Traffic Safety Projects from Will Handsfield:</b> This is a street safety project just outside of ANC5D, in Kingman Park and Hill East. Handsfield, a transportation planner for DDOT, said the project is planned to add more bike infrastructure, make the roads safer, and eliminate crashes. “The big picture we’re working towards is building a bike network in the city,” said Handsfield. These routes would further connect our area to the Anacostia River Trail and other areas to the south. Some of the adjacent residents (in Congressional Cemetery), won’t complain about parking, he joked. Bike infrastructure is planned for both Bladensburg Road and Mt. Olivet Road. “We’re going to focus on how to make them much more livable streets,” says Handsfield. A lot of heated pushback in the comments from several commenters still upset about the recently installed West Virginia Avenue bike lanes.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-dTItvQ73ozs/Ybn5gFEouLI/AAAAAAAAoGw/oqn_bGecwikZwEL7SRg5BXMkeueQaSOBgCNcBGAsYHQ/Screen%2BShot%2B2021-12-14%2Bat%2B8.31.43%2BPM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="1800" data-original-width="2880" height="400" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-dTItvQ73ozs/Ybn5gFEouLI/AAAAAAAAoGw/oqn_bGecwikZwEL7SRg5BXMkeueQaSOBgCNcBGAsYHQ/w640-h400/Screen%2BShot%2B2021-12-14%2Bat%2B8.31.43%2BPM.png" title="Collisions near the proposed project. North is at right." width="640" /></a></div>Collisions near the proposed project. North is at right.<div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-IhKxJlcZau0/Ybn6IvXCxEI/AAAAAAAAoHE/jjyHI9S0jfwumqDeBaeWgzMI7SPv5dtwgCNcBGAsYHQ/Screen%2BShot%2B2021-12-14%2Bat%2B8.33.44%2BPM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="1800" data-original-width="2880" height="400" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-IhKxJlcZau0/Ybn6IvXCxEI/AAAAAAAAoHE/jjyHI9S0jfwumqDeBaeWgzMI7SPv5dtwgCNcBGAsYHQ/w640-h400/Screen%2BShot%2B2021-12-14%2Bat%2B8.33.44%2BPM.png" width="640" /></a></div>Planned bike lanes (purple dotted) and existing bike lanes and protected cycling infrastructure (green). The yellow oval shows the planned project area.</div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div><div><b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-YM2ciU8DDkI/Ybn6aL9dz5I/AAAAAAAAoHM/nf_-prNTFBAop2ERYUKiRrJ0PDx7yjiWgCNcBGAsYHQ/%2B.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="1800" data-original-width="2880" height="400" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-YM2ciU8DDkI/Ybn6aL9dz5I/AAAAAAAAoHM/nf_-prNTFBAop2ERYUKiRrJ0PDx7yjiWgCNcBGAsYHQ/w640-h400/%2B.png" width="640" /></a></div></b><br /><b>AT&T Cellular Antenna Proposal (Spingarn) from Ryan Triller:</b> Continued from last meeting. This would dramatically improve cell coverage in Carver-Langston by adding eight feet to an existing utility pole at Spingarn High School, as well as expand coverage for first responder networks. Some in the comments, and in the community, have expressed health concerns. It’s unclear whether those concerns stem from viral conspiracy theories about 5G, or are more about a telecom company being perceived as barging in and doing what they want without regard for the mostly Black, lower-income community. To be clear, these antennas are already everywhere throughout the country, way up in the air (this one would be 89 feet up), and can greatly expand cell service: <br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-AXEOY82HVHM/Ybn6sOihTYI/AAAAAAAAoHU/Vwaptu0C9S85UWaTSbtxhr4GKt0DgOo3gCNcBGAsYHQ/Screen%2BShot%2B2021-12-14%2Bat%2B8.53.35%2BPM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="1800" data-original-width="2880" height="400" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-AXEOY82HVHM/Ybn6sOihTYI/AAAAAAAAoHU/Vwaptu0C9S85UWaTSbtxhr4GKt0DgOo3gCNcBGAsYHQ/w640-h400/Screen%2BShot%2B2021-12-14%2Bat%2B8.53.35%2BPM.png" width="640" /></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-AXEOY82HVHM/Ybn6sOihTYI/AAAAAAAAoHU/Vwaptu0C9S85UWaTSbtxhr4GKt0DgOo3gCNcBGAsYHQ/Screen%2BShot%2B2021-12-14%2Bat%2B8.53.35%2BPM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-Mx3K6Ah10qI/Ybn60XZQ2-I/AAAAAAAAoHY/vGpTvEiEnQMMAJcEfy0gQWA-C1WWY51LgCNcBGAsYHQ/Screen%2BShot%2B2021-12-14%2Bat%2B8.53.58%2BPM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="1800" data-original-width="2880" height="400" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-Mx3K6Ah10qI/Ybn60XZQ2-I/AAAAAAAAoHY/vGpTvEiEnQMMAJcEfy0gQWA-C1WWY51LgCNcBGAsYHQ/w640-h400/Screen%2BShot%2B2021-12-14%2Bat%2B8.53.58%2BPM.png" width="640" /></a></div></div><br />Triller said that no there is no scientific or medical basis to concerns about radiation from the antenna, but he went on to say that if you stand right in front of it it can burn human skin (remember, it is high up in the air), which probably did not convince anyone worried about health effects. “There’s a lot of misinformation out there,” he said. In my opinion, this should be straightforward. Improving infrastructure sometimes requires concessions like a slightly taller antenna, but the onus is on AT&T to do enough outreach about the project. <b>APPROVED:</b> Comms. Moore, Hoffman, Cobb in favor, Blacknell and Rhodes opposed, Sauceda-Guzman abstained without explanation. </div><div><br /></div><div><b>Consent Calendar (one item about changing transportation committee members) APPROVED. </b></div><div><br /></div><div><b>Request for Sports Betting License:</b> Union District Oyster Bar & Lounge, Russell Webster: Commissioner Moore noted that the ANC has never supported this type of license before (although these machines are new, <a href="https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/dc-rolling-out-4-sports-betting-kiosks-at-bars-restaurants/2746223/">as of July</a>). This restaurant is on Morse Street near Union Market. These are self-serve machines, connected to DC Lottery’s <a href="https://dclottery.com/gambetdc/retail">GameBet</a> platform. There is no cash changing hands, and these kiosks allow physical access for people without the GameBet smartphone app, as explained by Commissioner Hoffman. Commissioner Moore expressed lack of confidence with ABRA in facilitating enforcement of the machines, and would be interested in limiting hours and having a security plan. In my opinion, what actual reason is there to not allow these cashless betting machines? <b>TABLED</b>, Comm. Hoffman abstained without explanation.</div><div><br /><b>Request for Grant Funding Support: Food 7 Store, Zekarias Werede: </b>It was pretty hard to hear Werede. He wants a letter of support from the ANC about getting a city grant to make cosmetic changes to his bodega-style grocery at 18th and Benning Road. Werede says he calls the police four or five times everyday and doesn’t know what else to do. Commissioner Moore says she has requested records (FOIA requests to The Office of Unified Communications) and cannot find evidence of many 911 calls about the substantial illegal activity on the premises, and therefore does not believe the owner is acting in good faith. She thinks that safety is the overwhelming concern and not cosmetic updates. “I still am not hearing any type of plan on spending the money on security updates,” said Commissioner Moore. “The actions have to match the words.” There was some back and forth about what action to take between Commissioner Moore and Commissioner Hoffman, who told me after the meeting: "We voted to send a letter informing the Great Streets grant committee about the community concerns of the business and the desire for additional security, security plan, and follow through."</div><div><br /><b>Request for Condemnation of <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1-ASRnAT4ERMUsEMtYGqPkx5KA2P60FIpPxIXBlDCsEI/edit">1835 H St. NE</a>:</b> Read the letter in the link for full details (including photos of what appear to be a kid playing around on the construction site). The ANC is seeking that this project be condemned. It has been idle since a piece of the building <a href="https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/local/dc/washington-dc-construction-site-building-collapse-northeast-dc-dcra/65-5f2e88e3-4b48-43e8-b41c-cc6f84d51c41">blew off</a> and DCRA hit them with an emergency work stoppage. <b>APPROVED</b> unanimously.<br /><br /><b>Temporary Service Agreement: Ebony Harris:</b> Contracting a temp for three months of part-time administrative work. <b>APPROVED</b> unanimously. <br /><br /><b>Letter in Support of Maintaining Current Ward 5 Boundaries:</b> Officially sending a letter that all commissioners already signed individually about the issue I described above. (Although I cannot find it online.) <b>APPROVED</b> unanimously. <div><br /><b>Community Feedback:</b> Kudos on a great year. Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays. Adjourned just before three hours elapsed.</div></div></div>Josh Kramerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05014745511414949348noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3890124994763133597.post-40673435305082334212021-11-11T10:22:00.005-05:002021-11-11T10:22:40.110-05:00Commentary: ANC5D Meeting November 2021<p><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Hi there. Welcome to my recap of the</span><a href="http://www.anc5d.org/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ANC 5D</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> monthly meeting, representing Trinidad, Carver-Langston, Ivy City, Gallaudet and Union Market. Sorry I missed last month. Hope you’re enjoying the fall and had a nice Halloween.</span></p><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">All commissioners were present at the meeting. Here’s the </span><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Q0iWM2WoQ3kruNFccfZq8HbViqBsV6cR8BDXRzWht-U/edit" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">agenda</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and here’s the recording of the meeting on </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLsyzpQFezE" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Youtube</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span><div><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 14.666666984558105px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiFR1ErMslAHd8pqTEM1pm2CXM-27L13nfdwE-8yx-zmuUGiRk-LCH5c1bjwQgmjIbF61jX56MiegvPKp7mJJBn_h3A7blQvs7iMY_cNU9xtvw3pKxVSqKVa0PjFyTmpXusr45o2x5ZLu3HQwXsxdvK2PH5vN54e4HoaVQPyf4rLau66LqW06v6GhpFnw=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="2048" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiFR1ErMslAHd8pqTEM1pm2CXM-27L13nfdwE-8yx-zmuUGiRk-LCH5c1bjwQgmjIbF61jX56MiegvPKp7mJJBn_h3A7blQvs7iMY_cNU9xtvw3pKxVSqKVa0PjFyTmpXusr45o2x5ZLu3HQwXsxdvK2PH5vN54e4HoaVQPyf4rLau66LqW06v6GhpFnw=w640-h400" width="640" /></a></div><br /></span><div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-c6db1de2-7fff-481c-5af6-69b5eee4d302" style="white-space: normal;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Budget:</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> It’s worth noting that the substantial ANC budget is finally being spent, and </span><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EZjIHtqcDRDhhSvUC0aKgUb7PSlARtXv/view" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">the latest</span></a><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Treasurer’s Report has a closing balance of $65,000, down from about $100,000 last term. I’m personally glad that money is finally flowing, because there isn’t much clarity about whether the balance will disappear after redistricting next year. “It’s hard for us to actually spend this money,” said Commissioner Sydelle Moore, describing the budget as an “excess of funds.” However, most of the line items are just labeled, “Sydelle Moore,” and it would be nice to know what those purchases are, even generally. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">MPD Public Safety Report by Capt. Jerome: </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">There have been a few construction-site robberies locally. Car theft is down significantly. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mayor’s Office report from Kyla Woods: </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As of November 1, any adult who is regularly in a school or around students, as well as students 12+ playing school sports, must be vaccinated. Reminder to use the 311 app, which gives you a ticket number for your request. On November 17th, there will be a first come, first serve <a href="https://mayor.dc.gov/release/mayor-bowser-and-dc-health-announce-vaccination-plans-children-5-11-years-old">vaccination pop-up</a> for children 5-11 at Center City Public Charter School, at 1217 West Virginia Avenue.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ward 5 Councilmember’s Report from Silas Grant: </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Councilmember McDuffie's office is s</span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">till collecting requests for traffic calming measures like speed bumps around Ward 5. Commissioner Hoffman notes that these requests have been pending for a long time. Councilmember McDuffie’s </span><a href="https://dcist.com/story/21/10/20/low-income-dc-kids-will-get-up-to-1000-a-year-under-baby-bonds-program/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Baby Bonds bill</span></a><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> passed the Council recently. </span></p><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-62f656b2-7fff-7898-04a9-f9d1bdfc158a" style="white-space: normal;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Redistricting: </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Every 10 years, the city’s eight wards are rebalanced to be roughly equal. </span><a href="https://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/silverman/pages/1548/attachments/original/1635782336/2021-10-30_Subcommittee_Discussion_Map_FINAL2.pdf?1635782336" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This time around</span></a><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, Ward 6 is way too big, and 7 and 8 are a bit too small. This is on the </span><a href="http://www.anc5d.org/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ANC5D homepage</span></a><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“In recent remarks, CMs Bonds and Silverman hinted they may support splitting Carver/Langston at Maryland Ave. & moving some neighbors to Ward 7. I oppose this proposal.” (Presumably Comm. Sydelle Moore) On Tuesday night, Commissioner Sydelle Moore said she recently testified before the Council and warned that </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">putting the ward borders along Maryland would split apartment complexes into two different wards, as well as neighborhoods that have been linked for decades. You wouldn’t split up a hospital or college, said commissioner Moore. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg36OjDBTRFs7YVoVTKGlia1VdABhCrK9yZ0VAzaKhGyID9HPhU2pRSCRs2TtucUHGe1HSKy7qkXiJcgLxCjzbEhhpAiNHCSf-e1ooF7hgoDPq1lwUuUks70EPytIVFYJPUrhjeHqmv_7eC62jiQTyVoJstifsXG_Jpd1JT6Y89hHICeGhuOnuDe8l2xw=s1294" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1294" data-original-width="1000" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg36OjDBTRFs7YVoVTKGlia1VdABhCrK9yZ0VAzaKhGyID9HPhU2pRSCRs2TtucUHGe1HSKy7qkXiJcgLxCjzbEhhpAiNHCSf-e1ooF7hgoDPq1lwUuUks70EPytIVFYJPUrhjeHqmv_7eC62jiQTyVoJstifsXG_Jpd1JT6Y89hHICeGhuOnuDe8l2xw=w494-h640" width="494" /></a></div></span></span><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="white-space: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">However, Comm. Sydelle Moore said she was now optimistic. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Recently, Councilmember Silverman posted three discussion maps on her website (</span><a href="https://www.elissasilverman.com/redistricting" style="font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">at top here</span></a><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">), and splitting up Carver and Langston is not on any of the maps. “At this point there are unlikely to be any changes,” said Comm. Sydelle Moore. In some of the maps, the Ward 7 border might be moving west, as far as 15th Street. After the wards are established, ANC borders will be redrawn next year.</span></span></span></p></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-fbba5878-7fff-e873-d13c-b0ebca27cb72"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; white-space: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Family Community Fellowship Grant Closeout Report:</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Grant recipient </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Thelma Duren gave an enthusiastic report about the use of a $25,000 grant for six months of food distribution and workforce development in Ivy City and Carver-Langston. “Everybody was always telling somebody, and it was a great success,” said Duren. It’s always satisfying to hear a report about a successful distribution of grant funds (see above). Duren said, “It’s so important that we have programs like this in our community.”</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; white-space: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Langston Terrace Dwellings Master Plan Report from Broderick Spencer, </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">DC Housing Authority</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">:</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">There was a presentation about the DC Housing Authority effort to rehab and improve Langston Terrace by </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Broderick Spencer, who was difficult to hear. Interestingly, the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Langston_Terrace_Dwellings" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Langston Terrace Dwellings</span></a><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> is a historic site, being the city’s first housing project and the second in the entire country, completed in 1938 by African American architect </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilyard_Robinson" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Hilyard Robinson</span></a><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, a Bauhaus-trained DC native. At this point DCHA is seeking to hire a planner and get input from the community in order to </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">determine the features of the master plan. This is the beginning of a 12 month planning process, with a report finalized late next year. “There will be lots of opportunities to get your feedback and this will be what drives the plan,” said Spencer. Commissioners Blacknell and Rhodes were both skeptical of whether DCHA was serious about getting input from the entire community. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; white-space: normal;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; white-space: normal;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgnwJF3aYx881ZP15NQqtW7Zmgd93lUiE4eletzne8RD3GKOIxBF0CLjB5SLozOwXgMrLM2DKVaAKoQMZl8bsxsyWcplMxpS2RWr5iJl3PtXMeD2q56ZVvQVo5XMjqmgvAGVV2n7m8bTsrZ2ert-SmzRFdHSC8fFYprsphStPg80plzO2FT2YS0NqsmjA=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="2048" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgnwJF3aYx881ZP15NQqtW7Zmgd93lUiE4eletzne8RD3GKOIxBF0CLjB5SLozOwXgMrLM2DKVaAKoQMZl8bsxsyWcplMxpS2RWr5iJl3PtXMeD2q56ZVvQVo5XMjqmgvAGVV2n7m8bTsrZ2ert-SmzRFdHSC8fFYprsphStPg80plzO2FT2YS0NqsmjA=w640-h400" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; white-space: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Office on Racial Equity Report, Dr. Amber Hewitt, Chief Equity Officer: </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Office on Racial Equity is new. Its leader, Dr. Hewitt, was appointed in April by Mayor Bowser, and will work with the Council Office on Racial Equity. That’s right, there’s now ORE and CORE, both created by the </span><a href="https://dcist.com/story/21/01/27/dc-council-office-racial-equity/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">REACH Act</span></a><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, written by Councilmember McDuffie. There’s a flurry of action, in what Dr. Hewitt described as the “normalizing phase” in the organization's theory of change. “We know racial equity has become a buzzword and we’re unpacking what it is and what it isn’t,” she said.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; white-space: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center; white-space: normal;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgjdbJ2X6M60wwSM9sfwYcHqx7cw_YH0n3kE8Ngz-JhWkHVu0xTCPE0vKwcQnwKxtFZQuTZYidSmJM01cXxHpab9ghJ7U-_GmDWnhB_VBc5L3v-uK3L2cjy3BTcSSx4MzmbCZz1wBVjat8iSw0fsiYkp3EhIA-wJ0l3r9NS8r2gibdDp-o9-gQ5bgRo5A=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="2048" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgjdbJ2X6M60wwSM9sfwYcHqx7cw_YH0n3kE8Ngz-JhWkHVu0xTCPE0vKwcQnwKxtFZQuTZYidSmJM01cXxHpab9ghJ7U-_GmDWnhB_VBc5L3v-uK3L2cjy3BTcSSx4MzmbCZz1wBVjat8iSw0fsiYkp3EhIA-wJ0l3r9NS8r2gibdDp-o9-gQ5bgRo5A=w640-h400" width="640" /></a></div><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; white-space: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Lead Pipe Replacement Project, John Deignan, DC Water:</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> The city is trying to eliminate all lead service lines by 2030. Most of the lead pipes are actually the small, service lines connecting individual houses to larger pipes. In 2019, the city funded full replacement, meaning homeowners no longer have to pay anything to replace the entire service line. Next year, DC Water will be tackling a few specific blocks in ANC5D… including mine! I for one am thrilled, mainly because I’m sick of testing my water every six months. If you live on my block, 1400 Morse, the 1200 block of 17th Street or the 700 block of 19th Street, letters have gone out, and DC Water will be following up with door-to-door outreach and robocalls. More info <a href="http://dcwater.com/lead" target="_blank">here</a>.</span></p></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" style="white-space: normal;" /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-17988974-7fff-2b0f-3e8e-ef59c9b097ce" style="white-space: normal;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Northeast Boundary Tunnel Project Update, Hadiah Jordan, DC Water: </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">You may have wondered what the construction on Mt. Olivet is all about. On Tuesday, Hadiah Jordan gave an update on the cause, the Northeast Boundary Tunnel Project, a five mile long tunnel, about 100 feet underground and dug by “</span><a href="https://www.dcwater.com/whats-going-on/news/cicada-chris-tunnel-boring-machine-emerges" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Chris</span></a><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">." When operational in 2023, it will help reduce flooding and make it so the sewer overflows into the Anacostia far less often during storms. This work, scheduled to finish a year from now, will complete the Anacostia River Tunnel, taking storm water and trash miles away, directly to the </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202124; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Blue Plains Advanced Wastewater Treatment Plant</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Voting Actions:</span></p><ul style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Letter Supporting AT&T Cellular Antenna Proposal (Spingarn). </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tabled, Hoffman opposes.</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">BZA: </span><a href="https://app.dcoz.dc.gov/CaseReport/CaseReportPage.aspx?case_id=20568" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Case #20568 -1801 Maryland Ave. NE</span></a><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Supported.</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ABRA: </span><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WutPfarqOhoddEM1Mbpz9RKGEz7rCmPb/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=106104842085435902248&rtpof=true&sd=true" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Letter Supporting a Protest of Mudrick’s Liquor License</span></a><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Supported.</span></p></li></ul><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 14.666666984558105px;">Please feel free to write or comment with any questions. I love trying to find answers for readers. Until next month! –Josh</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="white-space: normal;"><i><br /></i></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="white-space: normal;"><i>All screenshots from Zoom/Youtube</i></span></span></div></div>Josh Kramerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05014745511414949348noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3890124994763133597.post-19224471598374017242021-09-15T10:04:00.000-04:002021-09-15T10:04:13.595-04:00Commentary: ANC 5D Meeting September 2021<p><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mic check, is this thing on? Because life’s too short, I’m gonna try something new tonight: writing the post as I’m watching the meeting live on Zoom. If you’re new, this is my recap of the </span><a href="http://www.anc5d.org/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ANC 5D</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> monthly meeting, representing Trinidad, Carver-Langston, Ivy City, Gallaudet and Union Market. This might mean a few more errors and a bit more of a bulleted, quick-hit style occasionally, but this seems more do-able to get back in the swing of things. You can watch the recording of the meeting on </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuM1nJgdHKE" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">YouTube here</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. As usual, these write-ups have a bit of my opinion as a neighbor and frequent watcher too.</span></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-53b1330a-7fff-86fd-96ec-a29c045e3ade"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-aH6h1U0za4E/YUH8KGuh5sI/AAAAAAAAnWk/06lv9OMSyF8JwLRb6I-Q6NezODtBoLEwQCLcBGAsYHQ/Screen%2BShot%2B2021-09-14%2Bat%2B7.04.24%2BPM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1152" data-original-width="2048" height="360" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-aH6h1U0za4E/YUH8KGuh5sI/AAAAAAAAnWk/06lv9OMSyF8JwLRb6I-Q6NezODtBoLEwQCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h360/Screen%2BShot%2B2021-09-14%2Bat%2B7.04.24%2BPM.png" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p>Monthly ANC meetings are back on, after two months off for summer. All commissioners were present except Comm. Blacknell.</span></span><div><span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 14.666666984558105px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 14.666666984558105px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Here’s </span><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_pogwez8i5Q5Myxm0DofS1vwCkipfRZhHjVQO3Z1mKc/edit" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">the agenda</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> for the meeting.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">MPD Public Safety Report by Lt. Peter Sheldon: </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Typically, crime increases in summer and MPD increases patrols and monitoring through the </span><a href="https://mpdc.dc.gov/page/summer-crime-prevention-initiative" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Summer Crime Prevention Initiative</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, specifically in Carver-Langston. Then, crime goes down around now, and the extra police attention goes away, which people don’t like. Some years, most recently in 2019, there is a fall extension of the program, but there’s no indication of that this year so far. This Saturday there’s expected to be both a </span><a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/dhs-expects-about-700-people-show-pro-trump-d-c-n1279152" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">pro-Trump rally</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> as well as </span><a href="https://www.hstreetfestival.org/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">H Street Festival</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> closer to the ANC. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mayor’s Office report from Kyla Woods </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(she’s new): September 26th is when eviction filings will resume. The city is still offering AirPods to residents under 18 who get vaccinated. Comm. Zachary Hoffman pushed on problems with the StayDC program not getting money out to prevent evictions effectively. “Quite honestly it’s ramping up with the need,” said Woods. “It’s aware of its need to expand.” </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ward 5 Councilmember’s Office had to skip at the last minute due to an emergency. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Reginald Black, People for Fairness Coalition:</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> A group focused on ending local housing instability. They provide supplies and support, and are advocating for a legal right to housing for all. Mr. Black appeared to speak about the </span><a href="https://www.streetsensemedia.org/locations/dc-homeless-help-near-me-new-york-ave-shelter/#.YUEzvy1h1AY" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">men’s shelter in Ivy City</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and his group’s campaign for public restrooms throughout the city. “We are greatly concerned about that shelter being replaced,” said Black. </span></p><div><span><br /></span></div><div><span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-mjWag3wFiZ4/YUH8kt1QAEI/AAAAAAAAnWw/fwC4UWeRjJcSExp6V6WIjn-xesp6808sQCLcBGAsYHQ/Screen%2BShot%2B2021-09-14%2Bat%2B7.49.15%2BPM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1152" data-original-width="2048" height="360" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-mjWag3wFiZ4/YUH8kt1QAEI/AAAAAAAAnWw/fwC4UWeRjJcSExp6V6WIjn-xesp6808sQCLcBGAsYHQ/Screen%2BShot%2B2021-09-14%2Bat%2B7.49.15%2BPM.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><br /></span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Christine Roddy, Gallaudet/6th Street Development:</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> There’s a huge project in the works on 6th Street near Florida Avenue, where the Gallaudet campus meets Union Market. This is a Planned Unit Development, for multiple buildings, in multiple stages, over years. The First Stage was already approved, and plans are churning along for new residential units, retail space and makerspace, including space dedicated for deaf and hard of hearing entrepreneurs. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-n-jwMzd3akc/YUH8rFaqz8I/AAAAAAAAnW4/jQgf-B3WndYbtnPGzQhKX8kKGFCWaayywCLcBGAsYHQ/Screen%2BShot%2B2021-09-14%2Bat%2B7.56.18%2BPM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1152" data-original-width="2048" height="360" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-n-jwMzd3akc/YUH8rFaqz8I/AAAAAAAAnW4/jQgf-B3WndYbtnPGzQhKX8kKGFCWaayywCLcBGAsYHQ/Screen%2BShot%2B2021-09-14%2Bat%2B7.56.18%2BPM.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><br /></span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">There’s a lot coming, but suffice it to say that if you think, “boy, things really have changed over by Union Market”... well, you haven’t seen anything yet. I for one am excited for the Gallaudet campus to become better integrated into the neighborhood, and for the growing Union Market neighborhood to feel less isolated. Sam Swiller, with the university, announced a planned memorial for Black, deaf students as well. Architecturally, if you’re unfamiliar with </span><a href="https://www.gallaudet.edu/campus-design-and-planning/deafspace/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">DeafSpace</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, I encourage you to check it out. There are lots of pedestrian and bicycling features planned, including landscape design features they call “green fingers” and “conversation paths.” For </span><a href="https://districttrinidadian.blogspot.com/2020/12/affordable-housing-in-trinidad.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">affordable housing</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, 95 units are planned for this PUD (67 are 50% AMI, and 28 are 80% AMI) out of a planned 830 units (11.2% affordable). These buildings are a long way out, likely 2025.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-0ko07VDrdK4/YUH8swW-LeI/AAAAAAAAnW8/wnyKpWlJj5otnZZnbU-S8Ce1uYEzbnNOwCLcBGAsYHQ/Screen%2BShot%2B2021-09-14%2Bat%2B8.05.44%2BPM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1152" data-original-width="2048" height="360" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-0ko07VDrdK4/YUH8swW-LeI/AAAAAAAAnW8/wnyKpWlJj5otnZZnbU-S8Ce1uYEzbnNOwCLcBGAsYHQ/Screen%2BShot%2B2021-09-14%2Bat%2B8.05.44%2BPM.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Jacque Patterson, KIPP School Updates:</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> KIPP has charter schools throughout the city, including two in ANC5D: KIPP DC College Preparatory (by Gallaudet and Union Market) and KIPP DC Webb Campus (at Mount Olivet and Holbrook). Patterson gave an update about a 9th grader who </span><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/stabbing-dc-student-kipp/2021/08/18/79f5d192-0061-11ec-ba7e-2cf966e88e93_story.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">lost his life</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> in front of the College Prep campus. The network is working with MPD and violence interruptors, and attempting to change its policies. They’ve been working on a “safe passage” program to get students off and on campus safely to avoid violent incidents. Patterson said there has been a lot of social and emotional difficulty in bringing back hundreds of students after 18 months. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Voting actions:</span></p><ul style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Consent calendar approved: Renewed RPP Request for 1900 Block of H Street NE and after hours approval for Accurate Infrastructure Data Inc.</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VJplvvlgT5WUQ_PSnbN0jM6jyfTc2yJWEetRyKXIHDs/edit?usp=sharing" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">FY 2022 Annual Budget</span></a><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> approved.</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1K5E1cVZzuXzyg2hzndtMlnaRuGvTor0K8LvnNL8A_7s/edit" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Bylaws</span></a><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> changed for voting on camera during virtual meetings. “So I guess so we can see it’s really you and not a bot,” said Comm. Sydelle Moore.</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/10S2SwYg7QOZBgT1z1QsI75K_HxuVx2tvgiP8_G9pTlU/edit" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Resolution</span></a><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> approved: moving forward on funded renovations for Lewis Crowe park at West Virginia and Mount Olivet. This would include the </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">first dog park</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> in ANC 5D.</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ABRA: </span><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1iEBxEPnYAjEHARQ6m5K6TKgmb7Lfz6fWv6fbg4v8OCY/edit?usp=sharing" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Marcellino Stipulated License Request</span></a><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> approved. A new Union Market restaurant wants a temporary liquor license until they get a permanent license. </span></p></li></ul><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Community Feedback: </span></p><ul style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Update on traffic safety at Bladensburg and 17th Street? Comm. Latoya Moore: The project is in progress. A speed camera was installed at 17th and L streets recently and has already been vandalized four (!) times. Comm. Stephen Cobb: DDOT says they are studying Bladensburg for long term safety options.</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">More trash cans in Ivy City? Comm. Rhodes: “We can work on that with DPW.”</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Concern about big developers not being good neighbors. Comm. Sydelle Moore </span><a href="https://washingtoncitypaper.com/article/523667/a-tornado-blew-the-top-off-a-condo-development-heightening-bad-blood-between-residents-and-developer/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">understands</span></a><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Updates on illegal dumping? Consistent problem at alley behind Queen and Penn. “We are completely under-resourced in all of Ward 5 with only two sweep inspectors,” said Comm. Sydelle Moore. “Some wards have five or six.” Comm. Stephen Cobb said he was told there were “no resources” to observe that alley on a regular basis.</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Can we get </span><a href="https://www.dcaccess.net/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">DC Access</span></a><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> internet? It apparently takes connecting a sufficiently large building to bring this service to the area. Some of southern Trinidad is covered.</span></p></li></ul><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">New West Virginia Ave Avenue bike lane:</span></p><ul style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As </span><a href="https://districttrinidadian.blogspot.com/2021/02/commentary-anc-5d-meeting-february-2021.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">previously reported</span></a><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, DDOT has long planned to create protected bike lanes on West Virginia Avenue, in two phases this year. </span><a href="https://districttrinidadian.blogspot.com/2020/12/mark-sussman-on-speeding-up.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Last year</span></a><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> activists pushed for both phases to happen in 2021. The first phase, between Mount Olivet Road and New York Avenue, was recently implemented. </span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A resident says that parking has been removed as part of the new protected bike lanes. My understanding is that with the plans for the bike lane project, there is no actual loss of spaces, just moving the same number of spaces parking around. Comm. Sebrena Rhodes says the protected bike lane that was installed is different from the plans. Does anyone know if this is right? Lots of heated, personal arguing in the chat.</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The second piece of the WV bike lane (between Florida and Mount Olivet) is coming soon.</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">There is some disagreement about whether DDOT did appropriate engagement around this WV bike lane project. Comm. Sydelle Moore: “these processes happen over a very long time frame.” Quality of engagement is important.</span></p></li></ul></div>Josh Kramerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05014745511414949348noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3890124994763133597.post-35464842703233903052021-05-06T13:17:00.007-04:002021-05-06T13:17:59.271-04:00Catching Up: ANC, Bathrooms, Mail, Arboretum, Trash<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/--lOJGqzw7uc/YJQjfimYEsI/AAAAAAAAmM8/t418nzMmz0QEUfSweTmhEzqMxfiemnK9QCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/23547452506_0ceddac0a7_k.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1538" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/--lOJGqzw7uc/YJQjfimYEsI/AAAAAAAAmM8/t418nzMmz0QEUfSweTmhEzqMxfiemnK9QCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/23547452506_0ceddac0a7_k.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div> I wanted to do a few updates this week before the May ANC meeting next week, and I’m also calling for your comments and questions on a number of issues.<br /><br />First, I missed doing a timely recap of last month’s meeting, where Department of Public Works Director Christine Davis spoke and answered questions. Commissioner Sydelle Moore pressed Davis on problems including regular trash pickup and illegal dumping. “We’ve been having issues getting consistent DPW service for years,” said Moore.<br /><br />Davis was apologetic, and blamed some of the recent issues on Covid. Commissioners strongly communicated their frustration, with Commission Zachary Hoffman saying, “I feel like I’m lying to people when I say, ‘please use the 311 app.’” Davis promised change, including an upcoming social media campaign about illegal dumping, and blamed Maryland and Virginia residents for the majority of dumping.<br /><br />Commissioner Latoya Moore also brought up persistent mail problems in Carver-Langston, and later appeared in a <a href="https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/local/dc/mail-delays-frustrate-ward-5-dc-residents/65-c919502f-84de-4fd5-9310-9e5c1569f118" target="_blank">local TV news segment</a> about the issue.<br /><br />There was a brief update about the southern entrance to the National Arboretum on M Street that has been closed for <a href="https://dcist.com/story/17/09/12/arboretum-gate/">29 years</a>, and how everyone seems to universally support its re-opening, but money must be budgeted, possibly on the federal level, in order to physically rebuild the entrance. <br /><br />Last a week, a <a href="https://dcist.com/story/21/04/27/here-are-proposed-locations-for-new-public-bathrooms-in-dc/">report was released</a> listing possible sites for building stand-alone public restrooms in the city. 17th Street and Benning Road was identified as one of the six agreed-upon sites for a bathroom. A map accompanying the report identified Starbust Plaza as a potential site, and the intersection of Mt. Olivet Road and West Virginia Avenue was also suggested by MPD:<div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-R_JZSthfpbY/YJQTDjiQW3I/AAAAAAAAmMk/pVtHNf7EUgAtWBGJyARlTPvr7wfa6t1IwCLcBGAsYHQ/s583/Screen%2BShot%2B2021-05-06%2Bat%2B11.37.37%2BAM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="451" data-original-width="583" height="496" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-R_JZSthfpbY/YJQTDjiQW3I/AAAAAAAAmMk/pVtHNf7EUgAtWBGJyARlTPvr7wfa6t1IwCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h496/Screen%2BShot%2B2021-05-06%2Bat%2B11.37.37%2BAM.png" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><b>So, I want to know what you think!</b> Please tweet at <a href="https://twitter.com/DCTrinidadian">@DCTrinidadian</a>, comment below, or email me at joshkramercomics(at)gmail.com. What can be done to curb illegal dumping? Should there be public restrooms in or around Trinidad? Would you use the M Street gate to the National Arboretum? Are you getting all your mail normally? <div><br /></div><div>Sincerely, please do send me a question or comment if you’ve ever found this blog useful or enjoyable or interesting. This is a labor of love, but I need your energy and ideas to sustain this blog and keep it going, and I will really appreciate all the neighborly help I can get, and may use your comments in future posts. Thank you!<br /></div></div><div><br /></div><i>Arboretum photo courtesy of <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dcgardens/">DC Gardens</a> through Creative Commons license</i>Josh Kramerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05014745511414949348noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3890124994763133597.post-55762544587873425142021-04-09T10:57:00.005-04:002021-04-09T10:57:53.859-04:00Commentary: Abstaining from Voting Hurts ANC 5D<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-TLcoVYOv69c/YHBqUHYwy5I/AAAAAAAAlsU/An5dn41vsswg2yLFGE6jVXv_phk6fvA-gCLcBGAsYHQ/22552795829_106cabeb44_k.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-TLcoVYOv69c/YHBqUHYwy5I/AAAAAAAAlsU/An5dn41vsswg2yLFGE6jVXv_phk6fvA-gCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/22552795829_106cabeb44_k.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p>I missed last month’s ANC meeting, but I watched it on <a href="https://youtu.be/6e-byRBo0eI">YouTube</a>, and I wanted to revisit something that happened in advance of next week’s meeting.</p><p><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Commissioner Stephen Cobb brought up <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fw42ttSNwTY4lIuta6HvOrMCPBw6XudPD-wUVONbql8/edit?usp=sharing">a resolution</a> for a vote that supports the extension of the streetcar running on H Street, through Ward 7 and connecting with the Benning Road Metro Station. Before I get into the details of what this resolution involves, and why people may have voted or not voted for it, the main thing I want to talk about is what happened with the vote:<br /><br />Three commissioners voted in support of the resolution. Commissioners Sydelle Moore and Zachary Hoffman joined Commissioner Cobb in support. But the other four commissioners — Latoya Moore, Salvador Sauceda-Guzman, Bernice Blacknell and Sebrena Rhodes — all abstained. There was no debate, and no explanations for the abstensions. And because the ANC requires a majority of four votes in support, the measure failed.<br /><br />This is notable for a few reasons. In this term and the previous ANC term, disagreement is very rare. Almost everything is decided unanimously. Abstentions are typically used if the commissioner has a personal stake in the matter or a professional conflict of interest. Stephen Cobb, for example, abstains from zoning votes because of his job touches on housing policy.<br /><br />Let me be very clear: I think there are completely valid and understandable reasons to vote against this measure, which I’ll go into detail about below. But the specifics of the resolution are less important than this — </span><b><u>it does a disservice to the residents of ANC 5D to abstain without reason or explanation</u>. </b>These positions are supposed to be non-partisan and non-political. If these commissioners decided to dodge voting yes or no because they thought it might be unpopular politically, that’s a real shame and not in the spirit of the ANC system. <span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><u>A resolution failing because the majority abstains is a bad precedent that commissioners should avoid repeating at all costs</u></b><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><u>.</u> </span></span></span>I would much rather that if commissioners are against a measure or undecided about it they vote no and explain why.</p><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-c78cf34c-7fff-1905-2a98-558a87bfb2e0">Extending the streetcar</span></h2><div><span>It’s important to say upfront that this is symbolic: this hypothetical project would not be within the bounds of ANC 5D, and the decision is very much up to other parties, including the mayor, the Council and the District Department of Transportation. However, parts of the existing streetcar run alongside ANC 5D and a resolution like this lends support and solidarity to other ANCs, like 7E and possibly 7F, and might help build political momentum for the project.<br /><br />But of course, if you’ve ever waited for a car to be towed while riding a streetcar, or ridden on a X2 lapping a streetcar on the same route, you know that the streetcar has its issues. But for many, the dream of the streetcar lives on, and despite the problems, it’s worth extending it to connect to the Metro on the other end. The future of the streetcar is still being <a href="https://www.bizjournals.com/washington/news/2020/07/08/dc-streetcars-extension-survives-challenge.html">debated city-wide</a>, and is subject to future votes and budget allocations.<br /><br />Commissioner Sauceda-Guzman asked a question about whether an extended streetcar might bring more gentrification. Personally, I think we need to decouple stereotypes about transportation infrastructure, like bike lanes and streetcars, from gentrification. I believe residents in historically disenfranchised neighborhoods deserve equitable transit options and should be able to quickly and safely get where they want to go and live their lives how they like. But I understand fears of rising rents and property taxes, as well as changes that make people feel less welcome in neighborhoods they’ve lived in for generations. These concerns are real, and we should take them seriously.<br /><br />Which is all to say, again, I think this issue is complicated and I would respect any commissioner who would choose to vote against a resolution like this. I even would prefer that, instead of a silent abstention, a commissioner speak up and admit that they need more time to research the issue and would prefer to table it. The streetcar is not perfect, and it has its baggage. Now, unfortunately, we have no idea what a majority of commissioners think about it. Abstaining, without debate, is the wrong way to handle these messy issues. <br /></span><div><span><br /></span></div><div><i><span>Image courtesy of Flickr user </span><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/daquellamanera/" target="_blank">Daniel Lobo</a> via Creative Commons license </i></div></div>Josh Kramerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05014745511414949348noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3890124994763133597.post-56533537190590452102021-03-17T10:02:00.004-04:002021-03-17T10:02:39.014-04:00Announcements: Trash pickup, Covid and Cars<p>Hi neighbors, I'm a little slammed at work so I apologize for the delay in recapping this month's ANC meeting. I'll get there! This week, here a couple relevant notices to keep on your radar:</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-Vl3QuJeqUAU/YFIGr2QfqFI/AAAAAAAAlVY/NpL4OoA7hsMozBIufWmBXT-k5WHdd20xACLcBGAsYHQ/1.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="756" data-original-width="864" height="561" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-Vl3QuJeqUAU/YFIGr2QfqFI/AAAAAAAAlVY/NpL4OoA7hsMozBIufWmBXT-k5WHdd20xACLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h561/1.png" width="640" /></a></div><br />This Saturday is a city-wide clean up, and a Trinidad event is being organized by Danielle Jo Bays. Pick up trash bags at the playground in Joe Cole Park between 9:30 and 10am this Saturday. If you can, do your part to keep our neighborhood clean. <a href="https://communityaffairs.dc.gov/page/get-outside-meet-your-neighbors-and-show-your-dc-love" target="_blank">Info here</a> (scroll down)<p></p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Also, the city's pre-registration system for <a href="https://coronavirus.dc.gov/vaccinatedc" target="_blank">coronavirus vaccines</a> is now open. It's a bit confusing on the website, but residents 65 and older or otherwise eligible are encouraged to sign up. Everyone else can sign up, but they will likely not be contacted for a vaccine appointment until later, perhaps not until May. Trinidad is lagging behind other D.C. neighborhoods in vaccinations, and may be at the bottom in terms of fully vaccinating 65+ residents:</li></ul><div>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">Barnaby woods, which was somehow included in the first round of priority zip codes, has a senior full vaccination rate 2x the district-wide rate and over 4x (!!) that of Trinidad, which is seriously behind<a href="https://t.co/XPIMV92b35">https://t.co/XPIMV92b35</a> <a href="https://t.co/HnmjzC6DNn">pic.twitter.com/HnmjzC6DNn</a></p>— seven costanza (@stalebread14) <a href="https://twitter.com/stalebread14/status/1371483717118664707?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 15, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>
</div><div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><a href="https://dpw.dc.gov/" target="_blank">DPW updates</a>: Street sweeping, which would normally be starting up again, is still suspended for now. Some residential parking ticketing is resuming, and by next Monday, March 22, cars parked in "no parking" zones will be ticketed again. The public health emergency <a href="https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/local/dc/dc-public-health-emergency-extended-may-20-2021/65-9f5cc62a-55a3-487a-9d44-8daf9131ae15" target="_blank">has been extended</a> to at least May 20.</li></ul></div><p></p>Josh Kramerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05014745511414949348noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3890124994763133597.post-72339792157024218022021-03-09T15:46:00.004-05:002021-03-09T15:46:33.484-05:00President Biden visits Trinidad!<div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-3Il8saqfrHo/YEfcpnLUixI/AAAAAAAAlOQ/ekZb72k7NdY7_yX1a-8_4WfU4xMCBTh3wCLcBGAsYHQ/IMG_20210309_121950773_HDR.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="805" data-original-width="1073" height="480" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-3Il8saqfrHo/YEfcpnLUixI/AAAAAAAAlOQ/ekZb72k7NdY7_yX1a-8_4WfU4xMCBTh3wCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/IMG_20210309_121950773_HDR.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /></div>This morning, President Joe Biden had this item on his public schedule for 11:45am: “The President visits a small business that has benefited from a Paycheck Protection Program loan, Location TBD, Washington D.C.”<br /><br />Washington CityPaper journalist Laura Hayes, through a <a href="https://twitter.com/LauraHayesDC/status/1369335771778400266" target="_blank">nearby source</a>, identified that the surprise visit might be Trinidad’s own <a href="https://www.wsjenks.com/shop/departments.asp?mscssid=72E1DEDAD6ED0F7FBFBAE53ED41DB871&mbrid=2603&custid=TEMP">W.S. Jenks and Son</a>, the city’s oldest hardware store. The store, originally located downtown, hosts <a href="https://washingtoncitypaper.com/article/178702/how-dcs-oldest-hardware-store-ended-up-housing-two-cuttingedge-urban-farms/">urban agriculture businesses</a> and occasionally, <a href="https://www.nbcwashington.com/entertainment/the-scene/explore-new-art-and-theater-with-the-capital-fringe-festival/1972315/">experimental theater</a>.<div><br />
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">**Unconfirmed,** but I'm hearing from a source who spotted Secret Service that it might be W.S. Jenks & Son. The ancient hardware store happens to house two urban farms! <a href="https://t.co/crMxiSU5yS">https://t.co/crMxiSU5yS</a> <a href="https://t.co/SqtX4tbxiX">https://t.co/SqtX4tbxiX</a></p>— Laura Hayes (@LauraHayesDC) <a href="https://twitter.com/LauraHayesDC/status/1369301784712347655?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 9, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>
<br /><br />Around noon, a small crowd gathered opposite of the store on Bladensburg Road, including Ward 5 Councilmember Kenyan McDuffie. “I’m excited to know that he’s coming to Ward 5,” McDuffie told me. “It’s a wise decision, to make one of those early-on stops here in Ward 5. Jenks is very important to this Bladensburg corridor.”<br /><br />The new $1.9 trillion stimulus bill includes funds for state and local governments, as well as for public transit agencies. Additional funding for WMATA may prevent the cuts <a href="https://districttrinidadian.blogspot.com/2021/03/are-trinidads-buses-going-to-be.html">currently being proposed</a> in Trinidad and across D.C. for 2022.<br /><br />Around noon, the president’s destination was still officially a surprise. But the police cars around the block, as well as the large tent visible in the alley behind Jenks, made it seem like that was probably where he was going. Sure enough, around 12:15, traffic was cleared from Bladensburg Road and Secret Service agents fanned out. The presidential motorcade arrived and the limo known as “<a href="https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a23397702/donald-trump-presidential-cadillac-limo-beast/">the beast</a>” pulled behind the hardware store. Two vans released the press pool, which ran in through the front doors of the store.<br /><br />
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">WATCH: President Biden meets with a local Washington D.C. business, W.S. Jenks & Son, which received a PPP loan. <a href="https://t.co/QbtZMZtosd">https://t.co/QbtZMZtosd</a> <a href="https://t.co/7scKqZLvXu">pic.twitter.com/7scKqZLvXu</a></p>— ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) <a href="https://twitter.com/ABCPolitics/status/1369343585234133003?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 9, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script><div><br /></div>
The purpose of President Biden’s visit was to talk about businesses like Jenks, that had received a PPP loan. The new stimulus bill makes <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/alangassman/2021/03/04/ppp-law-changes-under-19-trillion-stimulus-package/?sh=79ce3f5f5853">some changes</a> to the program. According to McDuffie, <a href="https://districttrinidadian.blogspot.com/2020/11/what-biden-could-mean-for-trinidad.html" target="_blank">Biden’s legislative agenda</a> is urgently needed: “I think his agenda, thus far, has been exactly what the American people need, especially here in District of Columbia, where like most cities, we’ve been decimated by the coronavirus pandemic and our businesses are struggling to stay afloat. Our people, and our families, are struggling to make ends meet. So we really need that federal aid to support our efforts.”<br /><br />
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">President Biden visits W.S. Jenks & Son hardware store in NE DC, which received a PPP loan <a href="https://t.co/zL1LJvvuax">pic.twitter.com/zL1LJvvuax</a></p>— Jordan Fabian (@Jordanfabian) <a href="https://twitter.com/Jordanfabian/status/1369339141532565504?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 9, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script><div><br /></div>
While I don’t think Trump visited ANC5D while in office, I’m not sure if Obama did, or if any other president has. Is Biden the first president to visit Trinidad? Let me know in the comments or on <a href="https://twitter.com/jessohackberry">Twitter</a>.<br /><br /><i>Photo </i><i>by me. Regular monthly ANC coverage will be published soon, but not tomorrow.</i></div>Josh Kramerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05014745511414949348noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3890124994763133597.post-22680355102162373032021-03-03T11:58:00.002-05:002021-03-03T11:58:32.512-05:00Are Trinidad’s buses going to be eliminated?<div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-mrxq0CEOG64/YD-9-suoTYI/AAAAAAAAlH0/5GFqYruxWREp3Vbq6GPunAbJT45opKy_ACLcBGAsYHQ/14140460049_5415dbb779_k.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2047" height="426" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-mrxq0CEOG64/YD-9-suoTYI/AAAAAAAAlH0/5GFqYruxWREp3Vbq6GPunAbJT45opKy_ACLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h426/14140460049_5415dbb779_k.jpg" width="640" /></a></div></div><div><br /></div>Short answer: If President Biden can pass his $1.9 trillion Covid stimulus bill, which seems likely, Metro will probably not cut buses service to Trinidad next year.<br /><br />Long answer: The coronavirus pandemic has put WMATA in a serious budget crunch. Our transit agency received <a href="https://dcist.com/story/21/01/11/metro-revised-budget-coronavirus-relief/">significant help</a> in the December stimulus package, but it looks like that will only take us through to the end of this year. Without more help, a budget gap of $171 million means that WMATA may have to lay off 2,500 workers and cut service significantly next year.<br /><br /><b>How significantly?</b> <a href="https://www.wmata.com/initiatives/budget/">Metro’s plan</a> for 2022 involves cutting bus service by <b>half</b> and scaling back Metrorail service to <b>two trains an hour</b> (or four on the red line), closing two hours earlier, and shuttering 22 stations.<br /><br /><b>What does this mean for Trinidad?</b> There are many buses that serve our area, and some of them, like the busy crosstown X2, would just end service earlier (midnight as opposed to 2am). But crucially, the D2, D4 and D8 buses are not in the top half of most ridden buses and are slated for elimination. Compare the two maps below, with regular service and then proposed service in 2022:<div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-tbbgaThD6ww/YD-7lKt6tKI/AAAAAAAAlHg/yv7GoWDLaYw4Gfttoi8XS8Ku11D5ihtTACLcBGAsYHQ/s1080/before.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-tbbgaThD6ww/YD-7lKt6tKI/AAAAAAAAlHg/yv7GoWDLaYw4Gfttoi8XS8Ku11D5ihtTACLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h640/before.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HDPtWm4AXbs/YD-9PQTmsiI/AAAAAAAAlHs/Iy7hrahJkmEzYqnMbSv2wNoLye0h1zNNQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1080/after.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HDPtWm4AXbs/YD-9PQTmsiI/AAAAAAAAlHs/Iy7hrahJkmEzYqnMbSv2wNoLye0h1zNNQCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h640/after.jpg" width="640" /></a><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></p><br />It is not clear if WMATA considered any other metrics besides ridership when choosing which routes to eliminate. If factors such as income, diversity, population density or vehicle ownership were considered, perhaps different routes would have been chosen. As Andrew Grinberg <a href="https://districttrinidadian.blogspot.com/2020/11/andrew-grinberg-add-your-voice-as-dc.html">has written here</a>, “45.3% [of] ANC 5D households don’t own a car — a much higher share than D.C. as a whole (36.7%). We need to make sure our neighbors who don’t drive have options for getting to work, school and anywhere they need to go.” <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HppX-MfrXT1mjv9o51x_3YYrzHggsJ7CLAZlSbYndwo/edit" target="_blank">Here’s what the Trinidad Neighborhood Association</a>, discussed <a href="https://districttrinidadian.blogspot.com/2021/02/first-steps-towards-reviving-trinidad.html">last week</a>, wrote in 2012 when the D3 was up for elimination.<br /><br /><b>How likely is this “doomsday scenario?”</b> In the December package, US public transit agencies were allocated a total of $14 billion, and WMATA’s share of that was $610 million. In the stimulus bill currently being debated in congress, $20 billion is allocated to transit, but it’s unclear how much of that would be for our buses and trains here. The Senate is taking up the bill this week, and Democrats <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/03/03/us/joe-biden-news">seemingly have the ability to pass the bill</a>.<br /><br /><b>So why scare everyone with, and ask for comments on, a plan that’s unlikely to actually happen?</b> WMATA is required to plan for the budget they currently project having, and they must seek comment on planned changes to service. Also, seeing all the dramatic changes together helps reinforce the urgency and necessity of getting extra financial support during this crisis.<br /><br />There is a public <a href="https://www.wmata.com/initiatives/budget/upload/Notice-of-Public-Hearing-FY22-Budget.pdf">Zoom meeting next Monday at 6pm</a> to hear testimony on the proposed changes. You can view the meeting <a href="https://www.wmata.com/">wmata.com</a> and at <a href="http://youtube.com/MetroForward">youtube.com/MetroForward</a>, and during the meeting you will be able to call in to a phone number and give testimony. You can also fill out <a href="https://metro2022budget2.questionpro.com/">the survey here</a>, or call (844) 468-5748 to leave comments.</div><div><br /></div><div><i>Image courtesy of <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/diversey/" target="_blank">Tony Webster</a> through Creative Commons</i></div>Josh Kramerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05014745511414949348noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3890124994763133597.post-68889114027703575592021-02-25T10:24:00.008-05:002021-02-25T10:57:38.646-05:00First steps towards reviving the Trinidad Neighborhood AssociationThe Trinidad Neighborhood Association, or TNA, was started in 2009, after <a href="https://districttrinidadian.blogspot.com/2020/10/crime-in-trinidad-during-pandemic.html" target="_blank">a moment of violence and unconstitutional lockdowns</a> in the neighborhood. It was a fully-fledged 501(c)3 nonprofit, with dues, officers and bylaws. At its height, the TNA organized garden tours, fundraisers for students, and monthly cleanups. There were special events, such as tours of Atlas Brew Works and even a <a href="https://frozentropics.blogspot.com/2015/05/trinidad-neighborhood-association.html" target="_blank">pontoon boat trip</a> on the Anacostia. The group had monthly public meetings, and was a focal point for organizing neighborhood events like block parties and outdoor movie nights. But now it is dormant, and <a href="https://trinidadneighborhood.org/" target="_blank">the last post on the website</a> was four years ago.<br /><br />Now, new ANC commissioners are spearheading an effort to revive the organization. Salvador Sauceda-Guzman, commissioner for 5D02, created a survey on his own website and invited neighbors to a preliminary organizing meeting over Zoom this past Sunday. He shared a chart (below) showing some of the shared concerns of survey respondents. Commissioner Zachary Hoffman was in attendance, as well as current TNA board member Danielle Bays and Jaime Fearer, a former Secretary of the board who helped the group create its website amongst other duties.<div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uAD3vvv6kRU/YDe8koAdVtI/AAAAAAAAk_Y/YQq1x0rl_rs51zEyzlY4AqVH5xHzC9ESwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1136/TNA%2BCall%2Bto%2BAction%2BSurvey%2B-%2B02.21.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="456" data-original-width="1136" height="256" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uAD3vvv6kRU/YDe8koAdVtI/AAAAAAAAk_Y/YQq1x0rl_rs51zEyzlY4AqVH5xHzC9ESwCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h256/TNA%2BCall%2Bto%2BAction%2BSurvey%2B-%2B02.21.png" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /><div><br />About two dozen neighbors spoke about issues of concern in the Trinidad, from illegal dumping to sex workers. Both Sauceda-Guzman and Hoffman said they were hoping to assist in reestablishing the TNA but would not be serving as officers or board members because of their responsibilities to the ANC. As some speakers noted, the original TNA had an <a href="https://frozentropics.blogspot.com/2010/10/kathy-henderson-at-it-again.html" target="_blank">adversarial relationship</a> with some previous ANC commissioners, and the organization took on some responsibilities that it felt the ANC was neglecting. Perhaps, with the current ANC, a new TNA would be focused on different issues.<br /><br />To keep the ball rolling, Sauceda-Guzman has <a href="https://forms.gle/mKvdBjQ6djYxRHdHA">created a form for neighbors to signup to join a new Action Committee</a> that would work to relaunch the TNA in about three months. </div><div><br /><b>Commentary:</b> My friend and I looked at doing something like this last year and concluded that handling the money (dues and existing funds) is daunting and overly complicated. In my opinion, what we really need at this moment is a basic support network. With a few opportunities to get to know each other, we can assist neighbors during the pandemic and communicate about all sorts of neighborhood issues and improvements more effectively. I welcome efforts to flyer and reach out to neighbors without internet access or digital literacy. I urge the Action Committee to prioritize simple steps over more formal, complicated administration, which can be addressed soon. Also, for the sake of transparency, make all meetings public and open to all. I'm happy to donate some <a href="http://joshkramercomics.com" target="_blank">graphic design work</a>.<br /></div></div>Josh Kramerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05014745511414949348noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3890124994763133597.post-9016964353485426962021-02-18T12:06:00.002-05:002021-02-18T12:06:42.437-05:00Commentary: ANC 5D Meeting February 2021<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-iRMVS8bIWFs/YC6Ym3D9oHI/AAAAAAAAk6g/dsUmDs6-V20S6rkqbmAF7M0NMw_pWdNJwCPcBGAsYHg/s2732/IMG_0662.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2732" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-iRMVS8bIWFs/YC6Ym3D9oHI/AAAAAAAAk6g/dsUmDs6-V20S6rkqbmAF7M0NMw_pWdNJwCPcBGAsYHg/w640-h480/IMG_0662.PNG" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Last week I wrote about <a href="https://districttrinidadian.blogspot.com/2021/02/new-mpd-chief-of-police-robert-contee.html" target="_blank">Chief of Police Robert Contee’s appearance</a> at <a href="http://www.anc5d.org/public-meeting/february-09-2021/" target="_blank">this month’s ANC meeting</a>, and this week I’ll do my usual review and commentary on the rest of the meeting.<br /><br />Once again, nearly every commissioner attended the meeting. Besides Chief Contee, the most dynamic moments of the meeting were about transportation.<br /><br />Greg Matlesky, Bicycle Program Specialist for the District Department of Transportation, presented new plans for creating protected bike lanes on West Virginia Avenue, on the western edge of Trinidad, next to Gallaudet. Notably, the new plans consolidate the two “phases” of the original plan and now the entire length of West Virginia Avenue, from Florida Avenue to New York Avenue, will be completed this year, instead of next year. <br /><br />This change is exactly what Mark Sussman sought in December when he <a href="https://districttrinidadian.blogspot.com/2020/12/mark-sussman-on-speeding-up.html">petitioned DDOT</a> on behalf of Ivy City businesses. “I'm thrilled that DDOT took the concerns of the Ivy City business community seriously and demonstrated flexibility and ingenuity to move this project forward,” says Sussman. “Hopefully, this can be a model to make streets safer across the District -- a model that is already bearing fruit on H St NE.”<br /><br />As part of the plan, vehicle lanes will be slightly narrowed, and a path for cyclists will be separated from cars with flexible posts. Both Matlesky and Commissioner Cobb attempted to get ahead of perceived criticism about the removal of parking spaces. According to Matlesky, a study found that most of the vehicles parking along the corridor, which is not restricted to local parking, were from out of state. “You’ll still be able to park your car in front of your house if you live on West Virginia,” said Cobb. Commissioner Latoya Moore asked about how long DDOT had been planning this project and the current reconstruction of Maryland Avenue nearby. Matlesky answered that Maryland Avenue had been in the works for a decade, and had explained earlier that West Virginia Avenue had first been identified as a candidate for bike lanes in 2005. It was later added to the Move DC plan in 2014, and other DDOT representatives presented plans for West Virginia before the ANC last April. The new lanes could be in place on West Virginia Avenue as soon as this summer, said Matlesky. There are also plans to upgrade the lanes on Florida Avenue.<div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-QYr93fIPcJI/YC6Y0QJGhvI/AAAAAAAAk6k/vjwdwYhi7LI1P-fA8-oYcJdvU61i5mhmACPcBGAsYHg/s2732/IMG_0667.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2732" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-QYr93fIPcJI/YC6Y0QJGhvI/AAAAAAAAk6k/vjwdwYhi7LI1P-fA8-oYcJdvU61i5mhmACPcBGAsYHg/w640-h480/IMG_0667.PNG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div><br />Commissioner Cobb introduced a resolution calling for <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fgNMb2-oPienH2pcV68uu4TX5a4Achuu/view" target="_blank">safety improvements on H Street</a>, which has had numerous car crashes, <a href="https://ggwash.org/view/80034/drivers-hit-three-buildings-in-three-months-on-h-street-ne" target="_blank">especially recently</a>. Even though most of it does not fall within ANC 5D, Cobb said H Street is a “main commercial corridor” for us and that its safety affects us as well. Joining nearby ANCs, the resolution calls for improvements such as larger sidewalks, designated pickup/drop off zones, and streetcar-only lanes. <div><br /></div><div>During the campaign, candidates answered this question in the <a href="https://districttrinidadian.blogspot.com/2020/10/anc-candidate-questionnaire-round-up.html" target="_blank">Greater Greater Washington survey</a>: "Do you support transit-only lanes on H St NE and Benning Rd NE to give the streetcar and the X2/X9 buses a dedicated right of way? Would you support removing on-street parking on H St to make this happen?" Latoya Moore, now commissioner for 5D03, answered simply, "<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 16px;">No. No." </span>However, Cobb's resolution was supported unanimously, including Commissioner Moore.<div><br />While no commissioners protested either transportation-related measure at the meeting, Commissioner Sauceda-Guzman tweeted this last week:</div></div>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">Spoke one on one with many residents in my area regarding the proposed Bike Lane plan for <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/WestVirginiaAve?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#WestVirginiaAve</a> and their main concern is GENTRIFICATION compared to parking... “I’ve been biking down that lane for 30 years & never been hit but I know what those lanes will bring...” 🤷🏻♂️</p>— Salvador Sauceda-Guzman (@SalvadorFor5D02) <a href="https://twitter.com/SalvadorFor5D02/status/1360310226474463242?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 12, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>
<div><br /></div>The zoning-related voting items were all quick votes on properties that had already been discussed at previous meetings. At 1419 Trinidad Ave, a request to expand the roof over the entrance was supported. The changes to 1707 H Street’s PUD that were presented at the last meeting, specifically adding about 6700 square feet in the form of 10 more units and removing 8-16 balconies, were easily supported.<br /><br />Commissioner Hoffman introduced <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Om94M4fZWgTGo4guS4HX5KQ5-rdi6sORL5o0rCyHKPU/edit" target="_blank">a letter</a> to the Department of Employment Services about changes to the unemployment insurance system. Problems with the benefits have been <a href="https://dcist.com/story/20/12/22/unemployment-delay-dc-maryland-virginia/">widely reported</a>, and even though Mayor Bowser announced an <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-politics/dc-unemployment-benefits-extension/2021/02/08/65ab4d0a-6a4a-11eb-9ead-673168d5b874_story.html">$11 million plan</a> to improve the system on the same day as the ANC meeting, Hoffman said that urgent changes were needed for the many residents who currently rely on the UI payments during the coronavirus pandemic. “I’m one of them,” he said. “They really need to get it in gear.” The letter, which suggests a range of improvements, was supported unanimously by the ANC.<br /><br />Silas Grant, representing Councilmember McDuffie, talked about the city acquiring the land in the middle of New York Avenue occupied by Wendy’s, otherwise known as <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/trafficandcommuting/dave-thomas-circle/2021/02/02/e41ab174-6547-11eb-8c64-9595888caa15_story.html">Dave Thomas Circle</a>. While plans have been in the works for years, Grant said that there will be more DDOT meetings about the project soon, and that construction on the redesigned intersection is now estimated to begin later this year or in early 2022.</div><div><br /></div><div>A grant to fund <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Y3PHTt4JBWr24qhyTX6Q-1BlgNRBMx5O/view" target="_blank">a food distribution site</a> was also awarded.</div><div><br /></div><div>Finally, Commissioner Sauceda-Guzman is holding an Action Meeting to discuss restarting the Trinidad Neighborhood Association, this Sunday, at 7pm. Simply fill out <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc8m5Ph3f3bb9fZtwygc5CMQrHyhsVc3eXnSz8SKB7oOB0lZw/viewform" target="_blank">this form</a> to recieve the Zoom link and passcode. The agenda says that a group of volunteers "will spearhead revival within three months," so if you're interested in being a part of this effort, now's the time.</div>Josh Kramerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05014745511414949348noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3890124994763133597.post-67449053954326500382021-02-10T11:11:00.002-05:002021-02-10T11:12:01.202-05:00New MPD Chief of Police Robert Contee speaks at ANC where he grew up<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-PMoIqlzGLjw/YCQDQVno9WI/AAAAAAAAk3A/p8x0dzo0AzUBo-nSbvJ-y2BwYF-iRbygwCLcBGAsYHQ/50850686658_c474e776ec_k.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="426" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-PMoIqlzGLjw/YCQDQVno9WI/AAAAAAAAk3A/p8x0dzo0AzUBo-nSbvJ-y2BwYF-iRbygwCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h426/50850686658_c474e776ec_k.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><i>I’m going to do something a little different with this week’s ANC meeting. This week I’ll be writing in depth about last night’s special guest, newly installed MPD Chief of Police Robert Contee. Next week I’ll be writing up my typical summary of the meeting.</i><br /><br />It’s interesting when a police chief of a major city, the capital city even, drops in to introduce himself at a neighborhood committee meeting. It’s far more interesting if the new chief is the first African American to hold the post in two decades and was appointed during a pandemic and national reckoning on race and policing. And it’s nearly mind-bending to consider that, in addition to all that, this new chief, Robert J. Contee III, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/washington-police-chief-newsham-bowser-contee/2020/12/22/34739df8-30ef-11eb-bae0-50bb17126614_story.html">grew up</a> in Carver Terrace, within the neighborhood holding the meeting, and he came of age during the incredibly violent crack epidemic.<br /><br />Even over Zoom, Contee’s appearance before ANC 5D last night was a bit of a homecoming. Contee, who is technically Acting Chief until confirmed by DC Council, attended the now closed Spingarn High School and still has family in Carver-Langston. “My mom and a whole lot of folks I grew up with are grinning ear to ear,” he said.<br /><br />So is this native son a different kind of police chief? Contee’s stated priorities are similar to that of his predecessors as well as <a href="https://prospect.org/civil-rights/for-the-mayor-of-washington-black-lives-matter-defunding-the/">Mayor Bowser</a>. In July, DC Council passed a city budget cutting about <a href="https://www.dcfpi.org/all/whats-in-the-fy-2021-police-and-public-safety-budget/#_edn2">$10 million</a> from MPD — less than two percent of their operating budget — including the mayor’s proposed increases to the Cadet Program for 18-24 year olds. Contee wants to increase the number of officers, which declines each year as the city’s population increases. “That keeps me up at night,” he said. There are currently 3672 officers according to Contee, <a href="https://www.governing.com/archive/police-officers-per-capita-rates-employment-for-city-departments.html">double</a> the national average of officers per 10,000 residents.<br /><br />Contee also talked enthusiastically about the Cadet Program, which he joined in 1989. “I’m a product of the DC police Cadet Program,” he said. “That program literally saved my life.” According to Contee, the program has about 100 cadets, 60 of whom are African American women. Contee said that the program is important not only to the MPD, but also to the participants, and that it is an important investment in young residents.<br /><br />Recently, MPD stepped in to assist the Capitol Police and fought the insurrection at the Capitol alongside them. Those efforts, as well as an increase in some kinds of violent crime <a href="https://districttrinidadian.blogspot.com/2020/10/crime-in-trinidad-during-pandemic.html">during the pandemic</a>, may have tempered calls to defund and abolish the police from this summer’s Black Lives Matter protests. In ANC 5D over the last year, there has sometimes been tension between demands for racial justice and police accountability and demands for more police attention and crime prevention.<br /><br />Commissioner Zachary Hoffman, as well as some attendees, asked questions about what changes towards defunding, or demilitarizing, of the police Contee would be willing to accommodate. As Contee noted, “defund the police” means different things to different people. While some groups like <a href="https://www.defundmpd.org/frequently-asked-questions">Defund MPD</a> want to literally eliminate and abolish MPD as we know it, others want to see some responsibilities (like interacting with those experiencing homelessness) and associated funding transferred from the police to other social services, some of which may not currently exist. For example, Contee cited a hypothetical situation in which a homeless person was breaking car windows in the middle of the night. Currently, the police is the only agency equipped to handle that, he said.<br /><br />D.C. has previously implemented many policies regulating police force and conduct, including <a href="https://8cantwait.org/">seven of the eight</a> recommendations of the “8 Can’t Wait” campaign. Amongst other trainings, every recruit <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/the-duty-and-burden-of-the-black-police-officer/2020/07/05/6508b9bc-b570-11ea-aca5-ebb63d27e1ff_story.html">participates</a> in a 10-hour curriculum at the National Museum of African American History and Culture. Still, according to MPD’s own <a href="https://policecomplaints.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/office%20of%20police%20complaints/publication/attachments/UOF%20Report%202019_FINAL.pdf">Use of Force report</a>, “reported use of force incidents have increased 84% since 2015.”<br /><br />Contee stressed, as many MPD representatives have before, the need for collaboration and connection between the police and the community. He said that his experiences, both in the neighborhood and as an officer who has worked in many different capacities, informed his perspective as chief. For now, says Contee, his primary focus continues to be violent crime. “Whatever I put forth, it’ll be transparent and let me sleep good at night.”<p><i>Photo through Creative Commons from <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/usmarshals/50850686658/" target="_blank">US Marshals</a></i></p>Josh Kramerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05014745511414949348noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3890124994763133597.post-63399990126394700032021-02-05T11:11:00.002-05:002021-02-05T11:11:16.128-05:00Interview: Sydelle Moore<p>Today I have an interview with commissioner Sydelle Moore of <a href="https://openanc.org/ancs/districts/5d05.html" target="_blank">5D05</a>. She won a <a href="https://districttrinidadian.blogspot.com/2020/11/unofficial-anc-5d-election-results.html" target="_blank">closely contested</a> election in November and was reelected for a second term. Last month, the ANC voted to make her Chair. We spoke on the phone last week, and touched on some topics I'll be writing more about soon, including the zoning change she championed for Carver-Langston. </p><p>We also talked about vaccine distribution. I'll be revisiting this, but I wanted to publish Moore's comments now. For context, D.C. is now an example in national news of how Black and Latino elders are receiving fewer vaccinations than white residents. Our own Councilmember was quoted in the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/02/health/white-people-covid-vaccines-minorities.html" target="_blank">New York Times</a>: “We want people regardless of their race and geography to be vaccinated, but I think the priority should be getting it to the people who are contracting Covid at the highest rates and dying from it,” said Kenyan McDuffie. Below, you'll see a reference to zip codes, which refers to the <a href="https://dcist.com/story/21/01/27/black-dc-residents-want-coronavirus-vaccine-but-lack-access/" target="_blank">new priority system</a> put in place by DC Health.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-KrT--Y8mE4Y/YB1qOs9uweI/AAAAAAAAkyE/k1gntrv57DI40dFcl-vz3jh5xsWRxUyYACLcBGAsYHQ/DjBxr8eX4AE69e4.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="800" data-original-width="1200" height="426" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-KrT--Y8mE4Y/YB1qOs9uweI/AAAAAAAAkyE/k1gntrv57DI40dFcl-vz3jh5xsWRxUyYACLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h426/DjBxr8eX4AE69e4.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p><span id="docs-internal-guid-ee3d8167-7fff-2ed6-b285-414f3a390b5c" style="background-color: white; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">How long have you lived in D.C. and how long have you lived in the ANC? What street do you live on or which general area of the neighborhood do you live in?</span></span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 16px;" /></p>I've been here maybe about 15 years, and I have lived in the ANC area for probably about a decade. I live on 20th Street.<br /><p></p><p><span id="docs-internal-guid-aa1b47a3-7fff-483d-4ec9-7c0c778b8469" style="background-color: white; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What are your pronouns (she/hers for example) and how do you describe your race or ethnicity? </span></span></p>I am black and use she and her.<div><br /></div><div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; font-weight: 700; white-space: pre-wrap;">W</span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>hy did you want to run again and continue to be an ANC Commissioner?</b></span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; font-weight: 700; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; font-weight: 700; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div>I think a lot of the things that I wanted to work on still just aren't done yet. You know a lot of things are sort of long term changes. You know, culture changes for the ANC, and for the community. Trying to make people feel like they have real ownership over the things that are happening around them and that they have an opportunity to make input, isn't something that, after years of not being listened to and not being included, would happen overnight or even over the course of a single ANC term. So I think continuing to work on outreach in the community is important. Continuing to try to foster an environment where people are collaborative with each other, listen to each other, and try to come up with the best possible solutions to the challenges that we're dealing with. <div><br /></div><div><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What are your top priorities for this term? What areas do you plan to focus on?</span></p></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div>I would say community outreach, public safety and everything that goes with that, and trash. I think those are the big three for me. And I really think coming through with the outreach is important because there will be other challenges in the future. But I think if you are a strong community where people are are communicating with each other, people stay involved rather than just getting involved on a particular issue. I think that the decision-making around any variety of community activities will be a lot better.<div><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; white-space: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What are your long-term hopes for your SMD, and for the whole ANC?</span></p><br />Well I hope that we continue to see major improvements in terms of public safety. I want to make sure that people feel comfortable going outside, interacting with their neighbor. The city at large is seeing a huge increase in shootings. We're seeing a downturn. And so I want that to continue. And hopefully, be a model for other parts of the city. I think that's a major thing for me. And then I want to continue to try to promote in any way possible, an environment of cleanliness, so that people can go outside and really enjoy their homes and we're not contributing litter.<div><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><b>What do you hope to achieve as Chair this term, what do you think that will allow you to do?</b></span></span></div><br />One major thing that we've got to get on top of as a commission is just making as much of our paperwork available as possible. So some transparency around the things that we are improving. We've done a lot better, just leaps and bounds better in terms of just basic organization, having functional meetings, getting things accomplished. But now we've got to get to a point where, okay we're doing all of this work. You have to make it easy for people in the community to access. So, making sure that all of this is documented on the website, in a way that's easy for people to search. Because right now it's there, but if you don't know exactly what you're looking for, trying to search for it on our website is a challenge. So making some improvements there. </span></div><div><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">And really I think COVID has changed things. So community outreach is much more challenging than it was before. It was already a challenge and now it's just much more challenging. And we need that infrastructure in place, because our community is just one of the hardest hit in terms of COVID, and then we are lagging, in terms of people having access to vaccine appointments. And so we've got to try to find a way to do our part to make sure that people are getting access to the vaccine. <div><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><b>What else could we be doing? We're in a priority zip code, but what else can we be doing to make sure people are signing up for the vaccine?</b></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div>So, I think a few things. We found out about being a priority area the day before. So if you're starting appointments at 9am, that gives me no time, just none, as the ANC, to walk around and leave flyers and say, here's information in a variety of languages that I know people in the neighborhood speak, about how they can, at 9am tomorrow, call in for a vaccine, if they're not already online and aware of that. </span></div><div><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">So I think, going forward, the federal government wasn't giving D.C. government enough notice. D.C. government in turn wasn't able to give the ANCs enough notice. Hopefully going forward, we'll continue to be focused on priority communities. And then we'll have enough notice to actually do something with that, so that people are getting offline information about how they can register for vaccine appointments.</span></div>Josh Kramerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05014745511414949348noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3890124994763133597.post-53269880338137326222021-01-28T10:04:00.001-05:002021-01-28T10:04:10.777-05:00Entrance Interview: Latoya MooreToday I have a brief entrance interview with Latoya Moore, a new ANC commissioner from <a href="https://openanc.org/ancs/districts/5d03.html" target="_blank">5D03</a>, replacing commissioner Steven Motley. Moore ran against two opponents last fall, Sean Barry and James Butler, who had held the seat in the past. Meet Commissioner Latoya Moore, now the secretary of ANC 5D:<div><span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-xqg1lbzH4WI/YBLR-fDj56I/AAAAAAAAkuU/jq92DEnp3UUGTZXJM2_MOxumaeG1v2J7wCLcBGAsYHQ/unnamed.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1365" height="640" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-xqg1lbzH4WI/YBLR-fDj56I/AAAAAAAAkuU/jq92DEnp3UUGTZXJM2_MOxumaeG1v2J7wCLcBGAsYHQ/w427-h640/unnamed.jpg" width="427" /></a></div><br /></span></span></div><div><span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></div><span id="docs-internal-guid-ee3d8167-7fff-2ed6-b285-414f3a390b5c"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">How long have you lived in D.C. and how long have you lived in the ANC? What street do you live on or which general area of the neighborhood do you live in?</span></span><br /><br />I am a Native Washingtonian, born and raised. My husband and I purchased our first home here in November 2006, so I've lived in Ward 5 for 14 years and counting in the same home. I live on M Street NE, which is considered the Trinidad/Carver Langston neighborhood.<br /><br /><span id="docs-internal-guid-aa1b47a3-7fff-483d-4ec9-7c0c778b8469"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What are your pronouns (she/hers for example) and how do you describe your race or ethnicity? </span></span><div><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><br /></b></span></span>I am a proud Black/African-American woman and the pronouns she/her are perfect for me.<br /><br /><span id="docs-internal-guid-043f53bb-7fff-6d16-b309-91f31a57b54f"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Briefly, why did you want to be an ANC commissioner?</span></p><div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div></span>I became an ANC Commissioner, as I've attended 90% of the past ANC meetings and I noticed that they were heavily focused on licensing, construction, and presentations of multi-unit buildings and private developers looking to acquire prime real estate in Ward 5. There were district agencies that gave presentations and updates as well, but nothing solid for the constituents and residents. I want the residents' concerns heard, our communities and streets safe, and accountability from our district entities and agencies. <br /><br /><span id="docs-internal-guid-f248cfe2-7fff-8c7b-7954-67f77c06f598"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What are your top priorities for this term? What areas do you plan to focus on?</span></p><div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div></span>My top priority is safety. As you've noticed, I mentioned this before. The speed of the traffic flow, the gun violence, the synthetic drug epidemic, robberies, and porch piracy will be my primary focus this term. These are the issues that my constituents and I have discussed continuously.<br /><br /><span id="docs-internal-guid-0753d52e-7fff-ad2d-f837-28b0d0100ba8"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What are your long-term hopes for your SMD, and for the whole ANC?</span></p><div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div></span>My long-term goals will be to get a Dog and/or Kids Park, Neighborhood Access to the National Arboretum, and a SMD-Paid Neighborhood Patrol and/or Security.<br /><br />For the latest information on the District Government’s response to COVID-19 (Coronavirus), please visit <a href="https://coronavirus.dc.gov/">coronavirus.dc.gov</a>.</div>Josh Kramerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05014745511414949348noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3890124994763133597.post-82732015938993654052021-01-21T10:13:00.003-05:002021-01-21T10:13:38.633-05:00Exit Interview: Keisha Shropshire<p>Today we're continuing to talk with outgoing ANC commissioners. Here are responses from Keisha Shropshire, who until recently was commissioner for SMD 5202, which covers most of the <a href="https://openanc.org/ancs/districts/5d02.html">northern third of Trinidad</a>. Shropshire held the seat for three terms and did not run for a fourth. Earlier this month, <a href="https://districttrinidadian.blogspot.com/2020/10/anc-election-2020-salvador-sauceda.html" target="_blank">Salvador Sauceda-Guzman</a> took over in her place.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-nnMpsPrOUx8/YAmVXoFWbVI/AAAAAAAAkrU/ytPMQOYjrp0oDQq6XLcWNbpZcjhezW8ZQCLcBGAsYHQ/DSC_9219%2BANC%2BCommunity%2BHeadshot.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1363" height="640" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-nnMpsPrOUx8/YAmVXoFWbVI/AAAAAAAAkrU/ytPMQOYjrp0oDQq6XLcWNbpZcjhezW8ZQCLcBGAsYHQ/w427-h640/DSC_9219%2BANC%2BCommunity%2BHeadshot.jpg" width="427" /></a><br /><br /></div><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Why did you originally want to be the ANC and for how long have you served?</span></p>In 2014, I ran for ANC SMD 5D02 for four reasons:<br /><ol style="text-align: left;"><li>To serve as the voice for the neighborhood and an advocate of SMD 5D02 Trinidad residents (residents on the north side of Trinidad which at the time represented a large amount of transient residents who rented apartment style homes, had lower percentage of long-term homeownership and consisted of a highly visible homeless population along the Mt Olivet and Montello Ave Corridor).</li><li>To educate, engage and empower residents to share their concerns, needs and experiences.</li><li>To help residents navigate DC government offices, resources and programs.</li><li>To build and leverage community and business partnerships to assist residents.<br /></li></ol><div><span id="docs-internal-guid-4b45caa1-7fff-07ad-5577-f89b02cd2e11"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What are you most proud of accomplishing in your time as a commissioner?</span></span></div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Helping Trinidad residents to resolve problems during times of need and empowering individuals to speak up and act on issues such as housing and tenant/landlord issues, zoning and development, public works and bulk trash dumping, speed bumps, public safety and crime, abandoned properties, etc.<br /><br /></li><li>Serving as a catalyst for change and collaboration within my SMD and among the larger Commission as a whole. I established a forum for SMD residents to meet regularly on a monthly basis to learn about DC government, community organizations, prevention and public safety programs, resources and services, employment opportunities; network with other residents and DC agency contacts; and to address their community concerns.<br /><br /></li><li>Navigating and becoming adept in the programs, practices and policies of various DC government agencies and other organizations including Mayors Office of Community Relations and Services, Office of Zoning Board of Zoning Adjustment Commission, Alcoholic Beverage Regulations Administration, Office of the Tenant Advocate, Metropolitan Police Department Fifth District, Department of Health, Office of Planning, Office of Aging and Seabury Resources of Aging, Department of Parks and Recreation, Department of Public Works, etc.<br /><br /></li><li>Building relationships and leveraging partnerships with and between community members and business owners.<br /><br /></li><li>Hosting community events, block parties and Trinidad Day in partnership with local business owners and experiencing the joy on the faces of children, adults and seniors who attended.<br /><br /></li><li>Serving as ANC 5D Treasurer and as Visionary and Co-Chair of the ANC 5D Zoning and Development Committee.</li></ul><div><span id="docs-internal-guid-23977d8c-7fff-f3c2-0fd3-5c6c2da8443a"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Is there anything that, looking back, you would have done differently?</span></p>I have thoroughly enjoyed being a servant leader in ANC SMD 5D02 community and will continue nurturing the relationships and partnerships established throughout my tenure. During my six-year tenure, I completely immersed myself wholeheartedly into serving the constituents SMD 5D02 which resulted in many rewarding accomplishments and successful outcomes, and at some point, I experienced burnout. No one person can solve everyone’s problems; however, you can equip others with essential resources and empower them to use their voices as community advocates to impact change – one resident at a time. Looking back over the years, the one thing I would have done differently is to take more personal care breaks, be much kinder to myself and celebrate successes often for what I accomplished individually and collectively with SMD neighbors and my fellow commissioners as a whole. </span></div><div><span><br /></span></div><div><span id="docs-internal-guid-a77ed91e-7fff-58c9-f235-c605e77ed6bb"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Why did you choose not to run again for the next term?</span></p>2020 was a very difficult year for me… but more importantly, it was a year which caused me to reflect on my life goals and dreams, and to recalibrate what matters most at this time in my life. Given this realization, I decided not to run again and to shift my focus toward my personal growth and development and to pursue my doctorate.<br /><div><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #2f5496; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-976d96df-7fff-ea56-44d9-0e8908df8dc7"><p dir="ltr" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;">What are your hopes for your SMD, and for the whole ANC, going forward?</span></p>For SMD 5D02, I hope for continued progress and change, and that residents remain aware and engaged in community activism and continue to speak up for those residents whose voices are often less vocal or not heard at all. I wish for residents to continue to educate themselves about the changing landscape of our Trinidad community and participate in planning, zoning and development activities; work with Councilmembers and the Mayor’s Office to enhance access to fair, adequate and affordable housing throughout Trinidad neighborhood, and identify viable solutions to current homeless issues; help to reduce social and health inequities and food insecurities; acquire essential resources and implement a program to help those residents who work, play or live on the fringes of Trinidad community and those who experience homelessness, involve themselves in sex work, and/or deal with behavioral and mental health and drug use abuse issues. <br /><br />I hope that the ANC 5D Commission continues to serve as a trustworthy, communal resource for residents to educate themselves about community activities, development projects, new programs and policies, community funding opportunities, and a venue for building partnerships to improve where we work, live and play.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-6cb0197d-7fff-4eb4-1b16-3f885767d1ef"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Would you ever consider running again?</span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></span></div>I always keep my options open.</span></div><div><span><br /></span></div><div><span><i>Photo courtesy of Keisha Shropshire.</i></span></div>Josh Kramerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05014745511414949348noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3890124994763133597.post-14803753149604017432021-01-14T09:40:00.002-05:002021-01-14T09:40:58.689-05:00Commentary: ANC 5D Meeting January 2021<div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-muZzHh291Mg/X_-AKje_wmI/AAAAAAAAkn0/X7E4aIM5HZMnUjrxSth1rB7CPQCNi5S8gCLcBGAsYHQ/Screen%2BShot%2B2021-01-12%2Bat%2B7.11.00%2BPM%2B%25282%2529.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="1366" height="480" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-muZzHh291Mg/X_-AKje_wmI/AAAAAAAAkn0/X7E4aIM5HZMnUjrxSth1rB7CPQCNi5S8gCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/Screen%2BShot%2B2021-01-12%2Bat%2B7.11.00%2BPM%2B%25282%2529.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /></div>If you’ve never been to an ANC meeting, the first meeting of an odd year is a great place to start, because it’s a freshly-sworn-in crop of commissioners. <a href="http://www.anc5d.org/">Meetings</a> are every second Tuesday at 7pm on Zoom and YouTube. You could <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N45oFig61OI">watch</a> the first ten minutes, and maybe <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/14AHakRhEhqw_AuWLmqE0_nhCbCMXi5UmqLcPiJp8i78/edit">read the agenda</a> (everything was passed) and get a quick idea of <a href="https://openanc.org/">who everyone is</a> and what’s going on in the city and your neighborhood .<br /><br />Notably, the ANC is full once again, with commissioner in attendance. <a href="https://districttrinidadian.blogspot.com/2020/10/anc-election-2020-meet-zachary-hoffman.html">Zachary Hoffman</a> was elected to represent SMD 5D06, the lowest third of Trinidad. (I live here.) This district hasn’t had a representative since Jason Burkett resigned in March — ahead of the deadline for a special election — and the Board of Elections <a href="https://twitter.com/e_burkett/status/1316799478331060226" target="_blank">allegedly slow-rolled</a> the vacancy right into the pandemic, so the seat has sat empty. Hoffman said at the meeting he was working through a gigantic email backlog and that if anyone sent a message to the 5D06 email in the last three months he would get to it eventually.<br /><br />Very quickly the new ANC voted on some administrative items: paying into the ANC security fund (which insures against fraud), adopting the same calendar as last term (with July and August off) and electing new officers. Please note that there are now two different Commissioner Moores, so I’ll add their first names as well.<br /><br />Secretary: Latoya Moore<br />Treasurer: Stephen Cobb<br />Vice Chair: Zachary Hoffman<br />Chair: Sydelle Moore<br /><br />Comm. Sydelle Moore, who served last term (along with Comm. Blacknell), was previously Vice Chair, and she has a firm grasp of procedure and crucially, timing. It’s very difficult to keep things on time, but Comm. Sydelle Moore was able to actually get ahead of schedule at one point during the meeting!<br /><br />This write-up will be brief, but I wanted to note a very important Covid-related issue: <a href="https://coronavirus.dc.gov/vaccinatedc">vaccinate.dc.gov</a>, the portal for residents 65 and up to sign up for the coronavirus vaccine, is now open. (It says that all appointments are taken but you can sign up to be notified when more are available.) Elders not familiar with the internet can call 311 or they can directly call the hotline at 855-363-0333. Please be a good neighbor and share this information with your elderly neighbors in a safe way. I’m happy to facilitate efforts to do this here.<br /><br />Much of the voting actions at the meeting involved zoning cases that have already taken up hours of public meeting time. At this point, I can tell you all about the situation with the windows facing the neighbor’s property at 1638 Trinidad Avenue, and I was relieved that the ANC finally voted to support the case.<br /><br />There was an interesting update about a project at 1701 H Street, past the starburst intersection, in Carver-Langston. Months ago, before I started these write ups, the developer presented plans to the ANC. The project had already been approved, before the previous term even. Zachary Hoffman, who had not been elected yet, made it known from the audience that he was disappointed that the project merely hit the legal minimum of 8% of <a href="https://districttrinidadian.blogspot.com/2020/12/affordable-housing-in-trinidad.html">inclusionary zoning units</a> required for new apartment buildings. <div><br /></div><div>Flash forward to Tuesday night. Hoffman, now a commissioner, said “I think maybe I owe you an apology,” to Michael Perine, the developer. “I was very aggressive,” he said. However, Perine was gracious and happy to report that his company had worked with Comm. Sydelle Moore to understand the pushback. They have since taken the response so seriously that they reconsidered part of the building’s height. The project will now have an additional ten units, all of which will be rated at 50% AMI. As I remember Comm. Sydelle Moore saying months ago, “elections do matter,” and so do comments at ANC meetings, apparently! <br /><br />Commissioner Stephen Cobb announced that because of a recent job move to the US Department of Housing and Urban Development, he will have to recuse himself on zoning votes. This is likely to be a disappointment for ANC 5D02 residents, who may have voted for Cobb because of his work creating and serving on the Zoning subcommittee, as well as for Greater Greater Washington, who <a href="https://districttrinidadian.blogspot.com/2020/10/anc-candidate-questionnaire-round-up.html" target="_blank">endorsed Cobb</a> partly because of his positions on housing. <br /><br />Two more notes: <br /><br />Commissioner Sauceda-Guzman announced his intention to revive the Trinidad Neighborhood Association, and invited neighbors to fill out <a href="https://www.salvadorfordc.com/get-involved-1">a survey on his website</a>.<br /><br />Also, Comm. Sydelle Moore offered words of warning about security around President-Elect Biden’s inauguration next week. “If you see folks in your neighborhood who are up to no good, call 911,” she said. “We don’t want to take any chances of that violence spreading.”<br /><br /><i>Apologies for no drawing this time and the very late timing of the post, but, we’ve all had quite a week! Image is a screenshot from the meeting itself.</i><br /></div>Josh Kramerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05014745511414949348noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3890124994763133597.post-25281950834126923622021-01-01T12:41:00.000-05:002021-01-01T12:41:06.404-05:00Happy Holidays and Tree pickup<div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-s2Ermjao3oc/X-9eM34BDWI/AAAAAAAAkkQ/NAIIKUea5Igk_2NSIsuPfCHe0A3h7FdagCLcBGAsYHQ/8227162254_350512b1e5_k.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-s2Ermjao3oc/X-9eM34BDWI/AAAAAAAAkkQ/NAIIKUea5Igk_2NSIsuPfCHe0A3h7FdagCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/8227162254_350512b1e5_k.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><br /></div>Happy New Year neighbors! I’m taking a brief break until the next ANC meeting, but I’m excited about the new year. <br /><br />In the meantime, I’ll pass along some service journalism from <a href="https://wtop.com/dc/2020/12/dc-launches-collection-program-to-pick-up-christmas-trees/">WTOP</a>, on what D.C. residents can do with their christmas trees. <br /><br />If you’re really eager to get that dead tree out of your living room, you can bring it to one of four drop-off locations:<br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Benning Road Transfer Station (3200 Benning Road, NE)</li><li>Fort Totten Transfer Station (4900 John F. McCormack Drive, NE)</li><li>Bryant Street Sweep Shop (201 Bryant St., NW)</li><li>South Capitol Street Graffiti Shop (2700 South Capitol St., SE)</li></ul>The closest is Benning Road, but it sounds like that facility has structural issues “<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-politics/dc-trash-transfer-station/2020/12/21/3346db14-4172-11eb-9453-fc36ba051781_story.html">so severe as to </a><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-politics/dc-trash-transfer-station/2020/12/21/3346db14-4172-11eb-9453-fc36ba051781_story.html">make it mostly unusable</a>,” so maybe choose another. <br /><br />Or, the <b>Department of Public Works will be picking up bare, undecorated, trees on trash days from January 11 through February 5</b>. Unlike previous years, you <b>don’t have to call 311</b> and schedule a pickup. Notably, it won’t be the trash trucks picking up the trees, so don’t be alarmed if it’s still out there after morning pickup, or even the next day. Tree disposal is free.<br /><div><br /></div><div><i>photo courtesy of Creative Commons user ... the <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/usdagov/">USDA</a></i></div>Josh Kramerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05014745511414949348noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3890124994763133597.post-27939247730967478112020-12-22T09:56:00.000-05:002020-12-22T09:56:33.999-05:00Mark Sussman on speeding up the installation of the WV Avenue bike lane<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-xNmYkMJeA2A/X-IInENab8I/AAAAAAAAkgs/7u89yQN5Ks019GBGKJCKc3W-ARr4ybqYwCLcBGAsYHQ/23785958079_0c4474b703_k.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-xNmYkMJeA2A/X-IInENab8I/AAAAAAAAkgs/7u89yQN5Ks019GBGKJCKc3W-ARr4ybqYwCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/23785958079_0c4474b703_k.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p>The District Department of Transportation plans to build a bike lane on West Virginia Avenue in two phases, starting in 2021. It would resemble the bike lane on Florida Avenue, and be separated from vehicle traffic. Mark Sussman, an avid D.C. cyclist, went to businesses in Ivy City and came back with this:</p>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">16 Ivy City businesses support prioritizing the WV Ave NE Protected Bike Lanes & sent this letter (part 1) to <a href="https://twitter.com/DDOTDC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@DDOTDC</a>:<br /> <a href="https://twitter.com/BicycleSPACE?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@BicycleSPACE</a> | <a href="https://twitter.com/BikramYogaWorks?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@BikramYogaWorks</a> | <a href="https://twitter.com/CityWineryDC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@CityWineryDC</a> | <a href="https://twitter.com/CompassCoffeeDC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@CompassCoffeeDC</a> | <a href="https://twitter.com/douglasdevdc?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@douglasdevdc</a> | Dunn Lewis | <a href="https://twitter.com/greenhatgin?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@greenhatgin</a> | <a href="https://twitter.com/CFHierarchy?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@CFHierarchy</a> | <a href="https://twitter.com/MOMsOrganicMrkt?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MOMsOrganicMrkt</a> 1/ <a href="https://t.co/JZCEc4Ufj2">pic.twitter.com/JZCEc4Ufj2</a></p>— Mark Sussman (@MarkSussman_) <a href="https://twitter.com/MarkSussman_/status/1339913731258650624?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 18, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>I emailed some questions to Sussman and he sent me back some answers, which you can find below. If you're a cyclist, or interested in expanding bike access to our corner of the city, you may find some of his answers interesting.<h3 style="text-align: left;"><u>Why is the West Virginia Avenue corridor significant to you?</u></h3>I’ve lived in NE/SE DC since 2009. First just off on H Street (before the Streetcar) and now further south between Eastern Market and Potomac Ave. The West Virginia Ave corridor is significant to me because I bike everywhere and have done so since moving to DC in 2006, and WV Ave is both the best/worst way to get to several places I enjoy - Ivy City (which I frequent often to support local businesses) and the Arboretum, which has been a vital lifeline for some peace and tranquility, especially during the pandemic.<br /><br />I say that the WV Ave is both the best/worst because of the geography of the area (which you know well). Due to Gallaudet and Mt Olivet Cemetery, there are really only 3 arterial roads that connect to Ivy City (NY Ave, Bladensburg Ave, and WV AVE), with WV Ave being the clear winner of these three poor options.<br /><h3 style="text-align: left;"><u>Why enlist businesses? What kind of message do you want this to send to DDOT?</u></h3>This all started with the most recent near miss I had with a reckless driver while riding south on West Virginia Ave NE while towing groceries back from MOM’s in my bike trailer. I’m not particularly nimble with my trailer in tow, so there wasn’t much I could do except pray he didn’t hit me as he passed extremely close, well above the speed limit and yelling at me to “get on the sidewalk.” <br /><br />I’m a new father, so I vowed that day that I wouldn’t be returning to Ivy City by bike again until the protected bike lanes are built and that got me thinking about how many others there are like me that don’t visit Ivy City because of the lack of a safe route or sufficient public transportation -- this is one reason I enlisted businesses.<br /><br />Also, historically businesses have not often favored bike lanes on their streets and I wanted to see if I could get the Ivy City business community to support this effort. This ultimately proved to be fairly easy and allowed me to concentrate my advocacy efforts on a small group of stakeholders.<br /><br />The message I want to send to DDOT is that folks are eagerly awaiting these bike lanes and not just the hardcore advocates, but the affected business community, which have been hit hard by the pandemic and could really use the shot in the arm that these bike lanes would help provide. <br /><h3 style="text-align: left;"><u>In the past, bike lane projects have been delayed, put on ice or even removed. Are you motivated to show DDOT that local businesses are watching and engaged with what happens here?</u></h3>Exactly, if you look at the 2020 bikeway map on the <a href="https://ddot.dc.gov/page/bicycle-lanes">DDOT website</a>, what’s represented there are some pretty stark differences than our current reality, most of which are good (projects being expedited). However, most of these projects being completed are in NW/SW and projects in those areas tend to get a lot of attention. My worry is that projects that don’t have huge population centers around them or aren’t in a high profile area will get deprioritized. WV Ave fits that profile, but is a vitally important to the overall network. The Ivy City businesses are certainly up there in terms of stakeholders that would benefit from this project and it was a fairly unique effort, so I thought it would be effective to ensure that DDOT doesn’t lose track of this project. <br /><h3 style="text-align: left;"><u>It seems to me that DDOT, these businesses and the ANC do not really need convincing: DDOT already included this road in its 20 x 2022 plan and <a href="https://wiki.ddot.dc.gov/display/BPP/West+Virginia+Ave+NE?preview=/96829574/96831119/ANC%205D%20Resolution%20in%20Support%202-11-20.pdf" target="_blank">the ANC supports it</a>. But what you're asking for now is for DDOT to install protected bicycle infrastructure on the entire stretch, between New York Avenue and Florida Avenue, next year, and not over the course of two years like they plan, right? Why should they do it all next year?</u></h3>After Dave Salovesh died in 2019, the Florida Ave bike lanes were installed in 4 months. Why should WV Ave take 2 years? I understand that the size and scope of these projects are different, but it goes to show what’s possible when there is pressure from the community. I don’t want to be remembered for why the West Virginia Ave bike lanes were expedited without being able to use them, if you catch my drift.<br /><br />From a business perspective, most of the businesses in Ivy City are local, small businesses that have been hit hard by the pandemic. Let’s say that the PBLs will increase business by 1%-5% for most of these businesses. In these bleak times, that might be the difference between shutting down and staying open. Getting this project done in 2021 could prevent some businesses from closing. There are <a href="https://twitter.com/peterkrupa/status/1339937137408532482" target="_blank">several of examples</a> <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/bikedc/comments/kfmtsq/16_ivy_city_businesses_support_prioritizing_the/" target="_blank">on social media</a> of local residents that don’t frequent Ivy City and vise versa because of safety concerns on WV Ave.<br /><h3 style="text-align: left;"><u>DDOT's timeline, which they've already presented to ANC 5D, breaks this project into phases so they can space out the engineering, community engagement and construction. Do you think it should all be done together? Why?</u></h3>Well the good news is that I’ve done part of the community engagement piece on DDOT’s behalf. But in all seriousness, there is already overlap between the project schedules, so it's clear that phases of each project can be done simultaneously. At the end of the day, there is one issue at hand -- whether or not DDOT is willing to hold the line over the amount of on street parking that would need to be removed between Mt. Olivet and Florida Ave to install protected bike lanes. The P Street SW project comes to mind as a potentially similar situation. <br /><h3 style="text-align: left;"><u>Where else in ANC 5D do you think protected bike infrastructure is necessary now? DDOT wants to build it on every major road between now and 2045, but few of us want to wait 25 years in order to safely bike to the Arboretum. What else should be prioritized?</u></h3>Now you’re really getting into what I daydream about! <br /><br />#1 is the “permanent” version of Florida Ave. The current configuration is just not usable east of WV Ave due to potholes and I could see this slipping through the cracks since there is something there.<br /><br />#2 Mt Olivet. It seems like a pretty obvious gap in the network that would connect nicely between the Brentwood Parkway PBL to nowhere and the WV Ave PBL.<br /><br />#3 17th St NE/Montana Ave. Would allow for a safe connection to the Arboretum without needing to ride on Bladensburg.<br /><br />#4 NY Ave Trail. A boy can dream!<br /><br />#5. Bladensburg. I foresee major residential density coming to the corridor and we will have a Florida Ave/ Dave Salovesh situation here in the next 5 years if nothing is done. <div><br /></div><div><i>Photo of Ivy City by <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/paytonc/" target="_blank">Payton Chung</a> through Creative Commons license </i></div>Josh Kramerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05014745511414949348noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3890124994763133597.post-456965743785674142020-12-17T09:34:00.004-05:002020-12-17T09:34:49.089-05:00Exit Interview: Ryan Linehan<div>I want to a introduce a new, limited series of posts. First, I will have a couple brief interviews with some of the outgoing ANC 5D commissioners. I think it's really interesting to give them an opportunity to reflect on the experience, and I'm looking forward to reading their thoughts. Similarly, I want to hear from the incoming commissioners I didn't get a chance to interview before the election.</div><div><br /></div><div>I'm getting a better feel for this site, and think something like one or two posts a week is probably the right pace for now. I'll be taking a little time away during the holidays, but I'd love to hear from you. If you have ideas about what you'd like to read about, please email me (see the sidebar) or find me <a href="https://twitter.com/jessohackberry" target="_blank">on Twitter</a>.</div><div><br /></div><div>Let's begin with an exit interview with <b>Ryan Linehan</b>, outgoing commissioner for Single Member District 5D01, which covers Union Market, Gallaudet and Ivy City, where he lives. In January, Sebrena Rhodes will take his seat on the ANC.</div><div><br /></div><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9wAILWHrMdk/X9tpxlZhoWI/AAAAAAAAkcs/prLfxrfPhCUtC15yuqEFYvUZZHV9B1wzwCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/95_STC_Ryan%2BLinehan.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1365" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9wAILWHrMdk/X9tpxlZhoWI/AAAAAAAAkcs/prLfxrfPhCUtC15yuqEFYvUZZHV9B1wzwCLcBGAsYHQ/w426-h640/95_STC_Ryan%2BLinehan.jpg" width="426" /></a><br /><br /><b>Why did you originally want to be on the ANC and for how long have you served?</b><div><br />I served a two year term and wanted to run for ANC so I could echo the voices of the children of Ivy City, the ones without a safe place to play and exercise. I also wanted to amplify the fight for the Crummell School and the injustices that have long been ignored by our city regarding Ivy City residents. <br /><br /><b>What are you most proud of accomplishing in your time as a commissioner?<br /></b><br />I am most proud that our ANC came together and became a united effort which pushed for and got $1.2 million allocated for interim recreation needs in Ivy City @ Crummell. DDOT also implemented speed bumps throughout IC to protect the kids in the neighborhood who have nowhere else, but the street to play. Most importantly the community has come together throughout the pandemic to do weekly food drives for any neighbor in need as well as providing daily lunches for anyone 18 and under at the Ivy City Clubhouse run by community members and funded by EmpowerDC.<br /><br /><b>Is there anything that, looking back, you would have done differently?<br /></b><br />I would have reached out and made more connections with other ANCs. We are only as strong as the support we have. The city does not seem too concerned about the supported resolutions from ANCs. <br /><br /><b>Why did you choose to not run again for the next term?<br /></b><br />I did not run again as I believe ANCs should be a community effort, and you need fresh legs in the race every 2 years bc it is a sprint. I have noticed degraded efforts after first terms which is understandable since it is often thankless, always payless and takes a lot of time to do right. <br /><br /><b>What are your hopes for your SMD, and for the whole ANC, going forward?</b><br /><br />I hope that my successor continues the fight to see Ivy City get what is long overdue. I hope the ANC continues to work together and stays united.<br /><br /><b>Would you ever consider running again?</b><br /><br />Of course I would run again, but only if the community supports me in that venture and Commissioner Rhodes is ready to pass the baton. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br />Josh Kramerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05014745511414949348noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3890124994763133597.post-63367165824267282852020-12-09T11:00:00.000-05:002020-12-09T11:00:41.966-05:00 Commentary: ANC 5D Meeting December 2020<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1ecjLzyaU7s/X9Dxz4lm4_I/AAAAAAAAkWs/iymz5OVv8Qg3m6VAXvpBBP6g7df0LGthQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1908/Dec-2020.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1908" data-original-width="1349" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1ecjLzyaU7s/X9Dxz4lm4_I/AAAAAAAAkWs/iymz5OVv8Qg3m6VAXvpBBP6g7df0LGthQCLcBGAsYHQ/w452-h640/Dec-2020.jpg" width="452" /></a></div><div><br /></div>Chairman Lee opened his last ANC meeting as a commissioner by praising his peers for increasing the level of respect, organization and technology. In the last two years, the ANC acquired a projector, video camera and other technology for the meeting room, and of course has transitioned to a remote Zoom and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hLfgd2JskU" target="_blank">YouTube</a> setup this year. Now, with a virtual assistant, there are even official “<a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/12clsf8eJeB8cqGrLq8tZGzStTvXbzPKQ/view">minutes</a>.” And, transformationally, the meetings mostly now proceed without yelling or name calling, which was <a href="https://washingtoncitypaper.com/article/197830/kathy-henderson-anc-5d-in-critical-commission/">pretty common</a> in previous terms. Every once in a while, a meeting might even end on time.<br /><br />Both commissioners Lee and Shropshire have served for six years and commissioners Motley and Linehan were on the ANC just this last term. Commissioners Moore and Blacknell will continue in their seats in January. “It’s been a plum pleasing pleasure serving,” Shropshire said.<div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Px00k9_zbgU/X9DzzhnOnYI/AAAAAAAAkXA/gzJxiavhGYwscF8WLaL-9C8md20Q_21vwCPcBGAsYHg/s2732/IMG_0621.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2732" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Px00k9_zbgU/X9DzzhnOnYI/AAAAAAAAkXA/gzJxiavhGYwscF8WLaL-9C8md20Q_21vwCPcBGAsYHg/w640-h480/IMG_0621.PNG" width="640" /></a></div><div><br />Each present outgoing commissioner was true to form at last night’s meeting. Commissioner Linehan advocated one last time for a park and community center at the Crummell School site in Ivy City, passing his resolution about the Comprehensive Plan. And the zoning case of <a href="https://districttrinidadian.blogspot.com/2020/11/commentary-anc-5d-meeting-november-2020.html">1638 Trinidad Avenue</a> returned, with Chairman Lee pushing against what he sees as displacement of elderly residents and incongruous architectural designs. Commissioner Shropshire mediated between neighbors and gave a longtime resident’s concerns a careful airing. <br /><br />There were several presentations, including from Ryan Allen of 411 Collective, which creates street art murals locally. Allen lamented a lack of local businesses willing to work with the group. “No one really sees art as a way to invest in the community,” he said. If you know a business or property that would be interested in hosting a mural, you should feel free to reach out through <a href="https://www.instagram.com/411collective/?hl=en">Instagram</a> or <a href="https://www.facebook.com/411collective/">Facebook</a>. </div><div><br />
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In the last meeting of this term, the ANC approved its <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1L1DjClD8yLnsZXXdhhpnb5fuJx7I8OCBrKkaWLMDlTM/edit">consent calendar</a>, voted to protest the ABRA certification of 7 Food Store and have Commissioner Moore represent the ANC in the proceedings. <a href="https://www.cityblock.com/washington-dc">Cityblock Health</a>, a new health startup supporting medicaid recipients mainly in wards 5, 7 and 8, presented to the ANC and received support for a certificate of need. A new five unit development at the corner of West Virginia Avenue and Neal Street presented and will seek approval later.<br /><br />Lt. Chapman, of the Fifth District, was the first representative of the MPD to speak before the ANC in at least three months. “My pledge is to be more accessible to you,” he said. He spoke at length about the challenges of K2, a constantly changing street drug that can affect different users differently, sometimes causing erratic behavior and hallucinations that require hospitalization. Silas Grant spoke for Councilmember McDuffie’s office and Nokomis Hunter spoke for the Mayor’s office, announcing the $100 million Covid <a href="https://coronavirus.dc.gov/bridgefund">bridge fund</a>.<br /><br />Motley, who has been absent for months, was absent for his last meeting as Commissioner.<br /></div><div><br /></div><div><i>Drawn notes by me. Screenshot from <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hLfgd2JskU" target="_blank">YouTube</a>.</i></div>Josh Kramerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05014745511414949348noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3890124994763133597.post-30726692627346527442020-12-08T10:54:00.000-05:002020-12-08T10:54:31.201-05:00Preview: ANC 5D December 2020 Meeting<br />Here are some quick notes for the ANC meeting happening tonight on Zoom at 7pm. You can <a href="http://www.anc5d.org/">watch live</a> or check it out later <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnY6gmsK2lKttEOG7cHIpYQ/videos">on YouTube</a>. <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1L1DjClD8yLnsZXXdhhpnb5fuJx7I8OCBrKkaWLMDlTM/edit">Here is the agenda</a>, which is subject to change. I’ll recap the meeting tomorrow.<br /><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>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.<br /><br /></li><li>The consent calendar has three items: a new Transit Committee member, <a href="https://www.oneeightdistilling.com/">One Eight Distilling</a> in Ivy City wants a patio and Las Gemelas, a new restaurant in <a href="https://lacosechadc.com/">La Cosecha</a> near Union Market, seeks an alcohol license.<br /><br /></li><li>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, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/violence-interrupter-charged-murder/2020/12/04/a947d12a-3695-11eb-b59c-adb7153d10c2_story.html">was charged with a murder</a> from 2017.<br /><br /></li><li>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.<br /><br /></li><li>There is also a <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lLLBbUTn0MwnRgWWVuHY7bKtPri7j23GnFVnbZOXcUY/edit">resolution</a> regarding zoning in Ivy City. If you’re not up to date on the <a href="https://dcist.com/story/20/11/17/comprehensive-plan-development-housing-dc-urban-growth/">Comprehensive Plan</a>, 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 (<a href="https://districttrinidadian.blogspot.com/2020/11/preview-anc-5d-november-2020-meeting.html">see last month</a>). I would guess that this comes from <a href="https://www.empowerdc.org/comp_plan">Empower DC</a>, an advocacy group that typically works closely with the commissioners from Ivy City.<br /><br /></li><li>It looks like the medical service <a href="https://www.cityblock.com/approach" target="_blank">Cityblock Health</a> (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.</li></ul>Josh Kramerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05014745511414949348noreply@blogger.com0