A standing room only crowd of about 300 people listened to a panel of representatives of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) present modified bus routes and ask for comments. The hearing was in the meeting room of the DC Tax and Revenue building at 1101 4th St SW on September 17th. Route 74, […]
ANC Meeting: The People Push Back
The press, the people, and the Internet demonstrated their power at the April ANC 6D meeting on May 13th. Allison C. Prince, Esq., speaking for the Bernstein Companies, said that she would ask the DC Zoning Commission to postpone the hearing for their development at 3rd and M St SW. The City Paper website had […]
Free Lectures By Carol Raymond, John Glenn
On May 8th, right here in Southwest DC at the Air and Space Museum, Dr. Carol Raymond gave a lecture about the Vesta asteroid. Dr. Raymond is the Deputy Principal Investigator for the spacecraft that visited Vesta. She told us that it seems that the Vesta asteroid had been impacted by meteors containing water. This […]
ANC 6D April Meeting Report
At the April ANC 6D meeting, Genevieve Hanson of the General Services Administration (GSA) presented the Federal Triangle South plan. This includes the Department of Energy’s Forrestal buildings, both the FAA buildings, and GSA’s Regional Office Building. In December, GSA issued a Request for Information on possible uses for these sites. They received eight responses […]
ANC 6D Meeting Report
About fifty people, in addition to the commissioners and staff, attended the March ANC meeting. It was reported that the National Cherry Blossom Festival will run from March 20 to April 14 this year. You can see or ride all kinds of boats, including paddleboards, paddle boats, sail boats with pink sails, dragon boats, houseboats […]
ANC 6D February Meeting: SW Small Area Plan to be Complete This Year
Tarek Bolden of the DC Office of Planning told our Advisory Neighborhood Commissioners and the audience about DC Small Area Plans. The plans go through about seven steps, with a lot of community input. When all agree that the best plan has been reached, the city councilmember who represents the area (in our case, Tommy […]
ANC 6D Meeting: Twelve Story Building Proposed for South Capitol Street is Rejected
Two new Commissioners made their first appearances at the Advisory Neighborhood Commission 6D meeting January 14. They are Ed Kaminski and Donna Hopkins. Ed Kaminski was elected vice chair and Donna Hopkins was elected secretary of the commission for 2013. Ed Kaminski made an effort to explain the reason for a resolution that was being […]