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| H Street streetscape delays frustrate residents |
VOICE writes, "BY BEN WEINSTEIN
It’s been more than five years since transportation officials started planning the H Street corridor streetscape renovations, and projected start dates have come and gone.
While those officials insist that the project is still a priority and that work will soon begin, Northeast residents involved in streetscape planning say they’re frustrated with the delays.
“We’ve come a long way,” Northeast Capitol Hill advisory neighborhood commission chairman Joe Fengler said at a recent meeting. “The plans we have in place are attainable but … I’ve been frustrated with a lot of the delays we’ve had.”
Fengler, who’s been working with the D.C. Department of Transportation, city leaders and other affected neighborhood commissions throughout the project’s planning phase, defined his role as a “cheerleader and an irritant.”
For the first few years, Fengler said, he acted as a project catalyst. But in the past year, while start dates have passed without groundbreaking, he said communication breakdowns with transportation officials have driven him to become the irritant. "
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Posted on May 13, 2008 16:31pm.
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| H Street farmers’ market blossoms again |
VOICE writes, "By AMANDA ABRAMS
Pushing strollers and bicycles, carrying cups of coffee and cutting through alleyways, young families converged on the H Street farmers’ market this past Saturday morning, celebrating the first day of the market’s season and greeting familiar faces after a long winter.
Now in its fifth year, the H Street market has become a gathering point for many residents of the H Street corridor and the larger Hill area — one that continues to swell as the neighborhood grows. Located on a city-owned parking lot between 6th and 7th streets, the market provides residents with a genuine connection to the food they put on their tables. All six vendors are direct producers of the goods they sell, from plants to produce to pork.
“We live around the corner and have been coming since the market started,” said Todd Richardson, one of the earliest arrivals. He was waiting with his two children for the opening bell to ring at 9 a.m. “It’s got good fresh food and is a great place to see people you know and hang out. We’ve gotten to know all the vendors.”"
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Posted on May 13, 2008 16:28pm.
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| Racy fliers in Southwest cause fury |
VOICE writes, "BY BEN WEINSTEIN
Southwest residents who have complained that fliers featuring scantily clad women were being left on car windshields and scattered on streets may have reason to rejoice: An event organizer has agreed to curb the problem.
Owners of Bazz & Crue Events Hall, a club in Forestville, Md., agreed to end their promotional relationship with MetroMac, a flier-distribution company, after the District Office of the Attorney General filed a complaint against the owners earlier this year.
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Posted on Apr 25, 2008 19:52pm.
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| ‘You just need a lot of communion cups’ |
VOICE writes, "BY CAROL BUCKLEY
If the students at the Hill’s St. Peter’s Interparish School were any indication of the level of local enthusiasm, Pope Benedict XVI’s visit was predestined to go swimmingly.
Although the school is blocks from Nationals Park, most St. Peter’s students were stuck inside during the actual event watching it live on TV, but they still had plenty of ideas on how last Thursday’s Mass could have been improved.
“I would like it if after he got done blessing everybody, he would play some baseball,” said fifth-grader Eric Romero.
His classmate Kyle Jones agreed: “I think he should be the pitcher.” Jones also supplied the solution when other students doubted the practicality of providing Eucharist for a stadium of people. “You just need a lot of communion cups,” Jones said.
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Posted on Apr 25, 2008 19:49pm.
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| City extends deadline for H Street funding applicants |
VOICE writes, "BY BEN WEINSTEIN
The Office of the Deputy Mayor for Planning and Economic Development extended its application deadline for Great Streets neighborhood retail funds, including the available $25 million for the H Street corridor.
Applications originally due April 18 are now due by 3 p.m. on May 2. The city will review and refine eligible applications through June 13 and notify selected business owners June 27.
Earlier this year, Mayor Adrian Fenty announced that the city would make $95 million in tax-increment financing funds available for six of the city’s Great Streets initiative neighborhoods.
The deputy mayor’s office will choose business owners who successfully demonstrate the financial sustainability of their projects as well as the need for funding.
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Posted on Apr 25, 2008 19:45pm.
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| ‘Dinner party’ problem among glitches in parking plan |
VOICE writes, "By Arthur Delaney
A dozen residents attended the meeting of the Southeast Capitol Hill advisory neighborhood commission earlier this month to complain about the Performance Parking Pilot Plan, which they said poses a significant threat to their "way of life" on the Hill.
Neighbors on the 100 block of E Street SE said the regulations meant to stem Nationals Park traffic prevent them from hosting dinner parties, book clubs and children's birthday parties, since guests from other areas are not permitted to park on their streets long enough for such events.
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Posted on Apr 25, 2008 19:42pm.
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| Zombie noise bill back from dead |
VOICE writes, "By Arthur Delaney
The D.C. Council has revived the anti-noise legislation that it had tabled by a surprise 7-5 vote in February. It will hold a hearing on the bill May 6.
Ward 2 D.C. Council member Jack Evans, who moved to table the bill in February citing labor unions' free-speech concerns, said that since then he and Council Chairman Vincent Gray has met with various groups, including labor unions. Evans said there will be amendments to the bill to make sure it is acceptable to all parties.
Ward 6 Council member Tommy Wells co-introduced the legislation with Ward 3 Council member Mary Cheh on behalf of Wells’ constituents who live around 8th and H Streets NE. Wells’ constituents complained that they hear amplified preaching that includes hate speech against whites, homosexuals and other groups from a public sidewalk most Saturday afternoons.
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Posted on Apr 25, 2008 19:39pm.
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