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| Southwest advisory neighborhood commission (ANC 6D) |
VOICE writes, "
At its Nov. 19 meeting, the Southwest advisory neighborhood commission:
• voted unanimously to ask for increased police presence at St. Augustine’s Episcopal Church, 600 M St. SW, to discourage late-night loiterers.
• voted unanimously to request that the city give advisory neighborhood commissions a stronger, more-structured role during the Office of Planning’s Comprehensive Plan process.
• took no action on the proposed route for the March 29 National Marathon. The runners will enter Southwest from the South Capitol Street Bridge at around 8:30 a.m. and will leave the neighborhood before noon, organizers said, adding that the race has been rerouted because of problems with last year’s course."
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• heard Neil Albert, deputy mayor for planning and economic development, address several Southwest issues, including the fate of the 1st District police headquarters, environmental-building standards for waterfront projects and the future of the Gangplank Marina liveaboards.
Albert said, “We’re 100 percent committed to keeping the 1st District [station] in Southwest,” referring to the city’s plans to relocate the station in order to build a forensics laboratory complex. He said he will likely announce the station’s new location before the end of this year.
Albert also took questions on environmental-building standards adopted by the Anacostia Waterfront Corp., which the council folded into the deputy mayor’s office earlier this year.
“We inherited AWC’s good environmental standards,” Albert said, adding that waterfront projects will be required to adhere to Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design silver standard.
He also said the Anacostia Waterfront Corp., which was a quasi-public development agency, laid the groundwork for local workforce training and hiring Southwest residents for waterfront projects.
On the liveaboards’ future, Albert called it a “pretty complex situation,” and he said people living in boats on the Washington Channel will probably stay, but likely not in the same capacity.
“How much liveaboard space should we keep?” Albert asked, adding that the city has not yet determined whether the space for the population will increase, decrease or stay the same.
But he did say the city might consider moving the liveaboards to a new marina, separate from the “entertainment zone” planned for the waterfront.
The commission’s next meeting will be held Dec. 10 beginning at 7 p.m. at St. Augustine’s Episcopal Church, 600 M St. SW.
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Posted on Dec 03, 2007 13:03pm.
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