Updates from Your ANC Commissioners

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From Kelly Waud, ANC 6B07

Dear Neighbors,

Please see the email and letter that Aimee Grace and I sent to Councilmember Cheh requesting additional funds to complete both Potomac Avenue pocket parks.  If you have an interest in seeing these parks happen in the near future, please express your support to Councilmembers Cheh and Allen this weekend. The DC Council is making decisions now about next years budget, and if you believe that the redevelopment of these parks would improve our community and children’s safety, then please reach out by email to share your support.

Kind regards,

Kelly

Email attachments: Funds for Triangle Park email, Triangle Park Letter

From Kirsten Oldenburg, ANC 6B04

ANC6B SETS MAY AGENDA
The May 2018 agenda is very light.  So light that there may not be a Planning & Zoning Committee meeting on May 1.  Here is what is included so far:

• Two Presentations at the Monthly meeting on May 10.  One by Jamaal Jordan of Pepco to explain plans for upcoming Pepco power upgrades in our neighborhoods. Pepco has been doing this work for over a year in my single member district and is still building a vault at 9th and E Streets SE.  I think this type of work will be moving into Hilleast neighborhoods; the 500 block of 13th SE is already affected.  The second presentation will be pro and con views on the DC Ballot Initiative on Tipped Wages. (Editor Note: Everyone in the District gets to vote on Initiative 77 on June 19, regardless of political party affiliation. More information here.)
• A review of plans for Boathouse Row.  This will be on the May 10 agenda if there is no P&Z meeting on May 1
• At the Transportation Committee meeting on May 2, we will have a presentation on the new Circulator routes, which cross Capitol Hill, and a discussion on traffic calming studies underway and proposed.
• The ABC Committee (May 4) has a full agenda of license renewals, including those for Capitol Hill Wine & Spirits, Albert’s Liquor, World Wine & Spirits, Gandel’s Liquors, JJ Mutt Wine & Spirits, Hayden’s, and Chat’s Liquors.
• The HIll East Task Force will report out on its April 23rd meeting at the May 10 meeting.

LEFT OVER FROM MY PREVIOUS EMAIL

• Volunteer Capitol Hill, Saturday April 28, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Hill Center.  Info here
• BRMS Taste of 8th, Saturday April 28, 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. along Barracks Row.  Tickets & other info here
• Eastern Market Main Street Night at the Market, Sunday April 29, 6pm to 9pm at North Hall. Info & tickets (online $25; at the door $30) here.

PLUS MORE …

• Second Birthday Celebration, East City Book Shop, Saturday April 28, 10am to 8pm.  Events detailed here
• DOEE Family and Youth Casting Call, Saturday April 28, 10am to 3pm.  That’s “casting” as in “fishing”  at Anacostia Park outside of the Aquatic Resources Center, 1900 Anacostia Drive. Details here
• Literary Hill Bookfest, Sunday May 6.  I had to hunt around on the website but finally discovered the event is at the North Hall of Eastern Market from 11am to 3pm.

ZERO WASTE DC
The Dept of Public Works (DPW) has set up a new website https://zerowaste.dc.gov/ where you can get all and any information on reducing waste, recycling, composting, and special waste handling.  Plus residential trash collection schedules.  The website has a search function for any waste type.  I asked about a fire extinguisher and the answer was to take it to Fort Totten.  It could not tell me what to do with lumber, though.  But, there is a construction waste and debris category.

AFTER THE CRANE