ANC Meeting Roundup and Preview

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Unless any more major snow storms decide to blow through in the next week, our ANCs should resume their usual monthly meeting schedule again next week.  Here is a list of the next upcoming meetings, which can also be found on our Community Meeting Calendar, as well as some highlights from February’s ANC meetings.

March ANC Meetings:

• ANC 6D will meet on Monday at 7 pm at the Courtyard Marriott Hotel, 140 L Street SE, in the 2nd Floor Admiral Rooms.  The agenda can be viewed on their Web site.  Some items of note include an update on The Nationals, Traffic Operations and Parking plan updates, and the addition of time allocations for each item.  The meeting will still last three hours but this will allow residents to come for only the items they care the most about.
• ANC 6B will meet on Tuesday at 7 pm at The People’s Church, located at 535 8th, SE. (note the change of location as this meeting usually takes place at the Old Naval Hospital).  The agenda can be viewed on their Web site — some items of note include a presentation on the DC Streetcar Program, and an update on the zoning application for the University High Public Charter School.  Note, the CSX presentation has been moved to April.
• ANC 6C will meet on Wednesday at 7 pm at the Heritage Foundation, located at 214 Massachusetts Avenue NE.  The agenda can be viewed on their Web site — items of note include the recommendation to ask Tommy Wells to oppose vacant property and a recommendation to opposed a new development project around Union Station.  They have also added time allocations to each item but are aiming to keep the meeting to an hour and a half.  I suspect that the only way to keep an ANC meeting that short is to not allow for any questions or comments from residents, so trust the times in the agenda at your own risk.
• ANC 6A will meet on Thursday at 7 pm at Miner Elementary School, located at 601 15th Street N.E.  Check their Web site next week for an agenda.

Other Upcoming Community Meetings:

• Tuesday, March 9: PSA 102, Trinidad Neighborhood Association
• Wednesday, March 10: PSA 103
• Thursday, March 18: PSA 107
• Tuesday, March 22: The Stanton Neighborhood Association Monthly Meeting and The Barney Circle Park Neighborhood Association Neighborhood Meeting
• Saturday, March 27: PSA 105

Continue reading for highlights from February’s ANC meetings and links to full summaries from The Voice of the Hill and JD Land.

• ANC 6A: Drew Ronneberg was sworn in after winning the special election to fill the seat vacated by former commissioner Joe Fengler; letters to the charter board supporting the location from commissioners Mary Beatty and Kelvin Robinson led Commissioner David Holmes to call their conduct “reprehensible;” he commission voted to protest a tavern liquor-license application for Biergarten Haus and Souk unless the owners sign a voluntary agreement before March 8; the commission voted to support a change to Rock & Roll Hotel’s liquor license to allow a 99-seat roof deck.  A full summary can be found at The Voice of the Hill.
• ANC 6B: The commission voted to support a public space application from Zest American Bistro for sidewalk seating; the commission supported revised plans for updated security measures at the Marine Commandant’s house. A full summary can be found at The Voice of the Hill.
• ANC 6C: The commission voted to support sending a letter to the D.C. Office of Planning opposing the Billboard Blight Removal Approval Resolution of 2010, which would allow the D.C. Department of Regulatory and Consumer Affairs to permit businesses to display “special signs” in return for removing billboards on their property.  Also, Planning committee chair Rob Amos told the commission that the a zoning hearing on creating a new Union Station zone has been postponed, but he did not give a new date for the hearing.  A full summary can be found at The Voice of the Hill.
• ANC 6D: The commission voted to approve a request by the Bull Pen to change to the voluntary agreement between the ANC and the owner to allow the venue to operate until 1:30 am (with alcohol sales ending at 1:00), and to allow the sale of  liquor in non-frozen alongside the already approved beer, wine, and frozen drinks at special events.  There was also discussion about carving out some of the curb space in front of Capper Seniors #1 at 900 Fifth Street, which gets clogged on a regular basis with shuttle buses, vans, trucks, and other vehicles double-parking while at the building.  A full summary can be found on JD Land.