by Elizabeth Wiener Current Newspapers staff writer An ambitious plan to put major power lines underground in the city’s outer wards is facing a key question: Who’s going to pay […]
Archives for October 2013
Will Pepco Work Mean Fewer Outages?
by Marlene Berlin On a walk of the neighborhood one day in the summer, I found a Pepco worker at the top of a telephone pole on Albemarle, east of […]
‘An Owl In The Woods’
Neighbor Paul Walters tells us about an amazing sighting yesterday: “This morning Dakota (my German shepherd) and I were walking along the alley that abuts the wooded area of what […]
Learn About Broad Branch Road Rehab Impacts Nov. 5th
The environmental assessment (EA) of DDOT’s various plans to rebuild Broad Branch Road is finally in. And the community is invited to a public meeting next week to learn more […]
Meet The DDOT Team Charged With Filling Sidewalk Gaps
by Marlene Berlin DDOT’s Safe Routes to School coordinator designed and led construction of the sidewalks that were in the Murch Safe Routes to School plan. You can see her […]
MoveDC’s #1 Priority: Pedestrians
by Marlene Berlin On Monday, October 21st, at Union Station, the District Department of Transportation unveiled the policy priorities for its 25-year plan, moveDC. At the very top – the […]
ANC 3F Shows Van Ness Possibilities At Murch Fall Fair
A Murch Fall Fair dispatch from Frances Wu and Judith Sullivan of ANC 3F’s Van Ness/Forest Hills Vision Committee: The weather was sunny and cool as folks from the neighborhood […]
UDC Strategic Plan Public Hearings Next Week
UDC is hosting three hearings next week to allow the public to weigh-in on its proposed strategic plan. The plan includes eliminating 21 bachelor’s and master’s degree programs, expanding online […]
An Imagining Of Van Ness
by Mary Beth Ray ANC 3F03 Commissioner, chair ANC 3F Vision Committee Imagine a more beautiful and more vibrant Van Ness. That’s what these renderings do, and that’s what your […]
Park Van Ness And Sidewalk Closures
Sally Gresham, one of the ANC 3F commissioners who is dealing with the BF Saul development and construction of Park Van Ness, reports on an upcoming pre-construction meeting with BF […]