“Big News! ANC 3F will be meeting in person in October!” writes 3F chair Courtney Carlson. Big news, indeed. ANC 3F hasn’t held an in-person meeting since February 2020. In March of that year, the Covid-19 pandemic was shutting everything down, and “out of an abundance of caution,” then-3F chair Monika Nemeth announced that month’s […]
Tune in for the Oct. 1 hearing on Canna Art’s medical marijuana retail license
On October 1, ABCA’s Alcohol and Cannabis Board will hold a hearing on Canna Art’s application for a medical cannabis retail license. The storefront is at 5008 Connecticut Avenue, across the street from Politics and Prose. The hearing will be streamed live on Youtube. According to the agenda, Canna Art and other cases will come […]
A brief history of sidewalk advocacy in the neighborhood
by Marlene Berlin The newest sidewalk on Forest Hills was completed in late August. The gap it filled in, along Davenport Street, was on the District’s radar for nearly two decades. The sidewalk gap along Davenport Street between Linnean Avenue the middle of the 3000 block (near the big sycamore tree) was marked in red […]
ANC 3F September 16 agenda: No Soapstone sewer update (!); Reno Road crossings, DC Home Rule
They’re back. ANC 3F returns from its August break to its regularly scheduled meetings on the third Tuesday of the month. And the commission’s next meeting, on September 16th, is the first one in a long time without DC Water and the Soapstone Valley sewer project on the agenda. Not that the project is complete, […]
Closing the gaps: New sidewalks for Davenport and nearby streets
A DDOT project under way through August 30th is adding the first sidewalks to one side of the 2900-3000 blocks of Davenport Street and nearby segments of Linnean Avenue and 30th Street. DDOT’s Karyn McAlister shared this map of the work area: There have never been sidewalks on either side of these street segments. DDOT’s […]
A local block popular with cut-through drivers gets its first sidewalk
by Paul Harrison Congrats to our neighbors on 35th Street, who advocated for installation of a paved sidewalk on their street between Alton Place and Yuma Street (the residential block just behind Bread Furst, Zips and the car wash). There are many families with children in the immediate area, and the lack of a sidewalk […]
ANC 3F July 15 agenda: Flagship Carwash traffic, CM Frumin on the DC budget
Complaints about Flagship Carwash (4432 Connecticut Avenue) surface from time to time, mostly concerning vehicles blocking the sidewalk in front, the crosswalks on the southwest corner of Albemarle Street, and alley access on Albemarle. Then there’s the honking if a driver doesn’t realize the line stretches around the corner onto Albemarle, and tries to cut […]
ANC 3F June 17 agenda: DDOT’s Connecticut Avenue safety project; Canna Art’s medical cannabis license application; the Bowser budget
In April last year, under questioning from Ward 3 Council member Matt Frumin, DDOT director Sharon Kershbaum revealed that bike lanes would be cut from the agency’s upper Connecticut Avenue safety improvement project. DDOT unveiled its new thinking at a June 24, 2024 public meeting, describing and showing preliminary renderings including: Reduction of vehicular travel […]
Canna Art medical cannabis dispensary license faces ANC opposition
by Marlene Berlin ANC 3F is formally protesting Canna Art’s application to be licensed as a medical marijuana dispensary. At their May 20th meeting, the four commissioners present voted unanimously to oppose the license application. Their resolution cited several reasons, including Canna Art’s location at 5008 Connecticut Avenue near busy walking routes to school, and […]
ANC 3F May 20 agenda: Canna Art dispensary license and a one-way Alton Place request
ANC meetings are information-packed monthly check-ins with your neighborhood. And ANC 3F jammed so much into its April 22nd meeting, we’re still working on getting the news out. Here’s your chance to get ahead of us: If you missed the two articles we did publish about news from the meeting: The volunteer-run food pantry NW […]