Soapstone Valley’s closest neighbors, some of them overlooking to the park, are keenly interested in the schedule for the sewer rehabilitation project. They want to know: When they can expect the road-building work and other staging to be complete? When will the sewer pipe relining process begin? And when and how will it affect them? […]
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The Ward 3 redistricting map includes a smaller ANC 3F and shuffling of single member districts
The Ward 3 Advisory Neighborhood Commission Redistricting Task Force wrapped up its work last week. Its final report, submitted to the DC Council’s redistricting subcommittee on April 1st, proposes significant changes to ANC boundaries, inside and out. Here is the proposed ANC 3F map: And here’s the ANC map that went into effect in 2013: […]
The other Soapstone Valley project involves stormwater control and stream restoration
At a meeting of ANC 3F’s Parks and Watersheds Committee this week, DC Water and contractors gave the most detailed overview to date of the stormwater control and stream restoration aspect of the Soapstone Valley sewer rehabilitation project now getting under way. As we reported in 2019, the Soapstone stream is badly eroded after decades […]
ANC 3F March 15 agenda: Days Inn update; New DDOT dashboard for tracking traffic safety reports
A representative from the company that manages the Days Inn at 4400 Connecticut Avenue told the February 15th ANC 3F meeting that they had “thoroughly audited” safety protocols, and found no warning signs or unusual activity the night of the fatal shootings. Jamie Howser, the regional director of operations at Coakley & Williams Hotel Management […]
Soapstone sewer updates: DC Water promises air quality monitoring and VOC-free liners; ANC asks Council for stop work order
At a public meeting last Thursday, DC Water laid out its plans to proceed with the Soapstone Valley sewer rehabilitation project, over objections by ANC 3F commissioners and other members of the community concerned about the potential for air and water pollution from the sewer relining process called cured-in-place pipe, or CIPP. Two days before […]
DC Water’s Soapstone sewer rehab contractor has started tagging trees and conducting other on-site, pre-construction work
At the ANC 3F meeting in January, commissioners passed a resolution urging Mayor Bowser and the National Park Service to pause permits for the project, and requested that the various agencies involved bring in a third-party expert to review the environmental and human health impacts of DC Water’s chosen method of relining the 110-year-old sewer […]
ANC 3F Feb. 15 meeting agenda: Days Inn shootings; Traffic safety resolutions
Representatives for the Metropolitan Police Department and the Van Ness Days Inn are to appear at the February 15th ANC 3F meeting to provide an update on the recent shootings at the hotel. The last public update on the January 27th shootings was on January 28th, when DC MPD Chief Robert Contee identified the 20-year-old […]
Boundary changes coming to Ward 3 ANCs and their single member districts
Changes in the distribution of DC’s population captured in the 2020 Census require boundary changes of the city’s wards, advisory neighborhood commissions (ANCs), and single member districts (SMDs). The DC Council has already approved a new map delineating the city’s wards, and appointed task forces for each ward to draw new boundaries for the ANCs […]
ANC 3F Jan. 18 agenda: Concerns about Soapstone sewer plans and calls for Connecticut Ave. traffic calming
ANC 3F, the advisory neighborhood commission for Van Ness, Forest Hills and Wakefield, returns for its first meeting of the new year at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, January 18th. The full agenda for the virtual meeting is below. The commissioners will vote on a resolution noting community concerns about the Soapstone sewer rehabilitation project’s “potential […]
Meet Your Neighbors: An advocate for children and the homeless takes a neighborhood leadership role
When we introduced you in May to ANC 3F’s Schools and Universities Committee, its chair was James Tandaric. The leadership has changed. Tandaric is now an ANC 3F commissioner and Tvonne Donovan, a founding member of the committee, is now the committee’s chair. Like her predecessor, Donovan is interested in engaging and advocating for the […]