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Covering Forest Hills, Van Ness, North Cleveland Park and Wakefield
by Marlene Berlin We’ve been warned in the past that the Soapstone Valley Trail is endangered due to steady erosion of the stream banks. The erosion accelerates whenever we have a major storm event, and the storms have not decreased in frequency or impact since that warning in 2014. Take last Tuesday’s powerful deluge, so […]
by Kate Yonkers Last summer and early fall gave us a taste of the heavy, enduring rain which will become more commonplace as the climate warms. We have lost many large trees in the neighborhood, over 30 alone in 2018 according to the DC Urban Forestry division. Oversaturation and high winds are surely to blame, […]
by Marjorie Rachlin The National Park Service has been working for three years to come up with a plan to renovate and improve the Nature Center complex in Rock Creek Park. This plan provides recommendations for changes at the Nature Center, the Horse Center and the maintenance yard (where equipment is kept), as well as […]
by Anne BartonSave the Rock Creek Park Deer Over the last six years residents of Forest Hills may have noticed regular late fall bulletins from the National Park Service (NPS) announcing a “window of opportunity” for sharpshooters to kill deer in Rock Creek Park. NPS claims that the deer need to be killed because they […]
by Stefanie Harrington and Joan Schaefer Most people in Forest Hills likely know the traffic issues that neighbors on Albemarle and 30th Streets face, especially during morning and evening rush hour. The intersection of these streets is an especially dangerous spot, because the area is heavily foot trafficked, drivers have poor visibility, and it’s at […]
by Michael P. DiRienzo Perhaps, like me, you too have noticed with concern the growing makeshift homeless camp at 4250 Connecticut Avenue, NW. The vacant former Fannie Mae building located at 4250 Connecticut Avenue has a series of recessed architectural alcoves all along its Connecticut Avenue side, which are accommodating cardboard “tents” for as many […]
by Pilar Holder On August 17, 2017 my siblings and I, as children living on Upton Street, wrote a letter to Council Member Mary Cheh outlining our concerns about traffic on our block. Pat Jakopchek, Chair of ANC 3F, responded to us and invited us to come to the next meeting of the ANC. We […]
by David Jonas Bardin We often hear complaints about Congressional meddling in local, District of Columbia issues. But almost nobody knows that our ninth President, William Henry Harrison, deemed such meddling unconstitutional. It turns on what “We the People” means. Take abortion as one example. Every year a deluded Congress passes legislation prohibiting use of […]
by Marlene Berlin (Writing as 2018 President of Van Ness Main Street) DC’s Comprehensive Plan, adopted in 2006 and updated in 2011, is going through another round of updates. The plan will guide future land use in the District, setting standards for such things as the density of our commercial areas and neighborhoods. Why is […]
by Julia Kampelman Stevenson The District Department of Transportation (DDOT) is in the process of finalizing details of a years’ long effort to modernize more than 75,000 streetlights – a daunting task. The lights will all be converted to LED technology, the most energy efficient artificial light commercially available, having bulbs that last much longer […]
