by Marlene Berlin Traffic Enforcement The DC Pedestrian Advisory Council (PAC) has had a series of meetings with police about focusing efforts on traffic enforcement to make streets safer for […]
Zoning Rewrite: Mid-Century Standards
by Ken Terzian What do you want Forest Hills to look like 50 years from now? Zoning laws that have guided our city’s development for more than 50 years are […]
Power Update and Bad Weather Buddies
If all goes as Pepco promises tonight, another 500 or so Forest Hills neighbors will have a happy 4th of July indeed. Pepco expected to restore power to the area […]
Power Update
Pepco’s to-do list is shrinking, but not fast enough for the 900 or so Forest Hills residents that had no lights or AC as of 9 p.m. Monday. That’s down […]
Playground News and “Pops in the Park”
by Virginia Adams Marentette An article on the front page of the May 30th edition of the Northwest Current newspaper noted that the DC Council allocated significant money in the […]
Have You Checked On A Neighbor Today?
If Pepco’s power outage map is as up-to-date as it promises, more than 15,000 DC customers to the west of Rock Creek Park still had no power as of 9:30 […]
Ward 3 Council June Update
by Marlene Berlin Our DC councilmember, Mary Cheh, has come through for Ward 3 in the 2012 Fiscal Budget, passed in June. Check out her June update on funding for […]
No One Out Of Bounds at Wilson High
by Claire Parker and Maria Brescia-Weiler Wilson Beacon junior editors Starting in the 2012-2013 school year, Wilson will not be accepting any out-of-boundary students. This means that only students who […]
Zoning Rewrite: An Introduction
by Marlene Berlin DC is in the midst of a wholesale and important rewrite of the 1958 zoning code, with proposals for new regulations that will guide the course of […]
Zoning Rewrite: Protecting Our Trees (part 1)
Neighbor Ken Terzian recently wrote to the DC Office of Planning to ask, how would the new zoning rules affect a longtime effort to protect Forest Hills’ trees and topography. […]