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ANC 3F July 23 agenda: Uptown Market ABRA license and Soapstone sewers

July 18, 2019 by FHC

Uptown Market faced a friendly crowd at the June 18th ANC 3F meeting as it made its case for the licenses it will need to sell and serve alcohol. Its settlement agreement with ANC 3F is on the consent agenda for the July 23rd meeting.

The other major agenda item follows up on the June 26th public meeting on the Soapstone Valley sewer rehabilitation environmental assessment. Public comments are due August 2nd, and the ANC is drawing up its own comments. Members of the ANC 3F Parks and Trails Committee were to draw up a resolution after their meeting on July 8th.

ANC 3F meets at 7:30 p.m. on July 23rd. The meeting location is different this time: UDC Building 44, room A-03, just off Dennard Plaza. The livestream will be posted after a few days.

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Here is the full draft agenda:

AGENDA

1. Call to Order/Roll Call/Approval of Agenda (5 Mins)

Consent Agenda

2. Settlement Agreement between ANC3F and Uptown Market re ABRA License

Regular Agenda

3. Commissioner Updates and Announcements (20 mins)

4. Committee Reports (10 mins)

5. Community Forum (20 mins)

6. Resolution re Soapstone Valley Environmental Assessment – ANC3F public comments to DC Water and NPS (20 minutes)

7. Approval of May and June 2019 Meeting Minutes (3 mins)

8. Other Business (10 mins)

9. Adjournment

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Comments

  1. Green Eyeshades says

    July 19, 2019 at 1:33 pm

    I am happy to see that ANC 3F intends to submit comments to DC Water (WASA) and the National Park Service (NPS) on the Environmental Assessment (EA) for the Soapstone sewer repair project.

    Could the Connection please ask the ANC to publish the DRAFT of its resolution and/or its comments on the EA BEFORE the July 23rd meeting? The Connection article covering the June 26 and July 8 public meetings reported that the ANC’s parks & trails committee intended to submit a draft of that resolution to the full ANC on July 12, a week ago.

    The most recent ANC 3F resolution about the Soapstone sewer project is the one that passed on May 21, 2019, which is available from the ANC’s website at this link:

    http://anc3f.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/ANC3F-Soapstone-Resolution-to-DCWater-and-NPS-2019-05-21.pdf

    The May 21, 2019 resolution passed by ANC 3F seems to be the last formal action for which documentation is available on the ANC’s website. These sections of that resolution struck me as noteworthy:

    “… Resolved, that ANC 3F requests
    ***
    “4. That NPS confirm it has forbidden DCW [DC Water] to meet with ANC 3F’s Standing Committee during the public comment period.
    ***
    “11. That DCW meet with ANC 3F’s Standing Committee as soon as possible to discuss unavoidable impacts of its SV {Soapstone Valley] Project on trees and trails in SV.
    “12. That DCW inform ANC 3F of its estimated ‘worst case’ releases of sanitary sewage to the SV environment.
    “13. That DCW inform ANC 3F as to average and peak flows of sanitary sewage through the SV sewer pipes and how much (if any) orginate outside ANC 3F.”

    Question 14 is also highly relevant to environmental impacts.

    It appears that the June 26 public meeting was DC Water’s response to item 4 of that resolution, but I could not tell from coverage of the June 26 and July 8 meetings whether the ANC’s standing committee got answers to the questions in items 11-14 of that resolution. The slideshow presented by DC Water at the June 26 meeting does not contain a single slide answering the questions in sections 11-14 of the ANC’s May 21 resolution. Slides 39-41 do show summaries of the number of trees that will be removed and trimmed, but do NOT explain why destruction of those trees is “unavoidable.” I hope the draft resolution that the parks & trails committee sent to the full ANC answers questions 11-14 or comments on the failure of DC Water and the NPS to answer questions 11-14.

    For easy reference, this is the NPS link to the slides presented by DC Water at the June 26 meeting:

    https://parkplanning.nps.gov/document.cfm?parkID=198&projectID=47855&documentID=96764

    • David Jonas Bardin says

      July 21, 2019 at 6:10 am

      FIRST: One way or another, FHC should get its readers the Draft Resolution which ANC 3F will consider Tuesday evening,
      SECOND: Last week I wrote to them:

      David and fellow Commissioners,

      I urge you to add the following to your Soapstone EA resolution:

      “Appendix: ANC’s May 21, 2019, resolution and limited responses

      On May 21, 2019, in anticipation of an EA, ANC 3F made several requests of NPS and DCW. Some of ANC 3F’s requests were satisfied but others not, including:

      — That DCW inform ANC 3F of its estimated “worst case” releases of sanitary sewage to the SV environment; DCW has not responded.

      — That DCW inform ANC 3F as to average and peak flows of sanitary sewage through the SV sewer pipes; DCW has not responded.

      — That DCW meet with ANC 3F’s Standing Committee as soon as possible to discuss (a) unavoidable impacts of its SV Project on trees and trails in SV, (b) to discuss aspects of its SV Project on DDOT land, (c) to discuss generic technology and policy issues not limited to NPS land or SV, (d) to discuss aspects of the SV Project that DCW would implement only after NPS issues a finding of no significant impact (FONSI), assuming NPS will do that (such as procurement process and actual construction practices); DCW has either not responded or declined to meet with the Standing Committee.

      — That NPS also schedule a second public meeting a couple of weeks later (which would facilitate follow-up interactive questions); NPS has not responded.”

      Failure (or outright refusal) to engage meaningfully with ANC 3F and its Standing Committee has been a big mistake (perhaps worst of all) of DCW and NPS.

      Your resolution should record same.

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