Barracks Row Seeks Parking Funds to Repair Pedestrian Hazards on 8th Street, SE
ANC6B Committee Lists Projects Seeking Part of $1.4 Million for Barracks Row/Ballpark District
Ballpark District Bids for Major Chunk of Performance Parking Community Project Funds
by Larry Janezich
Last night at ANC6B’s Transportation Committee, commissioners from ANC6B and representatives from Barracks Row MainStreet and Capitol Riverfront BID submitted non-automotive transportation projects they hope to have funded by the $1.4 million available under the Neighborhood Performance Parking Fund. The committee will decide which projects should be prioritized and forwarded to the full ANC for approval at the March meeting next Tuesday; after that the projects are submitted to DDOT for review.
Michael Stevens, Executive Director of Capitol Riverfront BID, had a long list of projects – all for the Ballpark District – with an estimated cost for some of them:
- Enhanced lighting for Tingey Street, SE (pedestrian route, Ballpark)
- New Trash Cans – $84,000
- New crosswalk striping for intersections
- Enhanced lighting for New Jersey Avenue underpass – $150,000 (pedestrian route, Ballpark)
- Signage for attractions – $190,000
- Establishment of tree farms for growing street trees – $50,000
- Bike Racks – $l5,700
- Capitol Bike Share stations
- Feasibility study for a third entrance/exit for Navy Yard Metro – $170,000
Martin Smith, Executive Director of Barracks Row MainStreet listed the following projects for Barracks Row:
- Replace tree box surrounds on Barracks Row – $240,000 – $250,000
- Replace or repair slate pavers on Barracks Row
Committee Chair Oldenberg listed the following projects for ANC6B:
- On behalf of Commissioner Frishberg, treebox surrounds for Eastern Market Metro Plaza
- On behalf of Chuck Burger of Barracks Row “Sign Tigers,” landscaping for Eastern Market Metro Plaza – $150,000
- On behalf of commissioner Brian Pate – pedestrian improvements, Gessford Court between 11th and 12th Streets, SE
- On behalf of resident Bob Bresnehan – repair sidewalks on Seward Square
- Improve pedestrian crossing markings at 8th and L
- Pedestrian improvements at 9th and Potomac and 10th and Potomac
- Capitol Bike Share Station, SW corner, 11th and Pennsylvania Avenue, SE
- Replace ADA access at 10th and D Streets, SE
- Replace ADA access at 10th and G Streets, SE
- New sidewalk on South side of Virginia Avenue Park
The Neighborhood Performance Parking Fund comes from a portion of the increased parking fees in the three areas of the city where the Performance Parking Program has been implemented: Ballpark Area (including Barracks Row and Eastern Market), Columbia Heights, and H Street, NE. Within these areas, the following entities are eligible to apply for funding for projects: ANCs, Business Improvement Districts (BIDs), and Main Street organizations.
DDOT gives the highest priority to projects according to location, key walking streets, pedestrian high-injury corridor, missing sidewalks, bicycle network, Capitol Bikeshare, and surface transit routes.
Since applications are due to DDOT by March 21, next Tuesday will be the last opportunity for ANC6B to weigh in on them. Residents who feel strongly about any of these projects should contact the ANC6 B commissioners here http://www.anc6b.org/ (click on “About the ANC’)
or the ANC6D commissioners here http://www.anc6d.org/
DDOT will announce awards on May 12, 2014
CAPITOL HILL CORNER 
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