The Week Ahead…..ANC’s Consider Regs To Make It Harder to Build Pop Ups

The Week Ahead…..ANC’s Consider Regs To Make It Harder to Build Pop Ups

Also:  Community meeting on Frager’s, SE Boulevard Meeting, Pepco-Exelon Merger

by Larry Janezich

Monday, December 8

ANC6D meets at 7:00pm, 1100 4^th Street, SE, DCRA, 2^nd floor meeting room.

In this, the least transparent of the Capitol Hill ANC’s – and as is usual for this ANC – the agenda has not been posted (apparently on the theory that government works best at the lowest level of visibility).

Monday, December 8

ANC6C meets at 7:00pm, Heritage Foundation, 214 Massachusetts Avenue, NE.  (Note change from regularly scheduled Thursday meeting, owing to venue unavailability.)

Among items on the agenda:

Pepco-Exelon merger debate: energy delivery in the future.  Exelon and Pepco Holdings Inc., the parent company of Pepco, have filed a joint $6.8 billion application for merger before the DC Public Service Commission (PSC).  The PSC will hold a hearing on the proposed merger, December 17.  (One issue here is whether this would make installation of solar panels more problematic for residents).

Revised PUD applications for 1270 4th Street N.E. and 1309 -1329 5^th Street, N.E.   (This is the 11 story, 110 foot mixed-use development adjacent to Union Market planned by EDENS.)

Variances for parking and loading requirements and special exception from overlay requirements for 646-654 H Street N.E.  (This is the 26 unit condo project planned by Rock Creek Property Group and Cornerstone Development Group.)

Proposed zoning regulation amendment limiting heights and minimum lot dimensions in residential zones.  (This is the proposal to limit pop ups.)

Request for entertainment permit to be added to restaurant alcohol beverage license for Po Boys, 709 H Street N.E.

Status of 6th and H Street Bar and Grill, 523 H Street N.E.

Tuesday, December 9

ANC6B meets at 7:00pm in Hill Center. at the Old Naval Hospital

Among items on the agenda:

Ed. Note.  The following two items are not on the agenda for the December meeting.  

Public space permit for Ugly Mug Dining Saloon for additional furniture, sidewalk café.

Public space permit for Ugly Mug Dining Saloon to expand operations to second floor and install sliding glass roof.

Letter to Department of General Services Regarding Initiation of Environmental Assessment of Eastern Market Metro Plaza Redesign Plan

Proposed zoning regulation amendment limiting heights and minimum lot dimensions in residential zones.  (This is the proposal to limit pop ups.)

Resolution on Exelon-Pepco Merger.  Exelon and Pepco Holdings Inc., the parent company of Pepco, have filed a joint $6.8 billion application for merger before the DC Public Service Commission (PSC).  The PSC will hold a hearing on the proposed merger, December 17.  (One issue here is whether this would make installation of solar panels more problematic for residents).

Wednesday, December 10

Community meeting regarding redevelopment of the Frager’s Hardware Store site at 1101 – 1117 Pennsylvania Avenue, SE.  7:00pm at Hill Center.

The purpose of the meeting is for the community to provide input, offer ideas, and ask questions about the future development for the site.  The meeting will also include a brief update from Richard Lake, founding partner, Roadside Development, and John Weintraub, owner of Frager’s.  If you would like to share ideas or comments in advance of the meeting, you can provide them via e-mail at fragers@roadsidellc.com or phone at 202-375-7942.

Thursday, December 11

ANC6A meets at 7:00pm, Miner Elementary, 601 15th Street, N.E.

Among items on the agenda:

Community Presentation on Pepco-Exelon Merger – Mr. Robert Robinson, Grid 2.0 Working Group.  Exelon and Pepco Holdings Inc., the parent company of Pepco, have filed a joint $6.8 billion application for merger before the DC Public Service Commission (PSC).  The PSC will hold a hearing on the proposed merger, December 17.  (One issue here is whether this would make installation of solar panels more problematic for residents).

Request for variances from lot occupancy, FAR and on site parking for 1401 H Street, N.E.

Request for rezoning from commercial to residential of property bounded by East Capitol Street, Fifteenth (15th) Street, A Street, and Sixteenth (16th) Street N.E.

Proposed zoning regulation amendment limiting heights and minimum lot dimensions in residential zones.  (This is the proposal to limit pop ups.)

Thursday, December 11

Southeast Boulevard Neighborhood Study meeting: 7:00pm – 9:00pm, at the Friendship Chamberlain Elementary School, 1345 Potomac Avenue SE.

Councilmember Tommy Wells will host the meeting.  Following a presentation by the Office of Planning (OP), Councilmember Wells will lead the community in a discussion of the current concepts for Southeast Boulevard and Barney Circle that have emerged from the study initiated by OP in the spring of 2014.