Door Dash has been doing some lobbying of ANC commissioners and residents by holding an in person or virtual open house to introduce skeptics to their operation. CHC wasn’t invited, but here’s a look inside of the old Frager’s space as Door Dash looks forward to opening at a time TBD.
The Week Ahead…Highlights…Some Photos from the Past Week
by Larry Janezich
Posted July 5, 2021
Highlights
- Wednesday – ANC6B Transportation Committee – Circulator Plan to Change Eastern Market/L’Enfant Plaza Route.
- Wednesday – DDOT Proposal to add Advisory Bike Lanes to 12th Street SE & 100 Block of North Carolina Avenue, SE.
- Wednesday – ANC6C Planning and Zoning Committee – Construction of up to 11-story, 130’ mixed-use building at 899-999 North Capitol Street, NE.
- Thursday – ANC6B Alcohol Beverage Committee – Sip Wine & Spirits, 1100 K Street, S.E. Application for a Retailer’s Class “A” Liquor License.
TUESDAY, JULY 6
ANC6B Planning and Zoning Committee
For info on how to join the meeting, go here: https://bit.ly/36colv5
Among items on the draft agenda:
- Review of Concept Public Space Plans to add garden, public art, new signage, fence replacement, and outdoor classroom. Friendship Chamberlain Campus. 1345 Potomac Avenue, SE.
- 607 E Street, SE. New second-story read addition and adding new windows on side yard. Historic Preservation Application – concept review.
- 232 10th Street, SE. Historic Preservation and Zoning Adjustment Applications for concept/three-story rear and roof addition, roof deck, remove garage.
ANC6C Environment, Parks, and Events Committee is scheduled to hold a virtual meeting at 7:00pm.
For info on how to join the meeting, go here: https://anc6c.org/hot-topics/
Agenda not available at press time.
Friends of Southeast Library will hold an in-person meeting at 5:00pm at the Pavilion on Eastern Market Metro Plaza
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 7
ANC6B Transportation Committee will hold a virtual meeting at 7:00pm.
For info on how to join the meeting, go here: https://bit.ly/3xi7WRI
Among items on the draft agenda:
- Presentation: DDOT Proposal to add Advisory Bike Lanes to 12th Street SE & 100 Block of North Carolina Avenue, SE – Will Handsfield, DDOT, and others
- Discussion with Tyler and Brent Schools on Staff Parking.
- Circulator Plan to Change Eastern Market/L’Enfant Plaza Route.
ANC6C Planning, Zoning and Economic Development Committee will hold a virtual meeting at 6:30pm pm.
For info on how to join the meeting, go here: https://anc6c.org/hot-topics/
Among items on the draft agenda:
- 220 H Street, NE aka Senate Square. Zoning Application – Supplemented application for a modification of consequence to an approved 2005 PUD to allow the required affordable housing units to be rented rather than sold.
- 55/75 New York Avenue, NE. Zoning Adjustment Application for a special exception permit an animal boarding use on the ground floor and for a special exception from the penthouse use to permit a nightclub, bar, cocktail lounge, and/or restaurant use within a penthouse in a new mixed-use building at New York Avenue NE/1300 First Street, NE.
- 7/9 New York Avenue, NE. Zoning Adjustment Application for a special exception from the minimum loading berth requirements and for a special exception from the penthouse height restrictions to raze the existing three-story building and to construct a 14-story, 116-unit apartment building with penthouse at 7 New York Avenue, NE.
- 899-999 North Capitol Street, NE. Zoning Application for design review to allow development of a mixed-use building with lodging and/or residential use and ground-floor retail uses and renovations and ground-level retail expansion of existing office buildings at 899-999 North Capitol Street, NE. The Property is located on the east side of North Capitol Street, NE between H and K Street, NE, in the NoMa neighborhood of Ward 6. The Property consists of approximately 134,579 square feet of land area located in the High Density Commercial land-use category on the Future Land Use Map of the Comprehensive Plan. The project will redevelop Lot 854 with an up to 11-story, 130’ mixed-use building with up to approximately 163,788 square feet of gross floor area of lodging and/or residential use and upbto approximately 8,000 square feet of retail/commercial use, along with introducing significant hardscaping and landscaping improvements. The project will also renovate the existing office buildings and construct ground-level additions at the front of these buildings containing approximately 6,980 square feet of retail/commercial uses (and these buildings will also be reduced by approximately 5,306 square feet of office use). In total, the project will add up to approximately 165,462 square feet of gross floor area to the Property.
- 622 Eye Street, NE. Zoning Adjustment Application. Further-revised application for a special exception to convert an existing residential building into a four-unit apartment house and for a special exception from the 10’ limit on extensions past the rear wall of any adjacent principal residential building.
THURSDAY, JULY 8
ANC6A holds a virtual meeting at 7:00pm.
For info on how to join the meeting, go here: https://anc6a.org/community-calendar/
Among items on the draft agenda:
Presentation: DC Police Reform Commission – Naïké Savain, Policy Counsel, DC Justice
- Letter to DPMED requesting that the decision regarding Hill East Redevelopment Phase II/Reservation 13 prioritize housing for seniors and that at least 50% of the units be designated as deeply affordable housing as defined by 30% AMI.
- Resolution in support of the recommendations put forth in the DC Police Reform Commission Report (issued on April 1, 2021: https://dcpolicereform.com/
- Request to amend the Settlement Agreement for Pie Shop at 1339 H Street, NE, to allow live and prerecorded music on the summer garden, change the hour of operation for the summer garden, place restrictions on the use of speakers in the summer garden, and prohibit entertainment in the form of live bands and of DJs in the summer garden after 8:00pm.
- Request to amend the Settlement Agreement for the Gold Room Bar and Lounge at 1370 H Street, NE to allow prerecorded music in the summer garden and restrict the use of speakers in the summer garden.
- Resolution to be sent to Councilmember CharlesbAllen supporting naming the alley fronting Sq4546 bLot018 in Rosedale in honor of Mamie “Peanut” Johnson. The proposed name is “Mamie Peanut Johnson Court.”
- Letter to DDOT requesting that they install radar feedback signs and other traffic calming measures on D Street and East Capitol Streets during the C St improvement project, expedite traffic calming on C Street, NE, from the 1500 block to 800 block, and work to clarify connectivity for cyclists at the western end of the C Street project scope.
- Application of Capitol Square Bar and Grill for an unenclosed sidewalk cafe with conditions, including certain requirements regarding the use of public space for a sidewalk café, that occupancy of the café be limited to 35 seated patrons and no more than 40 total standing and seated guests, certain limitations on the hours of operation for the sidewalk café, that individual table umbrellas be used instead of a single tent covering, and that outstanding trash issues be resolved.
- Letter to DDOT requesting an urgent response to several outstanding requests, including to take traffic calming measures on H Street NE, including curb extensions and speed cameras, and to address pending all-way stop sign requests previously made by the ANC6A to DDOT for 14th and A Streets NE; 15th and A Streets NE, 15th Street and Constitution Avenue NE; and 13th and I Streets, NE.
- Letter to DPW requesting that, due to health and safety concerns, they move the trash collection for the 800 block of West Virginia Avenue NE, the 1000 block of 9th Street NE, and 800 block of K Street, NE to the rear alley of those blocks from its current location on West Virginia Avenue NE.
- Letter of support to DDOT for TSA Service Request for traffic calming measures for the 1000 block of 10th Street, NE, (intersection with Florida Avenue), including consideration of speed bumps and raised crosswalks.
- Letter to DDOT requesting an urgent response to sidewalk repair issues which are either beyond their expected service resolution date or represent an immediate accessibility issue or safety hazard.
- Letter to DDOT requesting that they provide consistent parking signage on the 200 and 300 blocks of 8th Street, NE.
ANC6B Alcoholic Beverage Control Committee holds a virtual meeting at 7:00pm.
For info on how to join the meeting, go here: https://bit.ly/3xktE7z
Among items on the draft agenda:
- Sip Wine & Spirits, 1100 K Street, S.E. Application for a Retailer’s Class “A” Liquor License.
- Kaiju Ramen Bar, 525 8th Street, S.E. Applcation for a Retailer’s Class “C” Tavern License.
- La Casina DC, 327 7th Street, S.E. Application for a Retailer’s Class “C” Restaurant License.
- The Ugly Mug Dining Saloon, 723 8th Street, SE. Retailer’s Class CR License, Request to change/update the existing settlement agreement.
- Letter to ABRA regarding the proper procedure to request a deferral of an applicant’s protest petition deadline and maintain the right to protest the establishment if the applicant does not agree to the deferral or the ABRA Board denies the request.
ANC6C Transportation and Public Space Committee will hold a virtual meeting at 7:00pm.
For info on how to join the meeting, go here: https://anc6c.org/hot-topics/
Among items on the draft agenda:
- 1133 North Capitol Street, NE. Public Space Application for public space streetscape work at a new residential building at the site of the DC Housing Authority. The plan includes new street trees, street lights, curbside bio retention, curb cuts for loading dock and for garage entrance, and Pepco vaults.
- Georgetown’s McCourt School, Public Space Application – conceptual review of a proposed bridge over the alley between Georgetown’s existing Law Center campus and the McCourt School of Public Policy building. The alley is located near 2nd and E Streets, NW.
- 713 Maryland Avenue, NE. Parking in public space at – the Committee will revisit the discussion from May 2021 on parking concerns at 713Maryland Ave NE where vehicles have been parking in the public space.
- Temporary bike lanes around the Capitol. The Committee will discuss sending a potential letter with neighboring ANCs on requesting DDOT to install temporary bike lanes around the Capitol on Constitution and Independence Avenues to create a viable bicycling route from Capitol Hill to downtown and L’Enfant Plaza while the Capitol grounds remain closed. Constitution and Independence Avenues around the Capitol are both marked in DDOT’s master plan, MoveDC, for future planned improvements for the Bicycle Priority Network.
- Updates on past Committee items including 5th Street NE traffic safety assessment; resident-only parking blocks letter from March 2020 (ANC letter); notice of intents issued for stop signs at 7th & A Street, NE, and 7th & C Street NE; and notice of intent issued for no right turn on red and daylighting at North Capitol Street & Massachusetts Avenue.
Library of Congress will open to visitors on July 8.
- For information on how to get a timed entry pass, go here: https://www.loc.gov/visit
SATURDAY, JULY 10
Friends of Southeast Library hold a book sale on the D Street sidewalk outside Southeast Library. 10:00am – 3:00pm.
CAPITOL HILL CORNER 