Hello and welcome to your May northwest Georgetown ANC update.
Volta Park
After a long, long slog through some administrative and downright gothic delays, the Volta Park field renovations are nearly complete. Here’s what it looks like now:
And here is the fence that drew the most concerns during planning (the black fence, not the silver one, which will eventually come down):
The new sod will still need more time to grow and get established before the fences come down and the park will be fully open again. I look forward to that time!
Speaking of Volta Park, here is a reminder of their annual cocktail fundraiser next month:
GU Move Out
With the arrival May, the annual departure of GU students begins again. The GU Office of Neighborhood Life provides these students with bulk trash pick up, to help them clean out their rentals. And luckily us neighbors get to take advantage of this service too. So if you have large items you’ve been meaning to haul to the dump, check out these informational forms instead:
Bulk Trash will be picked up daily from May 4th – June 1st, except during Memorial Day Weekend (May 23rd – 25th). Donations will only be picked up on the following days: May 6, May 11, May 12, May 14, May 19, May 20, May 22, May 27 and June 1.
The link to schedule a pick up can also be found here: https://tinyurl.com/MoveOutDrive2026.
Reach out to the Office of Neighborhood Life for more info.
Resident Only Parking Update
There is not much to update you on our effort to bring resident only parking to Georgetown. We have submitted an initial map to DDOT for pre-review but have not received comment back yet. As a reminder, once DDOT approves a preliminary map, the ANC will vote whether to officially submit it for study and implementation. When that next step occurs, I will provide an update.
Trees
Our wonderful street trees need our help to get growing. If there’s a relatively newly planted tree on your block (i.e. planted within the last 3 years) it will need regular watering to thrive.
The basic goal you should have is to water young trees at least once a week with a good 20-25 gallons of water, from now until the trees drop their leaves in the fall . If you can’t water the new trees, try to find a neighbor who can.
The preferred watering device is the ooze tube (the bags that go around the bottom of the trees). You can differentiate them from the not-preferred gator bags because the gator bags have zippers. (They’re not preferred because they can create an unhealthy environment around the trunk and you have to remove them after each use.) With the ooze tube you can just fill it up and let it go.
If you don’t have an ooze tube, you can just leave a hose trickling into the tree box for 30 minutes to an hour.
Once a tree is mature, you can stop watering it. By then the roots are so spread out under the sidewalk that it doesn’t need your help anymore (although during any particularly dry periods, it can’t hurt to water it).
And with that, enjoy the nicest month of the year!
The Georgetown Metropolitan 