ANC2E will meet for its March meeting 6:30 pm next Monday at Georgetown Visitation (back at the old location in the main building). GM breaks down the agenda after the jump:
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ANC Gets Fox 5 Treatment
Last night at the ANC meeting, there was a presence you don’t see too much at the meetings: a local news film crew. It’s not clear whether they were there just to report on whatever, or whether they had something in mind. Either way, Fox Five reporter Roby Chavez latched on to the fire hydrant donnybrook and ran with it. Check it out here. (Sorry for the lack of embed, Fox Five doesn’t seem to allow it).
Update: Roby Chavez points us to Fox 5’s new website that allows embeding:
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ANC Roundup: An Apple Falls in Line
Quick and efficient, yet thorough, ANC meeting tonight. We had farmers markets, beer, grocery stores, pistols, and fire hydrants. And that was just the first half. It all led up to the finale, when Apple showed up with the tail between their legs and proposed a more traditional design. How did the Commission respond? Find out after the jump.
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ANC Preview: Will Apple Show Up?
ANC2E’s February meeting is scheduled for next Monday (yes, Monday not Tuesday) February 2nd. In addition to the new day, they are moving locations as well. They will now meet in the Georgetown Visitation’s Dance Studio, which is “the building with the large windows at the east end of the first parking lot.”
Besides the obvious excitement that will come from a new time and a new place, the agenda is a doozy. Bring the popcorn and find out why after the jump:
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From the Department of Peculiar Voluntary Agreement Clauses
The Georgetown Current this week chimes in on the late night bar issue (which, by the way, GM covered extensively already). Doing the things that real journalists do, Carol Buckley dug a bit deeper into the issue and discovered that some of the bars that have voluntary agreements will nonetheless be able to stay open late since the agreements say nothing about hours. That apparently includes Le Pain Quotidien, Neyla, and Modern.
Buckley found another priceless nugget. For whatever reason, the ANC didn’t think to insist on setting hours for Modern’s voluntary agreement. But what did they ban in the agreement?
Wet tee-shirt contests and “beefcake” competitions.
Seriously.
It truly bares repeating that at some point our elected officials apparently expressed a concern that M St. was turning into Venice Beach. Not mentioned in the article, but Rhino Bar’s voluntary agreement bans “kicking sand in our faces” and/or “breaking our nerdy glasses and stealing our girlfriend”.
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Fisher to Georgetown: I Want My Shiny Plastic
Apple's Proposal - As illustrated by the Georgetown Metropolitan
The other day, Washington Post columnist Marc Fisher weighed in on the decision by Georgetown’s ANC and the Old Georgetown Board to reject Apple’s second design for their proposed store at 1229 Wisconsin. Anyone who follows Fisher shouldn’t be surprised that he’s inveighing against the city’s preservationist Mandarins. Unless you’re talking about baseball or radio, Fisher typically has no time for historicism. But does he have a point? Read more:
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IceBerry: Fun Design or Eyesore?
At last night’s ANC meeting, the proprieter of the new frozen yogurt shop at the corner of 30th and M came to request the permission to install some awnings. The ANC rejected the proposal (and it didn’t matter because there’s an historic easement on the property that would bar it too. Even for an old building on M St., this place is pretty damn historical.)
While discussing the proposal, Commissioner Starrels said that he thought the current paint scheme was great. GM thinks it’s an eyesore (Maybe that’s just cause he’s still a bit salty over the loss of the CD Warehouse). What do you think of the dayglo paint job: fun or eyesore?
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The Georgetown Metropolitan 
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