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ANC Preview: Last Call Edition
Next week, the ANC will be meeting for its July session. It’s the last meeting of the commission until September. So if you’ve got something you want done, better do it next week!
As it stands, there are only a couple interesting items:
35th St.
After all the hubbub over the Glover Park changes, people began to wonder if it wouldn’t make sense to take that one block of 35th st. north of Whitehaven–which is currently one-way southward–and make it two way. That way, cars going north wouldn’t have to turn right on Whitehaven to get onto Wisconsin.
GM’s not sure what the benefit of doing this would be. You’d probably have to add a traffic light because otherwise it would be a really tough left turn to make from 35th. Then you’d have three consecutive traffic lights within 200 yards or so.
But maybe there’s some upside GM’s not seeing. Continue reading
The Morning Metropolitan
Photo by Jacquesofalltrades.
Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:
- It’s the summer of Riesling at Bourbon Steak.
- So that unfortunately named i-Thai place is still coming, eh? (It’s unfortunate because it sounds like some late 90s-Internet-Go-Go joint, and all the blandness that that implies. That it’s other location is in Tyson’s only reinforces that impression.)
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Was This Really a Problem?
GM is all for separating out cars from bikers whenever possible and appropriate, but were there that many idiot drivers going down the Capital Crescent thinking they’d reach the Beltway? Continue reading
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The Morning Metropolitan
Photo by Erin.
Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:
- Only one hotel restaurant worth visiting in Georgetown, according to this.
- Might be a bit busy around GU today.
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Old Elm Was at Least 50 Years Old
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Earlier this month, GM noticed that one of the grand American elms on Q St. was dead. Shortly afterwards, the city came and cut the tree down, hopefully preventing any cross-infection with its neighbors.
GM was curious, so he swung by and counted the tree rings. He’s no expert, but it appeared that there were at least fifty rings. A poke around the Internet suggests that an American elm of that size could indeed by only that old.
American elms were incredibly popular street trees before the dreaded Dutch elm disease started to spread after arriving on these shores in the 1930s. They were chosen both because of the amazing arching canopy mature elms create, but also their rapid growth.
It’s that second trait that gives hope. Over the years, several cultivars of American elms have been identified that are resistant to Dutch elm disease. Arborists have enough faith in the new variants that they are aggressively planting new generations of American elms to replace those that are still dying off. Continue reading
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The Morning Metropolitan
Photo by Jacquesofalltrades.
Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:
- Carol Joynt checks out Malmaison.
- Nice summary of the Georgetown 2028 effort. Of course, gondolas get a lot of attention (something GM already knows!)
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