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Yesterday, Tom Birch released his revised version of the ANC redistricting map. Birch, who is a commissioner on Georgetown’s ANC, was selected by Jack Evans to take the plans of each Ward 2 ANC redistricting committee, alter it if he saw fit, and submit the result to Evans.
Birch made several changes to the plan approved by the ANC2E redistricting committee. The most significant changes address the controversy over the first map, namely that too many people (100% of whom are students) were shoehorned into proposed SMDs 4 and 8.
To address this problem, the revised map takes two dorms and shifts them back to the mixed districts. Specifically, it takes Darnell and shifts it to SMD 2 and takes LXR and shifts it to SMD 5. Of course, it’s worth noting that both those dorms were in “mixed” districts already (the Committee plan took all the dorms from the mixed districts and put them into two student-only districts). Continue reading
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North east Georgetown (which was historically called Georgetown Heights) doesn’t get talked about a whole lot at ANC meetings. There aren’t any bars there. There are hardly any students. And those two issues alone account for a large percentage of most ANC discussions.
Well next meeting that changes. Northeast Georgetown is the subject of each one of the New Business items on the agenda (well, 4 out of 5 if you don’t count Rose Park as northeast Georgetown, which it isn’t quite).
Here’s what they are:
And that’s all just the new business! MRP Realty will be back with modified plans for their overhaul of Washington Harbour. That long promised boutique hotel on 31st St. will present its first plans. And, as always, plenty more.
Here’s the draft agenda: Continue reading
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This caught GM a bit unaware: Next week DDOT is making some changes to the Circulator route through Georgetown. It primarily involves eliminating stops. According the the Post:
Stops will be eliminated at Wisconsin Avenue and P Street NW, both eastbound and westbound; at Wisconsin Avenue and N Street NW heading westbound, and at M and 31st streets NW heading eastbound.
A stop will be added at 35th Street and Wisconsin Avenue, where the Georgetown-Union Station buses turn around to head back toward Union Station.
DDOT has long disliked the fact that the Circulator goes up Wisconsin Ave. and blames this segment for delays on the line. It has repeatedly either tried to eliminate stops or eliminate the extension altogether. All the attempts at stop elimination have been rolled back (GM remebers, for instance, that the Wisconsin and R stop was eliminated a few years ago, only to return). Continue reading
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