Biking on M St. by M.V. Jantzen.
Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:
- Strong wind or protesting driver? You decide.
- DC Examiner can’t tell the difference between the Bank of Georgetown that is located downtown and “a Georgetown bank.”
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ANC Preview: Lousy Smarch Edition
After the drama of last month’s ANC meeting, most normal ANC meetings would seem boring. But from its agenda, next week’s seems especially so. If the agenda has one redeeming quality, it would be brevity.
But GM will bite the bullet and try and make it at least sound interesting:
Solar Panels
Some organization named Georgetown Energy will be presenting on solar panels. Solar panels have a particularly tough time finding an application in Georgetown given the strict design review protections, but it doesn’t mean they have no place here. What this group will specifically discuss, though, GM hasn’t a clue.
So Long Traffic Lights
Several months ago the traffic lights on P St. in the East Village were converted to stop signs after a trial period of flashing red lights. The experiment was transfered over to the West Village last month. Presumably the trial red lights worked out and soon 33rd and Q, 34th and Q, and 34th and Reservoir will convert to stop signs. Continue reading
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Snowy GU by Ehpien.
Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:
- PoP checks out an apartment on Q St.
- Find out how to help your trees survive all this damn snow.
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MPD No Longer Issuing No Parking Signs
We’ve all seen them. Some of us have put them up ourselves. They’re Emergency No Parking signs, and they’re a fact of life in neighborhoods like Georgetown. They ordinarily evoke a bit of frustration, and sometimes a whole lot, but we learn to live with them.
Those that have had to put them up themselves have had two options:
- Submit an application to DDOT, pay $34, and travel all the way down to North Capitol St. to pick up the signs once the application is approved;
- Go to MPD 2D headquarters on Idaho Ave. and pick up the signs for free
Unsurprisingly, most people choose Option Two. But Option Two is available no longer. MPD no longer issues No Parking Signs.
If you need to block off some parking spaces, you have only one choice now: submit and application to DDOT and pay $34. The upside? Maybe fewer people will use them.
Hat tip to GGW’s Lynda Laughlin.
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Photo by Brownpau.
Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:
- Philly Pizza not dead yet.
- Puma and H&M possibly closing? Britt Swan’s deal for Nathan’s fell through? Lots of scuttlebutt here.
- Columbia Heights shoe boutique moving to Georgetown.
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Washington Fine Properties Reinvents the Word “Block”
GM was browsing the real estate listings on the back of the Georgetowner the other day and he came across this puzzling listing:
The home is a modest two bedroom row house, virtually identical to dozens and dozens throughout Georgetown (particularly the East Village). But this home offers something that no other house in Georgetown can: a two block walk to the Metro!
Wait a minute, what?
Two blocks to the Metro? How is that possible?
This house is on 26th just above P St. What is the walk to the Metro from there? Continue reading
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Baked and Wired by Camile A.
Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:
- Philly Pizza closes finally, Potomac St. sleeps soundly.
- Michelle Rhee talks to Kojo about Hardy School.
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