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Robert Devaney • January 11, 2016

Promoters, developers and designers of the future building and park that will emerge out of the West Heating Plant site at 1055 29th St. NW, just south of the C&O Canal and the Four Seasons Hotel, addressed the members and guest of the Citizens Association of Georgetown Dec. 9 at the Georgetown Public Library.

The development group, headed by Richard Levy of the Levy Group, showed the designs of British architect David Adjaye and landscape designer Laurie Olin. Others in the group include the Four Seasons and the Georgetown Companies of New York. The team bought the two-acre property from the federal government in 2013 for $19.5 million. High-end condo units — managed by the Four Seasons — will number 60 to 70, and half of the land will become a park.

Adjaye is the architect for the National Museum of African-American History and Culture as well as two D.C. public libraries. He presented his first design that echoes the way the building, shut down for 15 years as a power plant, now looks with its vertical lines. As the present structure is not designated a historic landmark, Adjaye’s second and preferred version reveals a differently aligned building with horizontal lines that echo the flat sweeping lines of the Kennedy Center and Watergate complex as seen from the Potomac River coming up to Georgetown. The footprint of the building would remain more or less the same.

The group has many hurdles for completion. It may take three years to tear down the building, clear the land and finoish the building — after many approvals. Ahead is an Advisory Neighborhood Commission meeting in February as well as one with the Old Georgetown Board. Levy and his team have to get Mayor Bowser to deem their efforts a “project of special merit” to have a completely different building (though it is a similar size) for the site.

Meanwhile, there will more opportunities for public comment. Overall, impressions from the neighbors at the meeting about the new designs seemed upbeat. More to come on this project, no doubt.
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Peter Murray •

Mayor Muriel Bowser unveiled a two-year action plan Dec. 17 for the city’s Vision Zero program, an initiative started in Sweden that is aimed at eliminating traffic deaths in the District by 2024.

“We know over the past two decades we’ve seen annual traffic fatalities in our city reduced very significantly, but still too many people are dying as a result of traffic accidents,” Bowser said said. “That is why we talk not of reducing traffic fatalities, but getting to zero.”

The new plan, which spans 56 pages and 68 action items, is broken into four parts. Some steps are intended to create safe streets and protect vulnerable users, while others are meant to prevent reckless driving and promote transparency. Some steps are ambitious, like redesigning roads for all users, while others, like increasing fines for driving violations and expanding D.C.’s automated traffic cameras, are intended to deter bad behavior.

Learn more about D.C. and Mayor Bowser’s Vision Zero action plan here.

Gary Tischler •

Each year, we count up our losses — the passing of those who in the course or the whole of their lives were notable for their presence, for their achievements, for their personalities, for those moments when fame or something like it knighted or benighted them.

Memory and space are not democracies, of course, unlike the lengthy list that accumulates at Wikipedia every year, which appears to make an effort to circle the globe and search the nooks and crannies of accomplishment in every nation and municipality (which speaks well of the likelihood that even our own preordained passing might well be noticed by someone, somewhere).

So, we too choose to notice any number of people who have touched us, sometimes through specific, personal contact, sometimes for their impressive lives of achievement and contribution, sometimes for a singular kind of thing: a song, a book, a performance, a role in another singular life.

It is like an annual parade passing — full of leaders, writers, elected personages of high standing, singers of songs, poets, band leaders and band members, game players and athletes, more-than-average citizens, owners and inventors, people who encountered fame head on or were struck glancing blows by it.

Their proximity and contributions added to the richness of our own more humble lives. Take writers, for instance. When writers pass, they stop writing: books, essays, stories in the dwindling newspapers and magazines, poems, plays, words shaped to form a novel, a tale, six stanzas or librettos, the words spoken by actors on a stage.

Thusly, there will be no more words from the great, Nobel Prize-winning and complicated German writer Günter Grass, who spent his life writing novels that addressed the impossible 20th-century history of Germany through characters that included a boy who willed himself to stop growing in “The Tin Drum” and Hitler’s dog in “Dog Years.”

There will be no more thick, addictive books from Colleen McCullough, the Australian novelist who produced a melodramatic best seller called “The Thorn Birds,” then proceeded to delve into Roman history in a series of story-telling triumphs that began with the stories of Marius, Sulla and a young Julius Caesar and ended with Caesar and Cleopatra.

There will be no more elliptic, haunting novels by E. L. Doctorow, who chased American history as if it were an elusive heiress through “Ragtime,” “Billy Bathgate” and “The March,” among many books. There will be no more poems from Rod McKuen, who, for a time in the 1960s, was the hugely popular Pied Piper of quasi-lonely young men who, he wrote, “were left with the Saturday night consolation prize, the Sunday paper,” and no more poems from the much more respected and less best-selling Philip Levine.

For that matter, there will be no more true-crime books from Ann Rule, who knew Ted Bundy, and no more thick volumes on the history of Soviet horrors like “The Great Terror” by Robert Conquest. And no more of the elegant medical writings and books of Oliver Sacks, and the less elegant, but totally juicy novels of Jackie Collins, sister of Joan.

Actors from the silver screen and the small screen remain with us forever. There are no small roles in small or big movies or shows, and so we remember the rich face of Al Molinaro who played a guy named Delvecchio in “Happy Times” and Murray the cop in “The Odd Couple.” We remember Jack Larson, who spent part of his life as Jimmy Olsen on the 1950s “Superman” show, and Judy Carne, for being on “Laugh-In” (and being married to Burt Reynolds) and Gary Owens, who told us that “Laugh-In” was coming from “beautiful downtown Burbank,” and Alex Rocco, who got shot in the eye as Moe Greene in the climactic cleanup at the end of “The Godfather.”

We remember the shining old-movie beauty of Joan Leslie as Gary Cooper’s love in “Sergeant York” and the good girl in Bogart’s “High Sierra,” the boyish face of good man Martin Milner in “Route 66” on television and as the book-reading kid who got shot storming the beaches in “Sands of Iwo Jima.” We remember French suave personified in Louis Jordan, courting Leslie Caron in “Gigi,” and Rod Taylor, the hunky, not-quite-big-star in “The Time Machine” and “Young Cassidy.” Then there’s “Our Gang” member Dickie Moore, who gave Shirley Temple her first screen kiss. Trust me, it’s all there, somewhere, on celluloid, in digital, big screen, YouTube, the back of my mind.

Fred Thompson, who was a senator and once ran for president, straddles the line — he was a district attorney on “Law and Order,” where he can be seen any time you want, and appeared in any number of movies.

Leonard Nimoy and Christopher Lee were part of our fascination with space. Nimoy transcended the “Star Trek” series as Mr. Spock, becoming a kind of gentle philosopher. Lee was a villain in the second round of “Star Trek,” which — hold on to your hats — is back again, but touched pop culture over and over as the bad wizard in “Lord of the Rings” and the most memorable Dracula ever (excuse me Lugosi and Langella and all the rest). I did not see “The Texas Chain Saw Massacre” and so cannot comment how good Gunnar Hansen was as Leatherface.

Fame is funny — it’s almost like a pool table or six or two degrees of separation. Here’s one for you: Three Dog Night (“Joy To The World”) lost co-founder and lead vocalist Cory Wells and keyboardist Jimmy Greenspoon, not to mention June Fairchild, an actress who was noticed in the Cheech and Chong get-high movie “Up in Smoke” and suggested the band’s name to her boyfriend, a band member. Her life is an abject lesson in what even a light touch of the spotlight can do to a vulnerable soul.

These annals of pop and rock and blues are full of one-hit wonders, but B.B. King wasn’t one of them; the king of the blues led a musical life that was one big hit. Not quite so big, but totally memorable, were the stylings of Ben E. King, with and without the Drifters: “Up On the Roof” and “Stand By Me.” And there were one-hitters — Billy Joe Royal with “Down in the Boondocks,” Frankie Ford with “Sea Cruise” — and multiple-memorable hitters, like Lesley Gore with “It’s My Party” and Lynn Anderson with “I Never Promised You a Rose Garden” and Little Jimmie Dickens, a Grand Old Opry mainstay.

Ernie Banks (“Play Two,” Chicago Cubs), Minnie Miñoso (Chicago White Sox) and eternal Yankee Yogi Berra form many of our baseball memories, where it’s always déjà vu all over again.

Locally, the losses included, most notably and most recently, Austin Kiplinger, a forward-looking gentleman and publisher of the old school who treasured history enough to help in the creation of a museum of Washington history and serve as president of Tudor Place. He defined the idea of leading a full life in the midst of history.

You could find no one more helpful and kinder than Cherie Cannon.

Both Moses Malone, player, and Flip Saunders, coach, are fondly remembered by fans of the Washington Wizards (the Bullets in Malone’s time). And let’s throw in Dean Smith, the classy University of North Carolina basketball coach, for causing so much pain to the Georgetown Hoyas and the Maryland Terrapins.

We left people out. This happens — in life and in death. But imagine, for just a moment, all these people at a lawn party, say at Tudor Place or the Kennedy Center or your backyard. Who would be watching out for Uggie, the dog from “The Actor” and Jack the Bulldog Sr., the Hoya mascot?

Peter Murray •

Georgetown used to be the only game in town when it came to retail in D.C., touting easy walkability, historic charm and a diverse array of shops with broad appeal to customers. New retail hubs are starting to compete with that model though as large-scale redevelopments sweep over the rest of the District. Some of these new retail centers are the result of decades of planning. Others reflect the natural evolution of gentrification in dense, central corridors. And some are just now being unveiled. Each one offers something different: interesting shops or food choices, or extra activities outside of shopping. But they’re all worth exploring.

14th Street

Restaurants, retail and condos have risen quickly and concurrently on 14th Street NW between Thomas Circle and W Street over the past decade. A slew of new luxury retail players has diversified the mix and brought added draw to the corridor.

First, there’s Shinola. The Detroit-based watch, bicycle and leather brand moved into a massive, sun-soaked historic space on 14th and R streets NW earlier this year. Even if you’re not interested in buying a watch, bike or fine leather football, the store is worth entering, just to look around.

Anyone in need of gifts for the outdoorsy men in their life should visit Filson, right down the street. Inside the small store you can expect to find Barbour-esque leather jackets, bison wool gloves and hats, and plenty of flannels. Be sure to feel the moleskin shirt, an incredibly soft and warm layer for winter.

There’s more menswear on the northern part of the strip at Federal, which shares a space with skate shop Palace 5ive. Head to Federal for hip clothing, outerwear and wallets, or to Palace 5ive and grab a stylish pair of Vans for someone on your list.

For the hip chicks in your life, Treasury and Current Boutique are two high-end vintage shops where you need to be, on 14th between S and T streets NW.
Need something for the house? There are at least a dozen home décor and furniture stores on the strip for small gifts like scented candles or big ones like a new couch.

The best part about shopping on 14th Street though is access to some of the city’s best food. With Le Diplomate, Barcelona, Kapnos and other restaurants nearby, you’ll never get hungry while scouring the corridor for the perfect gift.

CityCenter

From afar, CityCenter looks much like the rest of downtown D.C. The development is square, glass, imposing and pretty much lacking in personality. A Christmas tree, an LED screen walkway and music playing do lend some holiday cheer, but make CityCenter even more reminiscent of a run-of-the-mill vacation destination shopping center, like Disney World or Honolulu.

But what CityCenter lacks in charm, it makes up for in high-end shopping. And we are talking the highest of the high. Big names in fashion — Gucci, Hermes, Burberry, Hugo Boss, Louis Vuitton — are there. Outerwear giant Arc’teryx has a shop for anyone going skiing this winter. And if you don’t have good luggage, check out the premium products at Tumi. But Loro Piana and Paul Stuart, two lesser names, are the standouts for their winter wear designs and the high-quality materials used to make them.

A big part of CityCenter’s appeal, though, is the food. Try out Momofuku’s world famous ramen or some of famed chef Daniel Boulud’s recipes at DBGB. For something more low key, grab some Crack Pie ice cream or a cookie at Milk Bar, Momofuku’s bakery concept. Or try something healthier, like a salad or smoothie at Fruitive, a new vegan concept that uses fresh, organic ingredients.

The Shay

Stores are rolling open at the Shay, a new development in Shaw that packs a retail punch along with the nearby Atlantic Plumbing development.

Just across the street from popular gay sports bar Nellie’s is Warby Parker, the eyewear brand that opened its first D.C. store at 3225 M St. NW in Georgetown. The space is a bit larger than the Georgetown store, and has a more modern aesthetic and a bright, nearly neon mini-marquee that shouts the brand’s name from the corner of 9th and U streets NW. A few doors down from Warby Parker, Chrome Industries, an outfitter specializing in durable apparel and messenger bags, opened last week.

Another formerly online-only retailer, Frank & Oak, also moved in over the past few weeks. The Montreal-based company is known for its reasonably priced, fashionable menswear, which is designed in-house, and has been expanding its brick-and-mortar operations over the past few years with store openings in Chicago, Boston, Toronto and Montreal.

Other highlights at the Shay include a newly opened Compass Coffee and a huge, window-front space for Kit and Ace, a new brand from the family that owns Lululemon. Much of the relatively hip apparel is made with what the company calls technical cashmere, a machine-washable blend of fabrics that mimics cashmere but requires little maintenance.

Gary Tischler •

UPDATE, Dec. 28:

Funeral services will be held Saturday, Jan. 2, for Fr. Rick Curry, S.J., at Holy Trinity Church on 36th Street in Georgetown. Visitation at the church will begin 9 a.m., followed by a 10:30 a.m. Mass of Christian Burial for Fr. Rick Curry, S.J. A funeral reception will be held noon at Trinity Hall on O Street.

When the Georgetowner interviewed Father Rick Curry, the co-founder—with philanthropist Connie Milstein—of the Dog Tag Bakery, we found him at the good stuff you’d find at bakeries, the aroma of freshly baked food, the quiet talk of friends over coffee.

As Curry talked about the bakery, about his days at the National Theater Workshop for the Handicapped, about the purpose of the baker and the Georgetown University-sponsored  Academy for Veterans, and the art of story telling and theater and sundry other things approached with a Jesuit attitude of keen intelligence, skepticism and great compassion, I thought, boy, there’s a man I want to spend some time with.  Because the time challenged your mind, was punctuated by warmth and laughter and words, sentences and conversations which seemed to be, like bread itself, the staff and stuff of life.

Sadly, that won’t be possible. Rev. Richard Curry, S.J., passed away Dec. 19 at the age of 72 of heart failure at the Jesuit infirmary at St. Joseph’s University in Curry’s hometown of Philadelphia.

The program he and Milstein founded, which resulted in Dog Tag Bakery, assists wounded veterans with emotional rehabilitation and employment assistance and training—and jobs.

Curry, who was handicapped himself (he was born without a right forearm), talked at the bakery, but he was really holding court and holding forth—you can just imagine him in a classroom, talking plays and stories.  As we talked to him during the summer, Georgetown University students, who knew him (or took his class) would come up and talk and joke with him—rugby players or rowers near the end of the school year.  He had qualities that were both challenging—he appeared in the Jesuit manner a combination of tough intelligence and Irish warmth and humor—and engaging in all senses of the word.

A Jesuit brother for most of his life, Curry decided to become a priest late in his life, enriching himself and those he ministered to in the process. He often told the story of a veteran who offered his confession and asked for absolution. Curry replied that he could not as he was a brother in the Society of Jesus, the largest religious order in the Roman Catholic Church, and has not been called, as it were. The veteran replied to Curry: “Well, I’m calling you.”

One of Curry’s many colleagues and friends, Rev. James Martin, S.J., eulogized him online as a “marvelous speaker and peerless raconteur; and a great supporter, mentor and friend to many.” 

To mouth the old cliché that “he will be missed” is one of those understatements that cannot fill the vacuum but is true, as clichés are, nonetheless.

Indeed, Curry’s life was an inspiration for many. Above all and also nonetheless, it fulfilled —and went beyond —the Jesuit motto, “Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam,” which means “To the Greater Glory of God.”

Check here to read the July 1 Georgetowner cover story about Dog Tag Bakery.
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Robert Devaney •

The Georgetown liquor license moratorium—in effect since 1989 and due to expire April 3, 2016—has garnered opposition from Georgetown’s neighborhood groups, such as the Citizens Association of Georgetown and the Georgetown Business Improvement District.

At the end of December, the Georgetown Business Association, which represents businesses throughout all of Georgetown, added its own unequivocal take on the debate: let the Georgetown liquor license moratorium expire, with no strings attached.

The Georgetown-Burleith Advisory Neighborhood Commission is expected to vote at its Jan. 4 meeting to let the ban expire by spring, according to a source close to the negotiations on a so-called “Georgetown Settlement Agreement Template” between the ANC, the BID and CAG. The BID and CAG are expected to vote up or down on the final version on Jan. 21. (Future agreements between new businesses serving alcohol and the neighborhood are considered to be voluntary.)

Community and business leaders predict that the Georgetown ban, the last active liquor license moratorium in the District of Columbia, to be a thing of the past by the spring of 2016.

The following is a Dec. 28 letter to Fred Moosally, director of D.C.’s Alcoholic Beverage Regulation Administration from the GBA that details and explains its position on the moratorium.

December 28, 2015

Mr. Fred Moosally

Director Alcoholic Beverage Regulation Administration

2000 14th Street NW, Suite 400

Washington, D.C. 20009

Dear Director Moosally:

Established in 1976, the Georgetown Business Association (GBA) is a nonprofit membership organization committed to maintaining and improving the climate for conducting business throughout Georgetown.

There is an overlap between GBA and the Georgetown Business improvement District (BID), but the BID covers a limited area of Georgetown and is prohibited under its enabling legislation from “lobbying on legislative or administrative actions with respect to any property or area.” furthermore, in accordance with its bylaws, the Bid is controlled by the owners of the commercial properties in the Bid zone. in contrast, GBa’s bylaws do not provide that any single segment of the Georgetown business community controls the organization’s decisions. it follows that GBA and the BID share similar views on many issues, but may differ on others.

Therefore, GBA is writing on behalf of all the businesses throughout Georgetown con-cerning whether the liquor license moratorium currently in effect should be continued. For the reasons stated below, it should be allowed to expire without the imposition of additional legal restrictions in the form of a template or otherwise.

THE MORATORIUM

Georgetown was perhaps the center of nightlife in the District of Columbia before the late 1980s. It was perceived to have an abundance of drinking places, generating noise, vandalism, and trash. In response, the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board established the first liquor license moratorium in Georgetown in 1989.

However, the conditions which led to the creation of a moratorium in Georgetown no longer exist. ABRA is likely very familiar with the current conditions in Georgetown, com- pared to those in other commercial areas such as U Street, 14th Street, Logan Circle, Adams Morgan, H Street, and Capitol Hill, all of which are adjacent to residential neigh-borhoods and have considerably more vibrant nightlife.

During a public Advisory Neighborhood Commission meeting on November 30, 2015, Commissioner Tom Birch, long the Co-Chair of ABC matters for ANC 2E, openly addressed whether the conditions which led to the imposition of a liquor license moratorium in Georgetown still apply. As reported in the December 2 issue of the Georgetown Current: “During the meeting, Birch acknowledged that the moratorium was created under neighborhood conditions that no longer exist. Concerns about the neighborhood serving as a regional entertainment district to the detriment of residential stability are no longer relevant, he added.”

Georgetown has some very good restaurants, but because virtually all restaurants today serve alcoholic beverages, the moratorium restricts the entry of new restaurants. On December 9, the Washington Post ran an article categorizing Washington, D.C., as one of the “ten best food cities” in the United States. The Post’s food critic wrote: “I have no doubt that the nation’s capital deserves to be on the roster. The sentiment springs from neighborhoods that have recently blossomed into food destinations (Petworth, Shaw, H Street NE in the District and the Mosaic District in Fairfax) and, this year alone, a flurry of impressive restaurant launches that have made headlines outside the beltway.”

The Post then listed 22 restaurants as “Where to Go” in the metropolitan area. Not one of them is in Georgetown.

If the liquor license moratorium in Georgetown is renewed, Georgetown would be the only neighborhood in the city with a restriction on all classes of restaurants. As Commissioner Birch publicly acknowledged, the conditions here clearly do not warrant the unfair and discriminatory continuation of the liquor license moratorium, which impedes competition and discourages the entry of new restaurants.

THE TEMPLATE IN NEGOTIATION

Georgetown residents already have very extensive input into the ABRA process through CAG and ANC 2E, which has exercised great clout for many years, leading to the creation of numerous “voluntary” or “settlement” agreements. This process is sufficient to protect the legitimate concerns of Georgetown residents without super- imposing additional legal requirements that do not pertain in competing neighborhoods.

GBA is especially concerned about limitations on hours of operation that would not be in force District-wide. It is worth noting that Washington, D.C., has experienced extensive growth in its population of millennials, who tend to dine out more often and keep somewhat later hours than the generations ahead of them. They should not be discouraged from frequenting businesses in Georgetown by limits on hours of operation that do not apply to competing businesses elsewhere.

Similarly, the restrictions on noise should be the same in Georgetown as elsewhere. CAG and the ANC are extremely responsive to complaints from residents about noise generated by nearby business, and very effective in addressing them. Adding across-the-board provisions such as forbidding noise generated in a private outdoor space that can be heard inside a residence (presumably even through an open window) are excessive. This type of restriction could preclude relatively quiet outdoor dining at lunchtime, for example.

Other broadly stated noise limitations under the proposed template might apply even if the sound generated is not substantially audible at residences. For instance, if a moderate amount of outdoor noise were generated by a business located near Blues Alley or in many locations south of M Street, it is not likely that residents would be impacted significantly, if at all. Thus, some of the restrictions that the template would impose are overly broad and too onerous. GBA also questions whether it is fair to applicants to accord sole authority in these matters to the discretion of CAG and/or the ANC, though their views will be carefully considered by ABRA.

The proposed template seems especially anomalous in the townhouse environment of Georgetown, where residents are permitted to play amplified music in their outdoor spaces and can otherwise legally generate a range of noise that can be heard by their adjacent neighbors during daytime hours.

Competing commercial areas throughout the District are adjacent to residences; there is no valid reason to impose additional legal restrictions on businesses in Georgetown because residents here are entitled to some “special” treatment. Rather, liquor license applications in Georgetown should continue to be handled on a case- by-case basis under the same general legal requirements that apply District-wide.

If you have questions or would like to discuss these issues further, I would welcome your call.

Very truly yours,

Sonya Bernhardt, President

cc: Georgetown BID
ANC 2E Commissioners
Citizens Association of Georgetown
Ruth Werner, Office of Councilman Jack Evans

Robert Devaney •

Just in time to bring in 2016, the iconic sign for the former Georgetown Theater at Wisconsin Avenue and O Street NW will be illuminated, beginning 8 p.m., Dec. 31, through the wee hours of Jan. 1, as a preview, owner and architect Robert Bell told The Georgetowner today.

Expect to see the capital letters, “GEORGETOWN,” aglow in neon-red. The lighting of the sign—for the first time since the early 1990s—may stop a few New Year’s Eve party-goers in their tracks.

An official ceremony for the sign’s relighting is not yet scheduled because the main doors of the building are not ready, said Bell, who bought the old theater property in October 2013 and is still renovating the building at 1351 Wisconsin Ave. NW for retail and residential use.

The original sign was hauled away in September 2014 and re-done at Jack Stone Signs, which originally manufactured it in 1950. It was reinstalled in July, but not lighted.

“Restoring the neon Georgetown sign has been a project of mine for seven years,” Bell told the Georgetowner previously. “The Georgetown Theater is the missing link to restoring Wisconsin Avenue from Book Hill to M Street as one of America’s best streets. Restoring the façade and vitality of this property will be a major improvement on the quality of Wisconsin Avenue and Georgetown.”

Architect Robert Bell and his plans for the rejuvenation of the old Georgetown Theater property were the subject of a Jan. 15, 2014, Georgetowner cover story.

Georgetowner •

The Georgetown-Burleith-Hillandale Advisory Neighborhood Commission (ANC 2E) will hold its January meeting, 6:30 p.m., Jan. 4, at Georgetown Visitation Preparatory School, 35th Street and Volta Place, NW, Heritage Room, main building, second floor. Click the following to view Monday’s meeting agenda, as provided by ANC 2E, or simply view below.

Approval of the Agenda

• Approval of January 4, 2016, ANC 2E Public Meeting Agenda

Administrative

• Approval of November 30, 2015, Meeting Minutes

• Public Safety and Police Report

• Financial Report

• Transportation Report

• Environmental Report

• Ratification of 2016 Public Meeting Schedule

• Areas of Special Interest and election of ANC 2E officers for 2016

Community Comment

Introduction of Rick Murphy, pro bono attorney for ANC 2E

New Business

ABC

Moratorium on new ABC licenses – set to expire in February 2016 (A revised proposed template for a Settlement Agreement with applicants for new ABC licenses in Georgetown/Burleith is on the ANC 2E website at anc2e.com)

Kouzina Authentic Greek Restaurant, ABRA-0099818, 3236 Prospect Street (Class C license) – settlement agreement

Zoning and Planning

Old Georgetown Board

Private Projects

1. SMD 03 OG 16-083 (HPA 16-131) 1417 33rd Street, NW Residence Alterations to carport
Permit

2. SMD 03 OG 16-068 (HPA 16-114) 3420 P Street, NW Residence Addition, demolition, replacement windows, site work Concept

3. SMD 05 OG 16-064 (HPA 16-110) 3251 Prospect Street, NW Commercial Awning, signs – Morton’s Steakhouse – options Concept

4. SMD 05 OG 16-060 (HPA 16-102) 1033 31st Street, NW Commercial Alterations and sign – Ministry of Fashion – Existing alterations without review Permit

5. SMD 05 OG 16-069 (HPA 16-116) 3111 K Street, NW Commercial Alterations, sign and blade signs – AMC Theatres Concept

6. SMD 05 OG 16-063 (HPA 16-109) 1037 Cecil Place, NW Residence New gate in wall – Existing alterations without review Permit

7. SMD 05 OG 16-071 (HPA 16-119) 1044 Wisconsin Avenue, NW Commercial One-story addition, alterations, sign – Sweetgreen Concept

8. SMD 06 OG 16-039 (HPA 16-066) 3059 M Street, NW Commercial Signs – Existing alterations without review – Bluemercury Permit

No Review At This Time by ANC 2E: The following additional projects, which are on the upcoming January 7, 2016, agenda of the Old Georgetown Board, have not been added to the ANC meeting agenda for OGB-related design review and we do not propose to adopt a resolution on them at this time. If there are concerns about any of these projects, please contact the ANC office by Wednesday, December 30, 2015.

1. SMD 02 OG 16-084 (HPA 16-132) 1724 34th Street, NW Residence Two-story plus basement rear addition, demolition – Existing alterations without review. Permit

2. SMD 02 OG 16-077 (HPA 16-125) 1661 35th Street, NW Residence Two-story plus basement rear addition, in-fill areaway, one-story side addition, demolition Revised permit

3. SMD 02 OG 16-074 (HPA 16-122) 3417 R Street, NW Residence Three-story rear addition, alterations, demolition – Design Development Revised concept

4. SMD 02 OG 16-070 (HPA 16-118) 3223 Volta Place, NW Residence Alterations Permit

5. SMD 02 OG 16-066 (HPA 16-112) 1740 Wisconsin Avenue, NW Commercial Alterations
Permit

6. SMD 02 OG 16-089 (HPA 16-137) 1826 Wisconsin Avenue, NW Commercial Two-story plus basement rear addition, partial demolition, roof deck Permit

7. SMD 03 OG 16-073 (HPA 16-121) 3234 N Street Residence Rear and rooftop additions – Demolition Concept

8. SMD 03 OG 14-352 (HPA 14-685) 3240 P Street, NW Commercial Two-story rear addition plus basement Revised permit

9. SMD 03 OG 16-087 (HPA 16-135) 3107 Dumbarton Street, NW Residence Removal of DEFS – Existing alterations without review Permit

10. SMD 05 OG 16-072 (HPA 16-120) 1099 30th Street, NW Commercial Rebuild and waterproof terrace
Permit

11. SMD 05 OG 16-080 (HPA 16-128) 1232 31st Street, NW Commercial Roof, skylight, and gutter replacement Permit

12. SMD 05 OG 16-065 (HPA 16-111) 3281 M Street, NW Commercial ATM, awning, signs – Bank of America Permit

13.SMD 05 OG 16-059 (HPA 16-091) 3307 M Street, NW Commercial Signs – CB2 Permit

14. SMD 05 OG 16-014 (HPA 16-022) 3509 M Street, NW Residence Replacement windows Permit

15. SMD 05 OG 16-035 (HPA 16-060) 3600 M Street, NW Mixed-use Ramp in public space Concept

16. SMD 05 OG 16-081 (HPA 16-129) 3600 M Street, NW Mixed-use Alterations, replacement windows Concept

17. SMD 05 OG 16-013 (HPA 16-021) 3121 N Street, NW Residence New front porch
Permit

18. SMD 05 OG 16-046 (HPA 16-078) 3241-3245 M Street, NW Concept

19. SMD 05 OG 16-076 (HPA 16-124) 3210 Grace Street, NW, #102 Commercial Awnings and signs – Stona Permit

20. SMD 05 OG 16-048 (HPA 16-080) 1055 Wisconsin Avenue, NW Mixed-use Mesh frame Permit

21. SMD 05 OG 16-049 (HPA 16-081) 1077 Wisconsin Avenue, NW Restaurant Sign – Simit + Smith Permit

22. SMD 05 OG 16-075 (HPA 16-123) 1079 1/2 Wisconsin Avenue, NW Commercial Alterations, awning, sign – Lilly Pulitzer Permit

23. SMD 06 OG 16-086 (HPA 16-134) 3045 P Street, NW Residence Replacement windows, garage door, shutters – Existing alterations without review Concept

24. SMD 06 OG 16-062 (HPA 16-108) 3050 P Street, NW Residence Rear fence and trellis Permit

25. SMD 06 OG 16-061 (HPA 16-107) 2815 Dumbarton Street, NW Residence Alterations, replacement roof, site work Permit

26. SMD 06 OG 16-030 (HPA 16-038) 2712 Poplar Street, NW Residence Replacement fence – Existing alterations without review Permit

27. SMD 07 OG 16-057 (HPA 16-089) 1626 29th Street, NW Residence Rear addition, basement window Permit

28. SMD 07 OG 16-027 (HPA 16-035) 1609 31st Street, NW Residence Alteration, addition, site work – Design Development Revised concept

29. SMD 07 OG 16-078 (HPA 16-032) 3029 Q Street, NW Residence Alterations to residence Concept

30. SMD 07 OG 16-079 (HPA 16-032) 3029 Q Street, NW Residence Garage alterations and new parking pad Concept

31. SMD 07 OG 15-341 (HPA 15-618) 3035 Q Street, NW, #5 Residence Rooftop addition and deck Permit

32. SMD 07 OG 16-082 (HPA 16-130) 3058 R Street, NW Residence Side addition, alterations, site work Permit

Submitted December 21, 2015.

Government of the District of Columbia: Advisory Neighborhood Commission 2E

3265 S St., NW, Washington, D.C. 20007

202-724-7098 anc2e@dc.gov www.anc2e.com