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That
Charter School Again!
Agenda Items:
The agenda is centered around the proposed charter school at 1234 Ninth Street, NW. It's more a presentation of what we know, and don't really know about the school. There have been some recent zoning changes which bring the charter schools into the zoning code and standard review process. Charter schools were scot free (no, it's not an ethnic slur, see here or here) a few weeks ago. They are now in the ambit of a bit more of the DC bureaucracy. Among other things, 1234 Ninth Street is (or so the editor had been told, it isn't on the web site yet) on the agenda for the February 23 meeting of the Historic Preservation Review Board for some minor modifications to it's current proposal. That's what has reignited the fire. So: Discussion of what the zoning code changes mean for us, what more we can do (we have done a lot already), and reconcentrating on keeping the mixed-use development of the Ninth Street on track. Since the original proposal of the school, a new condo is breaking ground in April on that block of Ninth, several of the townhouses are being looked at hard for residential/commercial development, a new tavern is slated for the block north, and the renovation of the Fish Market (but they are going to call it the "Exchange") has begun, and Spring is aroung the corner.
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See BlagdenAlley.com or NaylorCourt.com. (Upper and Lower case aren't supposed to make a difference in internet addresses.) This is Scott Billings' handywork, and it's spectacular. Stop by.
Officers Amaro and Gitlin. Discussion of TFA (Theft from Auto), as usual. Usually, non-DC licence plates, but not always. To save a window in your car, just never leave anything in the car. A CD means CD playter inside. Head phones? Maybe an iPod. Drug activity at Ninth and O and Ninth and N. And dear old 906 O Street, NW. The townuses below 1234 Ninth. Julio Murillo discussed his plans for the townhouses from the old Hungerford Printing site south to the currently (but not for long) vacant lot. He doesn't have it under contract yet, but has an option and is checking out the entire thing. But again, he does have preliminary plans drawn up. Nice. 1318 Ninth Street. Mike Watson and Tom McGuire are renovating it with an eye to "tavern". Somewhat preliminary, but the members liked what they heard. The Website Scott Billings outliined the current state of the Blagden Alley and Naylor Court webstie. Check it out. It's great. 1215 Tenth Street Tim Walsh now has 1215 for renovation. Nothing presentable yet, but probably in March.
Just
kidding!
Orlando Parks Orlando Parks is retiring from his furniture repair business in Naylor Court and decamping to Upper Marlboro. If you didn't know about him, you missed a decent guy and a very good and reasonable craftsman. The upscaling of the neighborhood does have its downsides. Auto Show There was an auto show a few weekends ago. You know, one of those weekends when you couldn't park in your own neighborhood. (The Boat Show is next weekend. Same thing.) The interesting thing is that someone in either 903 or 901 M Street put an old leather chair out on the sidewalk, that being the standard method of giving someone else your surplus. Someone from the other townhouse saw it and came back out with wife/partner/whatever to get it. One of the Auto Show attendees was sitting in it, waiting for the husband/boyfriend/whatever to return with the pickup truck they had driven to the show to load it up and take it home. Not only our people are leaving for Ward 9, our used furniture is too.
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