It’s time to Revitalize Cleveland Park! We need your help writing a letter of support that can be submitted with the neighborhood Main Street grant application. (note: Cleveland Park Smart Growth is not a party to the application, but a supporter!) Two years ago, after the closures of Ripple and Nam Viet, the community got … More Cleveland Park Main Street

Thanks to all that participated in the Letter Writing event last night at the Library!  As promised, here is the presentation we used last night, which includes the contact emails for the policymakers to whom we are writing letters. CPSG – Comp Plan letter writing Here are main points we discussed: We are advocating for … More Recap of Letter Writing Event

July 30th, 6:30pm CP Library Join Cleveland Park Smart Growth to advocate for greater density on the Cleveland Park commercial area. Whether your reason is retail vitality, affordable housing, climate change, diversity and inclusion, transit-oriented development or you think more neighbors make better neighborhoods — join us in a collective “write your policymaker” party to … More Letter Writing Party & Social

Last night’s ANC 3C meeting resulted in two big wins for smart growth supporters, and demonstrated the local appetite for progressive change in area.  The room was packed with supporters wearing CPSG stickers supporting bike lanes and redevelopment on Connecticut Ave.  While neither proposal would garner much attention elsewhere in the city, here in ANC … More Two Big Wins For Smart Growth

On Monday, March 18th, ANC 3C will be discussing a Notice of Intent from DDOT to install contra-flow bike lanes on Woodley Place.  This street runs from Cathedral Avenue to Calvert Street, but is one-way from each end street, preventing it from being a connector for vehicles, including bicycles.  DDOT’s proposal is to paint a … More Woodley Place Bike Lanes

The newly elected commissioners of ANC 3C convened at their first meeting tonight at the Cleveland Park Library where they elected their officers: Nancy Macwood, chair; Victoria Gersten, vice chair; Maureen Bouchet, treasuer; and Emma Hersh, secretary. The video of the meeting can be viewed below. New to ANC 3C this year are 3C02-Jason Fink … More ANC 3C January Meeting

Muriel Bowser was sworn in for her second term as Mayor of the District of Columbia yesterday, and took aim at DC’s housing shortage.  In her inaugural address, she challenged every neighborhood to step up and find ways to add housing, especially affordable and deeply affordable housing: “We can no longer resist a close look … More Bowser calls for new housing in every neighborhood

The only competitive ANC race in the greater Cleveland Park area is in eastern Woodley Park, in single member district 3C01.  Eleven-year incumbent, Lee Brian Reba, is being challenged by newcomer John Grill.  Grill is director of HR Data Analytics at the US Department of Health and Human Services, and progressive activist. Below are Grill’s … More John Grill – 3C01

In comments made at a CPCA candidate forum, ANC candidates are open to supporting an increase in density in Cleveland Park commercial corridor.  The video of the comments, made in response to a question from CP Smart Growth’s Bob Ward, can be viewed below.   Nancy Macwood, the 19 year commissioner, at first tried to … More ANC Candidates Discuss Increasing Density in CP

In response to a question from Cleveland Park Smart Growth’s Bob Ward, Mary Cheh said she was open to upzoning the commercial area in Cleveland park to support transit-oriented development and help bring more people to the corridor.  Petar Dimtchev was not as forthcoming.