Thank you to the eight candidates for ANC Commissioner who participated in Cleveland Park Smart Growth’s forum yesterday afternoon at the CP Library. If you were unable to make the forum in person, the video of the event is below. Participating were: David Dickinson 3F01, John Grill 3C01, Lee Brian Reba 3C01, Jason Fink 3C02, … More ANC Candidate Forum Video
Join Cleveland Park Smart Growth tomorrow, Sunday, October 21st from 1-2:30pm to hear from the candidates running for Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner in the greater Cleveland Park area. The event will be in the lower level meeting room of the CP Library. The library opens at 1pm, and the event will start shortly thereafter. For those unable to make the forum in … More ANC Candidates Forum Oct 21st
In an effort to transform CP Smart Growth from a Facebook Group and email list into an organized voice for smart growth and urbanist issues, the following residents answered the call to stand for the first CP Smart Growth Steering Committee. The call announced on July 23 solicited unlimited nominees followed by a vote. Nominations … More Steering Committee Nominees
CP Smart Growth is looking to form a steering committee. Check your email, or join CP Smart Growth to learn more.
Between 2006-2015, DC added 28,955 units of housing, according the city (section 205.8). Over those ten years, the Rock Creek West area (essentially Ward 3), contributed a paltry 3% of that new housing. The proposed Framework Element to the city’s Comprehensive Plan shows a map at section 205.9 (see below) of the concentration of new … More What Privilege Looks Like
The sixty-page Framework Element Amendment of DC Comprehensive Plan has been submitted by the Mayor to the Council for consideration. As the first chapter of the city’s legal planning document, it not only sets the stage for the policies, actions and maps that make up the body of the document, it also provides definitions and … More Hope for Smart Growth in Cleveland Park and Ward 3
The self-driving bus, Olli, gets coverage on CNN. Cleveland Park is a great use case for intra-neighborhood transit, given its topography. What if a simple app allowed you to hail Olli to pick you and your lamp or vacuum cleaner up and deliver you to the store?
There is no question that the population of DC is growing. The DC Office of Planning says DC added 100,000 new residents from 2010 to 2015, and that population will exceed 800,000 in the next 15 years. DC is already facing a housing shortage, especially in Ward 3, where home prices and rent continue to … More Density, People and Cars
This past Thursday, facing heated resistance from a group of locals who were backed by the local ANC3C, developer JBG walked away from an ambitious plan to transform Woodley Park from dense hotel-dominant neighborhood to one where dense residential housing would be built adjacent to the Metro. Instead of facing the zoning headache, the developer is … More Wardman Park an example of Obama’s knock on zoning
This past Thursday, September 15, DDOT hosted a meeting at the Library about their plans to: Correct the poor drainage around the CP Metro entrance Reconfigure of the Quebec/Porter/Connecticut/Exxon intersection Reconfigure/simplify the Ordway/Connecticut/Service Lane intersection to make it more pedestrian friendly Provide permeable paving and storm water capture treatments along the streetscape Enhance the look … More Connecticut Ave Drainage & Streetscape
