Posts tagged Liquor Licenses
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Breakfast links: DC’s contentious processes
Solar panels not historic; Rezoning the bear; The VA debate continues; Bike sharing stations not dense enough?; LaRecap of LaHood; Working around broken escalators; New York safety; Red card for driving. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Bears and hogs
Seat hogs article hogged Page One space?; ANCC still for the trail; ANC roars at Big Bear; DDOT to all be in one building?; Tattoo Vermont Avenue; Silver Line delayed?; New cameras, more money?; Bike bits; Are we the best?. Keep reading…
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Knee-jerk liquor license opposition undercuts credibility
If a sidewalk cafe is open late at night but nobody is around to object, does it make a sound? And should the local ANC just fight the plan anyway on the assumption that someone must mind? Lydia DePillis reports a particularly contentious liquor license debate from last week’s Dupont Circle ANC meeting. P.J. Clarke’s wants to open a sidewalk cafe at 16th and K, a corner… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Trees and tickets
Save your trees; Business cuts tree; DC leaders and traffic infractions; Kwame in the hole; Remembering Swanson’s death and inaction; Your house in an 8-bit video game; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Thumbs up
Bike bits; Metro morsels; More pipes breaking in the future?; Gated alleys?; SeePostFix; And…; Thanks, Mike!; Bike and charge. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Opposition of the week
Wal getting green, not too green; Big growling over Big Bear; Down by the riverside; A less icy Crystal City; King coming to the shore; Do you like the 15th Street cycle track?; Open bike lanes. Keep reading…
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The plight of the blight: River East liquor stores
Nikki Peele is one of the rising stars of the River East area, blogging about issues in that part of the city, especially her neighborhood of Congress Heights, at Congress Heights On the Rise. She will be sharing some of her thoughts with us here on Greater Greater Washington. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: 14th, car-centrism, and you
Noise on 14th, from bars and politics; Huge garage better than daytime neighborhood activity?; DC, MD fix it first; VA widens it first; Pedestrian strikes front of fast-moving police cruiser; And…. Keep reading…
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Citizens’ associations reach a crossroads with contested DCCA election
Do citizens’ and civic associations represent the broad interests of residents, or very narrow factions within a neighborhood? Recently, growing numbers of residents have started to question the long-standing role of these groups as the voices of residents in the civic discourse. The Dupont Circle Citizens’ Association (DCCA) faces a contested election next month,… Keep reading…
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Balancing 17th Street’s retail: a moratorium, parking policy, or something else?
17th Street in Dupont Circle, like a number of other commercial streets in DC, has a moratorium on liquor licenses. In March, the moratorium will expire, and the Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) board, which regulates bars and restaurants, must decide whether to extend it, modify it, or let it lapse. Neighborhood leaders, residents, and business owners are debating whether the… Keep reading…