Thomas: Brooklanders support the Small Area Plan 50 to 1

According to a message on the Brookland email list, “Councilmember Thomas stated at a meeting on Wednesday that his mail is running 50 to 1 in favor of the Small Area Plan as submitted by Office of Planning.” While a vocal group of people vehemently oppose the plan on the neighborhood list, if that report is true, most residents of the area are enthusiastic about the opportunity to improve the area around their Metro station.

Thanks to everyone who signed the petition! If you haven’t, and if you live, work, play, learn, shop or otherwise interact with Brookland, please sign to let Thomas and the other Councilmembers hear your thoughts.

ANC 5A has scheduled a meeting to pass a resolution on the plan tonight. Unfortunately, the email, by 5A10 Commissioner Philip Blair, gives the date and place (the cafeteria of St. Anthony’s church, at the corner of 12th Street and Monroe Street) but not the time, and nobody has responded to another resident’s reply asking about the time. Update: It’s at 6:30 pm.

The proposed resolution calls for a comprehensive transportation study, for OP to restudy the options to deck over the train tracks south of the Metro station, and to incorporate “the community’s widely shared consensus on certain important issues” such as “green space”, though it doesn’t define specific objections.