Advisory Neighborhood Commission 6D
Ron McBee,
Chair
November 8,
2010
Business
Meeting
St.
Augustine’s Episcopal Church
Minutes
As Approved by ANC 6D on December 13, 2010
Present: Commissioners Hamilton, Jorgensen, Litsky, McBee, Moffatt, and Sobelsohn.
Commissioner McBee called the meeting to order at 7:05 p.m.
1. Agenda.
Commissioner Sobelsohn moved/Commissioner Siegel seconded to approve the agenda
as proposed. Commissioner Jorgensen moved/Commissioner Sobelsohn seconded
to amend the motion to add, to the agenda, discussion of street closings for
the Nation’s Triathlon and the DC Triathlon. Without objection, the
motion was so amended. The motion to approve the agenda, as amended,
passed 6-0. Commissioner Hamilton did not vote.
2. October Minutes.
Commissioner Sobelsohn moved/Commissioner Siegel seconded to approve the
proposed October 18, 2010 minutes. The motion passed 6-0.
Commissioner Hamilton did not vote.
3. Action Items.
a. Public Space.
1) 4th and M Intersection Safety.
Commissioner Litsky moved/Commissioner Moffatt seconded to
request the District Department of Transportation (DDOT) to “permanently
restrict parking on the south side of M Street, SW directly east of the curb
cut from the exit to 430 M Street.” The full text of the motion is
attached to these minutes. Commissioner Sobelsohn moved to amend the
motion to delete hyphens, each time they occur, between “ANC” and “6D.”
Without second or objection, the motion was so amended. The motion
passed 6-0. Commissioner Hamilton did not vote.
Commissioner Jorgensen moved/Commissioner McBee seconded to request the First
District, Metropolitan Police Department, to assign, for a minimum of one week
and for at least two hours per day, a police car to the intersection of M and
4th Streets, SW. The full text of the motion is attached to these
minutes. The motion passed 7-0.
2) Street Closings.
a) Permanent: Water
Street.
Shawn Seaman, Project Director for Hoffman Struever
Waterfront (HSW), asked the ANC to support HSW’s plan permanently to close
Water Street, SW. Seaman promised to develop a way to preserve safe
bicycle travel along or parallel to Maine Avenue during construction, and to
support a public easement for Water Street that lasts until there’s a “shovel
in the ground”--at least through December 2012. Commissioner Litsky
moved/Commissioner Jorgensen seconded as follows: “Be it resolved, that in
support of the timely redevelopment of the Southwest Waterfront that ANC-6D
supports the closure of Water Street, SW, and portions of 7th Street, SW, 9th
Street, SW, M Place, SW and N Street, SW, as shown on the Surveyor’s plat
attached to this approval, provided that provisions are made for reasonable
access for continuing leaseholders and slipholders at
the Southwest Waterfront and provided that such access does not require the
continued use of Sixth Street, SW south of M Street for any regular vehicular
access other tha
n that serving local residences or involved in public safety activity.”
Commissioner Sobelsohn moved to amend the motion to delete the hyphen
between “ANC” and “6D,” and to replace the phrase “Surveyor’s plat attached to
this approval” with the phrase “Surveyor’s plat attached to this resolution.”
Without second or objection, the motion was so amended. The Water
Street surveyor’s plat is attached to these minutes. Commissioner
Sobelsohn moved/Commissioner Siegel seconded to amend the motion further to
add, after the phrase “slipholders at the Southwest
Waterfront,” a comma and the phrase “both during and after redevelopment
construction” followed by a semicolon; to delete the “and” immediately before
the phrase “provided that such access does not require”; and to add, after the
phrase “safety activity,” a semicolon and the phrase “and provided that a way
be implemented, before groundbreaking, to preserve safe bicycle traffic
parallel to or on Maine Avenue during construction.” The amendment passed
7-0.
The main motion, as amended, passed 6-0. Commissioner Moffatt
abstained.
b) Temporary: 2011
Triathlons.
Charles Brodsky presented a request for road closures to accommodate the DC
Triathlon 5-11:30 a.m. June 19, 2011, and the Nation’s
Triathlon 6 a.m.-1:30 p.m. September 11, 2011. Neither triathlon will
come into the residential portion of ANC 6D. Organizers report no
community complaints for their 2010 triathlons. Commissioner Jorgensen
moved/Commissioner Sobelsohn seconded to write a letter in support of street
closures requested by the triathlon organizers. Copies of the proposed
triathlon routes are attached to these minutes. The motion passed 7-0.
3) 200 C Street Public-Space Permit.
In DDOT Tracking Number 55860, DDOT is considering an application to occupy
public space in order to pave a driveway and a wheelchair ramp and to erect
bike racks, a planter box, trash cans, streetlights, bollards, and benches, all
at a federal building, 200 C Street, SW. Commissioner Sobelsohn
moved/Commissioner Litsky seconded to support the public-space application.
The motion passed 7-0.
b. Landmarks and Zoning.
1) Landmark: St. Paul AUMP Church.
Karen Mills, Pastor of St. Paul African Union Methodist Protestant (AUMP)
Church, 401 I St., SE, presented her church’s historic-landmark application,
which the Historic Preservation Office will hear November 18. Built in
1924, the first church designed by R.C. Archer, Jr. (DC’s second licensed
African-American architect), the AUMP Church retains
the same bricks and façade it had in 1924. Commissioner McBee moved/Commissioner
Hamilton seconded to support the designation of St. Paul’s AUMP Church as a
historic landmark. The motion passed 7-0.
2) Zoning: Comprehensive Zoning Regulations
Review (case #08-06).
Commissioner Sobelsohn described the Zoning Commission’s review of chapter
B-13, “Green Area Ratio,” scheduled for hearing Monday, December 20.
According to the Zoning Commission notice, the proposal “provides general
rules for a city-wide requirement for green site design that will vary by zone.”
Commission Sobelsohn added that the Zoning Commission plans to announce
its proposed industrial-zone requirements by the end of November, low-density
residential requirements in January, and high-density residential requirements
in February.
Commissioner Sobelsohn described the Zoning Commission’s review of chapters
B-15, B-16, and B-17, scheduled for hearing Monday, November 15.
According to the Zoning Commission notice, the proposal would replace the
current citywide requirement that new construction provide a minimum number of
car parking spaces with a citywide requirement that new construction provide a
minimum number of bicycle parking spaces, and establish in some instances a
maximum permitted number of car parking spaces. Commissioner Sobelsohn
moved/Commissioner Moffatt seconded to send a letter to the Zoning Commission
asking it to keep the record open in this matter until Monday, December 20.
The motion passed 5-1, with Commissioner Siegel opposed.
Commissioner Litsky did not vote.
c. Alcoholic Beverage Licenses.
Commissioner Sobelsohn moved/Commissioner Siegel seconded to add, to its
September 2010 protest of the CN alcoholic beverage license #26504 renewal for
Zanzibar on the Waterfront, 700 Water St., SW, the grounds of peace, order, and
quiet; and residential parking needs and vehicular and pedestrian safety.
The motion passed 7-0. Commissioner Sobelsohn moved/Commissioner
Jorgensen seconded to authorize the following to represent ANC 6D at hearings
on the Zanzibar license renewal: ANC 6D chair, ANC 6D Alcoholic Beverage
Control (ABC) Committee chair, the ANC 6D01 commissioner, and “any members of
the community who indicate they want to serve as witnesses in support of the
ANC6D protest.” The motion passed 7-0.
Regarding Boomerang Boat Tours LLC, ANC 6D ABC Committee chair Coralie Farlee
reported that the DC ABC Board had vetoed certain provisions of the
“Voluntary/Cooperative Agreement” the ANC approved at its October 18, 2010
meeting; that Dr. Farlee had revised, to include those vetoed provisions, the
“Community Cooperation Agreement” the ANC approved at its October 18 meeting;
and that Dr. Farlee had signed, on behalf of the ANC, the revised Boomerang
Boat Community Cooperation Agreement. The revised Community Cooperation
Agreement is attached to these minutes.
d. ANC Budget.
Commissioner Jorgensen moved/Commissioner Moffatt seconded to approve a
proposed Fiscal Year 2011 ANC 6D budget. The proposed budget is attached
to these minutes. The motion passed 5-0. Commissioners Hamilton and
Sobelsohn abstained.
4. Presentations and Announcements.
a. Presentations.
1) CSX Virginia Avenue Railroad Tunnel.
Stephen Flippin, of CSX Corporation, updated CSX’s plans to enlarge its
railroad tunnel under Virginia Avenue, SE. Flippin promised that CSX
would hold town meetings between January and June 2011 to hear community
concerns regarding the project.
2) 11th Street Bridge Project.
Bryon Johnston, of Stratacomm, provided a progress
report about replacing the 11th Street bridges in Southeast. He projected
opening of two new freeway bridges by November 2011 and of a new “local” bridge
by mid-2013.
b. Announcements.
1) Committee Appointment.
Commissioner Litsky announced his appointment of Brad Soule to replace Susan
Carpenter on the Alcoholic Beverage Control Committee.
2) Next ANC Meeting.
Commissioner McBee announced that ANC 6D’s next two public business meetings
would start at 7 p.m. Monday, December 13, at St. Augustine’s Episcopal Church,
600 M Street, SW; and 7 p.m. Monday, January 10, at Arena Stage, 1101 6th
Street, SW.
5. Adjournment.
Commissioner Sobelsohn moved/Commissioner Hamilton seconded to adjourn.
Without objection, the motion passed. The meeting adjourned at 9:59
p.m.