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@RiverCrossing and @dcd, I am happy to learn you are too busy to read to the end of the Congress Heights on the Rise (CHotR) post about how things tend to go for residents EotR. Here are three things you missed:

1. Parking meters installed without any notification or discussion with neighbors and retailers. Notify the ANC? Ha! It appears they did not even notify the CM, much less hold a community meeting where a bunch of EotR riff raff might show up.

2. Technology is in place in other neighborhoods that accept both coins (like these dinosaurs) and credit cards on these parking meter stems, but that technology is not extended to this neighborhood. It's a fair question to ask, "Why not?"

3. The cupcakes objection you found so objectionable is actually right on target--the complaint was that when a mobile cupcake truck comes EotR, it parks behind the fence at St. E's, and the residents are banned by security from walking 20 feet from the sidewalk to where the truck was parked because, well, do you think residents living nearby would be comfortable mingling with the kind of people who drive in to work on the old St. E's campus and pay $4 for a cupcake off a truck? The cupcake purveyor thought the complaint was well-founded, but obviously had not checked with you first. You'd have informed her, "Let them eat moonpies!"

And a bunch of other stuff, but I know you are too busy to follow along....

Your fact-free snap judgments are right on target. These old parking meters are more than good enough for Anacostia. Tell those EotR bloggers to kwitcher bitchin'.

by Trulee Pist on Nov 18, 2011 1:07 pm • link • report