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Why not follow the same pattern in the lot adjacent to the north (residential or a school on one side, retail on the other)?

Excellent question. Why not? 8th street, as you note, is retail. 7th and 9th are residential. But when 7th and 9th reach Penn, that corner is retail. 7th has a CVS and 9th has a gas station. I agree that this is a good pattern to follow.

Where 7th and 9th come up from the south and meets Pennsylvania Avenue, they enter a commercial zone, where you appropriately find a gas station and a CVS today.

Where 8th comes down from the north and meets Pennsylvania Avenue, you are standing on a traffic island, formerly a Federal reservation.

The corner we are discussing is 8th and D Street, an intersection of two residential streets, an appropriate place for homes, or in the alternative a public use such as a daycare.

Do you not see the difference between D Street and Pennsylvania? Based on evidence of maps available from 1791 to the present, every official before today saw the difference and acted on it.

by Trulee Pist on May 30, 2012 9:20 pm • link • report

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