Klingle Valley. Photo by valkyrieh116.

The Greater Greater Washington holiday party is in four days! Join us at RFD, in the back room, starting at 7 pm on Tuesday, December 8th. You can enter the back room directly from 8th Street, NW between H and I or walk through from the front entrance on 7th. Metro: Gallery Place/Chinatown.

That’s not the only fun event in December. WABA’s holiday party is the following week, on Thursday, December 17th, 5pm in their new offices at 1736 Columbia Road NW in Adams Morgan.

December also has several good opportunities to hear about and weigh in on plans for various DC neighborhoods. If you live in or around Columbia Heights, please stop by to support good parking policy at the community meeting Monday evening. I’ll post my thoughts Monday, but this meeting follows the one in July where DDOT’s Damon Harvey expressed reluctance to set meter rates to encourage turnover in the busy Columbia Heights commercial area. That’s 6:30-8:30 pm on December 7th at the Columbia Heights Community Center, 1480 Girard Street, NW.

The Office of Planning will share their recommendations for the Mount Vernon Square area on Wednesday, December 9th, 6-8 pm at the Carnegie Library in the square. And the team planning the Klingle Valley Trail will present options the following Wednesday, December 16th, 6-8 pm at the Mount Pleasant Library, Large Conference Room, 3160 16th Street, NW.