Public Spaces

On the calendar: Party, performance parking, public plazas, and park pathways

by David Alpert   •   December 4, 2009 10:41 am

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.

Klingle Valley. Photo by valkyrieh116.

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.

David Alpert is the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Greater Greater Washington. He has had a lifelong interest in great cities and great communities. He worked as a Product Manager for Google for six years and has lived in the Boston, San Francisco, and New York metro areas in addition to Washington, DC. He loves the area which is, in many ways, greater than those others, and wants to see it become even greater.