Development

On the calendar: Kojo in McLean, Bloomingdale parking, Prince George's development, Anacostia streetcars

by David Alpert   •   March 22, 2011 3:01 pm

A number of media events and community roundtables will be talking about big issues that shape our neighborhoods. If you live in McLean, Bloomingdale, southern Prince George's or Anacostia, these are important opportunities to bring our issues and points of view into the conversation.

Photo by D.Clow - Maryland on Flickr.

Tonight, the Kojo Nnamdi Show is taping Kojo in your Community in McLean. Residents get to ask questions and make comments; it would be great for residents who support creating a transit-oriented Tysons and more walkable and bikeable neighborhoods to participate.

Doors open at 6:00 and close at 6:15 when the show begins. It runs until 8:15. It's at the McLean Community Center/Alden Theatre, 1234 Ingleside Avenue.

Tomorrow is one of Harry Thomas, Jr.'s neighborhood meetings on Sunday parking, this one in Bloomingdale. Residents will voice their parking concerns and views; it's important to have some people attending who want to also keep walkers and cyclists in mind instead of just designing policies around cars alone.

That meeting is 6:30-8:30 pm at the Harry Thomas (Sr.) Recreation Center, 1743 Lincoln Rd, NE.

Also the same night, the Coalition for Smarter Growth is having a roundtable with developers on the potential for TOD around Prince George's Metro stations. Representatives from LCOR, Jair Lynch, and EYA will speak, with remarks from County Council chair Ingrid Turner.

It's 7-8:30 pm at Hillcrest Heights Community Center, 2300 Oxon Run Drive, Temple Hills near the Naylor Road Metro.

Finally, the latest public meeting for the Anacostia Streetcar is Saturday, March 26th from 10 am to noon. It's Matthews Memorial Church, 2616 Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue, SE near the Anacostia Metro. DDOT officials will present various alternatives for streetcar routes through Anacostia and how they will evaluate the options.

David Alpert is the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Greater Greater Washington and Greater Greater Education. 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.