Fort Mahan Park

Volunteers are needed this weekend to help clean up and renovate Fort Mahan Park near the corner or Minnesota Ave. and Benning Road. If you are willing to help paint, plant, landscape or just clean up, please plan to attend.

The event starts at 7:00 am and lasts until 5:00 pm. Please no children, only middle school aged kids and up for safety reasons.

They are planning to create new park entrances, clean up park and surrounding pathways, landscape, revive hiker-biker trail, improve ball field, repair the surrounding fence, provide an extention to the new Marving Gaye park and install a basketball court.

For futher information on the event and the organization behind it see: http://www.dcbia.org/.

Thanks!

Lincoln Heights

I am concerned and wondering if those of you that have read through these Revitalization plans before can help.
Below you will find the link for the revitilization project for Lincoln Heights. As I read through the plan, it appears that with all the restrictions, (i.e. Right to stay/return and 1 for 1 replacement) this may simply be a renovation of the previous buildings with all the problems. But further into the documents, the plans list the total number of units ranging from 500 to 900 with the replacement units ranging from 100-300 with the rest remaining for market rate.

Does anyone know anything about this New communities type of housing?

http://www.planning.dc.gov/planning/frames.asp?doc=/planning/lib/planning/Lincoln_Heights-Richardson_Dwellings_Plan_Final.pdf

Police action on Minnesota Ave.

This is actually just one block outside of East River Heights but it is important to mention. Although it unfortunately ended in the death of three people, I believe an excellent job was done by all the police jurisdictions involved to contain the problem as best they could.

Anne Arundel County police found two women shot to death in a house in Lothian early Wednesday morning. They got a tip that the shooter was spotted in a car in Upper Marlboro. So they called their colleagues in Prince George's County and asked them to check it out.
That professional courtesy led to a 20-minute chase through Prince George's that ended about 10 a.m. Wednesday when Prince George's police fatally shot the suspect in Southeast Washington.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/02/AR2009090202069.html

Ward 7, Mayor Fenty and Fox 5 News

Mayor Fenty mentioned in some detail the upcoming and on going economic development going on in Ward 7 this morning! He actually made it sound exciting and hopefully sparked some interest. Did you see it? What were your thoughts?

On Blast!!!

Enough is enough.

I walk past the two following stores almost everyday and I am just fed up. EVERY day that they are open, Monday thru Saturday there are vagrants, and drunks lined up in front of these two stores. It's disgusting. The other day, there was a drunk man in a wheelchair half passed out just sitting there. I was going to call the police but someone came past and wheeled him away. Today, he is back, along with 3 drunk half passed out friends. Really? Are you that drunk that you can't even go home to pass out?

Malcolm Liquors at 3845 Minnesota Avenue and

Minnesota Crab and Seafood carry out at 3847 Minnesota Avenue CLEAN UP YOUR MESS!!!

It is disgusting to walk by. There are children that live here. Why don't store owners demand that people not loiter outside your store? I am going to start making calls to the Councilmember's office in regards to the licenses if this situation doesn't improve. Does anyone know how to go about getting this mess fixed? I appreciate any help. We will discuss this at the next neighborhood meeting.

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