Wired

A liquor license application under the trade name "Wired" to be located at 1015 1/2 7th Street was posted on July 3rd. This is across from the Convention Center near the Warehouse Theatre, the old Rupperts Restaurant and at the current location of Shakti Mindbody Studio.

ANC 2C endorses Single Sale Moratorium exemption

In addition to the calamity surrounding voting on a chairperson, ANC 2C also voted to endorse a Single Sale Moratorium exemption to Good Libations (1201 5th St NW). The ANC 2C voted 4-0 to endorse the exemption using the same voluntary agreement based condition drafted by the MVSNA.

DNA president Miles Groves was in attendance and outlined his objections to the endorsement. Good Libations falls just 1/10 of a mile outside of the DNA boundaries. The downtown neighborhood has had an ongoing problem with public drinking and loitering.

A corner by corner ban is not a sufficient approach. Vagrants who loiter around all day have all the time in the world to walk the extra 3 blocks to get their single beer. A 555 Mass resident has already witnessed former Chinatown Market (6th & H) single buyers going to Subway Liquors II (5th & K) were the singles ban is not yet underway.

Currently, the Chinatown Market single serve moratorium has gone into effect while the Subway Liquor moratorium is still in process. The impact of this is that there has been a significant increase in public drinking on our block in the last couple of weeks. It is hard for MPD to enforce because the guys keep their drinks in their jackets.

Last Saturday morning, I watched a procession of guys who usually drink at the Building Museum come into our part of the neighborhood to buy their alcohol. Many tried to stay and loiter on our building (they were run off). Others bought at Subway and returned to 5th and G NW. That being said, our neighbors in ANC2C are trying to get a single serve exemption a few blocks to the north of us. If this happens, the Subway moratorium will be undermined as these guys will still have a place nearby to buy their singles.

ANC 2C chaos

Wednesday night ANC 2C had it's January meeting. Check out the recap and the fallout on the Lifein MVSNA blog.

ANC 2C has long been considered dysfunctional. Recently elected SMD 2C04 commissioner Theresa Sule campaigned on change yet nominated and voted to keep Doris Brooks as chair of the ANC.

For those unfamiliar with Doris, hears what MVSNA VP Si Kailian had to say:

Doris is not competent to be chair. period. She does not return phone calls, she does not read her mail, she has trouble attending meetings, she never writes her own letters and she never uses email. She does not share any information with the community or her fellow commissioners. This is absolutely unacceptable and I ask the 3 other commissioners, particularly ANC 2C04 Commissioner Sule - who nominated Commissioner Brooks as chair, voted for her, and thus ensured that she retained the leadership position - to please consider the will of the constituents of ANC 2C and find a solution other than what transpired tonight. We want representation, we want to know what is going on in this community and if the business of the Commission is flowing to Commissioner Brooks it stops there. We, including the Commission will be in the dark with no voice because we will never see a scrap of paper. Commissioner Brooks' history is very clear.

Reading the recap it sounds like the resident who volunteered to conduct the election was so distraught she got up and left in the middle of it.

Rhee on Time, 5 day booze bender, and Silly Street names

I highly recommend the Time Magzine cover story of DCPS Superintendent Michelle Rhee [hat tip DCTeacherChic]

The D.C. Council makes news by passing emergency legislation to allow D.C. Bars and Nightclubs to Be Open 24-hours A Day for Inauguration Week. The Council also passed a gimic to rename the segment of South Capitol Street by the ballpark to "Taxation Without Representation Street."

Paul Millstein of Douglas Development will be presenting tonight on the concept for Squares 450 and 451 at the ANC2C meeting. Millstein presented the concept, which the Triangle recapped, at the MVSNA meeting last month.