- Call to order, 7:33 pm
- Agenda Items
- Welcome
- Alexandria Police Report
- Del Ray House & Garden Tour Update
- Ad Hoc North Potomac Yard Advisory Group
- La Bella Strada Funding Request
- Land Use Committee Report
- Meeting Date Move
- 220KV Power Line Update
- Parking Meeting Follow-up
- Nominations & Elections Committee Report
- Announcements
- Welcome, Jay Nestlerode, DRCA President
- Looking for new Board members
- Alexandria Police Report, Lt Dennis Andreas
- Crime down 20% citywide weather-related
- Sector 2/Del Ray down 20% too
- 4 part 1 offenses
- Commercial robbery 7-11
- Petty larceny at Walgreens
- GWMS assault involving juveniles
- Braddock daylight burglary
- Door off track
- Reminder: Lock doors before leaving home
- No larcenies from autos
- Reports of Tax scams
- Proxy filings
- IRS/Microsoft impostors
- Complaint about Speed bumps on Monroe Avenue
- Recommended: All complaints to Call-Click-Connect service
- Lisa Quandt already CCC’ed
- Del Ray House & Garden Tour Update, Bea Robinson & Barb DeMerse, Co-Chairs
- History, first tour started by Bill Hendrickson
- Proceeds have gone to the Alexandria Scholarship Fund, Judy Lowe Park improvements
- This year’s tour:
- 11 houses: Custis and Commonwealth; rowhouses near Reingold
- 2 encores: 9 East Del Ray, and Quandt house Monroe (work in progress)
- More green features
- Promotion of Del Ray Pattern Book
- Greenstreet a venue for ticket sales this year, in addition to Miller Square
- Mount Vernon Community School plans a garden bazaar
- [Del Ray Artisans is holding its annual outdoor Spring Art Market at the Colasanto Center]
- Chas Harris seeking volunteers to serve as docents (house hosting)
- Sales begin mid-April
- Looking for new leadership for the 2018 tour
- Ad Hoc North Potomac Yard Advisory Group
- Two plans 1999 and 2010, current plan undergoing revision with citizen input
- Bill Hendrickson, past DRCA President presented as candidate to represent DRCA at table
- Rod Kuckro moved to appoint Bill to be DRCA representative, seconded by Marlin Lord, Motion carried with no nays and no abstentions.
- La Bella Strada Funding Request
- Street art event on May 14
- Benefits the Del Ray Montessori School, request from February meeting for $500 to help sponsor event
- Gayle Reuther moved to sponsor event for $500, seconded by Jon Quandt, motion carries.
- DRCA mug given to DRMS
- Land Use Committee Report, Sarah Haut & Lisa Quandt
- ASUP: Dolce & Bean Coffee and Ice Cream Shop
- 2003A (former Artfully Chocolate site) to 7am-11pm
- Outdoor seating to contribute to vibrancy of Avenue
- No SUP because adequate parking in back,
- 2509 Leslie (by Stewart)
- Tear-down, rebuild
- Lord: “show them the pattern book”
- Motion: Send letter requesting deferral to BZA
- Motion carried; no objection
- Matching Funds for Park, Jim Snyder, chair Adopt-a-Park
- Finding matching funds from Parks, make our parks better
- $3000 from adopt-a-park
- Leverage improvements at Lowe Park (irrigation?)
- Adopt-a-Park kickoff meeting, March 15
- Volunteer meeting soon
- Send email to [email protected]
- More trees for Gayle and a thank-you to the Sheriff’s Dept for Commonwealth
- Dominion 220KV Power Line Update, Jay Nestlerode, DRCA President
- Several option still on the table,
- Public meeting in April
- Traffic Meeting Follow-up Meeting with Transportation & Environmental Services, Jay Nestlerode, DRCA President
- Biggest issue on horizon: Oakville 1.5M sf. unbundled parking.
- Propose new parking districts?
- 5 new parking enforcement officers.
- Painted parking outlines?
- Former Custis resident thinks parking outlines tacky
- “Paint does not work, signs don’t work!”
- Dog run problem at Mt Jefferson Park
- Nominations & Elections Committee
- Any interest in serving on 2016-2017 Board? Please contact Tim Herbert
- Membership Meeting Date Move
- Move meeting to third Wednesday allows for more membership input into the LUC process
- Problem: Thanksgiving, Christmas holidays can be a distraction to attendance.
- Can DRCA vote twice, differently?
- Gayle Reuter moved to table motion. Motion carried.
- Announcements
- House & Garden Tour, May 7: Don’t forget (and volunteer if you can)!
- National Night Oout, August 2
- Need a volunteer to coordinate
- Del Ray Artisans
- Shows:
- March Melee
- Creatures of the Sea, open April 1
- Gallery without Wall: Around the Next Corner at the Vola Lawson Animal Shelter
- Spring2Action, one-day online giving event for non-profits in Alexandria: April 20
- Del Ray Artisans would appreciate support
- Del Ray Business Association
- Support Spring2Action! April 20
- First First Thursday scheduled for April 7 [since rescheduled for April 14]
- Adjournment, 9:06 pm
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