- Call to order
- Agenda Items
- Welcome
- Alexandria Police Report
- DRCA Budget Presentation
- DRCA Announcements
- Special Guest, Mayor Alison Silberberg
- Land Use Committee
- Announcements
- Adjournment
- Call to order: 7:35 pm
- Welcome: Rod Kuckro, President
- Alexandria Police Department: Captain Dennis Andreas
- Crime down 5%
- 3.6% of city crime
- 9 auto larcenies
- Bike larcenies: Lock mechanism itself victimized (square heads)
- Broken mirrors: Call City’s non-emergency number to report
- Property damage
- Hit & run: Screwy caper”
- Back to school increased enforcement
- Chief Cook retiring 10/1
- Q&A
- Dewitt burglary
- Commonwealth traffic stop
- How to report broken mirrors
- False alarm contracted out
- DRCA 2016-2017 Budget Presentation, Bea Robinson, Treasurer
- Discussion of DRCA operating expenses
- Discussion about parks and Adopt-a-Park program (parks include: Commonwealth medians, Judy Lowe, St. Asaph, Simpson Gardens, Mason, W&OD Trail
- Jim Snyder asked DRCA to leverage partnership opportunities to save dying trees. No specific motion.
- Introduction of Jen Atkins, Chair, City Parks Commission.
- Groups can get $25K/ matching grants
- Pocket Parks Planning Process coming in Spring 2017, following planning process for citywide and neighborhood parks
- Motion by Gayle Reuter: Amend Halloween Parade $500 to $1000, seconded
- Amendment by Slack to reduce to $750, no second
- Orignal motion carried, one vote against.
- Motion to approve budget as amended carries.
- DRCA Announcements, Rod Kuckro
- Board Vacancy for Events Director
- Needed for February Chili Cookout, August National Night Out
- Discussion of Del Ray alley project: Naming alleys? Beautify alleys?
- Closed off alleys =Pocket park candidates?
- Spray Park
- Spite Garage
- Special Guest: Mayor Alison Silberberg
- Three year Duncan Ave resident from 1989
- LOVES Art on the Avenue, Halloween Parade
- 34% tree canopy, work toward national goal 40%
- 25th Anniversary Town of Potomac Historic District
- 50th anniversary of Hist Preservation Act
- Focus on public safety
- Excellent work by Police, Fire, Sheriff
- Enforcement
- Focus on connecting with community:
- Clergy Council Quarterly Coffee
- Quarterly Business Roundtable Coffee
- Public invited to City Council (Saturday morning “open mike”)
- Renaming Jeff Davis? AS favors proposal for Patrick Henry Street?
- Questions?
- Big discussion on trees
- “Spite Garage”on Monroe
- Jinks memo just released
- More sunshine on permit process?
- Parking inventory
- Pressure on private lots to hare space?
- Parking garage like Bethesda for Del Ray?
- Holistic look at code, not piecemeal
- East of Commonwealth R2: Economic pressure on SFH to get torn down and built as duplexes: Threat to neighborhood character
- It seems that staff find it easier to recommend a tear down than preserve
- Land Use Committee
- Happy Tart expansion:
- 10 inside seat, 20 ouside, awning cooking offsite in Falls CHurcj
- Parking reduction, plus 4 bike spots
- Why bike rack?: Existing racks full and owner hapry
- All in favor
- Spite Garage
- Push email for resolution
- Announcements
- Bocce challenge
- Art on the Avenue, October 1
- Please donate clothes for scarecrows
- Del Ray Artisans
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- Current show Fire & Earth. Next up: Local Flavor
- Simpson Park playground design
- Adjournment: 9:31 pm
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