Updates

PSA MAP: Council Member Sharon Ambrose said at the ANC meeting on Dec. 11: "I am pretty convinced that this map [showing the compromise that was reported in the Dec. 1 Corner Forum] will be what the PSA boundaries will be." The ANC voted unanimously on Dec. 11 to request that the police department leave the existing lieutenants, sergeants and officers with their existing geographic areas of responsibility after our area, currently part of the Fifth Police District, becomes part of the First District. (The Corner Forum will be in PSA 103 rather than 511.)

LIQUOR/GROCERY STORES: Both N-A Minit (421 13th St. NE) and Excello (419 13th St. NE) are in negotiations with residents who protestants on the renewal of its. Shannon Micah Salb, 1300 block of G Street NE, and Mary Beatty, 1200 block of Duncan Place NE, are representing protestants in negotiations. Council Member Sharon Ambrose, outside the ANC 6A meeting on Dec. 11, said the following about the protests: "Whatever Michael Musante says, that's what we're doing. I am supporting the SMD Commissioner on that. He is the elected representative for this community, and I respect his ability to represent the community, so what he tells me on that — he's closer to everybody that lives in that community than I am, so I respect that, and I think that he adequately represents the neighbors." Commissioner Musante's last public statement was at the November ANC meeting, where he voted to support a motion that the ANC protest the transfer of Excello's liquor license to N-A Minit and said, "The majority of the individuals in my single member district have approached me and said we should continue with [the protest], and I will do as I stated — whatever the majority of my single member district wants to do, I will do." However, he did not personally sign on as a protestant to either the renewal or the transfer.

KRAMER ST. GROUP HOME: Advisory Neighborhood Commission 6A voted Dec. 11 to request that the City Council require that any D.C. agency planning to build or expand publicly funded facilities notify the affected ANC 40 days before submitting a building permit application to DCRA. (ANC Commissioners and residents near a facility being built on Kramer Street are frustrated that they had not been notified about the project beforehand.) Council Member Ambrose introduced the Notice Requirement for Publicly Funded Building Project Amendment Act of 2003 in the City Council on Tuesday. The bill, B15-0635, would require that ANCs, individual commissioners in affected single-member districts and the Council member in the affected Ward be notified of building permit applications for publicly funded projects. It is co-sponsored by Council members Catania, Orange, Graham, Chavous, Brazil, Allen, Mendelson, Schwartz and Cropp.

CORNER FORUM ACKNOWLEDGMENTS: The following people helped produce or distribute the Dec. 10 issue of the Corner Forum: Marc Borbely, 536 13th St. NE (editing); Tammi Cioffi, 536 13th St. NE (folding). There are 81 households in the Corner Forum area that are subscribed to the newsletter (29 on E Street, 29 on Emerald Street, 17 on 13th Street, and 6 on Duncan Place). Thank you, to all. §