Connecticut Ave, NW in Chevy Chase, DC Needs Help!
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Anonymous
| bring back tasty bites and baskin robins! |
Anonymous
No, one of the shortcomings of the current zoning code is that parcel is zoned purely for residential. Had they wanted to go mixed use with retail, they would have needed zoning relief, and caused even more pain for the nearby residents (and dragged the case on for another two years). As a result, they went straight matter of right, which in my opinion, is a loss. It would have been great to have a small amount of retail there. |
Anonymous
Dear Longtime CCDC resident, I am not sure how much more Blue44 can be inside the boundaries of Chevy Chase DC than Connecticut Avenue between Livingston and Morrison. It is in the heart of the commercial strip. |
Anonymous
| My crazy wish is that Sniders in Silver spring takes over the safeway in chevy chase dc. |
Anonymous
Yes and no. If you look at the history of how Connecticut Ave was planned, it carefully has commercial areas set between residential areas, including multi family buildings set back from the avenue. DuPont Circle, Woodley, Cleveland Park, Van Ness, the area near Politics and Prose were the commercial strips, which included mixed use. Then there are blocks and clocks in-between with purely residential. Massachusetts is almost entirely residential and institutional except for the modest Spring Valley commercial area. Upper Wisconsin by contrast was less planned with more of a commercial and residential hodge podge. Putting mixed use commercial at Military and Conn. would change this planning construct for Connecticut (which is why a mixed use PUD probably would not have been approved there), and in any case there's blocks and blocks of commercial zoned space a few blocks away. |
Anonymous
| Chevy Chase obviously was designed as a commercial area too. |
Anonymous
| Has any one tried the new crab place yet? |
Anonymous
not open yet. |
Anonymous
I am a pretty big ANC hater, but in this case, this is not at all on the ANC. And actually, the ANC has evolved to be much better over the past couple of years - a lot of the stodgy people rotated off, thank goodness. The main issue is that with limited supply and high demand, there is simply no need for quality to improve. The turnover happens when someone decides to close their business or it is just so bad, like the Chinese place, that people don't support it. Add to it that the underlying zoning is for 2 story commercial, so there is really very little opportunity to add the residential density and new retail spots to catalyze the area. |
Anonymous
Yes! I have fond memories of "playing" pac man at tasty bites, when I was too young to know that you had to put quarters in to play for real. |
Anonymous
Jetties says hello. |
Anonymous
+1 Magruders, Pumpernickel, Starbucks, Safeway, & Bread & Chocolate also have salads, by the way (though its literally half of Jetties' menu). |
Anonymous
| To PP, so rich people can't have nice shopping options? We can't fight for better options and cleaned up streetscapes like people from less wealthy neighborhoods? BTW, Chevy Chase DC is middle of the road wealth, not high wealth like Georgetown, Kalarama, etc. |
Anonymous
| Great 21:00, thanks for the insightful post (not!). How about some helpful suggestions vs. complaining about what options others throw out. |
Anonymous
What is the new crab place and where? |