Rosemary's Bistro Blocking Connecticut Avenue

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:1. The restaurant has a huge sign facing the street while regulations stipulate smaller one facing sidewalk.

2. The structure blocks visibility from Truist parking lot if you try to turn left and many have legit complained about near misses.

3. Streateries are prohibited on “ principle arteries “ Conn Ave is an emergency route. It never should have been allowed on this street.

4. The traffic build up in mornings is huge and a major problem DDOT needs to look into.

Don't try to turn left out of that parking lot, what a stupid move to try to make.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:1. The restaurant has a huge sign facing the street while regulations stipulate smaller one facing sidewalk.

2. The structure blocks visibility from Truist parking lot if you try to turn left and many have legit complained about near misses.

3. Streateries are prohibited on “ principle arteries “ Conn Ave is an emergency route. It never should have been allowed on this street.

4. The traffic build up in mornings is huge and a major problem DDOT needs to look into.

The cars have been building up at the intersection of Nebraska and Conn. Ave since at least the 1980's. The streetery has nothing to do with it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:1. The restaurant has a huge sign facing the street while regulations stipulate smaller one facing sidewalk.

2. The structure blocks visibility from Truist parking lot if you try to turn left and many have legit complained about near misses.

3. Streateries are prohibited on “ principle arteries “ Conn Ave is an emergency route. It never should have been allowed on this street.

4. The traffic build up in mornings is huge and a major problem DDOT needs to look into.

The cars have been building up at the intersection of Nebraska and Conn. Ave since at least the 1980's. The streetery has nothing to do with it.

I’ve been traveling that stretch in the morning for 15 years (and no, I don’t live in Maryland) and it’s definitely worse now with the streatery. It’s not uncommon to sit thru multiple lights because of the forced merge.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:1. The restaurant has a huge sign facing the street while regulations stipulate smaller one facing sidewalk.

2. The structure blocks visibility from Truist parking lot if you try to turn left and many have legit complained about near misses.

3. Streateries are prohibited on “ principle arteries “ Conn Ave is an emergency route. It never should have been allowed on this street.

4. The traffic build up in mornings is huge and a major problem DDOT needs to look into.

The cars have been building up at the intersection of Nebraska and Conn. Ave since at least the 1980's. The streetery has nothing to do with it.

I’ve been traveling that stretch in the morning for 15 years (and no, I don’t live in Maryland) and it’s definitely worse now with the streatery. It’s not uncommon to sit thru multiple lights because of the forced merge.

Take metro? I don't feel bad for you.

[Anonymous]

I like that it slows people down.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I like that it slows people down.

The selfish strategy causes frustrated drivers to divert on to 36th St, sending more commuter traffic directly past Murch Elem Schook and making conditions much less safe for our school children. Is a streetery worth neighborhood school safety?

[Anonymous]

Nooo. The turn off to 36th is south of the block with the restaurants. Why would traffic divert south of the streatery rather than continuing on CT Ave at that point? Cars traveling north on CT Ave wouldn’t need to divert to 36th because the streatery is in the southbound lane.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Nooo. The turn off to 36th is south of the block with the restaurants. Why would traffic divert south of the streatery rather than continuing on CT Ave at that point? Cars traveling north on CT Ave wouldn’t need to divert to 36th because the streatery is in the southbound lane.

Don't try to get the carbrain to make sense. Look, its this simple: they moved to the suburbs to get their 0.20 acre of Kentucky Bluegrass and McMansion and now demand that the rest of society permanently and irrevocably contorts the built environment to provide unfettered access to them and their personal vehicle.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:1. The restaurant has a huge sign facing the street while regulations stipulate smaller one facing sidewalk.

2. The structure blocks visibility from Truist parking lot if you try to turn left and many have legit complained about near misses.

3. Streateries are prohibited on “ principle arteries “ Conn Ave is an emergency route. It never should have been allowed on this street.

4. The traffic build up in mornings is huge and a major problem DDOT needs to look into.

The cars have been building up at the intersection of Nebraska and Conn. Ave since at least the 1980's. The streetery has nothing to do with it.

OK, I've been sitting this one out but you need to be corrected. The streetery has everything to do with the SB bottleneck. I too have been driving south on Conn for decades (and I'm a DC resident before some bro levies the dreaded "Maryland commuter" epithet). The abrupt closure of a SB drive lane is responsible for a whole new level of clusterfk that didn't exist before.

And now, cue the Navy Yard bro who will sneer that I should be riding my unicycle down Conn. Ave and never drive again if I don't like the tax-free, patronage giveaway to this one restaurant.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:1. The restaurant has a huge sign facing the street while regulations stipulate smaller one facing sidewalk.

2. The structure blocks visibility from Truist parking lot if you try to turn left and many have legit complained about near misses.

3. Streateries are prohibited on “ principle arteries “ Conn Ave is an emergency route. It never should have been allowed on this street.

4. The traffic build up in mornings is huge and a major problem DDOT needs to look into.

The cars have been building up at the intersection of Nebraska and Conn. Ave since at least the 1980's. The streetery has nothing to do with it.

OK, I've been sitting this one out but you need to be corrected. The streetery has everything to do with the SB bottleneck. I too have been driving south on Conn for decades (and I'm a DC resident before some bro levies the dreaded "Maryland commuter" epithet). The abrupt closure of a SB drive lane is responsible for a whole new level of clusterfk that didn't exist before.

And now, cue the Navy Yard bro who will sneer that I should be riding my unicycle down Conn. Ave and never drive again if I don't like the tax-free, patronage giveaway to this one restaurant.

As an aside, I legit saw a dude on a unicycle today near Jackson-Reed headed to that gym off Brandywine, lol.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What businesses are being this petty? I'm Eddie Cano and who else? Can't wait to stop going to them! Rosemary's is awesome. The barriers could be made to look nicer but it is a great place to dine outside.

Frederic, it's getting really obvious

Lol. I don't know who Frederic is but I assume related to the bistro.

Which businesses are opposing the streetery?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:1. The restaurant has a huge sign facing the street while regulations stipulate smaller one facing sidewalk.

2. The structure blocks visibility from Truist parking lot if you try to turn left and many have legit complained about near misses.

3. Streateries are prohibited on “ principle arteries “ Conn Ave is an emergency route. It never should have been allowed on this street.

4. The traffic build up in mornings is huge and a major problem DDOT needs to look into.

The cars have been building up at the intersection of Nebraska and Conn. Ave since at least the 1980's. The streetery has nothing to do with it.

OK, I've been sitting this one out but you need to be corrected. The streetery has everything to do with the SB bottleneck. I too have been driving south on Conn for decades (and I'm a DC resident before some bro levies the dreaded "Maryland commuter" epithet). The abrupt closure of a SB drive lane is responsible for a whole new level of clusterfk that didn't exist before.

And now, cue the Navy Yard bro who will sneer that I should be riding my unicycle down Conn. Ave and never drive again if I don't like the tax-free, patronage giveaway to this one restaurant.

Second this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:honestly, I’ve never understood the unfairness of the streeteries - some businesses are just given extra outdoor square footage that they don’t pay taxes on and others do not. But to the extent that the pandemic warranted doing that, that excuse is long over. Its one thing if DC decides to close a street (like it did near DuPont circle) to create a public outdoor space, but cutting into traffic flow for one business at the expense of all drivers on the road and other competing businesses just smacks of corruption to me. I hate the Rosemary’s streetery and honestly, their response on the local listserv has convinced me to sign teh petition against them. Either way I’ll probably never ever patronize their restaurant even though I live walking distance from there because I refuse to give those smug obnoxious, selfish owners any of my money.

It’s incredibly unfair and I’m surprised other businesses haven’t either demanded the same treatment or demanded that this eatery stops taking over.

How is it unfair? Those same businesses CAN get the same access and HAVE in the past. And they ARE demanding this eatery stop.

I guess it’s completely fair for a business to just start expanding into public spaces without paying the appropriate taxes.

They should have to pay 2 RPPs worth to have that space for a year. So that's about an extra $100 for violence interupters.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:1. The restaurant has a huge sign facing the street while regulations stipulate smaller one facing sidewalk.

2. The structure blocks visibility from Truist parking lot if you try to turn left and many have legit complained about near misses.

3. Streateries are prohibited on “ principle arteries “ Conn Ave is an emergency route. It never should have been allowed on this street.

4. The traffic build up in mornings is huge and a major problem DDOT needs to look into.

The cars have been building up at the intersection of Nebraska and Conn. Ave since at least the 1980's. The streetery has nothing to do with it.

OK, I've been sitting this one out but you need to be corrected. The streetery has everything to do with the SB bottleneck. I too have been driving south on Conn for decades (and I'm a DC resident before some bro levies the dreaded "Maryland commuter" epithet). The abrupt closure of a SB drive lane is responsible for a whole new level of clusterfk that didn't exist before.

And now, cue the Navy Yard bro who will sneer that I should be riding my unicycle down Conn. Ave and never drive again if I don't like the tax-free, patronage giveaway to this one restaurant.

All I hear is someone lashing insults at unicycle riders and not enough talking about the benefits for your balance and core muscles that riding the unicycle down Conn Ave gives you

Curious.

[Anonymous]

You can’t get a streatery licesnse without written approval of your neighboring businesses. So why should you be able to get a renewal when those same businesses have rescinded their approval ?

While the restaurant owner can flippantly assert over and over that “ it’s legal so just leave us alone” , Van Ness Main Street the actual applicant for the streatery should have the entire block’s interests in mind and should recommend a suspension of the streatery until the dispute is worked out.

Neighbors should contact Van Ness Main Street and have them answer to this mess they and Rosemarys Bistro created.