Rosemary's Bistro Blocking Connecticut Avenue

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Personally I think we need our ANCs and planning officials to better consider how we handle streetscapes to include enough space for outdoor dining so that it doesn't have to intrude into the street.

Just make the street smaller, problem solved.

Can't some more of the Connecticut traffic just be shifted to Reno Road? It parallels Connecticut and may be better for thru traffic that won't be stopping to shop or eat. No streeteries on Reno.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Personally I think we need our ANCs and planning officials to better consider how we handle streetscapes to include enough space for outdoor dining so that it doesn't have to intrude into the street.

Just make the street smaller, problem solved.

Can't some more of the Connecticut traffic just be shifted to Reno Road? It parallels Connecticut and may be better for thru traffic that won't be stopping to shop or eat. No streeteries on Reno.

Reno Road is already pretty congested at peak periods.

The better solution is to provide viable alternatives to single occupancy vehicles. More mass transit, more bikes etc. That is how most cities operate. DC is just way behind other places.

[Anonymous]

Curious if anyone has eaten there either inside or outside. Outside I'd be worried about a car crash landing in the space.

[Anonymous]

The city needs to charge these restaurants rent. Better than raising the sales tax on everyone else.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't understand how restaurants are allowed to commandeer public property. This is nothing more than squatting. At the very least, the city should be charging them rent.

By a magical process called filing a Public Use Permit.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Personally I think we need our ANCs and planning officials to better consider how we handle streetscapes to include enough space for outdoor dining so that it doesn't have to intrude into the street.

Just make the street smaller, problem solved.

Can't some more of the Connecticut traffic just be shifted to Reno Road? It parallels Connecticut and may be better for thru traffic that won't be stopping to shop or eat. No streeteries on Reno.

Reno Road is already pretty congested at peak periods.

The better solution is to provide viable alternatives to single occupancy vehicles. More mass transit, more bikes etc. That is how most cities operate. DC is just way behind other places.

Reno Rd. Is a tight neighborhood road that is hilly and winding. It is not analogous to Conn Avenue and is already a parking lot during school commuting times.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't understand how restaurants are allowed to commandeer public property. This is nothing more than squatting. At the very least, the city should be charging them rent.

By a magical process called filing a Public Use Permit.

Or bribes to the Bowser Administration.

[Anonymous]

I have refused to eat at this restaurant while they are taking up the public street for their extra seating. I find it t be incredibly rude to the neighbors and taking advantage of the situation. Now it’s been going on for so long I probably will never eat there. Does make me wonder whether there is some sort of corruption/payoff going on to keep it up for this long. Especially where its the only one on the block and it alone causes traffic jams.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have refused to eat at this restaurant while they are taking up the public street for their extra seating. I find it t be incredibly rude to the neighbors and taking advantage of the situation. Now it’s been going on for so long I probably will never eat there. Does make me wonder whether there is some sort of corruption/payoff going on to keep it up for this long. Especially where its the only one on the block and it alone causes traffic jams.

Hint: it is mostly neighbors that eat there, so we don't find it rude.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have refused to eat at this restaurant while they are taking up the public street for their extra seating. I find it t be incredibly rude to the neighbors and taking advantage of the situation. Now it’s been going on for so long I probably will never eat there. Does make me wonder whether there is some sort of corruption/payoff going on to keep it up for this long. Especially where its the only one on the block and it alone causes traffic jams.

You probably won't, because it's not going away anytime soon.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Personally I think we need our ANCs and planning officials to better consider how we handle streetscapes to include enough space for outdoor dining so that it doesn't have to intrude into the street.

Just make the street smaller, problem solved.

Can't some more of the Connecticut traffic just be shifted to Reno Road? It parallels Connecticut and may be better for thru traffic that won't be stopping to shop or eat. No streeteries on Reno.

Reno Road is already pretty congested at peak periods.

The better solution is to provide viable alternatives to single occupancy vehicles. More mass transit, more bikes etc. That is how most cities operate. DC is just way behind other places.

Most people are NOT going to ride bikes to work.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't understand how restaurants are allowed to commandeer public property. This is nothing more than squatting. At the very least, the city should be charging them rent.

By a magical process called filing a Public Use Permit.

Or bribes to the Bowser Administration.

Which is better than magic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Personally I think we need our ANCs and planning officials to better consider how we handle streetscapes to include enough space for outdoor dining so that it doesn't have to intrude into the street.

Just make the street smaller, problem solved.

Can't some more of the Connecticut traffic just be shifted to Reno Road? It parallels Connecticut and may be better for thru traffic that won't be stopping to shop or eat. No streeteries on Reno.

Reno Road is already pretty congested at peak periods.

The better solution is to provide viable alternatives to single occupancy vehicles. More mass transit, more bikes etc. That is how most cities operate. DC is just way behind other places.

Most people are NOT going to ride bikes to work.

And they are more likely to ride bikes solely to work than to shuttle their kids to school, then go to work, then take a child to the doctor, then go back to school, then shuttle to after-school activities, then to the store, etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have refused to eat at this restaurant while they are taking up the public street for their extra seating. I find it t be incredibly rude to the neighbors and taking advantage of the situation. Now it’s been going on for so long I probably will never eat there. Does make me wonder whether there is some sort of corruption/payoff going on to keep it up for this long. Especially where its the only one on the block and it alone causes traffic jams.

I don't think blocking one lane of Connecticut is rude to the neighbors. It might be rude to the through-commuters, but the neighbors probably eat at the restaurant.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Personally I think we need our ANCs and planning officials to better consider how we handle streetscapes to include enough space for outdoor dining so that it doesn't have to intrude into the street.

Just make the street smaller, problem solved.

Can't some more of the Connecticut traffic just be shifted to Reno Road? It parallels Connecticut and may be better for thru traffic that won't be stopping to shop or eat. No streeteries on Reno.

Reno Road is already pretty congested at peak periods.

The better solution is to provide viable alternatives to single occupancy vehicles. More mass transit, more bikes etc. That is how most cities operate. DC is just way behind other places.

Most people are NOT going to ride bikes to work.

There are a lot of kids who would ride their bikes to J-R, Deal, Murch, John Eaton, Maret, Sidwell, Burke and UDC if it were safer to do so.