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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Courtney Carlson, ANC commissioner and Forest Hills resident, how are you going to address this?  There should be an uproar about the shooting in your very own neighborhood.  [/quote]

ANC 3F was absolutely giddy about trying to approve a marijuana dispensary in Van Ness in walking distance to all these apartment building.  They’re absolutely insane.  Fortunately, the applicant appeared to be getting high on her own supply and was unable to answer even basic questions at her hearing. It was one of the craziest things I’ve ever seen in DC government.  [/quote]

OMG, I thought so too, her eyes were at half mast. Even MORE bizarre, the space being discussed was LEASED to another tenant, Pills Plus. So there was no point to the meeting but it went ahead anyway so they could all signal as + pot folks. Dispensaries have cash, a valuable product and are also crime targets, they can't accept credit cards. Van Ness Main Street was so sad to miss out on that opportunity.

Given the plethora of vacant commercial real estate in the area it won't be long. And they ran off Compass Coffee moving into the old BK space, they don't want a tenant to use the drive thru it is zoned for. Mom's Market has been poised to open for months, supposedly some snafu re: signage? yet ANC and Frumin have done nothing. That might bring law abiding folks to the corridor. [/quote]

It was STUNNING to watch. The commissioners were feeding her answers.  Like, “you’re going to have security . . . . right?”  They so wanted a pot store in Van Ness despite it being stones throw to hundreds of formerly homeless and mentally ill people.  It’s all my neighbors talked about for days.  [/quote]

Very close to Burke and UDC also.

My neighbors seem to think all of this is great. Watching the LE response on Saturday, with the ambulance driving away, they loudly affirmed their support for the voucher program as is. So, I appreciate your post, it's been lonely and quite surreal in my part of the neighborhood. Why they don't worry about the safety of their kids is beyond me. [/quote]

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