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Anonymous wrote:Someone on the CCDC listserv emailed DDOT about the streateries. Its response:

"We are no longer approving streatery permits in Rush Hour Parking lanes. There are several existing streateries in Rush Hour Parking lanes now that were approved back in 2020/2021, but all will expire once the temporary program ends and need to be removed from public space."

The permit for Rosemary's Bistro expires at the end of the year and it will need to be removed then. So it'll be gone soon enough, thank goodness.

Praise be! Such an eyesore just to house 5 tables.

But what about putting Connecticut Ave on a road diet?!?

Anonymous wrote:Someone on the CCDC listserv emailed DDOT about the streateries. Its response:

"We are no longer approving streatery permits in Rush Hour Parking lanes. There are several existing streateries in Rush Hour Parking lanes now that were approved back in 2020/2021, but all will expire once the temporary program ends and need to be removed from public space."

The permit for Rosemary's Bistro expires at the end of the year and it will need to be removed then. So it'll be gone soon enough, thank goodness.

Praise be! Such an eyesore just to house 5 tables.

Someone on the CCDC listserv emailed DDOT about the streateries. Its response:

"We are no longer approving streatery permits in Rush Hour Parking lanes. There are several existing streateries in Rush Hour Parking lanes now that were approved back in 2020/2021, but all will expire once the temporary program ends and need to be removed from public space."

The permit for Rosemary's Bistro expires at the end of the year and it will need to be removed then. So it'll be gone soon enough, thank goodness.

I firmly believe that the best action the leadership of this city could make is to take every road that is greater than 4 total lanes and expand the sidewalks to consume the additional lanes, leaving us with a mix of 1-lane, 2-lane, 3-lane, and 4-lane only roads on the city streets and grander pedestrian areas. The area businesses and residents can then apply to use that extra space as needed - off street bike paths like in Navy Yard or cafe seating, or public micro-park/garden space like along upper and lower Conn Ave.

Motorists have for too long gotten their way and its literally killing the residents here. Whether directly because pedestrian deaths by motor vehicle are up like 80% from their recent low in 2005 and nearing the high-water mark since the late 1970's/early 1980's, or indirectly from the constant pollution. Take a bus or metro. Or sit in traffic if you want. But goddamn we have to stop catering hand over fist to these destructive forces.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

Or, maybe they should do what they they over on Wisconsin and just take the whole block for a streetery from the gas station all the way to the bank.

The Wisconsin streeteries (above Macomb) have largely fallen into disuse and disrepair. Time to remove them.

I was really confused by this whole thread and then I did some basic internet research and came to the conclusion that Ward 3 really, really needs a senior center with activities for its aging residents.

Density Bro ageism again.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

Or, maybe they should do what they they over on Wisconsin and just take the whole block for a streetery from the gas station all the way to the bank.

The Wisconsin streeteries (above Macomb) have largely fallen into disuse and disrepair. Time to remove them.

I was really confused by this whole thread and then I did some basic internet research and came to the conclusion that Ward 3 really, really needs a senior center with activities for its aging residents.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

Or, maybe they should do what they they over on Wisconsin and just take the whole block for a streetery from the gas station all the way to the bank.

Except the businesses on the block don't want that either.

Really? They don't? Because they all seem to use them for seating just fine and seem pretty happy with that situation.

What a wasteland

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

Or, maybe they should do what they they over on Wisconsin and just take the whole block for a streetery from the gas station all the way to the bank.

The Wisconsin streeteries (above Macomb) have largely fallen into disuse and disrepair. Time to remove them.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

Or, maybe they should do what they they over on Wisconsin and just take the whole block for a streetery from the gas station all the way to the bank.

Except the businesses on the block don't want that either.

Anonymous wrote: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.

Or, maybe they should do what they they over on Wisconsin and just take the whole block for a streetery from the gas station all the way to the bank.

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Anonymous wrote:

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.

Uh oh, it’s a big boy on a big boy bike! No one is going to tell him where he can ride his big boy bike!

PP here. I walk and take a bus. Occasionally I might ride a bikeshare but its rare because I don't feel very safe doing so on the street.

I like larger sidewalks and I enjoy eating outside and I enjoy seeing less of the car sewer that you suburbanites demand. Streeteries enable that.

Anonymous wrote: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.

If the bistro couldn’t get the permit renewed without the other businesses’ ok, then how did they get it? If they got it, is it legal? If it’s legal, the bistro is right, flippant or not.

Did the other businesses object or not? Or are they just now objecting?

You should drop by Eddie Cano and sign the petition and ask if they have contacted Van Ness Main Street. Betcha they already thought of that.

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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.

This is facts. Many such cases of strivers in Bethesda

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Uh oh, it’s a big boy on a big boy bike! No one is going to tell him where he can ride his big boy bike!