
I've just about reached my recommended yearly allowance of writing about the
various Capper zoning requests that are pending right now, but there's a light at the end of the tunnel, since
the hearing is finally being held Thursday night at 6:30 pm. If you've grown tired (as I have) of my haphazard attempts to describe exactly what's being requested, you can now pour through
the Office of Planning report, which gives far more detail than I've ever attempted. Even if you don't want to know that much about it all, there's a pretty good map on page three of the report that details the plans for every block of
Capper/Carrollsburg (though without any timelines for the future projects). I have a similar map on my
main Capper page, but this one does add a lot of detail.
I've also managed to snag the first renderings of two of the planned Capper apartment buildings, which I've added to
my project page. One (seen at top left) shows the 171-unit building planned for L Street, next to
Canal Park and behind the proposed
250 M Street office building. There's also now a first look at the 189-unit building planned for the 600 block of L Street (seen above), on the north side of the
old Capper Seniors lot and just south of the
Marine Bachelor Enlisted Quarters. In the original Capper plans, this site was going to be townhouses, but it was decided that an apartment building would fit in better with the larger surrounding structures.