It's nowhere near as exciting as zoning hearings (then again, what is?), but I see that the City Council hearing on the bill to close a 2,400-sq-ft alley on Square 700 is happening
tomorrow (May 29), after having been
canceled back in February. The alley is just north of what used to be the BP Amoco station on
South Capitol Street at N (which is now Nats Parking Lot N). Monument Realty is requesting this closure to allow for the combining of both the Amoco site and the parking lot to its north, with plans to build what was described in January as a residential building with 150-200 units and 14,000 sq ft of ground-floor retail space, as part of Monument's
Half Street projects. Additional details are in
my January report on Monument's request for ANC 6D's support (which they didn't get, thanks to a 2-2-1 vote). The bill is
B017-0552, if you'd like some light afternoon reading. The hearing is
scheduled be televised/
streamed on DC Cable 13, starting at 10 am.