[Mintwood-place] RE: DDOT - follow-up on follow-through

Thu Apr 27 07:01:10 PDT 2006

To All

A resurvey of the parking regulations on Mintwood Place and the surrounding
blocks has been completed.  The work order to remove the 15 Minute signs has
been submitted.  You can expect the work to be completed within the next
week.  

We appreciate your patience.

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From: Eddie Becker [mailto:eddie_becker at yahoo.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2006 1:29 PM
To: michelle.pourciau at dc.gov; Mintwood List
Cc: Harold.Smith at dc.gov; ATurin at HNTB.com; Callistus.Nwadike at dc.gov; Jim
Graham
Subject: DDOT - follow-up on follow-through

Dear Michelle Pourciau, Congratulation on becoming Acting Director of DDOT.
Dan Tangherlini used this e-mail list to pick-up on good suggestions as well
as make sure his team was following-up on what they said they would do.  I
attended Dan's farewell speech at the Reeves Center,  he summed up his motto
(paraphrased by me) - all that criticism and complaining turned out to be
the most useful suggestions.   

So welcome to the Mintwood List.  

Harold Smith from your department agreed to remove a couple of 15-minute
only signs that was taking up a few desperately needed residential parking
spaces.

See
http://lists.mutualaid.org/pipermail/mintwood-place/2006-April/000772.html
<http://lists.mutualaid.org/pipermail/mintwood-place/2006-April/000772.html>

He also volunteered to resurvey the street and better yet, most of the
neighborhood with the intent to free up more residential parking spaces -
see Angela Huff's suggestions way below..  

Now the underlying cause:

The problems created, in the last 20 years, by a popular commercial corridor
crashing into a residential neighborhood was supposed to be addressed in
part by the Adams Morgan/18th Street Livability and Transportation study.

That study went through various drafts.  For a while, most of them were
posted on the contractor's website (HNTB) - but all have since been removed.
Callistus Nwadike of your staff has promised to post them on the DDOT web
site.  That would be terrific.  There were plenty of good suggestions, some
undoable now - but more realistic over time.  It would be great to be able
to refer to already suggested solutions overtime without having to reinvent
them.

Therefore, if you could just get Harold Smith and Callistus Nwadike back in
touch with the Mintwood list to let us know how they are doing on what they
said they would do and if you could follow-up with follow-through - that
would be terrific.  

Thanks in advance,  Eddie Becker

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"Smith, Harold J. (DDOT)" <Harold.Smith at dc.gov> wrote: 

From: "Smith, Harold J. (DDOT)" <Harold.Smith at dc.gov>
To: 'Eddie Becker' <eddie_becker at yahoo.com>
CC: ahuff at worldbank.org
Subject: RE: Repositioning Parking Signs in & Around Mintwood
Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2006 14:38:50 -0400 

I will resurvey the block

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From: Eddie Becker [mailto:eddie_becker at yahoo.com] 
Sent: Monday, April 03, 2006 2:33 PM
To: Smith, Harold J. (DDOT)
Cc: ahuff at worldbank.org
Subject: Repositioning Parking Signs in & Around Mintwood

Dear Harold Smith, One way to come out on top of this and win community
accolades for you and your Department, is to carve out as many new
residential parking spaces as legally possible.  There are no doubt
misallocated legacy poles that can be repositioned to create a few more feet
of parking - taken together it would add up to more parking spaces.

You can get people on the Mintwood List to help if you tell us how many feet
the law requires from stop signs, alleys, hydrants, corners, driveways, etc.
- then ask them to identify which poles that should be repositioned to
maximize space.  

Below is the first such suggestion from Angela.

Eddie

ahuff at worldbank.org wrote:

Subject: Re: Repositioning Parking Signs
To: Eddie Becker <eddie_becker at yahoo.com>
From: ahuff at worldbank.org
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 17:05:25 -0500

The first example that comes to mind is the one on the odd side of the
street,
between the alley and the fire hydrant. There used to be room for two cars,
but
now that the new sign is there, people park farther away from the alley and
closer to the hydrant, so usually only one car parks there. Then a car with
MD
or VA tags is brave enough to park in front of they hydrant. I have never
seen
the after hours squad of ticket writers issue tickets for parking in front
of
the hydrant, even though, if there was, god forbid, a fire, my house would
burn
down while they were inside.

I have often been confused by parking at the mouth of Mintwood at Columbia
Road.
Why can cars park closer to the intersection on the even side of the street,
than they can on the odd side of the street? Mintwood is a one way street.
It
makes no sense for the sake of visibility.

At the end of Mintwood, where it meets 19th, it is uneven in parking spaces
too.
And it doesn't make sense. There is a hydrant on the odd side of the street,
but that doesn't stop anyone from parking there and then they enforce
parking
all the way to the corner. Having Mintwood free of parked cars at the end
does
not make it easier to turn onto 19th. And 19th is a two way street! There is
no visibility on 19th and people drive fast on that street, particularly
from
Columbia to Biltmore.

.... 
Very kind regard, Angela

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From: "Nwadike, Callistus (DDOT)" <Callistus.Nwadike at dc.gov>
To: 'Eddie Becker' <eddie_becker at yahoo.com>
CC: 'Alan Brick-Turin' <ATurin at HNTB.com>
Subject: RE: [Mintwood-place] 18th Street Adams Morgan Transport and Livab
ility Study
Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2006 15:47:39 -0400 

We are (DDOT) moving on with scoping 18th Street from Florida Avenue to
Columbia Road for design phase of this study.  We are also waiting to hear
from ANC 1C.  HNTB was hosting the study website during the study phase.
DDOT is waiting for the website files and will post same under DDOT website
soon after receipt.  Thanks.

Callistus

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From: mintwood-place-bounces at lists.mutualaid.org
[mailto:mintwood-place-bounces at lists.mutualaid.org] On Behalf Of Eddie
Becker
Sent: Friday, March 31, 2006 3:13 PM
To: ATurin at HNTB.com; Mintwood List
Subject: [Mintwood-place] 18th Street Adams Morgan Transport and Livability
Study

Dear Alan Turin,  What became of the 18th Street Transportation and
Livability study? 

http://www.18amstudy.com <http://www.18amstudy.com/>     

All that work your team at HNTB put-in is no longer on-line.    I know it
was quite difficult to get community consensus on much of it.  I thought it
was really very forward thinking.  

It would be great to keep it up somewhere - if even on the DC Department of
Transportation site.  And implement some of it - over time - as conditions
necessitate?

Thanks.  

Eddie Becker

Cc Mintwood list

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