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A city-run pilot program intend-ed to help alleviate Sunday church-related parking headaches in Columbia Heights may be ready to kick off within the next few months. Under the program, many churchgoers would be eligible for discounted access to the District-owned garage at the DC USA shop-ping center — paying $3 instead of $5 for four hours of Sunday parking. The area around DC USA has long had parking difficulties due to the number of parishioners who attend four nearby churches: Shrine of the Sacred Heart at 3211 Sacred Heart Way; All Souls Church

Unitarian at 1500 Harvard St.; St. Stephen and the Incarnation Episcopal at 1525 Newton St.; and Kelsey Temple Church of God at 1435 Park Road. “There has always been a serious

parking deficiency at these four churches,” said Laina Aquiline, a member of the Columbia Heights advisory neighborhood commission and parishioner at Sacred Heart. At the same time, the DC USA garage, located at 3100 14th St., has been historically underutilized — often to just to a quarter of its 1,000-space capacity, Aquiline estimates. As in much of the city, the District already relaxes its usual parking restrictions on residential streets near these churches on Sundays — until 2 p.m., when regular enforcement is reinstated. This poses a challenge for congregants who attend lengthier services, or plan to spend most of their day at church, Aquiline said.

DC USA lot to host church parking pilot

Bill Petros/The CurrentThe city’s plan aims to ease Sunday parking.

By BRADY HOLTCurrent Staff Writer

As developers renovate the Watergate Hotel, seeking to modern-ize facilities and increase the room count, they’re also working to capi-talize on the site’s river views with six outdoor seating areas. Residents of the Watergate com-plex’s three condominium buildings say they support the plans by Euro Capital Properties. But some, par-ticularly in the Watergate West building, are angling for tight con-trols over the operations of the out-door seating as the firm seeks liquor licenses for the six “summer gar-dens.” The Foggy Bottom/West End advisory neighborhood commission last Wednesday voted unanimously to protest the liquor licenses until Euro Capital reaches agreements with the three buildings. This is a procedural move, commissioners stressed — not a vote against out-door seating at the Watergate Hotel. At the meeting, Euro Capital

principal Jacques Cohen said the summer gardens are essential to the success of the hotel, located at 2650 Virginia Ave. The project’s estimat-ed costs have ballooned from $45 million to $85 million, and its sched-uled completion date — now spring 2014 — is more than a year behind its original target of before the inau-guration. “We believe the Watergate Hotel has the true potential to be an urban luxury resort,” said Cohen. “The summer gardens are the only way to achieve that business plan. Without that, we’re only one of many hotels

Watergate Hotel requestssix outdoor seating spots

Bill Petros/The CurrentCaitlin Hume and co-workers at her Reston office volunteered Friday to help bring order to Tyler Elementary School’s library as part of the Martin Luther King Jr. Weekend of Service.

B O O K W O R M

■ Development: Some area residents fear noise impacts

By KATIE PEARCECurrent Staff Writer

Despite apparent consensus that the Metropolitan Police Department needs more officers, exactly how to add them is still up for debate between the mayor and members of the D.C. Council. While Mayor Vincent Gray con-tinues to push for a budget proposal to add new officers this year, and Chairman Phil Mendelson has come up with a new plan for making that happen, Ward 2 D.C. Council mem-ber Jack Evans has separately intro-duced legislation to set a permanent minimum staffing level of 4,000 officers. Both Mendelson and Evans are now moving forward with their proposals. D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier has stressed that her department’s current staffing levels — 3,890 sworn officers, with about 250 antic-ipated retirements this year — is not sufficient to keep pace with the city’s development boom. In a Dec. 17 letter to Mendelson, she said she needed “more foot, bike and Segway patrols” to deal with popular night-

City debates ways to add more police

By DEIRDRE BANNONCurrent Staff Writer

Garrison Elementary School and Francis-Stevens Education Campus will remain open after all, following a reversal by D.C. Public Schools Chancellor Kaya Henderson. After presenting plans in November to close 20 underenrolled D.C. Public Schools campuses, Henderson last week dropped the number to 15. School officials deter-mined that Garrison was likely to see

future growth and that Francis-Stevens’ underused capacity could accommodate overflow from the School Without Walls. Henderson described her consoli-dation plan as an effort to better manage resources by shuttering underenrolled and in some cases aging facilities. Those savings would instead go toward implementing stronger programming in the remain-ing public schools. In Northwest, though Garrison and Francis-Stevens will remain open, both will be required to make some changes to help boost enroll-ment. And in what some perceived

Chancellor trims list for upcoming closures■ Schools: Francis-Stevens to house Walls’ ninth grade

Bill Petros/Current File PhotoEuro Capital aims to set up “summer gardens.”

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Metro grants contract to redo escalators A newly awarded $151.1 million contract will fund the moderniza-tion or replacement of 128 escala-tors in the Metrorail system by

2020, the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority announced Thursday. KONE Corp. will be responsible for the project, which includes esca-lators at the Cleveland Park, Columbia Heights, Friendship

Heights, Georgia Avenue-Petworth, Shaw-Howard University, U Street, Van Ness-UDC and Woodley Park stations. The first 88 escalators will be completed by 2018, with the fol-lowing 40 in 2019 and 2020, according to a news release. “Today’s contract award advanc-es our commitment to improve escalator reliability for our custom-ers for years to come,” Metro gen-eral manager Richard Sarles says in the release. “This is about recon-structive surgery, not Band-Aid solutions.”

Gray names nominee for zoning board seat A Ward 4 real estate and banking attorney could soon fill a tie-break-ing seat on the D.C. Board of Zoning Adjustment, which rules on exceptions to the zoning code for small and large property owners in the city. The D.C. Council has set a Jan. 30 hearing on Mayor Vincent Gray’s nomination of Kathryn Allen to a fifth seat on the board. According to her resume, Allen served as director of the D.C. Department of Banking and Financial Institutions from 1999 to 2003, and as manager of a consult-ing firm and co-president of a real estate title and settlement company since then. The board has lacked full mem-bership since Rashida MacMurray, also a real estate lawyer, resigned shortly after her confirmation last spring.

Graham introduces bill on landlord fees The D.C. Council may soon beef up protections for renters in the city by applying consumer protection laws to landlord-tenant transactions. A bill introduced Tuesday by Ward 1 member Jim Graham would allow the city to take enforcement

action if landlords impose excessive late fees, attorney fees, court costs or “unwarranted charges” for repairs. Currently, Graham said, a tenant can challenge excessive fees only by refusing to pay them, and possi-bly prompting a lawsuit for evic-tion. “This is a risky strategy that places the tenant’s housing need-lessly and unfairly in jeopardy,” he said. Graham said several other states already apply consumer protection statutes to landlord-tenant relations. Ward 3 member Mary Cheh and Yvette Alexander of Ward 7 co-introduced the measure. The Apartment and Office Building Association of Metropolitan Washington, the major trade group for area landlords, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

March deadline eyed for taxi credit cards All of the city’s taxis will be required to accept non-cash pay-

ment by March 30 under a D.C. Taxicab Commission proposal announced Friday. Cab drivers will not, however, be required to use the Total Smart Meter System device — a departure from previous plans. They will now be welcome to purchase any credit card reader meeting the commis-sion’s standards, according to a commission news release. The commission will vote on the proposal on Thursday. Though the measure is not yet final, the news release states that the commission “intends” to adopt it.

Correction In the Jan. 16 issue, an article on four language-based charter schools and plans for a new upper school misidentified the location of Mundo Verde Bilingual Charter School, which moved from Dupont Circle to Mount Pleasant at the beginning of the school year. The Current regrets the error. As a matter of policy, The Current corrects all errors of sub-stance. To report an error, call the managing editor at 202-567-2011.

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Wednesday, Jan. 23 The D.C. State Board of Education will meet at 5:30 p.m. in the Old Council Chambers, One Judiciary Square, 441 4th St. NW. The board will hear public com-ments on proposed high school graduation requirements.■ Ward 3 D.C. Council member Mary Cheh will hold a forum on the proposed development of the property at 5333 Connecticut Ave. The meeting will begin at 7:30 p.m. at the Chevy Chase Community Center, 5601 Connecticut Ave. NW.

Thursday, Jan. 24 The D.C. Historic Preservation Review Board will hold its monthly meeting at 9 a.m. in Room 220 South, One Judiciary Square, 441 4th St. NW. ■ The Roosevelt High School Improvement Team will meet to discuss moderniza-tion plans at 6 p.m. in the library at Roosevelt High School, 4301 13th St. NW.■ The George Washington University Mount Vernon Campus will hold its quarterly community meeting at 7 p.m. in the Webb Building on the campus, 2100 Foxhall Road NW. To RSVP, call 202-994-0211 or email bwaddell@gwu.edu.■ The Crestwood Citizens Association will hold its bimonthly meeting from 7 to 8:30 p.m. at 1761 Crestwood Drive NW. Agenda items will include pedestrian safety and recommended safety enhancements at Blagden Avenue and Beach Drive, as well as reactivation of Orange Hat patrols to deter crime.

Saturday, Jan. 26 The Housing for All Campaign will hold a rally in support of the group’s vision for D.C. as “a place where all residents live in housing in good condition that they can afford.” The event will be held from noon to 2 p.m. in the Great Hall, Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, 901 G St. NW.

Monday, Jan. 28 The D.C. Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs will hold a work-shop on how to obtain a street vendor’s license. The workshop will be held from 6 to 7 p.m. in Room 4302 at 1100 4th St. SW. To register, call 202-442-8170 or email jacqueline.noisette@dc.gov.

Tuesday, Jan. 29 The D.C. Taxicab Commission Uniform Color Panel will hold a meeting to hear public comments on proposed one-color designs for D.C. taxis. The meeting will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Southeast Library, 403 7th St. SE.■ American University will hold a special meeting of its Community Liaison Committee to discuss future uses of the university-owned building that currently houses the law school. The meeting will be held at 7 p.m. in Room 600 at the Washington College of Law, 4801 Massachusetts Ave. NW.

Wednesday, Jan. 30 The D.C. Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs will hold a work-shop on new D.C. corporation laws, including Office of Tax and Revenue filing requirements for nonprofit corporations. The workshop will be held from 5 to 7 p.m. in Room 4302 at 1100 4th St. SW. To register, call 202-442-8170 or email jacqueline.noisette@dc.gov.

The week ahead

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By ELIZABETH WIENERCurrent Staff Writer

With most of the homegrown Magruder’s grocery chain up for sale, only the fate of the company’s lone District outlet seems certain. “We’re not changing anything,” said Ki Yoon, a local entrepreneur who bought the produce market and adjacent liquor store at 5626 Connecticut Ave. last week. Even the name, he said, will stay the same. “I worked hard to keep the Magruder’s name,” Yoon said, not-ing the company has sold food in the District and then its suburbs since 1875. “It’s a D.C. tradition — a great store that has served custom-ers for decades.” In an interview at the store, the new owner said he also intends to keep the same product mix — a full-service liquor store and deli, with a popular farmers market next door. The only upgrades planned at this time are those for carpeting and other fixtures that have grown a bit dingy. “I want to preserve what’s good, keep the same quality and prices,” Yoon said. Even the employees will stay. “We’re keeping everyone. There was a lot of uncertainty, so they’re

ecstatic about that,” Yoon said. The chain’s owners last week confirmed rumors that they’d be selling. Four other stores — in Rockville and Gaithersburg in Maryland, and Vienna and Alexandria in Virginia — are up for sale. Company officials said the store in Northwest D.C. had already sold, but declined to name the buyer. In a statement, Magruder’s vice president Gary Bortnick said, “We are currently in negotiations to sell the remaining four locations to a group who wishes to purchase the individual stores and to reopen them as quickly as possible.” Rumors have abounded that the small chain was finding it increas-ingly hard to compete with the larger, and swiftly proliferating, area supermarkets. The fate of the store’s union con-tract, however, is not clear. Local 400 of the United Food & Commercial Workers Union had a collective bargaining agreement with the entire Magruder’s chain, but it does not continue when the stores are sold. Mark Federici, president of the Local 400, said by phone, “We would be happy to continue, and hope they would abide by the work-ers’ desire.”

New owner vows to preserve Magruder’s store in District

By ALIX PIANINCurrent Staff Writer

The National Park Service opened bidding Friday for a contract to run a waterfront boat rental currently occupied by Jack’s Boathouse — even as city and federal agencies review claims that the Park Service does not actually own the land. The Park Service issued a Request for Qualifications for the rental facility, wherein vendors are invited to bid for the boat rental contract at the Georgetown site. The Park

Service will accept responses through Feb. 6 and grant the concession agreement at the end of February, according to a news release. Jack’s Boathouse, located at 3500 K St. west of the Key Bridge, has provided boat rentals and storage since 1945. In 1985, D.C. transferred jurisdiction of certain Georgetown waterfront property — including the Jack’s site — to the Park Service. The rental business has since leased the property from the agency. On Dec. 18, current owner Paul Simkin was told that the Park Service had canceled his lease, and was instructed to vacate his business

by Jan. 31. After reviewing the case, the Park Service rescinded the eviction notice — but then told Simkin’s attorney, Charles Camp, that the Jack’s lease would be terminated when the agency grants a new concession contract. Simkin will be permitted to compete for the concession contract. Camp said he is prepared to enter litigation if the Park Service does not withdraw the Request for Qualifications. “My client’s not going to leave without a court order,” he said. Furthermore, Camp contends that the prop-

erty does not actually belong to the National Park Service at all, a claim first reported by the City Paper. The D.C. Council resolution in 1985 that transferred jurisdiction of certain waterfront property — including Jack’s — to the Park Service contains a clause that would revert the land back to the District in the event of an amendment, Camp said. He pointed to amend-ments to the resolution — one in 2000, and another in 2005 — that he believes reverted the property back to D.C. years ago.

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This is a listing of reports taken from Jan. 13 through 20 by the Metropolitan Police Department in local police service areas.

PSA 101

Stolen auto■ 9th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue; unspecified premises; 8:15 a.m. Jan 20.Theft (below $250)■ 700 block, 11th St.; unspec-ified premises; 1 p.m. Jan. 15.■ 1200 block, G St.; store; 6:56 p.m. Jan. 17.■ 1000 block, H St.; hotel; 6:21 a.m. Jan. 18.■ 700 block, 14th St.; store; 6:20 p.m. Jan. 18.■ 1300 block, New York Ave.; sidewalk; 3 p.m. Jan. 19.■ 900 block, F St.; tavern/nightclub; 2 a.m. Jan. 20.■ 4th Street and Independence Avenue SW; unspecified premises; 3:30 p.m. Jan. 20.Theft (shoplifting)■ 1200 block, G St.; store; 5:45 p.m. Jan. 15.Theft from auto (below $250)■ 1200 block, K St.; street; 7 p.m. Jan. 15.

PSA 102

Robbery (snatch)■ 700 block, 7th St.; sidewalk; 10:30 p.m. Jan. 17.Assault with a dangerous weapon (miscellaneous)■ 500 block, H St.; bus; 9:47 p.m. Jan. 15.Theft (below $250)■ 700 block, G St.; restaurant; 9:16 p.m. Jan. 14.■ 800 block, 7th St.; restau-rant; 5:56 p.m. Jan. 16.■ 1000 block, 5th St.; restau-rant; 8:57 p.m. Jan. 19.Theft from auto (below $250)■ 800 block, 6th St.; unspeci-fied premises; 11:40 a.m. Jan. 15.

PSA 201

Theft from auto (below $250)■ 5200 block, 38th St.; unspecified premises; 12:46 a.m. Jan. 14.■ 5500 block, Broad Branch Road; street; 6 p.m. Jan. 17.■ 5100 block, Chevy Chase Parkway; street; 9:30 p.m. Jan. 17.■ 3700 block, Harrison St.; street; 10:30 p.m. Jan. 17.■ 3600 block, Ingomar Place; street; unspecified time Jan. 17.■ Connecticut Avenue and Legation Street; street; 10:30 a.m. Jan. 19.

PSA 202

Robbery (force and violence)■ 5100 block, 44th St.; side-

walk; 7:15 p.m. Jan. 14.Theft (below $250)■ 5100 block, Wisconsin Ave.; unspecified premises; 4:56 p.m. Jan. 18.■ 5300 block, Wisconsin Ave.; store; 7:10 p.m. Jan. 18.Theft from auto ($250 plus)■ 4300 block, Harrison St.; unspecified premises; 8:39 p.m. Jan. 18.Theft from auto (below $250)■ 5400 block, 42nd St.; unspecified premises; 3 p.m. Jan. 20.

PSA 203

Robbery (gun)■ 3700 block, Connecticut Ave.; sidewalk; 10:02 p.m. Jan. 18.Theft (below $250)■ 4200 block, Connecticut Ave.; school; 4:44 p.m. Jan. 15.Theft from auto (below $250)■ 3600 block, Idaho Ave.; street; 10:21 p.m. Jan. 15.

PSA 204

Burglary■ 2200 block, Wisconsin Ave.; office building; 9:06 p.m. Jan. 18.Theft (below $250)■ 2800 block, 28th St.; unspecified premises; 5:39 p.m. Jan. 17.

PSA 205

Burglary■ 4900 block, Ashby St.; resi-dence; 6:13 p.m. Jan. 14.Theft (below $250)■ 4300 block, Fordham Road; store; 3 p.m. Jan. 14.

PSA 206

Theft ($250 plus)■ 3500 block, Whitehaven Parkway; unspecified premis-es; 7:57 p.m. Jan. 14.■ 3000 block, M St.; store; 6:05 p.m. Jan. 15.Theft (below $250)■ 1800 block, Wisconsin Ave.; restaurant; 11:55 a.m. Jan. 14.■ 1200 block, Wisconsin Ave.; store; 7:30 p.m. Jan. 14.■ 3000 block, M St.; store; 7:30 p.m. Jan. 15.■ 1300 block, Wisconsin Ave.; store; 8:30 p.m. Jan. 16.■ 3000 block, M St.; store; 1:51 p.m. Jan. 17.■ 1300 block, Wisconsin Ave.; unspecified premises; 11:55 a.m. Jan. 19.

PSA 207

Robbery (force and violence)

■ 25th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue; side-walk; 8:05 p.m. Jan. 17.Assault with a dangerous weapon (miscellaneous)■ 800 block, Vermont Ave.; government building; 9 p.m. Jan. 15.Theft ($250 plus)■ 1400 block, Pennsylvania Ave.; hotel; 4:42 p.m. Jan. 14.Theft (below $250)■ 1700 block, I St.; unspeci-fied premises; 11:37 a.m. Jan. 14.■ 17th and L streets; store; 5:45 p.m. Jan. 14.■ 1700 block, Pennsylvania Ave.; unspecified premises; 4 p.m. Jan. 15.■ 800 block, 22nd St.; unspecified premises; 10 a.m. Jan. 17.■ 1100 block, New Hampshire Ave.; hotel; 6:30 p.m. Jan. 17.■ 1000 block, New Hampshire Ave.; unspecified premises; 10 a.m. Jan. 18.Theft from auto (below $250)■ 700 block, 24th St.; unspecified premises; 7 p.m. Jan. 15.

PSA 208

Robbery (fear)■ 1800 block, T St.; street; 2:40 a.m. Jan. 19.Burglary■ 1800 block, 19th St.; resi-dence; 8:45 p.m. Jan. 14.■ 1800 block, S St.; resi-dence; 6:30 a.m. Jan. 17.Theft ($250 plus)■ 1200 block, 18th St.; store; 4 p.m. Jan. 14.Theft (below $250)■ 1200 block, 22nd St.; medi-cal facility; 2 p.m. Jan. 18.■ 1700 block, Connecticut Ave.; unspecified premises; 3 a.m. Jan. 19.■ 1400 block, Rhode Island Ave.; park area; 2 p.m. Jan. 19.■ 1200 block, Connecticut Ave.; bank; 8 p.m. Jan. 19.■ 1300 block, Connecticut Ave.; tavern/nightclub; 2:09 a.m. Jan. 20.■ 1400 block, Rhode Island Ave.; store; 4:34 a.m. Jan. 20.Theft from auto (below $250)■ 1900 block, N St.; parking lot; 9 a.m. Jan. 14.■ 1400 block, Rhode Island Ave.; unspecified premises; 9:38 a.m. Jan. 14.■ 1700 block, 19th St.; street; 11 a.m. Jan. 14.■ 1500 block, P St.; street; 12:26 p.m. Jan. 15.■ 19th and T streets; street; 9:30 p.m. Jan. 15.■ 1400 block, Massachusetts Ave.; street; 10:44 a.m. Jan. 16.■ 1700 block, 19th St.; street; 10 p.m. Jan. 16.

PSA 301

Robbery (force and violence)

■ 15th and U streets; side-walk; 2 a.m. Jan. 20.Robbery (fear)■ 1500 block, Swann St.; sidewalk; 2:28 a.m. Jan. 19.■ 1500 block, Swann St.; sidewalk; 2:31 a.m. Jan. 19.Robbery (snatch)■ 1500 block, R St.; sidewalk; 3:25 a.m. Jan. 20.■ 17th and Q streets; side-walk; 11:28 p.m. Jan. 20.Robbery (attempt)■ 1400 block, Corcoran St.; unspecified premises; 7:07 p.m. Jan. 15.Stolen auto■ 1600 block, U St.; unspeci-fied premises; 5:58 a.m. Jan. 19.Theft (below $250)■ 14th and U streets; street; 10 p.m. Jan. 14.■ 1400 block, W St.; restau-rant; 4:45 p.m. Jan. 15.■ 1700 block, Q St.; unspeci-fied premises; 9:30 a.m. Jan. 17.Theft from auto ($250 plus)■ 1600 block, 15th St.; unspecified premises; 9 p.m. Jan. 13.■ 1700 block, 14th St.; unspecified premises; 1:58 p.m. Jan. 14.Theft from auto (below $250)■ 14th and W streets; street; 12:20 a.m. Jan. 19.

PSA 303

Robbery (gun)■ 1700 block, Lanier Place; sidewalk; 3:30 a.m. Jan. 20.Theft (below $250)■ 1800 block, Connecticut Ave.; unspecified premises; 7 a.m. Jan. 16.■ 1800 block, Adams Mill Road; sidewalk; 11:45 a.m. Jan. 19.Theft (shoplifting)■ 1700 block, Columbia Road; government building; 8:55 a.m. Jan. 19.Theft from auto (below $250)■ 16th Street and Kalorama Road; street; 6:30 p.m. Jan. 15.

PSA 307

Robbery (armed)■ 1400 block, P St.; unspeci-fied premises; 6:45 p.m. Jan. 15.Robbery (snatch)■ 1300 block, Q St.; sidewalk; 7:04 p.m. Jan. 17.Stolen auto■ 11th Street and Rhode Island Avenue; street; 10 a.m. Jan. 20.Theft (below $250)■ 1400 block, 14th St.; side-walk; 12:30 a.m. Jan. 18.Theft from auto (below $250)■ 1300 block, 13th St.; park-ing lot; 5:15 p.m. Jan. 16.■ 1300 block, Riggs St.; unspecified premises; 2:26 p.m. Jan. 17.■ 1200 block, 12th St.; unspecified premises; 7:10 a.m. Jan. 18.

psA 201■ chevy chase

psA 202■ Friendship heiGhts tenleytown / au park

psA 204■ massachusetts avenue heiGhts / cleveland parkwoodley park / Glover park / cathedral heiGhts

psA 205■ palisades / sprinG valleywesley heiGhts / Foxhall

psA 206■ GeorGetown / burleith

psA 207■ FoGGy bottom / west end

psA 208■ sheridan-kaloramadupont circle

psA 303■ adams morGan

psA 307■ loGan circle

psA 203■ Forest hills / van nesscleveland park

psA 301■ dupont circle

psA 101■ downtown

psA 102■ Gallery placepenn Quarter

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in D.C. … To make this project work, we have to make real reasons for people to come to the Watergate. What the complex has is beautiful water views, and we have to make sure that clients of the hotel can take advantage of that.” The board of the Watergate South has already signed on with the hotel’s plans. Watergate East is negotiating conditions on one of the six proposed summer gardens. Watergate West last week hired an attorney to help the board negotiate,

and members said they’re confident they can reach an agreement. The outdoor seating would be on the roof, outside each of the hotel’s two restaurants, its baked-goods cafe, the underground ballroom (the site Watergate East remains uncer-tain about), and a pair of hospitality suites. Issues that remain under negotiation are hours, noise mitiga-tion and enforcement mechanisms, but the parties declined to share specifics publicly. “I think there are some ways we can greatly improve the plan, and I

life spots like U Street NW and H Street NE, as well as areas expected to develop more in the future, like NoMa and Capitol Riverfront. The mayor’s initial proposal, in November, was to add 100 officers this year — splitting the cost between savings in interest expenses and rev-enue from speed-camera fines. Mendelson, in an interview, said the speed camera funds were already a nonstarter then, because the coun-cil had voted to reduce to fines. But he also led his colleagues (all but Ward 6’s Tommy Wells) in rejecting the proposal to hire 48 new officers by reprogramming extra interest savings from government borrow-ing. At the time, he explained, the council simply didn’t have enough information. “There’d been no explanation, no briefing by the chief.” But after meeting with Lanier recently, Mendelson said he’s ready to move on a new budget proposal that would add 90 new officers over three months at an estimated cost of $2.8 million. The hirings would take place in March, April and September — months when the police depart-ment had previously not planned to recruit, he said. The next step would be for Gray to submit a new budget reprogram-ming proposal. The mayor would have to find a funding source, Mendelson said, predicting that at least some of the money would come from the interest savings. In an interview this week, may-oral spokesperson Pedro Ribeiro said Gray will be working with Mendelson to figure out funding. But the mayor’s office hasn’t offered many specifics about the new proposal. The latest information came out Jan. 2, when Gray sug-gested using existing funds to hire 50 new officers. The mayor said he renewed his push in part due to the high-profile murder of Capitol Hill resident Jason Anthony Emma. Meanwhile, Evans said he sees his new bill, introduced Jan. 8, as “dovetailing” with the budget pro-posal rather than working in opposi-tion to it. The difference, he said, is that a “one-time request” is not a permanent answer.

A solution for only this year, Evans said, “doesn’t actually work, because if you’re going to hire more officers you’re going to need to pay them every year.” He compared it another bill he introduced to require funding for Sunday hours for city libraries. Without the legislative mandate, Evans said, it was too easy for those funds to slip through the cracks of the city’s budget. “I finally legislated it, because every year, it never got done.” He said he’ll work to find a fund-ing source for the police measure when the council begins its fiscal year 2014 budget talks in March. Evans said he’s convinced that 4,000 officers is the “absolute mini-mum” needed in the police depart-ment at all times. When he first started on the council in the early 1990s, he said, the department had 4,800 officers — a number that’s dropped since despite the city’s pop-ulation swell. He also said he hears consistently from constituents who want more police presence. Mayoral spokesperson Ribeiro said his office has concerns about the lack of flexibility in “statutorily setting the number of officers.” What if conditions in the city change, he asked, “and in the future you don’t need as many?” Mendelson has expressed the same types of concerns about the legislation, which he noted Evans has tried in the past. “It’s a problem to fix personnel in the code,” he said. “But if you want 4,000 officers, the council and the mayor have the abil-ity to increase the budget.” Similar discussion came up at this month’s meeting of the Logan Circle advisory neighborhood com-mission. Asked there about the choice of 4,000, Evans acknowl-edged “there is no magic number,” but said he gets “uncomfortable when we go below that.” At the meeting, neighborhood commissioners opted to give explicit support to Mayor Gray’s proposal for adding officers, but declined to take any action on Evans’ bill. The bill, which at-large member David Grosso co-introduced, now rests in the Committee of the Judiciary, chaired by Council mem-ber Wells. It has six co-sponsors.

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Not just a game of tags The D.C. Council’s resolution calling on the White House to place the District’s standard license plate on the presidential limousine certainly wasn’t the weightiest way to push for D.C. rights. Council members even endured some snickering for their quest to see “Taxation Without Representation” affixed on President Barack Obama’s car in time for the inaugural parade. Then came a big surprise: The administration, hardly known for paying attention to the pleas of District officials in its first four years, announced that the limo would use the D.C. plates — not only for the inauguration, but throughout the second term. What’s more, the White House struck all the right chords in terms of policy positions. “President Obama has lived in the District now for four years, and has seen first-hand how patently unfair it is for working families in D.C. to work hard, raise children and pay taxes, without having a vote in Congress,” White House spokesperson Keith Maley said in a statement. “Attaching these plates to the presidential vehicles demonstrates the President’s commit-ment to the principle of full representation for the people of the District of Columbia and his willingness to fight for voting rights, home rule and bud-get autonomy for the District.” For local officials, the good news only continued. Television commenta-tors galore mentioned the new plates as President Obama rode along Pennsylvania Avenue this week. An issue that doesn’t often get national attention became a talking point — a true example of “earned media.” Mayor Vincent Gray also seized his inaugural opportunity, carrying a placard reading “A More Perfect Union Must Include Full Democracy in DC.” An optimistic assessment would surely read into the publicity blitz a boost for efforts to secure budget autonomy, if not build toward statehood or full voting rights for D.C. residents. Realistically, long-standing obstacles remain, but we are hopeful about the potential for budget autonomy: Rep. Darrell Issa, the California Republican who chairs the House Committee on Government Oversight and Reform, has advanced a bill that would provide the District with greater autonomy over its local budget. Rep. Issa is known as quite a critic of the White House, but we hope that District budget autonomy will become an issue that hearkens back to a time when partisans put aside their differences to do what’s right. Budget autono-my admittedly wouldn’t alter “Taxation Without Representation,” but it would correct a patently unfair situation.

More work needed When D.C. Public Schools Chancellor Kaya Henderson last week announced her final list of school closings, two Ward 2 campuses received hard-fought reprieves. Both Garrison Elementary and Francis-Stevens Education Campus will remain open. The chancellor offered different reasons in each case. With Garrison, officials cited the latest growth projections from the D.C. Office of Planning for the Logan Circle school and nearby Seaton Elementary, which would have received Garrison’s displaced students. To draw more students to Garrison now, the school system has vowed to add more early childhood and special education classrooms. At Francis-Stevens, the chancellor’s Consolidation and Reorganization Plan cites a particular need to retain the building given limited school capac-ity in Ward 2. School Without Walls will take over the Francis-Stevens cam-pus, which will offer space for the magnet high school to expand while retaining a preschool through eighth grade under Walls’ auspices. We’re relieved that neither school will be closed, but in both cases much work remains to be done by Chancellor Henderson and her staff. In recent years, Garrison has drawn tremendous community support and attracted many families with young children in the neighborhood. Adding more early childhood offerings is a good step, but facility improvements are also essential if the school system is to build confidence among local parents deciding where to enroll their children. The plan for Francis-Stevens seems to raise even more questions than it answers. The Francis-Stevens community, in developing a proposal designed to save their school, welcomed School Without Walls to use part of its West End campus. But logistics present quite a problem, given that the facilities are about a mile apart. Educational issues abound as well: Can the adminis-trators of a citywide high school with competitive admissions really add a preschool, elementary school and middle school to their portfolio and man-age all effectively? Should they have to do so? And what would happen to eighth-graders unable to meet admissions criteria for the highly selective high school program?

Monday’s parade up Pennsylvania Avenue was quite grand from our NBC4 perch on the sixth-floor balcony of the Newseum.

In his speech, President Obama certainly had just laid out a grand political agenda. Like it or not, it was sweeping in its historic call to action on climate change, gay rights, tax revision and immigration, among other things. The President’s parade of issues thrilled many Democrats who believe he was too timid in the first term. And it will engage the country and Congress in fierce debate. We could be seeing a 1960s-like clash of political wills. But with no disre-spect for either our mili-tary or first responders, maybe we also should envision a different kind of parade for this quadrenni-al, peaceful change of power. First, maybe we shouldn’t even have the parade. Maybe it’s a remnant of bygone days. There is the extraordinary expense — financial and psychological — of turning America’s Main Street into an armed camp where democracy is sus-pended for several days. It’s not just the 8-foot-high steel fencing, nor the checkpoints, the cameras on every corner, nor the uncountable number of police cars screaming through the streets. Behind the scenes, the U.S. Secret Service does a security check and stakeout of every private office, rooftop or balcony overlooking the parade route. Protest groups are “assigned” demonstration areas, and required to pay fees and adhere to strict assembly instructions. The Westboro Baptist Church — to many a noto-rious organization for its picketing of military funer-als, denunciation of gays, and so on — signed up for 25 demonstrators on John Marshall Park near 4th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue. The application said its goal was “to remind the people that there is a God and a day of judgement.” Separately, the Answer Coalition — a group with a reputation for serious protests — signed up to bring “thousands” of protesters to 14th and Pennsylvania to denounce war, racism and lack of jobs. Yes, it’s all very orderly, but it flies in the face of what protests are meant to do — protest. Democracy is not neat, but in a secure zone it seems everyone is just playing along. This being the week of the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, it makes you wonder what success would have been achieved if civil rights workers had acced-ed to police demands not to march here or there, or to pay to get detailed permits first.■ The parade itself. The President is commander in chief of the nation. It is the President’s (and Congress’) most somber duty to commit American lives to war. Yet, the inaugural parade’s emphasis on military might — the five branches of service headline the core of the parade — can feel more like an Armed Forces Day parade rather than a celebration of our democracy. And yes, we know our military helps ensure our democracy. We grew up celebrating Armed Forces Day. But away from military bases, Armed Forces Day (the third Saturday of May) just doesn’t get much of the

nation’s attention, certainly not like it should. The Notebook also grew up with and loves military pomp and circumstance as much as anyone. But why not a parade that showcases the social services, arts and industries, and sciences along with our military services? We could see entrants heralding the Americans with Disabilities Act and efforts to strengthen that groundbreaking legislation.

We could see entrants on the front lines of the massive rebuilding of our infrastructure (assuming

the country gets serious about that).

Why not highlight nurses and educate America on the serious shortage of them that this country faces?

The idea is not to politicize the parade, but to make it more inclusive of the volunteers, organiza-tions and varied aspirations that make up our whole nation. A number of nonmilitary groups were in the parade, but a casual viewer might not realize it, given the prominence of the military’s groups. As first lady Michelle Obama said on Saturday at one event, the inaugural “is about celebrating who we are.” Let’s hope we are not a fearful people, ceding lib-erty for a sense of security, or highlighting our strength at the expense of our heart as a nation. ■ The parade route. We noted in our NBC4 com-mentary that there was something new about the parade on Pennsylvania Avenue. Bike lanes! They weren’t there four years ago. For the parade, public works employees had stripped the street of traffic light poles, safety barriers and all those traffic signs you normally see. But one thing that wasn’t removed is the pavement striping of bike lanes. We doubt that the First Couple noticed as they walked, but bike lanes down the middle of America’s Main Street are one indication that this city takes bicycling seriously. Kudos to former Mayor Adrian Fenty and then-D.C. Department of Transportation director Gabe Klein for first doing it, and to Mayor Vincent Gray and current director Terry Bellamy for improving them.■ Beyond the parade. As core parts of the city were shut down for the parade, predictable traffic jams sprang up on every street around or near the parade area and Capitol Hill. Yes, people are warned not to drive in the area. Yes, there are big roadside signs, their messages flashing. But why aren’t there patrol officers or traffic control aides directing the areas adjacent to the shut-down sections? Traffic jams are dangerous. Frustrated drivers resort to all sorts of evasive maneuvers, endangering pedestrians, cyclists and themselves. And let’s not forget the hapless ambulance that finds every lane in every direction blocked. In the Metro system on days like this, there are extra employees on hand at every station offering advice and guidance. Would it hurt to have a few traffic folks easing the jam everyone knew was com-ing? Tom Sherwood, a Southwest resident, is a political reporter for News 4.

Inaugural afterthoughts …

TOM SHERWOOD’S NotebooK

D.C. voting rights solutions needed My previous letter [“Territory status is best for D.C. citizens,” Nov. 23, 2011] was picked up by a Republican candidate for a D.C. office as part of his cam-

paign material. It should not be a political opinion. The Constitution did not create us as a state. It distressing-ly overlooked the lack of voting rights for future citizens of the District. It has been proposed that the southern quadrants of the District be allowed to vote for Prince George’s County candidates for federal office and that the north-

ern quadrants vote in the Montgomery County elections. If we cannot be declared a federal tax-free territory, then I would like to see the voting pro-posal become law. Very frankly, however, I believe the tax-free status would most materially benefit the District.

Jane Sundelof JonesWoodley Park

Letters tothe eDitor

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For d.c., the police escort that wasn’t This past week, the District scored an important victory in our fight for voting rights — President Barack Obama agreed to install the “Taxation Without Representation” license plates on the vehicles in his motorcade. Moreover, the White House issued a statement affirming President Obama’s support of full representation for the people of the District, voting rights and budget autonomy. While this matter has been wide-ly covered — increased awareness of our lack of voting rights being the primary purpose of our effort, and I couldn’t be happier about that — our victory was given a bit of a blemish. Beginning with a Washington Post blog piece by Tim Craig, and repeated in other stories since, there was an allegation that I sought a police escort for D.C. Council members from the Wilson Building to the White House, a few short blocks away. I write, here, to correct the record. I understand why this particular anecdote has legs — it’s sensational and furthers the notion that council members are self-important and out of touch. There have certainly been instances over the past few years that have done the council no favors in dispelling that notion, but this story simply isn’t true. If you watched our discussion of this measure when it came up for debate, you know that the members feel very passionate about our lack of the most basic civil right. There was talk of sending a delegation to the White House to deliver our res-olution. That escalated to talk of making a more ceremonial protest, and that escalated to talk of a march. Outside groups who have been working on this issue began to take interest, and there was the very real possibility that a significant crowd was going to traverse the very busy streets between the District building and the White House. With that in mind, I sent a simple message to Metropolitan Police Department Chief Cathy Lanier to ask, if such a group did assemble, would some police pres-ence, including perhaps an escort for the crowd, be available. As the rhetoric diminished and the Office of Intergovernmental Affairs reached out for a meeting with just Council Chairman Phil Mendelson and me, it became clear that no crowd calming would be necessary, and so I never followed up on my query to the chief. People should know the facts about the alleged police escort because it was just hyped-up politi-

cal theater; the important reality is that our long fight for District vot-ing rights took a significant step forward with President Obama’s words and actions. This is a moment for us all to be proud.

Mary ChehWard 3 member, D.C. Council

Graduation proposals wouldn’t aid students This evening, just days after the presidential inauguration — the most symbolic, constitutional ritual of democracy that implements the voice and vote of the people — the D.C. State Board of Education will consider whether to end the decades-long requirement that high school graduates must pass a U.S. government course. Under the pro-posal, it will be optional to learn about the process of passing laws and of electing a Congress and a president, not to mention the guar-antees of the Bill of Rights; mean-while, a class on the details of D.C. history (a subject already taken in third grade) will remain mandatory. The board’s proposed graduation requirements will also make schools responsible for student obe-sity: 67.5 hours of physical activity per semester, twice the number of hours set aside for the increased physical education requirements! Like the 100 community service hours, certifying non-classroom hours only invites fabrication. So, too, do plans for “competency cred-its” and online courses. The board asserts that students will be prepared for both “college and careers.” Most are being pre-pared for neither, while widespread community support for a traditional vocational diploma in specific trades is ignored. There is no analysis tying these changes to student performance or examining how many students need worthless credit recovery courses or gifted passing grades to graduate. Last year’s average SAT math score among D.C. public school seniors was 395, the 15th percentile, requir-ing only 13 out of 54 correct answers. Further, only 44 out of 172 students who took Advanced Placement Calculus AB received a score higher than 1! And the board expresses little interest in these facts from the real world of our students! Charter lobbyist Robert Cane’s argument for “greater flexibility” from board requirements [“Proposed graduation requirements need work,” Viewpoint, Jan. 16] fails to mention charter high schools’ private school privilege of transferring unwanted students before graduation and not counting students in schools that were shut down. In 2012, D.C. charters gradu-ated only 48.8 percent of their origi-nal ninth-grade cohort, while D.C. Public Schools graduated 49.6 per-

cent of its ninth-grade cohort, which included many repeat ninth-graders.

Erich MartelRetired high school teacher,

D.C. Public Schools

anc deferral policy is not democratic In the past two years or so, Advisory Neighborhood Commission 4C has established a policy of deferring to the desires of a single commissioner when mat-ters before the commission fall in his or her district. The policy, I believe, is seen as a way of being respectful to said commissioner. On many issues, there are no controversies surrounding a ques-tion before the commission, and this policy has not created any problems. But questions remain. Does the policy mean commis-sioners who believe a colleague on the commission is dead wrong on an issue are to remain silent? Do we elect neighborhood commissioners to give up their ability to think and exercise their independent judg-ment? I think not. Would this be tolerated in any legislative body? At this month’s meeting, there was an awkward moment after the defeat of commissioner Timothy Jones’ effort to have the commis-sion protest the alcohol license application of a yet-opened busi-ness. Nonetheless, the commission wanted in some fashion to acqui-esce to Jones’ wishes, because the new business is located in Jones’ single-member district. There was palpable support in the room and among many of the commissioners for the new busi-ness. The owners had made an informative presentation on their plans. They had reached out to the entire commission. Heck, they seemed like very nice people whom you would want to open up a busi-ness in the neighborhood. After the collapse of Jones’ motion, it appeared the commission would take no action. The owners of the new restaurant, Buzz, said they were asking for a letter of sup-port. Fortunately, most commission-ers voted to support the application with a letter that will be going to the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board this month. In some ways the policy sounds fair, but in the end it is anti-demo-cratic. It is a relatively new stance and did not exist when I chaired the commission during most of the period from 2005 to 2010. As it happened, the way things played out was informative. That awkward moment revealed why the policy is counter-productive. Please let your commissioner know what you think about this. This is bound to come up again.

Joseph MartinPetworth

letters tothe editor

letters to the editorThe Current publishes letters and Viewpoint submissions representing various points of view. Because of space limitations, letters should be no more than 400 words and are subject to editing. Letters and Viewpoint submissions intended for publication should be addressed to Letters to the Editor, The Current, Post Office Box 40400, Washington, D.C. 20016-0400. You may send email to letters@currentnewspapers.com.

ANC 1CAdams Morgan

The commission will meet at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 6, at Mary’s Center, 2355 Ontario Road NW. For details, call 202-332-2630 or visit anc1c.org.

ANC 2AFoggy Bottom

The commission will meet at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 20, at the West End Library, 1101 24th St. NW. For details, visit anc2a.org.

ANC 2BDupont Circle

At the commission’s Jan. 9 meeting:■ commissioners voted 7-0, with Mike Silverstein absent, to elect the following officers: Will Stephens as chair, Mike Feldstein as vice chair, Stephanie Maltz as treasurer and Mike Silverstein as secretary. The newly elected commission-ers are Maltz, Leo Dwyer, Noah Smith and Kishan Putta. Re-elected commissioners are Stephens, Feldstein, Silverstein and Kevin O’Connor.■ commissioners voted 7-0 to sup-port the Cultural Tourism DC’s request to use the Dupont Circle Resource Center at 9 Dupont Circle as its headquarters during its annual Passport DC event, which will take place in May.■ Mike Tucker, representing the contractor for the Connecticut and New Hampshire avenues streetscape projects, updated commissioners on both. On Connecticut, construction on the sidewalks between L and K streets is under way, and the project is expected to be completed in March. On New Hampshire, con-crete barriers from Dupont Circle to O Street have been installed so street asphalt can be removed and replaced.■ commissioners voted 7-0 to par-ticipate in the advisory neighbor-hood commission security fund, which protects the commission against misappropriation and negli-gent losses of funds by the chair and treasurer.■ commissioners voted 7-0 to approve the commission’s annual report, prepared by chair Will Stephens. The report, which includes financial data, will be available on the commission’s website and through hard copies at future meet-ings. Commissioner Kevin O’Connor noted that it is considered a model document for neighborhood commissions citywide.■ commissioners voted 7-0-1, with Kishan Putta abstaining, to support the D.C. Council’s ANC Empowerment Amendment Act and the ANC Allotment Efficiency Amendment Act. The first would allow commissions to pursue litiga-tion to protect its “great weight” as defined by D.C. law; the second

would streamline commissions’ financial procedures.■ commissioners voted unanimous-ly to support Friends of Stead Park’s proposed renovation plans for the park. Responding to public feed-back from the fall, new plans call for a slight expansion of athletic playing field space compared to a previous proposal, to allow two simultaneous games. The plan also includes con-cept designs for fencing, benches, a water element and a possible new main gate.■ commissioners voted unanimous-ly to encourage the D.C. Department of General Services and the Urban Forestry Administration to work with the Ross Elementary School PTA and the commission regarding tree removal on R Street alongside the school so that no additional cut-tings happen without community notice. The city removed five trees at Ross Elementary in December, which angered several community members who were not informed of the work ahead of time. Mark Bjorge, the new communications director for Ward 2 D.C. Council member Jack Evans, reported at the meeting that officials said the tree removal was necessary as part of repair work to the school’s founda-tion, which has retained water dam-age. Some residents argued that alternative ways to repair the school’s foundation were not fully explored. ■ commissioners voted unanimous-ly to support the renewal of a special zoning exception at Lauriol Plaza’s parking lot off T Street, but also requested that the valet station be moved farther into the lot to mitigate traffic congestion on T Street where cars were queuing for the valet.■ commissioners voted unanimous-ly to support the Dupont Circle Conservancy’s resolution regarding concept design plans for 1337 Connecticut Ave., where developers propose a two-story residential addi-tion to the existing five-story com-mercial building. The conservancy supports the general direction of the project, but is opposed to a rooftop tower element and wants the brick materials used on the exterior to reflect those on other buildings on the avenue. Trout Designs agreed to adjust plans to accommodate the conser-vancy’s requests. The project is expected to go before the D.C. Board of Zoning Adjustment by April.■ commissioners voted 7-0, with Mike Silverstein absent, to take no action on a liquor license application from Noodles & Company, 1667 K St. Silverstein, a member of the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board, does not participate in alcohol cases on the neighborhood commission. ■ commissioners voted 7-0 to sup-port an entertainment endorsement license for Kabab-ji, 1351 Connecticut Ave., for a live jazz band to perform music during eve-ning dinner hours.■ commissioners voted unanimous-

ly to support a public space applica-tion from the Third Church of Christ, Scientist, 900 16th St., to install a 20-foot curb cut on I Street, which would allow access to a three-level below-ground parking garage. Legal constraints on 16th Street preclude installing the curb cut there, leaving I Street as the only option. The commission will meet at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 13, at the Brookings Institution, 1775 Massachusetts Ave. NW. For details, visit dupontcircleanc.net.

ANC 2DSheridan-Kalorama

The commission will meet at 7 p.m. Monday, Jan. 28, at Our Lady Queen of the Americas Church, California Street and Phelps Place NW. Agenda items include:■ election of officers.■ government reports.■ report from the Sheridan-Kalorama Historical Association.■ discussion of plans for 2305 Bancroft Place.■ open comments. For details, visit anc2d.org or contact davidanc2d01@aol.com.

ANC 2EGeorgetownCloisters

The commission will meet at 6:30 p.m. Monday, Feb. 4, at Georgetown Visitation Preparatory School, 1524 35th St. NW. For details, call 202-724-7098 or visit anc2e.com.

ANC 2FLogan Circle

The commission will meet at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 6, at Washington Plaza Hotel, 10 Thomas Circle NW. For details, call 202-667-0052 or visit anc2f.org.

ANC 3BGlover Park

The commission will meet at 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 14, at Stoddert Elementary School and Recreation Center, 4001 Calvert St. NW. For details, call 202-338-2969, email info@anc3b.org or visit anc3b.org.

ANC 3CCleveland ParkWoodley ParkMassachusetts Avenue Heights

The commission will meet at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 19, at the 2nd District Police Headquarters, 3320 Idaho Ave. NW. The regular meeting date was rescheduled to avoid falling on Presidents Day. For details, call 202-657-5725 or visit anc3c.org.

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Developers intend to break ground this spring behind Washington Sports Clubs and Glover Park Hardware, transforming its surface parking lot into an 82-unit apart-ment house, according to Chesapeake Realty Partners chief operating officer Josh Fidler. The Baltimore-area firm will also renovate the exist-ing retail storefronts at the 2251 Wisconsin Ave. proper-ty, improving the energy efficiency of the windows and heating and cooling system, and replacing the building’s “skin,” Fidler said in an interview. The entire project will likely take 12 months to complete, with a targeted open-ing date in spring 2014, he said. The gym and hardware store can remain in place even during construction, Fidler said, and Chesapeake is working to pin down alternate customer parking during the process. The first phase of construction will excavate the existing parking lot to make way for a two-level underground parking garage with about 90 spaces, which will serve both the retail and the 82 apartment units. A rendering of the plans on Chesapeake’s website shows the apartment building matching the roof level of the existing retail building. Developers are confident the project, tucked between the retail space and the grounds of the U.S. Naval Observatory, meets all applicable zon-

ing requirements and therefore needs no formal public review. It will be designed to achieve a Silver rating under Leadership in Engineering and Environmental Design standards, according to Fidler. The project was first reported last week by the Washington Business Journal. Fidler said it was too early to speculate on the rents for the apartment building, but that it will be “quite com-petitive” with other buildings in the area. Most units will be between 650 and 850 square feet, he said, and the building will be designed to be “upscale.” “We’re very excited by the location and the opportu-nity,” he said. “In particular, the market is drum-tight, and this represents an affordable upper-Georgetown address to us.” Unlike many new large apartment projects in the District, the 2251 Wisconsin apartments won’t include affordable housing. The site is located within a special overlay because of its proximity to the observatory, allowing an exception to the typical “inclusionary zon-ing” rule that requires 8 to 10 percent of space in new buildings to be priced below market rate, according to D.C. Department of Housing and Community Development spokesperson Tim Wilson. The D.C. Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs has issued soil boring permits for the site, and is now reviewing a foundation permit submitted Dec. 21, according to agency spokesperson Helder Gil.

Apartment building planned in Glover Park

By DEIRDRE BANNONCurrent Staff Writer

Georgetown and Burleith resi-dents offered various suggestions for improving the area’s parking situa-tion last week, including “perfor-mance parking” in commercial areas, charges to visitor parking on residential streets, and a designated parking zone for neighborhood resi-dents. While opinions varied at the D.C. Department of Transportation meet-ing Wednesday, one sentiment rang clear: “Do no harm.” Residents, for example, don’t want to see changes that could benefit parking in com-mercial zones like Wisconsin Avenue or M Street while uninten-tionally making parking more diffi-cult on the streets where they live. The Transportation Department convened the meeting as it seeks to address the parking shortages that have become a common complaint in the neighborhood. As it looks into new solutions, the agency is asking residents what works and what doesn’t work for parking now. Officials stressed that the future pro-grams don’t have to be permanent, but can adapt to the neighborhood’s needs. “We are nimble when it comes to implementation,” said the Transportation Department’s Damon Harvey at the meeting. “If we make a change and it doesn’t work, we will change things again to make sure our stakeholders are happy.” A working group made up of representatives from the Georgetown advisory neighborhood commission, the Georgetown Business Improvement District and the citi-zens associations of Burleith and Georgetown has been meeting with the Transportation Department for several months to discuss parking,

and the groups joined to host Wednesday’s meeting. “Our objective is to make on-street parking better,” said the Transportation Department’s “park-ing czar” Angelo Rao, emphasizing that the agency isn’t looking for a one-size-fits-all solution. “To satisfy this goal, we need you to be our partners and give us your feedback so we can provide the best service.” A number of business owners and residents embraced the concept of performance parking in commer-cial areas. The idea is to encourage turnover in places like M Street and Wisconsin Avenue by implementing variable parking rates, charging the highest prices when the spaces are most in demand. Proceeds from per-formance parking are directed back to the community — a popular advantage of this program. Similar systems are already in place in Columbia Heights and near Nationals Park. “Turnover is an important issue for everyone in Georgetown — it propels the whole process,” neigh-borhood commissioner Tom Birch said at the meeting. “Whatever hap-pens in Georgetown, it must be a system that is fair and equitable.” Rao asked residents what they thought about charging visitors to park on residential streets, either through installing meters or a pay-by-cellphone system that would require installing new street signs. While a few said they were open to that idea, most opposed it. “We need to dispel the myth that it’s difficult to find parking in Georgetown,” said Birch. “If you ask people to pay to park on residen-tial streets, you will make that worse.” Exacerbating Georgetown’s reputation as a parking nightmare, Birch said, could result in contrac-tors, friends of residents, and con-

sumers choosing not to come to the neighborhood. Some proposed restricting resi-dential parking only to those who live in Georgetown and Burleith, rather than allowing anyone who lives in Ward 2 to park in the often-crowded areas. But others didn’t like that idea, saying that for public transportation-starved neighbor-hoods like theirs, it’s important to have options to park elsewhere in the ward, like near the Dupont Circle or Foggy Bottom Metro stations. Other ideas that had some con-sensus included reducing the resi-dential parking permit restrictions by one hour, from 10 p.m. to 9 p.m., which would make visitor parking easier for those attending dinner par-ties or other evening events. Another popular idea — a plan for shared parking — would identify commercial parking lots or garages in the area that empty after business hours and could be used by visitors at night or on weekends. Still, some residents made it known that they have no problems parking now, and they don’t want anything to change. Instead, they want to see more enforcement of existing parking restrictions. Representatives from the Transportation Department said the city’s parking enforcement budget has shrunk in recent years, reducing the number of officers on the street. Residents suggested that the neigh-borhoods’ citizens associations and business improvement district could raise funds for a parking enforce-ment officer exclusively for Georgetown. Over the next three to four months the Transportation Department will synthesize the ideas from the meeting and come back to the community to discuss which proposals are feasible.

Georgetown residents debate parking issues

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Blessed Sacrament School Last week in art class, Mrs. Clark’s sixth-grade girls learned about American sculptor Alexander Calder. We made wire sculptures, similar to those made by Calder. Calder was a toymaker who became a popular artist for his work with wire and mobiles. The sixth-graders learned about how he shaped the wire and twisted it to make limbs on people and animals. We also learned about his mobiles. Then we were given wire of our own to cre-ate an animal such as a butterfly, an elephant, or even a little mouse! Some of us chose to make flowers and attach dragonflies, and some just decided to make the face of their animal. You can find two of Calder’s pieces right here in D.C. Visit his untitled mobile at the East Building of the National Gallery of Art, and his massive work “Mountain and Clouds” in the atrium of the Hart Senate Office Building.

— Emily Orem, sixth-grader

British School of Washington This week in school we have just started our new topic, weather and climate. So far we have learned a little bit about Antarctica and its harsh weather conditions. Did you know it once reached minus 128.6 degrees Fahrenheit? That is cold! The entry point to our topic involved pretending that scientists were trapped in Antarctica and we had to go and rescue them. We had to complete two weeks of training, which included bringing in gear! We have written a diary and made a list of the things we may need. We have also Skyped Tim, who has been to Antarctica. Tim, a friend of our teacher, answered any ques-

tions we had including one we all wanted to know: “How do you go to the bathroom?”

— Izzy Sowells, Year 6 Birmingham (fifth-grader)

Eaton Elementary Life as a fifth-grader at John Eaton is fun but hard work. Some of our subjects are hard, but we also do fun things like play guitars in music, use Nooks for reading, use iPads for research, make solar sys-tem exhibits in science, do gymnas-tics in PE and go on field trips for social studies. We went to Lincoln’s Cottage last week to learn more about Honest Abraham Lincoln because in social studies we are learning about the Civil War. Lincoln’s Cottage was President Lincoln’s second house. He lived there in the summertime because it was cooler up there. We saw a real copy of the Emancipation Proclamation, signed by Abraham Lincoln. We got to walk where President Lincoln walked, and that was fantastic. Fifth-graders can audition to be in the cast for the school play, “Willy Wonka.” Most kids were really nervous to sing alone in front of people but we did it. Kids are always talking about which part they want in the play, but we have to have patience and wait for the grown-ups to announce the parts. We will be rehearsing a lot, and we know that it takes a lot of hard work to create a super-duper-good play.

— Nicholas Carline and Michael Lacore, fifth-graders

Edmund Burke School Assembly is a meeting at Burke

School that connects the whole school because the middle and upper schools gather together sever-al times a month. Two members of the Student Council usually run the assembly, which is held in a big open room that fits the whole school. It is an opportunity to get messages out to the whole school. There are other occasions when we get to listen to music played by one of our school bands or listen to the Burke chorus sing. This is always great for the students and teachers who are listening, and for the per-formers as well. Sometimes we use the assembly as an opportunity to have pep rallies where many of the students dress all in black and root for our teams. This is a big part of Burke tradition. Often we have visitors from service or academic organizations (for example, the homeless walk or Cambridge Study Abroad). For these types of activities, it is great for the school to get active as a group and to accomplish something. The assemblies at Burke are a great way to unite the school, have fun and get important information to everyone.

— Zach Rubin, eighth-grader

Georgetown Day School Last Wednesday was the start of normal classes for high-school stu-dents, after the conclusion of mid-term exams. In just the first three days back to normal class schedul-ing, students took part in athletic competitions, an assembly and even a “College Night” for 11th-grade students and parents. For the first Friday assembly of the new year, dean of students Bobby Asher organized “GDSfest 2013.” Rather than have out-of-

school musical groups or previously formed student musical groups per-form, the GDSfest 2013 showcased individual vocalists, bands, freesty-lers and instrumentalists. The suc-cess of the music festival will surely turn it into an annual event. In sports, the boys varsity bas-ketball team competed in two con-ference games against Flint Hill and Maret last week. The girls varsity basketball team played a tough game against Riverdale Baptist. The boys and girls varsity swimming teams defeated the Potomac School and Bullis. As students and faculty prepared for the presidential inauguration on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, plans had already begun for the annual MLK Day assembly at the lower/middle school and the full day of workshops at the high school. The very popular events, taking place on Jan. 25 and 31, respectively, are designed to “highlight the dignity of the human spirit.” This year’s theme for the high school workshops is

music as a vehicle for social justice. — Carlton Marshall II, 11th-grader

Lafayette Elementary The Lafayette Student Council sponsored a holiday fundraiser called the Heifer Project. Students from all grade levels brought in money to buy animals such as heif-ers (cows), chickens, sheep, pigs and goats. Why would they want to buy livestock? Well, in order to rise out of poverty and have a better standard of living, a community needs to develop farms, businesses and educational opportunities. The idea is to choose a project some-where in the world and help to fund gifts of livestock, training for the community, and the veterinary care needed to make the project succeed. Not only did Lafayette’s students donate their money, but the Great Zucchini came to Lafayette and generously donated the ticket sales from his magical performance to our project. Lafayette raised $1,440!

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With that money, the school bought two pigs, three flocks of chicks, five honeybee combs, two water buffa-loes, two sheep and two goats!

— Maddie Gold and Saige Gootman, fifth-graders

Lowell School Lowell’s middle school students visited with Kah Walla, who ran for president of Cameroon in 2011. She ran against Paul Biya, an 80-year-old man who has ruled the country for 30 years and has become almost a dictator, according to Ms. Walla. Ms. Walla is the aunt of two Lowell students, eighth-grader Jazz Walla and fourth-grader Azur. Ms. Walla told us that she was not only the youngest candidate, but she was also the only woman in the presidential race. During the cam-paign the police kidnapped her one day to prevent her from leading a protest march. On another day when she was protesting the elec-tion process, she was water-hosed.

She showed pictures of this and described what it felt like. She said the water had chemicals in it so that it was hard to breathe, but one photo showed her raising her arms in victory because she realized that the people doing this had no power over her spirit. Ms. Walla ran because she thought her county deserved a bet-ter government that would help people have a better life. She is still active in politics and may seek a seat in the legislature. She showed us some pictures of Cameroon and told us there are more than 250 different dialects but only two official languages, French and English. She also told us about some of the resources in Cameroon and the rest of Africa, such as cacao and diamonds. She said, “Africa is not poor; it is just poorly run.”

— Naomi Chambers, Hannah Davis, Sam Howard,

Risa Oshinsky and Alex Warren, sixth-graders; and Jack Pecau,

seventh-grader

Mann Elementary Throughout December, the first-

graders studied winter holidays in class. On Dec. 22, they went to the Smithsonian Discovery Theater to see “Seasons of Light.” The show demonstrated what happens during the different winter holidays. The holidays were Kwanzaa, Diwali, Christmas, Hanukkah, Ramadan, Sankta Lucia and Los Posadas. “This was the best field trip ever,” said first-grader Amelia Laroski. “I really liked it,” said first-grad-er Nadia Limami. The first grade recommends the show.

— Joseph Laroski, third-grader

Murch Elementary This year, our school has initiat-ed a guidance program with the Murch counselor, Ms. Lauren Miller. She is teaching a lesson in each of our classrooms, grades first through fifth, every couple of weeks. In guidance we learn useful tips that will help us now and later in our lives. Among other things, we learn about respect and respon-sibility, and that it is very important not to be prejudiced. We learn about friendship and how to stand up for what’s right. We also learn about how to solve conflicts and how to stand up to peer pressure. These skills will help us as we go on to

middle school. We as students feel that Ms. Miller does a great job expressing the importance of these skills. These skills will play a big part in the rest of our lives. “To me, guidance is a time you learn that making people feel good is important,” said student Emma Saenz. Ms. Miller said that “it’s essen-tial for kids to learn social skills like respect and what it’s like to be a good friend, in order to be positive and productive members of society. It helps kids learn how to navigate their social lives and to become more confident and self-assured.”

— Henry Daschle and Jamie Stewart-Aday, fifth-graders

National Presbyterian School Fifth grade is back on track after Christmas break. In math, we are learning fractions and mixed num-bers. In social studies, we are learn-ing about Egypt. We are also learn-ing about geography and different landforms for a big test. In language arts, we are writing essays on the pros and cons of having sports at our school. Some other fun things are that in art we are making a giant tomb, the way the Egyptians made theirs. And in music, we are learning about the

Renaissance! Some of the fifth-graders are starring in “Annie,” the school musical. In drama, we are studying Shakespeare, which is fun! In read-ing, we are reading about myths, Greek gods and so on. In science, we are separating mixtures like sugar and water or salt and water. In PE, we are working on our basket-ball skills and fitness skills. In library, we just finished making book trailers out of any book we wanted. In technology, we are look-ing up different facts on Egypt and geography. Fifth grade is tough, but we will make it through.

— Ella Raineri, fifth-grader Parkmont School This session in my English class we are studying and writing poetry. One Wednesday, my teacher said we were going to go on a walk and observe. She wanted us to use the things we observed to write a poem. With poetry it is important to notice the things around you. One of the things that stood out to me on our walk was four dog prints visible in the concrete sidewalk. It seemed strange to see them there. That night, our homework was to write a 10-line poem based on our walk. The poem below, “Nature,” is what

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I came up with. It’s the first poem that I have ever written! “Nature / a jet in the sky flying fast / like an eagle. dog prints in concrete / left by a beagle. / squir-rel! / squirrel! / black squirrel! / the squirrels are working / collecting acorns. / trees standing / tall and strong / in the wintry cold.”

— Tomas Rodriguez, sixth-grader

Powell Elementary Powell will be hosting a Martin Luther King Day of Service. Volunteers will be doing painting, organizing, gardening and perimeter cleanup in our school. We will have Portfolio Presentations and Museum exhibi-tions at school next week. We will also have a Pajamas for Peace coin drive for Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. Students will wear pajamas and donate $1, while teachers and staff will donate $5. Parents will also start their Parents Educational Group Workshops where they learn about subjects such as leadership and understanding their children and their behavior. We will also have an open house every Tuesday for those who want to visit our school. Just come, sign in, and our student and staff guides will give you a tour.

— Jeff Williams, fifth-grader

Ross Elementary Recently, our school has been

learning a lot of great things in our social studies classes. From my interviews I could tell that students are really enjoying learning new and interesting facts about our country’s history! The first-graders are studying African-American history. They learned about slavery and are all the way up to present day, which means they are beginning to talk about Barack Obama. This past week the students told me they enjoyed a great book about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Next, they will be learning about Native Americans. In third grade they have learned about several African-Americans who have been peaceful leaders for our country. In fourth grade they are studying Colonial times. They were particularly interested in what they learned this past week about the economy. We are studying the Civil War in fifth grade. My favorite part was learning about a young telegrapher named Willie Kettles.

— Kevin Rivera, fifth-grader

St. Ann’s Academy Brrr!!! Winter has arrived! We are learning about winter weather and animals that hibernate. For bird week, each of us will make binocu-lars, and we will go on a bird walk and make bird calls. We also will make a bird on a feeder, and cover a pine cone with bird seed. On our last day we will have bird stations — a demonstration of what certain birds eat and how some capture their food. In science we will determine whether various objects sink or float

when dropped into water. We use objects like a cork or maybe a coin. In religion the children will learn that God made the birds, fish and butterflies. We will learn about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the inau-guration of President Barack Obama. We will open our writing center this week. We will identify our last names on our nameplate when we enter the room each morning.

— Mrs. Helen Mazzuca and the pre-kindergarten 4-year-old class

School Without Walls After what was a much-needed break, school started up again. “Waking up before 10 a.m.; this is outrageous!” Comments like this could be heard as students entered the building on the first day of school. It’s been two weeks and school is in full swing, with finals for our half-year classes and proj-ects to wrap up before the semester ends. Going back to school is not all work, though. The ski club has an all-day ski trip on Wednesday. Anyone, regardless of experience, can go on the excursion, which includes a lesson, lunch and trans-portation — plus a full day of ski-ing with friends! The school’s win-ter formal, this year called the “Inaugural Ball,” took place last Friday at Eastern Market. It’s halfway through the school year and June seems so far away. However, a new semester begins, and with this, students take new electives. There are plenty of elec-tives to choose from. Want to be a lawyer? Take constitutional or street

law. Like singing? Take concert or show choir. But that’s not all; there are options for dancers, painters, writers and more. There are even Advanced Placement classes that are electives, notably AP Human Geography and AP Psychology. School is back in session after a nice, long break, but we can still wish for a snow day.

— Delmar Tarragó, 11th-grader

Stoddert Elementary In Mrs. Orlando’s class, we’ve been studying bar models in math. Bar models help you understand math word problems. A math prob-lem can be that Tuba has 3,471 apples and Avery has 4,327 apples. We have to find the total number of apples all together. There are two bar models. Each rectangle shows how many apples each person has. You don’t put 4,000 actual apples in the bar graph. You might write how many apples you have. You can shade in the rectangle. Bar models help show a picture of a problem. It can be a little confusing because you write on the bottom and side and sometimes it’s hard to know where to write the correct things. We have a math quiz every Friday. Today we had our math quiz, and it was on one-step and two-step word problems. If you wanted to, you could make a bar model of one of the problems. You had to show your work. It seems sometimes like it’s easi-er to just do the math in the word problems and not a graph. Sometimes it’s fun to have two-step word problem because it can be more challenging.

We thought that third grade would be really hard, but we are able to do the work. We also read really long chapter books, and we both like school. Our advice to sec-ond-graders is to practice at home doing extra math.

— Tuba Balta and Avery Ferrier, third-graders

Wilson High School Most of the public schools on these pages have something impor-tant in common; they all feed into Wilson. Wilson principal Pete Cahall believes that this connection is something that should be embraced. He has recently devel-oped the “Wilson feeder pyramid,” which is made up of the 13 middle and elementary schools that feed into Wilson. The principals of all these schools are meeting periodi-cally to work on better communica-tion and achieving common goals. For example, the schools are working on a common writing cur-riculum to generally improve writ-ing and make sure that students don’t get conflicting information. The schools are also making sure that important events aren’t scheduled at the same time, so that parents with students at multiple schools won’t have conflicts. The schools will work together to share facilities and other resourc-es, and Wilson students looking for community service hours will be able to easily tutor kids at the feeder schools. This feeder pyramid could benefit all the schools, and provide easier transitions for students mov-ing through the schools.

— Erin Sternlieb, 10th-grader

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In Spring Valley, a Tudor home at 4929 Tilden St. that blends the traditional charm of its 1936

origins with the modern amenities

of a recent renovation and addition goes on the market this month for $1,350,000. Among the original features in the house are arched entryways with detailed molding, hardwood floors, and formal dining and living rooms. The dining room has a built-in hutch, and the living room holds one of the home’s four fireplaces — this one with a stone hearth. The home is lighter and brighter than one might expect from a Tudor, thanks to a number of large windows as well as recessed light-ing throughout. French doors in the living room open up to a step-down family room, part of the home’s addition. A second fireplace with a white mar-ble hearth brings extra warmth to an already-comfortable room, perfect for reading or movie-watching. Its expansive windows and glass doors overlook one of the property’s gems — its backyard, which has been

fashioned into a Japanese garden complete with custom stonework and a koi pond. The outdoor space offers privacy in the midst of this leafy neighbor-hood. Surrounded by a wood fence, there’s plenty of room on the brick patio for a dining table and chairs. A waterfall feature in the pond amplifies the backyard’s tranquility. Another set of French doors leads from the patio into the reno-vated kitchen that features a tray ceiling. A center island with a gran-ite countertop is outfitted with two stools. White custom cabinets, which include pullout drawers, offer an abundance of storage space for kitchen accoutrements. On one wall, a lighted curio cabinet pro-vides a place to show off favorite mementos. Adjacent to the kitchen is a spa-cious butler’s pantry that doubles as a wine-tasting room. It has a wet bar and wine refrigerator, along with a granite countertop with stools that slide underneath. An exterior door leads to the home’s driveway, which is shared with the next-door neighbors. An elegant powder room on this level features a marble vanity and floors. The home’s original staircase with wood finials and balusters

leads upstairs to four of the home’s five bedrooms. The reno-vated and spa-cious master suite has five double-door closets. The master bath features a large walk-in shower with a glass door and glass-block win-dows. The bathroom opens up into an adjoining room that the current owners use as a library. Cathedral ceilings, bookcases and a wall of windows make this a perfect space to curl up with a good book, but it could easily be converted into another bedroom, a nursery or an exercise room. A second bedroom on this floor adjoins that space. The room is cur-rently used as a study and features built-in bookcases and another of the home’s fireplaces. A third bed-room on this floor has an archway, which creates a cozy space. Off the main hallway on this level is a full bath complete with an oversize soaking tub and walk-in shower

with glass door. On the home’s third level, the attic has been converted into a fourth bedroom. Angled ceilings from the home’s sloping roof pro-duce a unique feel in this loft-like space. A fan window, recessed lighting and a built-in desk and shelves complete the look. A guest suite can be found on the home’s lower level — a brick fireplace creates a warm environ-ment for overnight visitors. An added amenity in this room is a kitchenette with sink, microwave, small refrigerator and a stovetop. A full bath is also located on this level, as is a sizable laundry room

with expansive countertop space and cabinets. An exterior door opens to an outside staircase that leads up to the driveway. Located on tree-lined Tilden Street, the home is tucked into a quiet neighborhood but is within walking distance of shops and res-taurants on Massachusetts Avenue. It’s also close to the Capital Crescent Trail. This five-bedroom, 3.5-bath house at 4929 Tilden St. is offered for $1,350,000. For details contact Marjorie Dick Stuart of W.C. & A.N. Miller Realtors, a Long & Foster Co., at 240-731-8079 or Marjorie@MarjorieDickStuart.com.

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Renovations bring extra light to 1936 Spring Valley Tudor

Photos courtesy of W.C. & A.N. Miller RealtorsThis five-bedroom house on Tilden Street is priced at $1,350,000.

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Camp argued that his client’s lease is with the city. Simkin took his case to Ward 2 D.C. Council member Jack Evans, who has been in contact with other city officials. Mayor Vincent Gray’s office has reached out to the head of the Park Service, Evans said. And Evans has asked D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton to contact

U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar to look into the issue. D.C. Attorney General Irvin Nathan’s office is also reviewing Camp’s assertions that the waterfront property belongs to the city, Evans said. According to Park Service spokesperson Jennifer Mummart, the agency is confident the waterfront properties still fall under its pur-view. She added, though, “to date we haven’t heard anything from D.C.”

The 1985 resolution also included a clause stating that the Park Service is responsible for maintaining and repairing wharves and piers on the transferred land, according to Camp. Camp said Simkin had been told in the past by agency representatives that upkeep was his responsibility. Mummart said to her knowledge, there were no piers on the property at the time of the resolution.

In December, the Park Service determined that Simkin did not technically have a lease with the agency. Simkin took over Jack’s Boathouse after his business partner died, but the lease did not automatically transfer in name over to Simkin, according to the Park Service. Mummart said opening a competitive pro-cess to award a contract was consistent with how the Park Service does business with ven-dors across the country.

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Gentrification in Columbia Heights has created unique traffic difficulties on Sundays. Some resi-dents who have moved to other parts of the city or to neighboring states because of rising costs of living in the area still belong to their Columbia Heights congregations, Aquiline said. When they return to the neigh-borhood for services, they can end up competing with current neighbors for limited parking spots, she said. The garage proposal was first pitched by the Washington Interfaith Network, which has long worked with area religious institutions on their parking problems. The Office of the Deputy Mayor for Planning and Economic Development, which oversees the garage, is rounding up

support, and presented the plans at a recent Columbia Heights/Park View advisory neighborhood commission meeting. When Rodney George, a project manager at the development agency, began working with the Interfaith Network several months ago, he and the project members determined that congregants need an average of four hours of parking in the neighbor-hood on Sundays. They proposed offering parking there at the reduced rate on Sundays from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., both to the churches and to other nearby non-profit and community-based groups. Participating groups will purchase prepaid vouchers at a discount rate in advance for their members. Before the pilot program can take off, a parking operations committee

in the development office that includes owners of the DC USA shopping facility and the Target store will need to pass a resolution in sup-port. George hopes the resolution will go through by mid-February, and then win approval from the neighborhood commission. George said he plans to conduct a 30-day evaluation before deciding whether to turn the pilot into some-thing more permanent. He and Aquiline think the park-ing program could also encourage churchgoers to spend some time shopping locally as well. Although the District makes parking allowances for churchgoers across the city, it’s not yet clear whether it will try to duplicate the Columbia Heights program else-where

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Discussions and lectures ■AmaneyJamal,associateprofessorofpoliticsatPrincetonUniversity,willdiscussherbook“OfEmpiresandCitizens:Pro-AmericanDemocracyorNoDemocracyatAll?”6to8p.m.Free.Room602,ElliottSchoolofInternationalAffairs,GeorgeWashingtonUniversity,1957ESt.NW.tinyurl.com/bpf296p. ■JournalistFredKaplanwilldiscusshisbook“TheInsurgents:DavidPetraeusandthePlottoChangetheAmericanWayofWar,”abouthowU.S.forcesadaptedtechniquesofinsurgents.7p.m.Free.PoliticsandProse,5015ConnecticutAve.NW.202-364-1919.

Film ■TheReelIsraelDCserieswillfeatureMayaKenig’s2011film“OffWhiteLies,”aboutateenagersenttolivewithhereccentricfatherinIsrael.8p.m.$11.50;$9forstudents;$8.75forseniors;$8.50forages12andyounger.AvalonTheatre,5612ConnecticutAve.NW.202-966-6000.

Performance ■EducationandmediaorganizationStoryPirateswillperformamusicalsketchcomedyshowfeaturingstorieswrittenbystudents.6p.m.Free.MillenniumStage,KennedyCenter.202-467-4600.

Reading ■AmericanUniversity’sVisitingWritersSerieswillpresentafacultybenefitread-ingbyKyleDargan,DanielleEvans,StephanieGrant,AndrewHolleran,DavidKeplinger,EliseLevineandRachelSnyder.7:30p.m.$5donationtobenefit826DC.826DC,323314thSt.NW.202-885-2908.

Thursday,Jan.24

Concerts ■NationalSymphonyOrchestraYouthFellowswillplaychambermusicbyBoccherini,DonizettiandDeak.6p.m.Free.MillenniumStage,KennedyCenter.202-467-4600. ■TheNationalSymphonyOrchestraandviolinistDanZhuwillperformworksbyMozart,BeethovenandBartók.7p.m.$10to$85.ConcertHall,KennedyCenter.202-467-4600.The performance will repeat Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m. ■TheU.S.ArmyFieldBandwillper-

formSpanishartsongs,FlamencoguitarandItalianopera.7:30p.m.Free.ChurchoftheHolyCity,161116thSt.NW.301-677-6586. ■TheEmbassySerieswillpresentsopranoLauraAlonso,violinistYevgenyKutik(shown),cellistAdrianDaurovandpianistsTimothyBozarth,SpencerMyerandMatthiasLademannperformingworksbyMozart.7:30p.m.$55.EmbassyofAustria,3524InternationalCourtNW.202-625-2361.

Discussions and lectures ■RosemountCenter,anearlychild-hoodeducationandfamilysupportcen-ter,willpresentatalkbyChildTrendsearlychildhoodresearchco-directorTamaraHalleon“TheSocial-EmotionalDevelopmentofYoungDualLanguageLearners.”10to11:30a.m.Free;reser-vationsrequired.RosemountCenter,2000RosemountAve.NW.eventbrite.com/event/4689198519. ■TheOsherLifelongLearningInstituteatAmericanUniversitywillpresentatalkbyWallStreetJournaleconomicseditorDavidWesselonhisbook“RedInk:InsidetheHigh-StakesPoliticsoftheFederalBudget.”10to11:50a.m.Free.KatzenArtsCenter,AmericanUniversity,4400MassachusettsAve.NW.202-895-4860. ■Children’sbookwriterandartistKadirNelsonwillpresenthisbook“IHaveaDream,”acollectionofillustrationsofDr.MartinLutherKingJr.’sfamousspeech.10:30a.m.Free.PoliticsandProse,5015ConnecticutAve.NW.202-364-1919. ■MiddleEasterngovernmentexpertNathanBrownwilldis-cuss“PoliticalIslamAftertheArabUpheavalsof2011.”Luncheonat12:15p.m.;programat1p.m.$10to$30.Woman’sNationalDemocraticClub,1526NewHampshireAve.NW.202-232-7363. ■ScholarLindsayTugglewilldiscuss“TheAfterlivesofSpecimens:ScienceandMourninginWhitman’sAmerica.”Noon.Free.Room119,JeffersonBuilding,LibraryofCongress,101stSt.SE.202-707-3302. ■“ElectionsinIsrael”willfeaturepan-elistsYoramPeri,professorofIsraelstud-iesattheUniversityofMarylandatCollegePark;IlanPeleg,professorofgov-ernmentandlawatLafayetteCollege;GershonShafir,professorofsociologyattheUniversityofCaliforniaatSanDiego;andJonathanRynhold,visitingprofessorofIsraelstudiesatGeorgeWashingtonUniversity.Noonto2p.m.Free.Room602,ElliottSchoolofInternationalAffairs,GeorgeWashingtonUniversity,1957ESt.NW.tinyurl.com/cqzscq3. ■CharlesS.Sullivan,doctoralcandi-dateinpoliticalscienceatGeorgeWashingtonUniversity,andIvanKurilla,professorofhistoryatVolgogradStateUniversity,willdiscuss“RememberingStalingrad.”4to5p.m.Free.Room412,ElliottSchoolofInternationalAffairs,GeorgeWashingtonUniversity,1957ESt.NW.go.gwu.edu/stalingrad. ■Agallerytalkwillfocuson“Taking

LineforaWalk—InventionandPoetryinKlee’sProcess.”6and7p.m.Bydonation.PhillipsCollection,160021stSt.NW.202-387-2151. ■AndréDombrowski,recipientofthe2009PhillipsBookPrize,willdiscusshisnewbook“Cézanne,Murder,andModernLife.”6:30p.m.Bydonation.PhillipsCollection,160021stSt.NW.phillipscollection.org/events. ■“Shakespeare:Oxfordianand(Ox)FreudianPerspectives”willfeaturelocalexpertsPeterandSyrilKlineandpsychia-tristRichardWaugamandiscussingtheirsharedviewthatWilliamShakespearewasapseudonymforEdwarddeVere,EarlofOxford.AlightEnglishpub-stylereceptionwillfollow.6:30to8p.m.$10;reserva-tionsrequired.KreegerMuseum,2401FoxhallRoadNW.202-338-3552. ■WriterandhistorianHughHowardwilldiscussportraitsofGeorgeWashingtonandtheirrolesintheAmericanrepublic.AtourofportraitsintheTudorPlacecollec-tionwillfollow.6:30p.m.$8to$10;regis-trationrequired.TudorPlaceHistoricHouseandGarden,164431stSt.NW.202-965-0400,ext.104. ■TheMiddleEastPolicyForumwillsponsorapaneldiscussionaboutLibya’spoliticalfuture.6:30to7:45p.m.Free;reservationsrequired.ElliottSchoolofInternationalAffairs,GeorgeWashingtonUniversity,1957ESt.NW.tinyurl.com/mepf1-24. ■“Hamiltonv.Jefferson:HowShouldtheGovernmentStimulateanEconomyinCrisis”willfeatureadebatebetweenUniversityofMarylandatCollegeParkhis-toryprofessorsRichardBellandWhitmanRidgway.6:45to9p.m.$42.S.DillonRipleyCenter,1100JeffersonDriveNW.202-633-3030. ■JodiDaynardwilldiscussherbook“TheMidwife’sRevolt.”7p.m.$5to$20;reservationsrequired.DumbartonHouse,2715QSt.NW.202-337-2288. ■PulitzerPrize-winningauthorAnnetteGordonReed(shown)willleadapaneldis-cussiononemancipation.ParticipantswillincludeJamesOakes,professorofhistoryattheCityUniversityofNewYorkandauthorof“FreedomNational:TheDestructionofSlavery,1861-1865”;JamesMcPherson,Pulitzer-winninghistorianandprofessoremeritusatPrincetonUniversity;EdwardAyers,CivilWarhistorianandpresidentoftheUniversityofRichmond;andEricFoner,authorandprofessorofhistoryatColumbiaUniversity.7p.m.Free.McGowanTheater,NationalArchivesBuilding,ConstitutionAvenuebetween7thand9thstreetsNW.202-357-5000. ■CBSNewscorrespondentDanRavivwilldiscusshisbook“SpiesAgainstArmageddon:InsideIsrael’sSecretWars,”aboutIsrael’sintelligenceagency.7:30to9p.m.$8to$10;reservationsrequired.WashingtonDCJewishCommunityCenter,152916thSt.NW.washingtondcjcc.org.

Film ■GeorgetownUniversitywillscreenaward-winningshortfilmsfromAustralia.6:30to8p.m.Free;reservationsrequired.FilmScreeningRoom,NewSouth,GeorgetownUniversity,37thandOstreetsNW.australianfilm.eventbrite.com.

Meetings ■TheNon-FictionBookClubwilldis-cuss“TheHareWithAmberEyes”byEdmunddeWaal.7p.m.Free.Georgetown

Library,3260RSt.NW.202-727-0232. ■TheCircleYogaMindfulnessBookClubwilldiscuss“HandWashCold:CareInstructionsforanOrdinaryLife”byKarenMiller.7:30p.m.Free.CircleYoga,3838NorthamptonSt.NW.202-686-1104. Performance ■TheInternationalAssociationofBlacksinDancewillpresentashowcaseofemergingandestablisheddancers.7:30p.m.$35.TerraceTheater,KennedyCenter.202-467-4600.

Readings ■GeraldStern,winnerofthe12thRebekahJohnsonBobbittNationalPrizeforPoetry,willreadselectionsfromhis“EarlyCollectedPoems:1965-1992.”7p.m.Free.MontpelierRoom,MadisonBuilding,LibraryofCongress,101IndependenceAve.SE.202-707-5394. ■LisaZeidnerwillreadfromanddis-cusshernovel“LoveBomb”inconjunctionwithGeorgeWashingtonUniversity’s“JewishLiteratureLive”course.7:30p.m.Free.Room309,MarvinCenter,GeorgeWashingtonUniversity,80021stSt.NW.jewishlitlivegwu@gmail.com.

Sporting event ■TheWashingtonCapitalswillplaytheMontrealCanadiens.7p.m.$44to$365.VerizonCenter,601FSt.NW.202-397-7328.

Friday,Jan.25

Concerts ■TheFridayMorningMusicClubwillpresentaconcertfeaturingworksbyMozart,BeethovenandFauré.Noon.Free.CalvaryBaptistChurch,7558thSt.NW.202-333-2075. ■TheFridayMusicSerieswillfeatureaconcertbyparticipantsintheWashingtonNationalOperaDomingo-CafritzYoungArtistProgram.1:15p.m.Free.McNeirHall,GeorgetownUniversity,37thandOstreetsNW.202-687-2787. ■TheEmbassySerieswillpresenttheMendelssohnPianoTrioandguestviolistMichaelStepniakperformingworksbyMozart.7:30p.m.$55.EmbassyofAustria,3524InternationalCourtNW.202-

625-2361. ■ActressandsingerTerriWhitewillperformaspartofBarbaraCook’scabaretseries.7:30p.m.$45.TerraceTheater,KennedyCenter.202-467-4600. ■BangonaCanAll-StarswillpresentaneclecticmusicprogramaspartoftheNewMusicattheAtlasseries.8p.m.$15to$25.AtlasPerformingArtsCenter,1333HSt.NE.202-399-7993.

Discussions and lectures ■JamesShapiro,professorofEnglishandcomparativeliteratureatColumbiaUniversityandauthorof“1599:AYearintheLifeofWilliamShakespeare,”willdis-cusstheEssexRebellionanditslinkto“HenryV.”6p.m.Free.FolgerShakespeareLibrary,201EastCapitolSt.NW.202-544-7077. ■CriminaljusticeprofessorAdamLankfordwilldiscusshisbook“TheMythofMartyrdom:WhatReallyDrivesSuicideBombers,RampageShooters,andOtherSelf-DestructiveKillers.”7p.m.Free.PoliticsandProse,5015ConnecticutAve.NW.202-364-1919.

Film ■TheIranianFilmFestival2013willfeatureManiHaghighi’s2012film“AModestReception.”7p.m.Free.MeyerAuditorium,FreerGalleryofArt,12thStreetandJeffersonDriveSW.202-633-1000.The film will be shown again Sunday at 2 p.m.

Performances ■TheaterJwillpresentaprogramoftranscript-deriveddocumentarytheaterpieces:“TheTrialoftheRefuseniks,”thestoryoffiveIsraeliconscientiousobjectorsandtheirmilitarytrial,and“WomenSoldiersSpeak,”aboutfemaleveteransinIsrael.2to5p.m.$5.BernsteinLibrary,WashingtonDCJewishCommunityCenter,152916thSt.NW.800-494-8497. ■YvonneSinghwillpresentaone-womanshow“Zora,”aboutconnectionsbetweenthelifeofauthorZoraNealeHurstonandDr.MartinLutherKingJr.’shistoric“LetterFromBirminghamJail.”4to6p.m.Free.Auditorium,BunnInterculturalCenter,GeorgetownUniversity,37thandOstreetsNW.georgetown.edu/mlk. ■TheInternationalAssociationofBlacksinDancewillpresentaperfor-mancebyemergingandestablisheddanc-ers.6p.m.Free.MillenniumStage,KennedyCenter.202-467-4600. ■VerticalVoicesPlaybackTheatrewillbringpersonalstoriestolifeonthestage.7:30p.m.Free;reservationssuggested.37thStreetMiddleSchoolDramaStudio,SidwellFriendsSchool,3825WisconsinAve.NW.202-537-8150. ■TangoAcropoliswillpresent“MilongasWithoutBorders,”featuringaperformance,photoexhibitandfashionshow.9:30p.m.to1:30a.m.$15.ChevyChaseBallroom,5207WisconsinAve.NW.tangoacropoliswashington.eventbrite.com.

Special event ■ThefourthannualCapitalWineFestivalwillopenwithareceptionhigh-lightingthe10wineriesfromCalifornia,PortugalandItalysponsoringtheevent,aswellasfourlocalwineries.6:30p.m.$65.TheFairfaxatEmbassyRow,2100MassachusettsAve.NW.capitalwinefestival.com.

Sporting event ■TheWashingtonWizardswillplaytheMinnesotaTimberwolves.7p.m.$10to

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Thursday, januaRy 24■Discussion:PulitzerPrize-winnerLawrenceWrightwilldiscusshisbook“GoingClear:Scientology,Hollywood,andthePrisonofBelief.”7p.m.Free.PoliticsandProse,5015ConnecticutAve.NW.202-364-1919.

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$500.VerizonCenter,601FSt.NW.202-397-7328.

Saturday,Jan.26

Book signing ■HelenYvonneHillwillsigncopiesofherbook“CastingOuttheSilverPennies.”2to4p.m.Free.CoffeeNature,4224FessendenSt.NW.202-237-8989.

Children’s programs ■TheNationalSymphonyOrchestrawillperformanodetoteddybears(forages3through5).11a.m.and1:30p.m.$18.FamilyTheater,KennedyCenter.202-467-4600. ■Anastronomerwillexplainhowsci-entistsstudytheuniverseusingspacetele-scopes.3p.m.Free.MartinLutherKingJr.MemorialLibrary,901GSt.NW.202-727-0321.

Classes ■LecturerRobertMintzwilldiscuss“Kyoto:AncientImperialCapital.”10a.m.to4p.m.$130.S.DillonRipleyCenter,1100JeffersonDriveSW.202-633-3030. ■TheD.C.SelfDefenseKarateAssociationwillpresentacommunityworkshopintroducingbasicverbalandphysicalstrategiestoprevent,avoidanddealwithconfrontations.2to4p.m.Freewithadvanceregistration;$10atthedoor.BancroftElementarySchool,18thandNewtonstreetsNW.dcsdka.org/Self_Defense.html. ■“ParkHyattMastersofFood&Wine”willfeatureaseminaronthefundamentalsofoperatingacraftdistillery,ledbyScottHarris,ownerofCatoctinCreekDistillingCo.3to5p.m.$55.ParkHyattWashington,120124thSt.NW.202-419-6768. ■TangoAcropoliswillpresentatangoworkshop.6to8p.m.$40.ChevyChaseBallroom,5207WisconsinAve.NW.tangoacropoliswashington.eventbrite.com.

Concerts ■Massachusetts-basedbandCirkestra,agroupmadeupofmusicianstappedfromcircuses,willperform.6p.m.Free.MillenniumStage,KennedyCenter.202-467-4600. ■BrooklynRider,astringquartetmadeupofjazzandindierockmusicians,willperform.8p.m.$30;reserva-tionsrequired.Sixth&IHistoricSynagogue,600ISt.NW.800-745-3000. ■LarkQuartetandspecialguestYumiKurosawawillperformaprogrambasedontheclassicJapanesenovel“TheTaleofGenji.”8p.m.$29to$33.DumbartonUnitedMethodistChurch,3133DumbartonSt.NW.202-965-2000. ■TheEddiePalmieriLatinJazzSeptetwillperform.7:30and9:30p.m.$35.TerraceTheater,KennedyCenter.202-467-4600.

Discussions and lectures ■Pyschotherapistandworkshopfacili-tatorRebeccaWilkinsonwilldiscuss“ReducingStress:HowtoFeelHappierand

IncreaseWell-Being.”10to11a.m.Free.ChevyChaseLibrary,5625ConnecticutAve.NW.202-352-5225. ■ArtistStevenCushnerwilldiscusshiswork.10a.m.Free.Hemphill,151514thSt.NW.202-234-5601. ■LecturerGordonPriestwilldiscussbagsfromPersia,theCaucasusandKurdistanasculturalartifacts.10:30a.m.Free.TextileMuseum,2320SSt.NW.202-667-0441,ext.64. ■Panelistswilldiscussthehistoryofwomen’srightsinEgypt.1to4p.m.$15.Woman’sNationalDemocraticClub,1526NewHampshireAve.NW.202-232-7363. ■UniversityofChicagoprofessorFredM.DonnerwilldiscussvarioustheoriesabouthowIslambegan.2p.m.Free.MeyerAuditorium,FreerGalleryofArt,12thStreetandJeffersonDriveSW.202-633-1000. ■HealthreporterMargaretPresslerwilldiscussherbook“CheattheClock:NewSciencetoHelpYouLookandFeelYounger.”3:30p.m.Free.PoliticsandProse,5015ConnecticutAve.NW.202-364-1919. ■ContemporaryRussianartistsGrishaBruskinandAndreiMolodkinwillgivegal-lerytalks.5p.m.Free.KatzenArtsCenter,AmericanUniversity,4400MassachusettsAve.NW.202-895-1300. ■WashingtonPostBookWorldfounderWilliamMcPhersonwilldiscusshisfirstnovel,“TestingtheCurrent,”withcriticD.T.Max.6p.m.Free.PoliticsandProse,5015ConnecticutAve.NW.202-364-1919.

Film ■TheNationalGalleryofArtwillscreen“LeCielestàvous”and“Remorques”back-to-backaspartofitsseriesonFrenchfilmmakerJeanGrémillon.2and4p.m.Free.EastBuildingAuditorium,NationalGalleryofArt,4thStreetandConstitutionAvenueNW.202-737-4215.

Performances ■WriterswhohavepublishedbooksthroughPoliticsandProse’sOpusEspressoBookMachinewillreadfromtheirworksandtalkabouttheirexperienc-esatanopenmic.1p.m.Free.PoliticsandProse,5015ConnecticutAve.NW.202-364-1919. ■ArtsgroupsNoPassport,TheaterJ,Twinbizandforce/collisionwillstagea“freetheatreaction”tosupportguncon-trol,featuringnewworkbyplaywrightsAminaHenry,NeilBlackadder,ChrisCragin,NeilLaBute,JenniferMaisel,OliverMayer,WinterMiller,MatthewPaulOlmos,IanRowlands,GaryWinterandCaridadSvich.5p.m.Free.GondaTheatre,DavisPerformingArtsCenter,GeorgetownUniversity,37thandOstreetsNW.nopassport.org. ■OperaLafayetteandKalanidhiDancewillpresentaperformanceof“LallaRoukh.”8p.m.$40to$100.EisenhowerTheater,KennedyCenter.202-467-4600. ■ChoreographerStephanieMiraclewillpresentadanceprograminfluencedbyimaginationandspirituality.8p.m.$8to$22.DancePlace,32258thSt.NE.202-269-1600.The performance will repeat Sunday at 4 p.m.

Special events ■TheWashingtonNationalswillpres-ent“NatsFest,”featuringlivebattingcages,question-and-answersessionswithplayersandcoaches,aKidsZone,interac-tivegamesandmore.Noonto4p.m.$20;$10forages12andyounger.WalterE.WashingtonConventionCenter,801Mount

VernonPlaceNW.nationals.com/natsfest. ■TheAmericanUniversitywomen’sbasketballprogramwillpresent“NationalGirlsandWomeninSportsDay”incon-junctionwithitsgameagainstArmy.Theeventwillfeatureapost-gameskillsclinic.2p.m.$3.BenderArena,AmericanUniversity,4400MassachusettsAve.NW.202-885-8499. ■ArtistswillperformtraditionalWilson’sTaleswhilecollectingwarmcloth-ingandblanketsforCovenantHouseWashington.6to9p.m.Free;warmcloth-ingdonationsuggested.Registrationrequired.CorcoranGalleryofArt,50017thSt.NW.202-639-1700. ■Chefs,mixologistsandartisanswillpresentfood,wineandcocktailtastingsat“Sips,”abenefitforDCCentralKitchenandMartha’sTable.7to9p.m.$95.Newseum,555PennsylvaniaAve.NW.

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Sporting event ■TheWashingtonWizardswillplaytheChicagoBulls.7p.m.$10to$500.VerizonCenter,601FSt.NW.202-397-7328.

Walk ■WashingtonNationalCathedralhorti-culturemanagerDeanneEversmeyerwillleadanOlmstedWoodswalkon“WinterBudsandSilhouettes.”1p.m.Free.Meetat35thandGarfieldstreetsNW.202-537-2319.

Sunday,Jan.27

Concerts ■JewishmusicalgroupAlexandriaKleztetwillperformatakosherbrunch.11a.m.$10to$30;reservationsrequired.WashingtonDCJewishCommunityCenter,152916thSt.NW.washingtondcjcc.org/music. ■“ThePresident’sOwn”U.S.MarineChamberEnsembleswillperformworksbyGrainger,MozartandPoulenc.Atouroftheband’sfacilitywillfollow.2p.m.Free.SousaBandHall,MarineBarracksAnnex,7thandKstreetsSE.202-433-4011. ■ASHIRA,amusicaltriofeaturingAdasIsraelCongregationcantorArianneBrownandvocalistsLauraLenesandLeahTehrani,willpresent“ShabbatShirahCommunityConcert.”2p.m.$5;reserva-tionsrequired.AdasIsraelCongregation,2850QuebecSt.NW.202-362-4433. ■PianistJiYoonParkwillperformworksbyBach,Mozart,ChopinandMartin.3:30p.m.Free;$10donationsuggestedfortheTowerRestorationFund.ChurchoftheHolyCity,161116thSt.NW.202-462-6734. ■ChevyChaseConcertswillfeaturetheconcertbytheRookeChapelChoirandBellRingers.4p.m.Free.ChevyChasePresbyterianChurch,1ChevyChaseCircleNW.202-363-2202. ■ViolinistRachelBartonPinewillper-formworksbyPaganiniandDelacroix.4

p.m.$20;reservationssuggested.PhillipsCollection,160021stSt.NW.phillipscollection.org/music. ■StudentsfromthePeabodyPreparatoryPre-ConservatoryViolinProgramwillplayclassicalworks.6p.m.Free.MillenniumStage,KennedyCenter.202-467-4600. ■ViolinistRachelBartonPinewillper-formworksbyPaganini.6:30p.m.Free.WestGardenCourt,NationalGalleryofArt,6thStreetandConstitutionAvenueNW.202-737-4215. ■DahlakRestaurantwillpresentitsweekly“DCJazzJam”session,featuringguestartistBradLindeonsaxophone.6:30to9:30p.m.Free.1771USt.NW.202-527-9522. ■TheSmithsonianChamberMusicSocietywillpresenttheCastleTrioperform-ingworksbySchubert.7:30p.m.$28.WarnerBros.Theater,NationalMuseumofAmericanHistory,14thStreetandConstitutionAvenueNW.202-633-3030.

Discussions and lectures ■Dr.ArthurKellermann,anexpertongunviolenceasamatterofpublichealth,willdiscuss“RespondingtoNewtown.”10a.m.Free.St.John’sEpiscopalChurch,LafayetteSquare,16thandHstreetsNW.202-347-8766. ■WorldWildlifeFundchiefscientistEricDinersteinwilldiscusshisbook“TheKingdomofRarities.”1p.m.Free.PoliticsandProse,5015ConnecticutAve.NW.202-364-1919. ■TheAmericanUniversityCenterforIsraelStudieswillhostthethirdannualCommunityEducationDayonIsraeli-ArabIssues.1to5p.m.$5.Freewithregistra-tion;$5atthedoor.WardCircleBuilding,AmericanUniversity,4400MassachusettsAve.NW.202-885-1000. ■AlisonLuchs,curatorofearly

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Sunday, januaRy 27■Concert:TheWashingtonPerformingArtsSocietywillpresentviolinistVildeFranginaconcertfea-turingworksbyMozart,Brahms,FauréandProkofiev.7:30p.m.$35.TerraceTheater,KennedyCenter.202-467-4600.

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EuropeansculptureattheNationalGalleryofArt,willdiscuss“Michelangelo’sDavid-Apollo:AnOfferHeCouldn’tRefuse.”2p.m.Free.EastBuildingAuditorium,NationalGalleryofArt,4thStreetandConstitutionAvenueNW.202-737-4215. ■D.C.lawyerRawnJamesJr.willdis-cusshisbook“TheDoubleV:HowWars,Protest,andHarryTrumanDesegregatedAmerica’sMilitary.”5p.m.Free.PoliticsandProse,5015ConnecticutAve.NW.202-364-1919.

Film ■TheNationalGalleryofArtwillscreentheWashingtonpremiereofthedirector’scutofVolkerSchlöndorff’s1979film“TheTinDrum.”4p.m.Free.EastBuildingAuditorium,NationalGalleryofArt,4thStreetandConstitutionAvenueNW.202-737-4215.

Performance ■MembersoftheNationalSymphonyOrchestrawillshowhowmusicandsci-enceconnectinamultimediaperfor-mance(forchildrenages9andolderandtheirfamilies).1:30and4p.m.$18.FamilyTheater,KennedyCenter.202-467-4600.

Sporting event ■TheWashingtonCapitalswillplaytheBuffaloSabres.3p.m.$44to$365.VerizonCenter,601FSt.NW.202-397-7328.

Monday,Jan.28

Concerts ■MembersoftheNationalSymphonyOrchestraYouthFellowsprogramwillper-formchambermusicworksbyDvorák,

Dahl,Nelhýbelandothers.6p.m.MillenniumStage,KennedyCenter.202-467-4600. ■Mezzo-sopranoMaríaJoséMontielwillperformintheNationalAllianceforHispanicHealth’s“ConcertfortheAmericas.”7:30p.m.Free;reservationsrequired.TerraceTheater,KennedyCenter.202-797-4357.

Discussions and lectures ■TheDupontCircleVillagewillpresentatalkon“OptionsWhenItIsHardtoStayatHome”byChristineBitzer,assistantdirectoroftheCareManagementProgramatSeaburyResourcesforAging.3:30to5p.m.FreeforDupontCircleVillagemem-bers;$10forothers.ThomasHouseResidences,1330MassachusettsAve.NW.202-234-2567. ■SusanBeilbyMageewilltalkabout“IntotheLight,”herbiographyofHolocaustsurvivorKalmanAron.4:30p.m.Free.PoliticsandProse,5015ConnecticutAve.NW.202-364-1919. ■BusboysandPoetswillhostadis-cussionaboutgunviolence.6to8p.m.Free.CullenRoom,BusboysandPoets,10255thSt.NW.202-789-2227. ■DaveZirinwilldiscusshisbook“GameOver:HowPoliticsHasTurnedtheSportsWorldUpsideDown.”6:30to8p.m.Free.LangstonRoom,BusboysandPoets,202114thSt.NW.202-387-7638. ■Formerpresidentialeconomicadvis-erAlanS.Blinderwilldiscusshisbook“AftertheMusicStopped:TheFinancialCrisis,theResponse,andtheWorkAhead.”7p.m.Free.PoliticsandProse,5015ConnecticutAve.NW.202-364-1919.

■TheKalbReportwillpresent“DemocracyinAction:AReviewofthe2012PresidentialDebates,”featuringjour-nalistMarvinKalbinterviewinglastyear’smoderators—CandyCrowley,JimLehrer,MarthaRaddatzandBobSchieffer.8to9:15p.m.Free;reservationsrequired.NationalPressClub,52914thSt.NW.kalb-democracyinaction.eventbrite.com.

Films ■TheChevyChaseLibrarywillpresentStephenFrears’2006film“TheQueen,”star-ringHelenMirren.2p.m.Free.ChevyChaseLibrary,5625ConnecticutAve.NW.202-282-0021. ■TheFictionLover’sFilmCompanionserieswillfeatureCampbellScottandStanleyTucci’s1996film“BigNight.”6p.m.Free.MartinLutherKingJr.MemorialLibrary,901GSt.NW.202-727-0321. ■The“MappingDemocracyinFilm”serieswillfeature“WhyDemocracy?”—acollectionoffilmsmadebyemergingfilm-makersthroughouttheworld.6:30p.m.$4to$7.Goethe-Institut,8127thSt.NW.202-289-1200,ext.160. ■TheWashingtonPsychotronicFilmSocietywillpresentChuckMartinez’s1987film“NiceGirlsDon’tExplode.”8p.m.Donationsuggested.McFadden’sRestaurantandSaloon,2401PennsylvaniaAve.NW.202-462-3356.

Performance ■TheaterJwillpresentareadingof“InventingtheEnemy:1938”byToninoTosto.7p.m.Free;reservationsrecom-mended.WashingtonDCJewishCommunityCenter,152916thSt.NW.washingtondcjcc.org.

Special event ■“SnakeheadsattheHarbour,”aben-efitdinnerandsilentauctionfortheOysterRecoveryPartnershipandMiriam’sKitchen,willfeatureseafooddishesbycelebritychefsandWashingtonRedskinslegendJohnRiggins.6:30to10p.m.$125.TonyandJoe’sSeafoodPlace,3000KSt.NW.202-944-4545.

Sporting event ■TheWashingtonWizardswillplaytheSacramentoKings.7p.m.$10to$475.

VerizonCenter,601FSt.NW.202-397-7328.

Tuesday,Jan.29

Concerts ■TheTuesdayConcertSerieswillfea-turetenorJoshuaBaumgardnerperform-ingworksbySchumann,StraussandWolf.12:10p.m.$10donationencouraged.ChurchoftheEpiphany,1317GSt.NW.202-347-2635,ext.18. ■StudentsfromtheBenjaminT.RomeSchoolofMusicatCatholicUniversitywillperformmusicbyMarvinHamlisch.6p.m.Free.MillenniumStage,KennedyCenter.202-467-4600. ■TheWashingtonPerformingArtsSocietywillpresenttheJazzatLincolnCenterOrchestrawithWyntonMarsalisontrumpet.8p.m.$35to$85.ConcertHall,KennedyCenter.202-467-4600.

Discussions and lectures ■TheOsherLifelongLearningInstituteatAmericanUniversitywillpresentatalkbyNewYorkTimesreporterPeterBakerabouthowtheAmericanpresidencyhaschangedoverthepasttwodecades.10to11:50a.m.Free.AbramsonFamilyRecitalHall,KatzenArtsCenter,AmericanUniversity,4400MassachusettsAve.NW.202-895-4860. ■PatriciaBitondowilldiscussherexperiencestravelingandworkingwithherhusbandinnewlyindependentAfricancountries.Luncheonat12:15p.m.;pro-gramat1p.m.$10to$30.Woman’sNationalDemocraticClub,1526NewHampshireAve.NW.202-232-7363. ■EducationpolicyexpertAndySmarickwilldiscusshisbook“TheUrbanSchoolSystemoftheFuture:ApplyingthePrinciplesandLessonsofChartering.”3to6p.m.Free.CullenRoom,BusboysandPoets,10255thSt.NW.202-789-2227. ■GeorgeWashingtonUniversityprofes-sorAmitaiEtzioniwilldiscusshisbook“HotSpots:AmericanForeignPolicyinaPost-HumanRightsWorld.”4to5:30p.m.Free.LindnerFamilyCommons,ElliottSchoolofInternationalAffairs,GeorgeWashingtonUniversity,1957ESt.NW.go.gwu.edu/HotSpots. ■DermatologistEricFinziwilldiscusshisbook“TheFaceofEmotion:HowBotoxAffectsOurMoodsandRelationships.”7p.m.Free.PoliticsandProse,5015ConnecticutAve.NW.202-364-1919.

Films ■TheGeorgetownLibrarywillscreenRobertoBenigni’s1997film“LifeisBeautiful”aspartofitsJanuaryfilmseries.6p.m.Free.GeorgetownLibrary,3260RSt.NW.202-727-0232. ■ThePopularFilmSerieswillpresentGenndyTartakovsky’s2012animatedfilm“HotelTransylvania.”6p.m.Free.RoomA-5,MartinLutherKingJr.MemorialLibrary,901GSt.NW.202-727-0321.

Performances ■ArtistAndreaFraserwillperform“MenontheLine,KPFK,1972,”are-enactmentofa1970sradiobroadcastoffourmendiscussingthefeministmove-ment.7p.m.$6to$18.CorcoranGalleryofArt,50017thSt.NW.202-639-1700. ■TheFalunDafaOrganizationofWashington,D.C.,willpresentclassicalChinesemusicanddancein“ShenYun

2013:Reviving5,000YearsofCivilization.”7:30p.m.$50to$250.OperaHouse,KennedyCenter.202-467-4600.The per-formance will repeat Wednesday through Saturday at 7:30 p.m. and Saturday and Sunday at 1:30 p.m. ■GeorgetownUniversitywillhostastagedreadingof“UlyssesonBottles,”basedontheGiladEvronnovel.7:30to9:30p.m.$10.DavisPerformingArtsCenter,GeorgetownUniversity,37thandOstreetsNW.202-687-3838.

Wednesday,Jan.30

Class ■RutgersUniversityprofessorJasonGraboskywillleadaclasson“FindingRoomforTreeRootsintheInnerCity”aspartofaserieson“PrinciplesofSustainableDesign.”9a.m.tonoon.$20;reservationsrequired.CaseyTreesHeadquarters,303012thSt.NE.caseytrees.org/events.

Concert ■MembersofWashingtonNationalOpera’sDomingo-CafritzYoungArtistProgramwilljoinpianistLukeFraziertoperformaprogramofworksfrommusicaltheatertojazz.6p.m.Free.MillenniumStage,KennedyCenter.202-467-4600.

Discussions and lectures ■PoliticsandProsewillcelebratethe50thanniversaryofthechildren’sseries“AmeliaBedelia”withtheauthor’sneph-ew,HermanParish.10:30a.m.Free.PoliticsandProse,5015ConnecticutAve.NW.202-364-1919. ■TheOsherLifelongLearningInstituteatAmericanUniversitywillpresentatalkabouthowseniorvillageshelpolderWashingtoniansstayintheirownhomes.10to11:50a.m.Free.TempleBaptistChurch,3850NebraskaAve.NW.202-895-4860. ■PanelistswilldiscussPresidentAbrahamLincolnandtheEmancipationProclamation.Noon.Free.McGowanTheater,NationalArchivesBuilding,ConstitutionAvenuebetween7thand9thstreetsNW.202-357-5000. ■JamieDrake,founderofNewYork-basedDrakeDesignAssociates,willdis-cusshisexuberantcolorsense,tasteforglamourandeyefortellingdetail.6:30to8p.m.$20;$12forstudents.Reservationsrequired.NationalBuildingMuseum,401FSt.NW.202-272-2448. ■NobelPrize-winningeconomistPaulKrugmanwilldiscusshisbook“EndThisDepressionNow!”7p.m.$12;reserva-tionsrequired.Sixth&IHistoricSynagogue,600ISt.NW.877-987-6487. ■Apanelofexpertswilldiscuss“InSearchofChina’sSoul:Money,Politics,andthePressureforSocialChange.”7:30p.m.$20.Nave,WashingtonNationalCathedral,3101WisconsinAve.NW.tickets.cathedral.org.

Performance ■TheHappeningsattheHarmanserieswillpresent“MyMistress’Eyes:ALoveStory,”featuringShakespeare’sson-netsintertwinedwiththemusicofMozart.Noon.Free.SidneyHarmanHall,610FSt.NW.202-547-1122.

Reading ■Incommemorationofthesesquicen-tennialoftheCivilWar,U.S.PoetLaureateNatashaTrethewaywillreadfromhercol-lection“NativeGuard.”Noon.Free.Room119,JeffersonBuilding,LibraryofCongress,101stSt.SE.202-707-5394.

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Tuesday, januaRy 29■Discussion: “Q&ACafe”willfeatureWashingtonianeditor-at-largeCarolJoyntinterviewingD.C.MayorVincentGray.12:30p.m.$38;reservationsrequired.DegreesBar&Lounge,TheRitz-CarltonGeorgetown,3100SouthSt.NW.202-912-9110.

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“Color, Line, Light: French Drawings, Watercolors, and Pastels From Delacroix to

Signac,” featuring some 100 works from the collection of James T. Dyke, will open Sunday in the West Building of the National Gallery of Art and continue through May 26. Assembled by one of the most astute

American collectors of 19th- and 20th-centu-ry French works on paper, the images survey the broad development of modern draftsman-ship in France. Located at 6th Street and Constitution Avenue NW, the museum is open Monday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. 202-737-4215.■ The American University Museum will open five exhibits Saturday and continue them through March 17. “Grisha Bruskin: H-Hour” presents sculp-ture by Russian artist Bruskin that examines the myth of the enemy in diverse forms.

“Andrei Molodkin: Crude” articulates the space between people’s peaceful, democratic aspirations and the unending conflicts perpet-uated by oil politics. “Andrea Way: Retrospective 1982-2012” highlights an influential artist whose career began in D.C. An exhibit of large-scale figurative paint-ings by Susan Yanero delves into the dark aesthetic of the artist, who lives in the 16th Street Heights neighborhood. “The Fellows Converge: The Obstructions” spotlights the 2012 Hamiltonian Fellows: Amy Boone-McCreesh, Milana Braslavsky, Billy Friebele, Leonora Howell, Annette Isham, Matthew Mann, Joshua Wade Smith, Timothy Thompson and Jerry Truong. An artists’ reception will take place Saturday from 6 to 9 p.m. Located in the Katzen Arts Center at 4400 Massachusetts Ave. NW, the museum is open Tuesday through Sunday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. 202-885-1300.■ “Sandy’s Stories: An Epilogue of Hurricane Sandy,” a group show of artwork about the storm’s aftereffects, opened Sunday at

George Washington University’s Gallery 102, where it will continue through Feb. 1. An opening reception will take place today from 6 to 7 p.m. Located at 801 22nd St. NW, the gallery is open Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. thegallery102@gmail.com.■ “Imagining Our Future Together,” present-ing works by the winners of a competition to imagine a vision for South Asia, opened yes-terday at the World Bank Main Complex Building and will continue through Feb. 13. Located at 1818 H St. NW, the building is open Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. 202-458-7320.■ “Sapiosexual,” a multi-part exhibit that fea-tures works by Jeremy Flick, Ian Jehle and Brandon Morse, opened last week at Studio 1469 and will continue through Feb. 2. A closing event will take place Feb. 2 from 6 to 8 p.m. Located at 1469 Harvard St. NW, rear, the gallery is open Friday from noon to 6 p.m. and Saturday from 3 to 6 p.m. 202-518-0804.■ The Korean Cultural Center at the Embassy of the Republic of Korea recently

opened an exhibit of Korean fashion. On view through Jan. 31, the show presents 50 hanbok creations by 22 Korean designers. Located at 2370 Massachusetts Ave. NW, the center is open Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to noon and from 1:30 to 5:30 p.m. koreaculturedc.org.

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Arena Stage will present David Lindsay-Abaire’s drama “Good People” Feb.

1 through March 10 in the Kreeger Theater. Tony Award nominee Johanna Day stars as Margaret Walsh, a sin-

gle mother in South Boston strug-gling to make ends meet. She reunites with an old flame, hoping that his fortune can somehow improve her own. But not every man wants to relive his past, and they soon discover the dire costs the truth can hold. Performance times are generally Sunday, Tuesday and Wednesday at 7:30 p.m.; Thursday through Saturday at 8 p.m.; and Saturday and Sunday at 2 p.m. Tickets cost $40 to $85. Arena Stage is located at 1101 6th St. SW. 202-488-3300; arenastage.org.■ Taffety Punk Theatre Company will stage an adapta-tion of Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night” Feb. 1 through 23 at the Capitol Hill Arts Workshop. Director Michelle Shupe’s pro-duction turns the play into the vision of a dying girl as Viola fights to survive after washing up in Illyria due to a shipwreck. Performance times are Wednesday through Saturday at 7:30 p.m. and Saturday at 2 p.m. Tickets cost $10. The Capitol Hill Arts Workshop is located at 545 7th

St. SE. 800-838-3006; tix.taffetypunk.com.■ Arcturus Theater Company will present “Mind-bending Works

of Samuel Beckett” — its inaugural show — Jan. 24 through Feb. 3 at the District of Columbia Arts Center.

The produc-tion will feature the Irish play-wright’s “That Time,” “Embers”

and “Rough for Theatre II” — three stirring, unconventional explora-tions of memory, identity and the struggles we have connecting with others. Performance times are Thursday through Sunday at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday at 3 p.m. Tickets cost $10 to $15. The District of Columbia Arts Center is located at 2438 18th St. NW. arcturustheater.tix.com.■ Ford’s Theatre will stage a 75th

anniversary production of Thornton Wilder’s classic “Our Town” Jan. 25 through Feb. 24. Performance times are generally 7:30 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday and 2 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. Tickets start at $15. Ford’s Theatre is located at 511 10th St. NW. 800-982-2787; fords.org.■ The In Series will present Mozart’s “La Clemenza di Tito” Jan. 26 through Feb. 3 at the Atlas Performing Arts Center. Performance times are 8 p.m. Saturday and 3 p.m. Sunday. Tickets cost $42 for general admis-sion, $38 for seniors and $21 for students. The Atlas Performing Arts Center is located at 1333 H St. NE. 202-399-7993; atlasarts.org.■ Keegan Theatre will present “Cabaret” Jan. 26 through Feb. 23 at the Church Street Theater. Performance times generally are 8 p.m. Thursday through Saturday; and 3 p.m. Sunday. Tickets cost $35 to $40. The Church Street Theater is located at 1742 Church St. NW. 703-892-0202; keegantheatre.com.

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hope the applicant will work with us on that,” Watergate West president Gerald Waldman said at the neighbor-hood commission meeting. “We want to obviously have a nice hotel … but at the same time we want to protect our property, we want to sleep at night.” Several residents spoke at the meeting to support the plans. “If we limit its ability to succeed, we’re just para-lyzing ourselves to keep it as this urban decay,” said one Watergate South resident. Cohen added that the hotel has its own reasons to preserve peace and quiet in the Watergate complex. “The hotel is [going to be] 90 percent of our income,” he said. “Guests always are looking for ways to get their money back. We have to make sure they can sleep.”

Fonseca said in an interview after the meeting that he’s “hopeful of completing a negotiation” with Watergate West but that he can’t speculate on the timing. He said the protest from the neighborhood commission was understandable from a procedural standpoint. An Alcoholic Beverage Control Board hearing on the plans will take place next month. The commission’s action ensures that the group can participate in the hear-ing if issues aren’t settled. Euro Capital purchased the Watergate Hotel for $41 million in 2010, according to property records, after it had been vacant since 2007. The firm received zoning approval early last year to renovate the hotel, most nota-bly to increase the room count from 237 to 355 — a necessary move, the firm said, to sustain amenities at the site.

WATERGATE: Hotel seeks outdoor seating areasFrom Page 5

as a surprising move, Ward 4’s MacFarland Middle School — which Henderson first proposed consolidating with nearby Roosevelt High School — will now send its students to various Ward 4 pre-K-to-eighth-grade campuses, with special-needs students slated to attend the Takoma Education Campus. Other affected Northwest schools include Shaw Middle School, which will still be consolidated with Cardozo High School to create a sixth-to-12th-grade campus. The Choice Academy public charter school in Northeast was also slated to move to Cardozo, but it will now relocate to the Emery Education Campus in Northeast. Sharpe Health School, a citywide special-needs campus located in Ward 4, is still slated to relocate in August 2014 to the former River Terrace Elementary School in Ward 7, along with the Mamie D. Lee School, which also serves special-needs students in Ward 5. “I went into this knowing that school consolidations are treacher-ous territory,” the chancellor told reporters at a briefing last Thursday. “I hope the community sees what they said [to us] reflected in this final plan. … I believe that it’s the next step in creating a set of schools across the city that are able to deliver a high-quality education.” In Logan Circle, community members and elected officials had rallied to save Garrison, which had made strides in recent years — increasing enrollment, hiring new faculty and strengthening its PTA. New population estimates for Ward 2 suggested that the school might grow faster than originally forecast, which played a significant role in Henderson’s decision to keep it open. Under the new plan, Garrison will add early education and special education classrooms to boost enrollment — elements the school’s PTA suggested to Henderson. “It’s a huge relief that we’re stay-ing open,” said Garrison PTA presi-dent Ann McLeod in an interview. “But the hard work begins now. We made a lot of commitments to DCPS, and now we need to prove to them that they made the right decision.” Garrison’s PTA members and

other stakeholders will now refocus their efforts on recruiting new stu-dents for the school at 1200 S St. However, McLeod said, community members could use more specifics from the chancellor on the school’s future programming to help con-vince prospective parents to choose Garrison in the school lottery, which starts this month. Stakeholders will also redouble their efforts to fully modernize the elementary school, which was built in 1964 but hasn’t been significantly renovated since. A PTA survey showed that the aging facility was a major barrier for parents when deciding whether or not to enroll their children at Garrison. At Francis-Stevens, details are still fuzzy, but the chancellor’s plans call for the pre-K-to-eighth-grade school to be “merged” with School Without Walls, a magnet high school in Foggy Bottom. Under the pro-posal, Walls will shift its ninth-grade classrooms to the Francis-Stevens site at 2425 N St. The move not only allows Francis-Stevens to stay open, but also gives more space to the overpopulated Walls. The joined campus would have one principal, according to Henderson. While the pre-K to eighth grades would remain as an open-enrollment school, high school students at Walls would continue to be admitted through a competitive application process – which Francis-Stevens students would have to go through in order to matriculate to the ninth grade there. Members of the Francis-Stevens community are “thrilled” that the school is staying open, Tim Ryan, vice president of the school’s PTA, said in an interview. While the PTA was always amenable to sharing the campus with Walls, Ryan said the two school communities and D.C. Public Schools administrators have not yet communicated about how the new configuration would work. But Ryan said he’s optimistic the schools can work out the details. “I think in the long run, we’ll have the best school in the city because of where we’re starting from and because of the community support behind it,” he said. “It will be better than what would have existed if we hadn’t gone through this process. It’s a win, period.”

But Terry Lynch, a Walls parent, said teacher and parent organizations at the school oppose expanding the ninth grade to Francis-Stevens. “It would isolate teachers from their colleagues and students from other clubs and activities at the school,” Lynch said in an interview. “It would be different if they were near each other, but the two schools are more than a mile apart.” When Walls’ theater and arts classes were located at Francis-Stevens two years ago, Lynch said, faculty members felt cut off. He said there are no models showing that a bifurcated campus is in the best interest of students. Elsewhere in the District, Ward 8’s Johnson Middle School and Malcolm X Elementary School will remain open. The latter is reported to be partnering with nearby Achievement Preparatory Academy Public Charter School, although the chancellor declined to confirm that. Smothers Elementary School in Ward 7 will also remain open. Still slated for closure are Ward 5’s Marshall Elementary, Spingarn High School and STAY programs; Ward 6’s Prospect Learning Center; Ward 7’s Davis and Kenilworth ele-mentary schools, Winston Education Campus and Ron Brown Middle School; and Ward 8’s Ferebee-Hope and M.C. Terrell/McGogney ele-mentary schools. In February, “transition commit-tees” will be assigned to each school slated for closure as well as the receiving schools in order to address concerns and begin the planning process. The Washington Teacher’s Union released a statement saying it would work to minimize the impact of school closures on teachers, students and schools. But another local group, Empower DC, announced Friday that it would pursue litigation to block the planned school closures, saying that the plan denies some students equal access to quality edu-cation and targets students of color in lower-income neighborhoods. Also ahead this year for D.C. Public Schools is a proposal for future changes to school boundaries and feeder patterns, an issue some say could be more contentious than school closings and consolidations.

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BURNING TREE, BETHESDA, MARYLANDClassic 8,000 SF+ Colonial with finest materials &amenities, gourmet kitchen, luxurious owner'ssuite + 5BR on 4 finished levels. Heated pool &lush landscaping. $1,950,000Adaline Neely 301-580-2214William F. X. Moody 202-243-1620

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“Nancy and Keene Taylor, Jr. understand that selling the home where your parents’ raised their family and lived out the last years of their lives can be an emotional and di� cult process.   � eir reputation and experience as the best real estate agency in the Chevy Chase area preceded them, but it wasn’t until my siblings and I faced the overwhelming prospect of sorting through 50 years of “stu­ ” and preparing my parents’ house for the market that we appreciated how committed they were to making sure things went as smoothly and painlessly as possible every step of the way.   � eir service and personal attention was remarkable as was the rapid sale that led to a better-than-expected price.”  

Helen (Schertler) Bridge

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Steve Agostino202.321.5506

Nancy Taylor202.997.0081

Keene Taylor Jr.202.321.3488

We are working several buyers who are ready to purchase. If you are interested in selling, we can make it easy and cost effective for you. Give us a call if you have a property that fi ts one of our buyerʼs needs. Hereʼs what we are looking for:

Large, updated detached home in

upper NW DC, Chevy Chase

or Bethesda; prefer 5,000 to

6,500 sqft with good entertaining

space, garage parking & decent

yard; willing to spend

$1.5M - $2.5M

Medium sized 4BR, 2+ BA home

close to Metro & shopping; main

level family room/den & powder

room required but fl exible on yard

& parking; price point is

$900K - $1.3M

4BR, with large

family room/kitchen in

Lafayette ES School District -

Up to $1.5M

Small to medium home with

4BR/2BA and hang-out space

on main level... doesnʼt need

to be near Metro;

want to stay under

$850K

Small house

or townhome

under $625K;

one bathroom OK