Through an entire legislationive process. Supervisor bevan dusty we were seeing a proliferation of retail spaces to restaurants and the merchants had a concern that daytime foot traffic would collapse as more as more nighttime restaurants were created out of existing retail space. Supervisor campos and i worked together on legislation that we sponsored and the board passed to say that you need a conditional use to convert retail to restaurant. It was not a ban. To my knowledge, no such cu applications have been submitted. I might be wrong about that, but im at least unawaiver unaware of any. I suspect if that is the case, people know there would be a lot of Community Pushback and that would not be granted. We have seen plenty of situations where conditional uses have been defeated. So conditional uses, its not a rubberstamp. You have to do a preapplication, community meeting, submit your application. It goes through a process. It has to go to the Planning Commission. The Planning Commi
Respectfully, that is not the reality. To the contrary, were going through the process of the special use district. And yes, i work with supervisor wiener on the valencia corridor. At that point, the avenue we choose was one that was consistent where the community was. In this case, the community believes that to fully consider a conditional use down the road, that we need to have this interim control. So that the communitys efforts go to actually studying the issue as opposed to fighting a specific project. The other thing that i would say is that for purposes of these Small Business it really is about preserving Small Business commercial space and that is critical, because commercial space when its smaller is more affordable. In this case, in this hot real estate market, to engage in a special use district as the community is terrified that a specific storefront is going to be lost. We dont want to do that. We dont want to have to worry about that and this is simply giving the opport
Do a complete prohibition . Diego sanchez with Planning Department staff. I think the interim controls allow time to recalibrate the appropriate controls if that is going to be sought by the community. Right now you have a different use restrictions. Perhaps in this time, there is more outreach to the merchants and calibrate it we dont know what that is going to be. There is also additional conditional use criteria that need to be formulated and this interim time would give time to formulate those with the community and other stakeholders. I think that is the perspective from the Planning Department as to why an interim prohibition in this time would be okay. It is not a permanent control. It is for a short period of time. Potentially. Potentially. Potentially. It could become a permanent control. And once you have a temporary control, sometimes it can create its own momentum. True. To make it permanent. And i understand that it could include onetailored to the community. The current u
And yes, i work with supervisor wiener on the valencia corridor. At that point, the avenue we choose was one that was consistent where the community was. In this case, the community believes that to fully consider a conditional use down the road, that we need to have this interim control. So that the communitys efforts go to actually studying the issue as opposed to fighting a specific project. The other thing that i would say is that for purposes of these Small Business it really is about preserving Small Business commercial space and that is critical, because commercial space when its smaller is more affordable. In this case, in this hot real estate market, to engage in a special use district as the community is terrified that a specific storefront is going to be lost. We dont want to do that. We dont want to have to worry about that and this is simply giving the opportunity to the community to actually engage in an open discussion and in a full study without having to worry about th
Critical condition. The scene cleared about 20 minutes ago. Suspect is described as balanced man wearing blue jeans and red tee shirt. Victim and suspect knew each other. Its been a busy morning for d. C. Police after suspect at center of nationwide manhunt may be in the dis district. He posted a video ofs k killing on facebook. Melanie alnwick live from northwest this morning has the latest update from police. What you can tell us, mel. Good morning, guys, d. C. Police chased down those leads early this morning. One right here on embassy row. Another at a local hotel where people said they believe they saw stevens trying to check into the hotel using cash but he was turned away. And d. C. Police did investigate those reports but were told they have no reason to belief theyre valid. These are the kind of thgs the country as manhunt for foren son has gone nationwide. Youll see his picture once again people are being looking for, pings from cellphone were traced to siri, pennsylvania, su