Monday Potpourri
Wow. Has it been that long since my last post? Embarassing. Granted, I have been on vacation and, you know, doing stuff, but it’s about time we got back to things.
Come back to ESSCA
I did manage to make it to the April ESSCA meeting. You people should get serious about attending. We were looking at the architectural renderings of the new transit center, and one Einstein in the room came out with, “That sidewalk looks like the slippery bricks all over the sidewalks here. Is that what that is? If it is, then you better get a good lawyer, because next time I slip and fall I’m gonna SUE!”
I know the sidewalks are slippery, and people are trying to do something about that, but (A) it’s a drawing, and (2) there are much more constructive ways to convey that sentiment. Yeesh. For all the hilarity in real time, follow the Twitter stream (@essca).
The Veteran on the Plaza
Have you looked closely at the fence banner that barricades the turf area where Veteran’s Plaza is being developed? Take a good look. You’ll see some nutty stuff like this:
I don’t know who this dude is, but I’m guessing someone told the designer “make sure you put a veteran in the image.” Nice touch.
Code Enforcement Issues?
At the risk of sounding like some of the nutjobs I make fun of at the ESSCA meetings, there seems to be an overabundance of people (residents?) at this house on a regular basis.
For the record, there are six cars in the driveway/yard. Some of the people in the neighborhood have started complaining, so I looked up the property on the MoCo Housing site. No infractions listed, but if you personally know how many people are living here, send me some scoop. You may remember this place from an early post/rant. Yes, the fence still looks like shit.
Congratulations to the Navarro Campaign
Mad props to Nancy Navarro for winning the Democratic Primary for the open MoCo District 4 seat. She beat out Ben Kramer by just over 60 votes. Now on to Republican Robin Ficker in the May 19 general election. Thomas Hardman finished off his unsuccessful bout in the Democratic primary by saying he won’t run for another public office. I guess that leaves more time for him to write long-winded posts on local blogs.
Last, but not least…
Happy Star Wars Day! May the 4th be with you.
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Nice $65K Mercedes. Maybe put a little money towards the fence, too.
There’s a house like this near me as well. The house itself is small and nothing special but the front yard is paved over and there are 6 or 7 big Mercedes and other luxury cars parked out front. Very strange.
The clip art of people they use in these things is always absurd. They should have put Sgt. Pepper in the Veterans Plaza picture, since they’ve already used Abbey Road in the library crosswalk mockups.
If you email the housing code people and CC Councilmember Ervin’s office, they tend to be much more willing to deal with the problem.
Otherwise it goes into the “visited the property, unable to gain access” file
When you saw the Transit Center renderings, were they anything new or just the same ones that have been widely available for the past 18 months or so?
I mean are they different than
these ?
Nope – pretty much the same. There might have been some different buildings here and there, but that looks like it.
They also discussed the community gardens that had been proposed – in particular the one at Silver Spring Intermediate Park, which the community immediately pounced on and killed like a cheetah eating a gazelle.
What a great analogy. That’s our Silver Spring!
Wait, Thomas Hardman is a real person? I was hoping that the name was a nom de plume and his writings were the work of a clever performance artist.