Another Monday, Another ESSCA Meeting
Two important things to note about the meeting next week: (1) Jackie’s will be providing food. and (2) ESSCA’s “Historical Research Committee” will be presenting their findings and discussing the “possible designation of East Silver Spring as a Historic District.” I’ve already made my feelings known about the whole historic designation of East Silver Spring. There is no vote scheduled to continue down this path, but who knows what will happen at the monthly Vaudeville Show. Show up and enjoy the infighting.
Also, Dr. Ulysses R. Glee, the owner of the land at the southeast corner of Silver Spring & Fenton (where our venerable Fenton Street Market holds courts during the season), will also be speaking about plans for the property there.
As always, live tweets of the meeting will go down via @essca.
The Fillmore Rears its Head
A pre-submission meeting for the project plan will be held on Tuesday, February 23, at the 1st floor atrium of the Lee Building at 8601 Colesville Road. After someone actually invoked the Fillmore at the last ESSCA meeting when we were talking about the First Baptist Church Development, these should get more and more interesting.
On a different note, as much as I am pro-music venue, I feel like a deal with the devil might have been made in terms of approval on future Lee Development Group projects for the adjoining land. More on that to come.
Blog versus Listserv
There have been requests on the ESSCA listserv for a place to take some some of the email discussions off-line to a more proper forum. Specifically, they want a blog set up and managed. I can’t help but wonder: If I took them up on it would they actually agree? I could have a field day with this one.
I already have some plans for another community site, and I’m trying to maintain more regular posts here, so I’m not sure I could even add that to the workload. Ideally, I’d be old and cranky and (semi-)retired in order to have enough time for that. But at that point I could buy some white pants, pull them up to my chest, and run for a post on the ESSCA board.
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Eric,
I can actually help you with that if you are interested.
How about getting some intern from high school or web design college student to do this? This could be a nice real life project for a young web designer/social media student. Well, with some guidance from someone. I think there could be a good number who might be interested. In Montgomery county there are several high schools with web design programs and few colleges/universities in the area with web programs.
Since Montgomery College, which is in East Silver Spring, has a program for Web design, it might be a good idea to get someone involved not only in the blog aspect, but also in community participation. Good call.
Did you know that “Dr. Ulysses R. Glee” is an anagram for:
“Drug Sellers Yes”
and “Dregs Yells Ruse”
and, my favorite, “Dressy Legs Rule”
just sayin’, is awl
Eric, young people do attend ESSCA meetings.
Office holders in civic groups tend to skew older. From what I have seen, that is also true of condo/co-op boards. Back in the days of “housewives,” married women who did not work outside the home did a lot of this work.
In my opinion, the work day/week should be shortened so people would have more time for public participation.
Nancy, I swear to God, whenever I go to an ESSCA meeting, I am the youngest person in the room. And I’m 36.
I thought I was the youngest at 37. I suppose it’s all relative, but by young here, I meant college-aged folk (at Montgomery College) that listen to those loud rock combos on the hi-fi and talk in that hipster way.
And thanks for chiming in, Brains.
Check out the new ESSCA FB page. We’re trying to get folks to join up so we can have some neighborhood discussions in a workable format vice clogging up the list serve. I want to her more about the impact to the Hitorical Society designation…
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=319028799946#!/group.php?gid=319028799946
East SS residents welcome.