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Connecticut Avenue Issues: Resources and Studies

June 24, 2017

The CPHS board and staff have been following closely the conversations taking place in the neighborhood about the stresses on our Connecticut Avenue commercial district. We have been attending, and will continue to participate in, meetings with neighborhood organizations and merchants to explore ways to support neighborhood businesses and revitalize Connecticut Avenue.

Our Preservation Task Force (PTF), a newly-formed committee of the board, is studying the issues involved from a historic preservation perspective. The PTF’s mandate is to make recommendations to the board on preservation-related policies and advocacy. The PTF includes five members of the board, including two ARC members. Contact the PTF by email. 

While discussions are ongoing, we wanted to share as much useful information as we can to help inform the conversation, including historical, historic preservation, and zoning information, and studies commissioned by neighborhood and DC organizations. We will continue to update this post with more resources.

MARKET STUDIES

The 2017 Neighborhood Profiles directory by the Washington, DC Economic Partnership provides demographic and economic data for 54 neighborhood commercial areas, including Cleveland Park, with a focus on population in the half-mile walkshed for each.

This Commercial Market Analysis and Enhancement Strategy for Cleveland Park (October 2016) was commissioned by the Office of the Deputy Mayor for Planning and Economic Development and shared with us by the Cleveland Park Business Association.

ZONING

The Neighborhood Mixed Use Zones subtitle of the current (2016) zoning code, which includes the Cleveland Park zone NC-3.

HISTORIC PRESERVATION

Understanding the Cleveland Park Historic District

This page has a map of the historic district showing contributing and noncontributing buildings, and links to our National Register of Historic Places nomination, which provides a detailed history of the Park & Shop and the Connecticut Avenue business district and the arguments for their significance on which our historic status is based.

This 1991 issue of our newsletter reports on the addition to the Park & Shop that was reviewed by HRPB and built that year. Other early issues of Voices provide perspective on 1980s activism to preserve the neighborhood-serving retail district on Connecticut Avenue.

DC Historic Preservation Law

DC’s preservation law and regulations are posted here: https://planning.dc.gov/page/hp-laws-and-regulations .

This Georgetown Law Library site (which originated with Tersh Boasberg’s preservation law seminar) aggregates all kinds of useful resources on DC preservation law: https://repository.library.georgetown.edu/handle/10822/761426

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Springland Farm: Most Important US Vineyard (September 16 and 17, WalkTown Tours 2023)

As part of WalkTown Tours 2023 (Events DC and Cultural Tourism DC), Chuck Ludlam is again leading a tour of the Springland Farm, arguably the most important vineyard in the history of the US. Springland Farm is located at Tilden/Springland Lane (immediately north of the Cleveland Park Historic District). Signs-ups are open. This tour sells out.

Two Tours: The tour is offered twice: Saturday, September 16 and Sunday, September 17. Both 10:00-12:00.

To sign up for this tour go to: www.eventbrite.com/e/springland-farm-americas-most-important-vineyard-2-tickets-695547179337?aff=...

First-come, first-served. If you sign up and can’t make it, please cancel your reservation so that others can sign up.
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Vintage postcard of the Broadmoor, at Connecticut Avenue and Porter Street NW in Cleveland Park, a luxury apartment building designed in an eclectic style by noted DC architect Joseph Abel, who specialized in apartment buildings. Completed in 1928, it features a rough "clinkered" brick finish and some hints of Art Deco. ... See MoreSee Less

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