There were ten different presenters at tonight's ANC2C meeting. It seems impossible that they all got last minute confirmation about being on the agenda. I have yet to see the agenda published for the community's benefit for those who did and could not attend the meeting — even on the quasi official ANC2C listserv: ANC2C04 yahoo group. The ANC that is supposed to serve the residents and business owners in the Shaw community apparently did not see fit to inform the community in advance about tonight's speakers who included: Ketan Gada from the Deputy Mayor's Office on Economic Development giving updates on RadioONE, Parcel 42, Convention Center Hotel and every other development in Shaw (except Safe Shores...), Donny Gonzales from the office of Public Education facilities management with info on Shaw Jr High, and other items.

The important and most contentious item on the agenda was the Friends Of Bundy Park "update" on their extensive support for a dog park in ANC2C02. ANC2C04 Commissioner Sule and ANC2C03 Commissioner Brooks dominated and controlled the discussion. ANC2C02 Commissioner Chapple spoke up on behalf of residents in his SMD and the supporters of the dog park and proposed that OPM and Safe Shores should consider some compromise on their plans for use of the vacant lot at Bundy for parking. This item was taken to a vote.

Sule and Brooks voted against a dog park at Bundy. Chapple and Padro voted in favor. There was a second vote related to dog parks which I still don't completely understand, but maybe one of our ANC's might clarify that vote.

One resident — who lives adjacent to Bundy and owns two properties on the west side of Bundy Athletic fields — brought in official DC Municipal Regulations on parking for schools and other buildings which suggest that a building like Bundy should have only 1 parking space for every 600 square feet of floor space. To justify 75 parking spaces at the vacant lot at Bundy, the Bundy School would need to be 45,000 square feet. The resident, who is an architect, noted that the Bundy School could not possibly contain anything close that much floor space.

Even the Editor of the Seventh Streeter (who does not live on one of the blocks adjacent to the Bundy School and who voiced her opinion against a dog park at the Bundy vacant lot) confirmed that ANC2C Chair/Commissioner Brooks was unfair in the way she mishandled the public discussion about Bundy during the meeting.

The Mayor's office announced at the CCCA meeting Tuesday that in the next few weeks OPM and Safe Shores will announce and hold a public meeting on the land transfer and usage of the vacant lot at Bundy and Safe Shore's use of the Bundy School.