Comments on: Two Steps Forward and One Step Back

By: Small-Town Politics: Everything but Safeway — ЦARЬCHITECT

Small-Town Politics: Everything but Safeway — ЦARЬCHITECT — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 07:09:11 +0000

[...] applied to Zoning Commission cage fights. Speaking of which, the obvious topic of the night was the Tenleytown Safeway, but like any good spectacle, that discussion came only after a long development. Actually, the [...]

By: A lack of trust in Tenleytown — ЦARЬCHITECT

A lack of trust in Tenleytown — ЦARЬCHITECT — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:12:43 +0000

[...] residents, received letters from Safeway or a Safeway representative. The letters discussed the project to rebuild the Safeway at Davenport and 42nd Street, asking residents to sign reply cards in [...]

By: Andrew

Andrew — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 14:33:21 +0000

Here is an interesting link from the Montgomery Gazette, courtesy of GreaterGreterWashington:

http://greatergreaterwashington.org/post.cgi?id=3663

So if they are willing to do this in Wheaton, why not (on a smaller scale) in Tenleytown?

By: Neil

Neil — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 18:12:41 +0000

I read the zoning filing, and I’m glad to have a good neighbor like Safeway. But it doesn’t change anything. Met with does not equal negotiated with; I’ve been around long enough to know how these situations work.

Nonetheless, this is a quibble over a the discussion of a single issue of a single project. What is the big issue here? The zoning is off. not in the C-2 area, in The R-zone areas surrounding it.

By: Polly

Polly — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 17:01:35 +0000

If you had read Safeway’s filing with the Zoning Commission, you would have realized that representatives of Safeway met with a number of groups, including Ward 3 Vision, Coalition for Smarter Growth, the ANC commissioner for that SMD, the Resident Council of Friendship Terrace, Friendship Neighborhood Association, IONA Senior Services, Georgetown Day School, Marten’s Volvo, individual neighbors within a couple hundred feet of the store, ARD and WMATA.as well as Councilmember Mary Cheh, the Office of Planning and DDOT. You can review Safeway’s submission at the Office of Zoning.