The Advisory Neighborhood Commission met Tuesday to hear from Metropolitan Police and city officials and discuss issues of concern to Georgetown residents.
Captain Jacobs of the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department presented his monthly report on crime in the neighborhood. While students and local residents have been alarmed in recent weeks by several different incidents in which a man has allegedly exposed himself to various young women, Jacobs said he had no information concerning those investigations.
The board updated residents on the Georgetown Project, which is intended to revitalize the neighborhood’s roads and infrastructure. More importantly for students who are used to parking near Duke Ellington School, Commissioners discussed an alteration in parking rules that changed 30 public spaces to faculty only.
City Administrator Robert Bobb spoke briefly about efforts by Mayor Anthony Williams’ administration to revamp the city’s youth services, improve communication with the Homeland Security Department and reduce bureaucracy in the city’s government.
Bobb praised a city initiative targeting “Hotspots” with low standards of living and high crime rates within the city, citing a 22 percent fall in crime rates in those areas of the city since the program’s start.
-Austin Richardson
