Norton to Hold Ward 3 Meeting with Residents and Officials to Address Concerns About Nebraska Avenue

Norton to Hold Ward Circle Community Meeting with Residents and Officials to Address Concerns About Traffic Around DHS Nebraska Avenue Complex

June 16, 2011

WASHINGTON, DC -- Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will hold a Ward Circle Community Meeting with Ward 3 residents and federal and local officials, including Councilmember Mary Cheh (D-Ward 3), to address the traffic and parking issues around the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) complex on Nebraska Avenue NW on Monday, June 20, 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., at the Wesley Theological Seminary, 4500 Massachusetts Ave NW, Room KG-01 of the Wesley Academic Center. Residents have expressed concerns about traffic resulting from entering the DHS complex using illegal turns, about private DHS contractors who monopolize residential street parking in the neighborhoods around Massachusetts and Nebraska Avenues, and about park on residents' lawns instead of in the DHS complex, among other issues connected to the DHS complex. Representatives from DHS, the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA), the District of Columbia Department of Transportation, the Metropolitan Police Department, and the D.C. Department of Public Works will deliver presentations related to the traffic concerns.

"I am asking federal and local officials to come to a community meeting to hear from residents and, in turn, to have residents hear from them," said Norton. "There is growing frustration among Ward 3 residents about the dislocation and inconvenience from various kinds of construction there. The topic of discussion at this meeting is limited to the Nebraska Avenue DHS site, which is under my committee's jurisdiction. With a constructive exchange of ideas, I believe, there is much we can accomplish."