The February 2024 LRCA Community meeting will be held on Monday, February 5, 2024, from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM EST. Doors open at 5:45 PM.
This IN-PERSON meeting is scheduled to take place at the Lillian J. Huff Neighborhood Library, Meeting Room 1, located at 5401 South Dakota Avenue NE, Washington, DC 20011.
Additionally, the meeting will be live-streamed via the Zoom webinar platform:
The December 2023 LRCA Community meeting will be held on Monday, December 4, 2023, from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM EST. Doors open at 5:45 PM.
This IN-PERSON meeting is scheduled to take place at the Lillian J. Huff Neighborhood Library, Meeting Room 1, located at 5401 South Dakota Avenue NE, Washington, DC 20011.
Additionally, the meeting will be live-streamed via the Zoom webinar platform:
The November 2023 LRCA Community meeting will be held on Monday, November 6, 2023, from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM EST. Doors open at 5:45 PM.
This IN-PERSON meeting is scheduled to take place at the Lillian J. Huff Neighborhood Library, Meeting Room 1, located at 5401 South Dakota Avenue NE, Washington, DC 20011.
Additionally, the meeting will be live-streamed via the Zoom webinar platform:
Become a member of LRCA. LRCA membership dues support scholarships for neighborhood youth. Last program year, LRCA awarded two scholarships to youth who started college this fall.
The June 2023 LRCA Community meeting will be held on Monday, June 5, 2023, from 7 PM to 8:30 PM EST.
This IN-PERSON meeting is scheduled to take place at the Lillian J. Huff Neighborhood Library, Meeting Room 1, located at 5401 South Dakota Avenue NE, Washington, DC 20011. Additionally, the meeting will be live-streamed on the LRCA’s YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/@lrcadc.
Agenda Items include:
Welcome/Invocation
Officers Report, Minutes, Treasurer Report
Updates from Elected Officials & PSA
Outgoing Board send-off/New Board Swearing in by the Mayor of DC
Will you be attending college this coming Fall, 2023?
Are you a resident of the Lamond-Riggs community?
Do you attend a DC public school (traditional or charter)?
If you meet the requirements listed above, then consider applying for this great scholarship opportunity!
Note that the application package requires two recommendation letters. Allow time for recommenders to timely submit the letters either online or by mail.
Lamond-Riggs Citizens Association Public Meeting May 1, 2023 7:00 pm
LRCA May 2023 Meeting Agenda
1. Welcome/Invocation 2. Officers Report, Minutes, Treasurer Report 3. Updates from Elected Officials & PSA 4. Remarks from the DC Office of the Attorney General 5. LRCA Nominating Committee—May election process and procedures; Board position nominations 6. Community Concerns/Closing
To view the meeting online click the following link:
The meeting on May 1 is your chance to meet your neighbors running for the 2023-2025 term. You can also nominate another member for leadership or throw your hat in the ring yourself. Candidates must be present to accept the nomination.
Only members who paid dues by April 3rd, 2023 are eligible to vote.
Voting by electronic ballot will be on May 2nd, from 9:00am ET to 8:00pm ET. All active LRCA members (must have paid membership dues no later than April 3, 2023) will receive an email by Sunday afternoon, April 30, with login information.
If you prefer to vote in person, please contact Heather Rodgers at heather@lrcadc.org or 803-269-8415 by Monday, May 1st. In person voting will be held at the Lamond-Riggs/Lillian J. Huff Library on May 2nd from 6:30pm to 8:00pm.
For your reference, the Nominating Committee has received the following commitments from Lamond-Riggs residents who have been verified to be active LRCA members, and who will be running for Board election/re-election (per the committee’s records as of April 27, 2023):
Board Executives
Barbara Rogers (President) Tischa Cockrell (1st Vice President) Danielle Lewis-Wright (2nd Vice President) Shawaan Robinson (Treasurer, was formally running for Parliamentarian)
Trustees
Angelyn Boose David Trigaux Edgar Allen Sheppard Rev. Johnnie Mays Vandalia Joyner-Taylor
Lamond-Riggs Citizens Association Public Meeting April 3, 2023 7:00 pm
**Please note that in order to vote or run as a candidate in LRCA’s May 2023 election, you must pay dues by April 3, 2023. Visit https://lrcadc.org/membership-join.**
LRCA April 2023 Meeting Agenda
1. Welcome/Invocation 2. Officers Report, Minutes, Treasurer Report 3. Updates from Elected Officials & PSA 4. Remarks from the DC Office of the Attorney General 5. LRCA Nominating Committee—May election process and procedures; Board position nominations accepted from the floor during the meeting as well as during the May General Body meeting 6. Community Concerns/Closing
To view the meeting online click the following link:
Lamond-Riggs Citizens Association Public Meeting March 6, 2023 7:00 pm
March 2023 Meeting Agenda
1. Welcome/Invocation 2. Officers Report, Minutes, Treasurer Report 3. Updates from Elected Officials & PSA 4. LRCA Budget Review 5. LRCA Bylaws updates and review with The DC Bar Pro Bono Center 6. Green Space Development Project, LRCA Development Taskforce 7. Upcoming Changes to the District’s Medicaid Program & Restart of Medicaid Renewals – Danielle Lewis-Wright, LRCA Trustee/Chair, Health & Wellness Committee 8. Community Concerns/Closing
To view the meeting online, click the following link.
Lamond-Riggs Citizens Association Public Meeting February 6, 2023 7:00 pm
February 2023 Meeting Agenda
1. Welcome/Invocation 2. Officers Report, Minutes, Treasurer Report 3. Updates from Elected Officials & PSA 4. LRCA Budget Review 5. John Stokes, DC Department of General Services (DGS) 6. LRCA Development Taskforce presentation regarding greenspace project on land adjacent to Food & Friends 7. Community Concerns/Closing
To view the meeting online, click the following link.
The Lamond-Riggs Citizens Association is gathering input from residents on how best to preserve and maintain the District-owned green space on the southwest corner of South Dakota Avenue & Riggs Road NE near Food & Friends for community use.
Features of Green Space
A few things to keep in mind as you complete the survey. The space is roughly 1.5 acres and triangular shaped with grade changes near a busy intersection. Given the shape of the land, it is not an ideal location for a standalone building/development project. The space has some really wonderful mature shade trees as well as a field of grass. If you can, take some time to just walk around the space and feel what it would be like to spend time on that corner of the neighborhood on a weekday morning/afternoon/evening or on the weekend.
Some ideas kicking around for the space include a neighborhood history park, art park, native plant demonstration garden, orchard, walking path, information kiosk, skating/ice skate rink, water feature, and more.
Note that a dog run will be included in the second phase of Art Place at Fort Totten, which is currently under construction on South Dakota Avenue between Ingraham Street and Kennedy Street NE with an anticipated 2025 completion date, so a dog park is not a use included in the survey for this green space. Specific uses and timeline for the final phases of Art Place at Fort Totten which will sit along South Dakota Avenue just north of Kennedy Street are unclear at this time. In addition, leadership of Food & Friends, located just west of the green space, indicated they are looking to potentially double the existing building footprint in the nearish future. So the surrounding neighborhood contexts could look a little different several years from now.
Riggs Road/South Dakota Avenue NE Area Development Plan
The survey continues efforts by the LRCA to advance an element of the neighborhood’s area development plan that contemplates having “park and open spaces” on this District-owned space.
2009
Neighborhood area development plan approved by the DC Council in March 2009.
2011
District Department of Transportation (DDOT) completed reconfiguration of the South Dakota Avenue/Riggs Road intersection, eliminating the former right turn slip lanes, creating contiguous green space on the southwest corner.
2017
In September 2017, ANC 5A passed a resolution, initiated by residents, requesting that the green space be transferred to the DC Department of Parks & Recreation for community park space. DDOT and DPR have indicated that they do not think it is a good idea to have a playground on this green space given the volume of car traffic near this intersection.
2019
In May 2019, LRCA executed a community benefits agreement with EYA, developer of Riggs Park Place, to work with residents on visioning sessions and provide in-kind design concept services for the space.
2021
Neighborhood area development plan fully incorporated into the DC Comprehensive Plan (2021 Comp Plan).
Present
The space today remains in the portfolio of the District Department of Transportation (DDOT).
Residents have been working informally with the DC Office of Planning on ways to get this element of the neighborhood plan implemented.
View looking north from Kennedy Street NE towards Riggs Road NE. The space between the two rows of trees in the image below roughly aligns with the old slip lane that was eliminated when the intersection was reconfigured in 2011.
View from middle of green space looking northeast
View looking southeast from Food & Friends driveway at 219 Riggs Road NE
View looking south towards grove of trees from Riggs Road NE
View looking east from southwest corner towards townhomes under construction on southeast corner of South Dakota Avenue & Riggs Road NE
Photo gallery of Food & Friends outdoor space on their enclosed campus
Aerial view of District-owned green space on corner of South Dakota Avenue & Riggs Road NE. Courtesy DC Office of Planning
The Lamond-Riggs Citizens Association (LRCA) held a Look & SEE regarding the District-owned green space on the southwest corner of South Dakota Avenue & Riggs Road NE near Food & Friends (shout out to resident/co-chair of LRCA development task force Deborah Grimstead for the concept). If you were not able to attend, you can still give your input on how you would like to see this green space preserved and maintained for community use.
Many thanks to Carrie Stoltzfus, executive director of Food & Friends, and Casey Dyson, director of government relations for Food & Friends, for hosting and opening their space for the Look & SEE. Thanks also to Edwin Washington, executive director of The Parks Main Street, for joining.
Pictured:Carrie Stoltzfus, executive director of Food & Friends; Edwin Washington, executive director of The Parks Main Street; Barbara Rogers, president, Lamond-Riggs Citizens Association at Look & SEE, September 24, 2022.
Features of Green Space
A few things to keep in mind as you complete the survey. The space is roughly 1.5 acres and triangular shaped with grade changes near a busy intersection. Given the shape of the land, it is not an ideal location for a standalone building/development project. The space has some really wonderful mature shade trees as well as a field of grass. If you can, take some time to just walk around the space and feel what it would be like to spend time on that corner of the neighborhood on a weekday morning/afternoon/evening or on the weekend.
Some ideas kicking around for the space include a neighborhood history park, art park, native plant demonstration garden, orchard, walking path, information kiosk, skating/ice skate rink, water feature, and more.
Note that a dog run will be included in the second phase of Art Place at Fort Totten, which is currently under construction on South Dakota Avenue between Ingraham Street and Kennedy Street NE with an anticipated 2025 completion date, so a dog park is not a use included in the survey for this green space. Specific uses and timeline for the final phases of Art Place at Fort Totten which will sit along South Dakota Avenue just north of Kennedy Street are unclear at this time. In addition, leadership of Food & Friends, located just west of the green space, indicated they are looking to potentially double the existing building footprint in the nearish future. So the surrounding neighborhood contexts could look a little different several years from now.
Riggs Road/South Dakota Avenue NE Area Development Plan
The Look & SEE event and the survey are efforts by the LRCA to advance an element of the neighborhood’s area development plan that contemplates having “park and open spaces” on this District-owned space.
2009
Neighborhood area development plan approved by the DC Council in March 2009.
2011
District Department of Transportation (DDOT) completed reconfiguration of the South Dakota Avenue/Riggs Road intersection, eliminating the former right turn slip lanes, creating contiguous green space on the southwest corner.
2017
In September 2017, ANC 5A passed a resolution, initiated by residents, requesting that the green space be transferred to the DC Department of Parks & Recreation for community park space. DDOT and DPR have indicated that they do not think it is a good idea to have a playground on this green space given the volume of car traffic near this intersection.
2019
In May 2019, LRCA executed a community benefits agreement with EYA, developer of Riggs Park Place, to work with residents on visioning sessions and provide in-kind design concept services for the space.
2021
Neighborhood area development plan fully incorporated into the DC Comprehensive Plan (2021 Comp Plan).
Present
The space today remains in the portfolio of the District Department of Transportation (DDOT).
Residents have been working informally with the DC Office of Planning on ways to get this element of the neighborhood plan implemented.
View looking north from Kennedy Street NE towards Riggs Road NE. The space between the two rows of trees in the image below roughly aligns with the old slip lane that was eliminated when the intersection was reconfigured in 2011.
View from middle of green space looking northeast
View looking southeast from Food & Friends driveway at 219 Riggs Road NE
View looking south towards grove of trees from Riggs Road NE
View looking east from southwest corner towards townhomes under construction on southeast corner of South Dakota Avenue & Riggs Road NE
Photo gallery of Food & Friends outdoor space on their enclosed campus
Our neighborhood has an area development plan that was initiated by the LRCA, completed by the DC Office of Planning in 2008, approved by the DC Council in 2009, and fully incorporated into the DC Comprehensive Plan in 2021.
One element of the plan envisions “parks and open space” for the District-owned green space (“District Green”) on the southwest corner of South Dakota Avenue & Riggs Road NE near Food & Friends.
This Saturday September 24, 2022, the LRCA invites neighbors to the District Green to Look & SEE.
“SEE” stands for “Site Experience Event.”
At your own pace and in no particular order, walk the land, see information displays, talk with your neighbors, have light refreshments, and envision what you would like to see in this community open space.
Come as you are & come-and-go as you please any time between 11:00 am and 1:00 pm.
Note: To enter the Food & Friends facility, you must show proof of COVID-19 vaccination. Masks are optional.
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