Good Neigh­bor Guide

Bulk Trash

Call 311 or visit 311.dc.gov to arrange for pick-up of large items such as fur­ni­ture, large appli­ances, mat­tresses (must be wrapped in plas­tic), or rugs. Please review the bulk trash reg­u­la­tions as not all items are col­lected. Once you request a bulk trash pick-up, you will receive a col­lec­tion date. Place your bulk trash in the same place as your reg­u­lar trash no ear­lier than 6:30 p.m. on the day prior to your sched­uled col­lec­tion date.

Foggy Bot­tom Alert

This email list informs sub­scribers on pub­lic safety mat­ters and issues involv­ing the city gov­ern­ment and the res­i­den­tial qual­ity of the neigh­bor­hood. The Alert does not allow adver­tis­ing or com­mer­cial mes­sages. You can sub­scribe to the Alert for free by send­ing an email to FoggyBottomAlert-subscribe@yahoogroups.com.

Foggy Bot­tom Association

We’re a neigh­bor­hood civic asso­ci­a­tion, founded in the 1950s to enhance and pro­tect the res­i­den­tial qual­ity of the area and keep res­i­dents informed on mat­ters affect­ing the com­mu­nity. The FBA holds meet­ings six times each year with speak­ers of inter­est to the res­i­dents. The meet­ings are usu­ally held the last Mon­day evening of the month. To join the Foggy Bot­tom Asso­ci­a­tion, send an email to membership@foggybottomassociation.org

Foggy Bottom/West End Advi­sory Neigh­bor­hood Commission

Com­posed of six elected rep­re­sen­ta­tives from the com­mu­nity, the ANC is the area’s offi­cial voice with the Dis­trict gov­ern­ment on mat­ters such as zon­ing, pub­lic safety, and envi­ron­ment. Under the terms of the Home Rule char­ter, city agen­cies are required to give great weight to the views of the Com­mis­sion. Pub­lic ANC meet­ings are held once a month; the loca­tion varies. Email ANC2aed@earthlink.net or visit the web site at www.anc2a.org

Gar­den Club

Help beau­tify our com­mu­nity with half bar­rels and flow­ers in the pub­lic areas.
To vol­un­teer or to find out how to con­tribute, please call Ken at (202) 338.2471.

Gro­cery Shut­tle for Seniors

Fam­ily Mat­ters runs a shut­tle to sev­eral local gro­cery stores for Foggy Bottom/West End res­i­dents over 65. For a sched­ule, or to make a reser­va­tion, please call the Fam­ily Mat­ters office at (202) 232‑4202, Mon­day through Fri­day between 9:00 a.m. and 4:30 p.m.

If you have not done so, you will need to com­plete a D.C. Office on Aging Intake form to par­tic­i­pate. Fam­ily Mat­ters can help you com­plete the form over the tele­phone. The shut­tle van picks up pas­sen­gers at Water­gate East, 2510 Vir­ginia Avenue, NW, at 10:00 a.m., and returns at approx­i­mately 11:30. Fam­ily Mat­ters is part of the Senior Ser­vice Net­work and is sup­ported by the D.C. Office on Aging.

His­toric Preservation

Houses within the Foggy Bot­tom His­toric Dis­trict may require a per­mit for any exte­rior work. Call (202) 4428800 for more infor­ma­tion or visit planning.dc.gov.

Lit­ter & Graffiti

Stud­ies have shown that not remov­ing lit­ter and graf­fiti imme­di­ately only leads to more lit­ter and graf­fiti. Please pick up any lit­ter you see and report any graf­fiti to 311 or 311.dc.gov.

Noise At Night

The D.C. Noise at Night Law pro­hibits noise between 10:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m. that “is likely to annoy or dis­turb one or more other per­sons in their res­i­dences.” Loud par­ties, loud music, scream­ing, or any other activ­ity that cre­ates noise after 10:00 p.m. can sub­ject the offender to fines of up to $500; repeat offend­ers are sub­ject to arrest. Report exces­sive noise to the Met­ro­pol­i­tan Police Depart­ment by dial­ing 911. You may need to call more than once.

Park­ing & Block­ing Sidewalks

Much of the area has res­i­den­tial park­ing restric­tions ban­ning day­time and evening park­ing for more than 2 hours, except for cars dis­play­ing a Zone 2 res­i­den­tial park­ing per­mit. Block­ing dri­ve­ways or side­walks is pro­hib­ited at all times. Tick­et­ing is fre­quent and unre­lent­ing, and vio­la­tors are sub­ject to tow­ing as well. Tem­po­rary park­ing per­mits for vis­i­tors are avail­able at the 2nd Police Dis­trict. Dur­ing the day, you can request park­ing enforce­ment by call­ing 311; if it is nec­es­sary to have a vehi­cle tick­eted after 5:00 p.m., call 911 and request that the next avail­able MPD offi­cer respond.

Pets

Dis­trict law requires own­ers to pick up and dis­pose of their pets’ solid waste, even on grassy park areas. The fine for fail­ure to pick up after a dog is $50 per occurrence.

Recy­cling

News­pa­pers, cans, bot­tles and plas­tic con­tain­ers (#1 or #2 on the bot­tom) for recy­cling are col­lected every Fri­days; in the case of a hol­i­day, recy­cling col­lec­tion will “slide” to Sat­ur­day. They must be placed in the recy­cling con­tain­ers pro­vided by the city. News­pa­pers must be tied and card­board boxes must be bro­ken down and tied.

Renters

For the safety of tenants, DC requires land­lords to have a Cer­tifi­cate of Occu­pancy, a Busi­ness License, and, under cer­tain cir­cum­stances, to be a Reg­is­tered Agent. Con­firm that your land­lord has all the nec­es­sary per­mits by call­ing the DC Depart­ment of Con­sumer and Reg­u­la­tory Affairs (DCRA) at (202) 4424610. If you wish to have a fire safety inspec­tion, call DCRA at (202) 442‑4400 or the DC Fire Mar­shall at (202) 727‑1614.

Side­walks & Tree Spaces

Although they tech­ni­cally belong to the city, D.C. law requires res­i­dents to keep them clean. Leaves must be removed and bagged. Leaves should also be removed from the curb­side gutters.

Signs

Please do not post notices (except for those announc­ing Advi­sory Neigh­bor­hood Com­mis­sion meet­ings) on D.C. prop­erty such lamp­posts, trees, or util­ity boxes. If you see signs, please remove them.

Snow Removal

Home­own­ers, renters, and busi­ness own­ers are respon­si­ble for remov­ing snow from the front of their houses. D.C. law requires snow be removed from the side­walk within 24 hours after a snow­storm ends. Fail­ure to remove snow promptly can sub­ject the occu­pant of the house or busi­ness to a fine.

Stu­dent Disturbances

Most stu­dents are good neigh­bors. A few, how­ever, cause prob­lems. Report exces­sive noise or dis­tur­bances to the Met­ro­pol­i­tan Police by call­ing 911.

You should also report stu­dent dis­tur­bances to GWU so they can com­pile a record and dis­ci­pline stu­dents who are repeat­edly dis­rup­tive. The GWU PD num­ber is (202) 9946110. Please note that GWU PD will only take a report; they are pre­cluded by cur­rent law from respond­ing to off-campus incidents.

The Uni­ver­sity Police Chief has a TIP line for con­fi­den­tial reports.
You can call (202) 994-TIPS (8477).
You may also leave a mes­sage with the Office of Com­mu­nity Rela­tions at (202) 994‑3201.

Trash

D.C. col­lects trash from single-family homes in Foggy Bottom/West End twice a week, on Tues­day and Fri­day morn­ings. A hol­i­day delays the pick-up by one day for the rest of that week. Trash should be placed on the curb after 6:30 p.m. on the night before the col­lec­tion day in a sturdy trash con­tainer. You can call 311 or visit 311.dc.gov to request deliv­ery of city trash ($45) and/or recy­cling ($45) con­tain­ers. No trash is to be left out between trash pick-up days. Res­i­dents are respon­si­ble for keep­ing the area around their prop­erty free of lit­ter. Vio­la­tors can be cited and fined.

Ward 2 D.C. Councilmember:

Jack Evans — Tel: (202)724‑8058
 email: JackEvans@DCcouncil.US
Sherri Kim­bel, Direc­tor of Con­stituent Ser­vices email: skimbel@dccouncil.us