Georgetown Boathouse Zone Meeting Saturday

The National Park Service (NPS) will hold a four-hour, public workshop Saturday Mar. 3 on the .

The meeting is scheduled from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the School Without Walls, which is located at 2130 G St., NW. Anyone can attend.

The study area runs from 34th Street to about 1,200 feet upstream of the Key Bridge.

NPS first proposed a non-motorized boat zone for the area in 1986. Since that time several iterations and stages of the plan have advanced only to later stall.

, the NPS has worked with key stakeholders and will share findings from those meetings while considering public input at the Saturday workshop.

During the December 2011 meeting, Peter May, the NPS's associate regional director for lands, resources, and planning for the Capital region, told the crowd of nearly 100 people that the purpose of the current study was not to determine who goes where or to suggest the exact space for proposed uses. Rather, he said, the goal is to explore all of the current and possible future uses along that stretch of the Potomac.

"When we engaged in prior processes, we got a lot of feedback at that time that there were a lot of things were not taking into consideration," explained May in December.

The Saturday workshop schedule will be:

9 a.m. - Welcome
9 a.m.- 9:45 a.m. Workshop Overview Presentation
9:45 a.m. - 11 a.m. Break out groups
11 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Break out group presentations
12:30 p.m. - 1 p.m. Conclusion

To RSVP go here: http://www.doodle.com/7n3769xn42v54fef

For further information, the NPS project contact is Tammy Stidham at (202) 619-7474.