Wednesday, June 20, 2012
The house on 28th Street at P Street needs repairs to restore its structural integrity
The car that crashed into a home in Georgetown around 8 p.m. last Thursday damaged the structural integrity of the house, making it unsafe for occupancy, according to Helder Gil, the Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs (DCRA) spokesman. A DCRA inspector was on the scene on the night of the incident and posted a “Danger” unsafe sign on the home. The car ran into the basement unit of the Georgetown home, damaging the bump out, which is now being supported temporarily by wooden beams. The lintel beam — a common load-bearing building component — was also damaged. DC Fire and EMS spray painted an orange line across a crack in the building to observe any shifting in the foundation. DCRA's Gil said the property owner had to fly into DC…
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28th St NW & P St NW, Washington, DC
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Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Tari at 1525 Wisconsin Avenue has until August 31 to bring an almost-finished rear addition into compliance.
Tari, a consignment boutique on at 1525 Wisconsin Ave., has until August 31 to resolve zoning and Commission on Fine Arts problems with a new two story rear addition that has already been built. Otherwise, the Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs (DCRA) will revoke the permit, which the agency has since determined was issued in error. Tuesday the Board of Zoning Adjustment (BZA) met to discuss an appeal by neighbors to that erroneously-granted permit, but decided to delay a hearing until September 25 in consideration of the DCRA August 31 deadline. Get daily and breaking news email updates from Georgetown Patch by signing up for newsletters here. Sara Mokhtari, the owner of Tari, first received permit approval in early 2011 to …
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1525 Wisconsin Ave NW, Washington, DC
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Tuesday, February 28, 2012
The Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs (DCRA) seeks comment on proposed food truck regulations.
When it comes to food trucks, Georgetown business groups and their supporters are wary, but other officials keep an open mind. The Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs (DCRA) has proposed new regulations to address several issues with the 30-year-old rules that have come to light during the recent renaissance in food trucks. At its monthly meeting on Feb. 27, the Georgetown Advisory Neighborhood Commission (ANC2E) voted four to one to ask DCRA: Commissioner Bill Starrels voted against the resolution, arguing, "I think we need more control over it." He wanted to include provisions to restrict the location and number of food trucks. His stance was similar to that taken by both the Georgetown Business Improvement District (BID) and …
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
The Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs upheld a stop work order for 1424 Wisconsin Ave.
The Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs denied a permit application and upheld a stop work order issued for 1424 Wisconsin Ave. during a hearing earlier this month. The property owner, Mohammad Esfahani, had filed a building permit for new construction on the site of the Thanksgiving Day building collapse. But because of the November 2011 collapse, "The current building plans are no longer a valid and accurate representation of the proposed scope of work," explained DCRA spokesperson Helder Gil. "Until the [stop work order] is lifted, no work can be done until an approved plan and new/revised building permits are issued." To have the stop work order lifted, a structural engineer must examine the site, determine the cause and …
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1424 Wisconsin Ave NW, Washington, DC
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Tuesday, January 31, 2012
ANC Commissioners seek answers and more oversight from the Department of Consumer and Regulatory affairs for 1424 Wisconsin Ave.
Phrases like "conflict of interest" and "cover-up report" were uttered by Georgetown's Advisory Neighborhood Commissioners (ANC2E) Monday night when they learned that the owner of a building — whose collapse is at the center of a growing controversy — would be responsible for hiring a structural engineer to determine why it collapsed in the first place. On Thanksgiving day 2011, 1424 Wisconsin Ave. collapsed partially and two neighboring structures were damaged in the process. Since that time the Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs (DCRA) has issued a stop work order for 1424 Wisconsin Ave. because contractors were performing work there without proper permits. Gil Davidson, an inspector for DCRA, told Georgetown commissioners …
Friday, January 27, 2012
For Mohammad Esfahani, it was 1329 Wisconsin Ave. in 2002 and then 1424 Wisconsin Ave. in 2011.
Almost 10 years ago, Mohammad Esfahani leased 1329 Wisconsin Ave., historically an ice house built in the mid 1800s. During renovations, part of the roof collapsed, reducing the building to an unsupported facade. At the time, Tim Dennee from D.C.’s Historic Preservation Office wrote a letter to the Georgetown Advisory Neighborhood Commission (ANC) calling the incident "one of the most frustrating cases I can recall in Georgetown." “How does someone turn some minor interior work and roof replacement into the demolition of nearly an entire building? As I understand it, by bringing a tar machine onto the roof of a fragile 1850s building. After a collapse that apparently resulted in no serious injuries, the tenant then took it upon himself to …
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1329 Wisconsin Ave NW, Washington, DC
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1424 Wisconsin Ave NW, Washington, DC
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Was it construction work or a water leak that caused the building collapse at 1424 Wisconsin Ave. on Thanksgiving Day 2011?
Walls collapsed, windows shattered and emergency personnel shut down part of Wisconsin Avenue, but two months later, questions remain about the Thanksgiving day building collapse in the 1400 block of Wisconsin Avenue in Georgetown. The owner of 1424 Wisconsin Ave., Mohammad Esfahani, claims a water leak in a neighboring property weakened his structure and caused the collapse. But a Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs (DCRA) inspector determined the collapse was likely caused by removing too much dirt from beneath the footings on the north and south walls of the building, spokesman Helder Gil said. Michael Bryant, a property manager at Borger Management, the team responsible for 1422 Wisconsin Ave., said Esfahani's insurance …
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1424 Wisconsin Ave NW, Washington, DC
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1422 Wisconsin Ave NW, Washington, DC
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Monday, January 9, 2012
ANC member, neighbors question safety of work on collapsed Wisconsin Avenue building.
A Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs inspector on Thursday halted repairs at the site of a Thanksgiving Day implosion amid questions from neighbors and an Advisory Neighborhood Commission member whether the work was safe and being done properly. The property, at 1424 Wisconsin Ave. NW, is a potential site for a Z-Burger restaurant. It collapsed just as neighbors were sitting down to holiday dinners, and the incident closed Wisconsin Avenue for several hours. Structures at 1422 and 1426 Wisconsin Ave. were affected as well. The official cause of the collapse has still not been made public, though the cause is believed to be connected to the work allowed under an August 2011 DCRA permit. Patch has called several numbers associated…
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1424 Wisconsin Ave NW, Washington, DC
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1422 Wisconsin Ave NW, Washington, DC
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1426 Wisconsin Ave NW, Washington, DC
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Friday, October 21, 2011
Georgetown University will contact landlords to ask them to sign a 'Landlord Pledge' and is cooperating in an unprecedented manner with DCRA to seek landlord compliance with housing regulations.
Georgetown University is making a list and checking it twice--and then sharing that list with the Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs (DCRA). Landlords will receive a letter from the University in the next week asking them to sign a pledge to follow basic housing laws and to be a partner with GU to address issues impacting quality of life in the community. The University will then create a list of landlords who have signed the pledge and will continue to update a list of "properties of concern," a naughty and nice list if you would. The letter, sent by Anne Koester, director of off-campus student life (OCSL), and Margie Bryant, associate vice-president auxiliary business services, asks landlords to "declare your commitment to …
D.Kellog and R.Kellog
4:30 am on Thursday, June 21, 2012
I drove by the house.I hope the owners are insured as it will need alot of work more ›