“Dear PoPville,
Anyone else experiencing hyper-delayed tax returns? I submitted returns early April, then received notice I needed to verify my income with paystubs through an online portal (which I did), and the DC site still says return is being processed and could take up to 8 weeks. Over past several years I’ve not had to verify with pay stub or have had such delay. Just me?“
Ryan writes:
“yesterday (Wednesday) the city came around and hung new street signs, today (Thursday) they came around and ticketed everyone during 9:30am-1130am… The thing is these street signs say sweeping is between 930PM-1130PM. All tickets from June 29th in Ivy City on Central PL NE aren’t issuable. (more…)
“Dear PoPville,
Has anyone in the community had success or able to offer helpful suggestions for a request to the city to add and service a new city trashcan?
It seems the installations are hit or miss from the start; I sometimes see 3 or 4 with a couple of blocks, mostly unused, while other areas with busy pedestrian traffic and frequent trash issues go without. Our little stretch of Truxton is definitely in the latter. (more…)
Continuing Coverage Continues:
“Dear PoPville,
I called 911 last evening to report a fire alarm that had been going off for hours in a nearby elementary school. I dialed 911 three separate times and was disconnected “call ended” all three times. (more…)
1300 block of H Street, NE
“Dear PoPville,
Squatters have been living there. Reported in late May. City repeatedly postponed inspections.
Attached please find my original request for vacant property inspection in which I indicated that squatters were present.
Also attached are a series of emails [Ed. Note: I have not included all of them but there were 8 in total] for scheduled (and missed) inspections. (more…)
photo by bajidc
“Dear PoPville,
Earlier today (Tuesday), I happen to hear the street sweeper coming down my street (R NW in Dupont) and looked out to see him passing by (thankfully, all of the cars were moved). He left behind a trail of leaves so he backed all the way up to the start and made a second pass. There was still a little debris left so he backed up again and made a third pass – the street is totally clean now! I was so impressed that I emailed a general DPW email address to thank them. 15 minutes later, I received this response: (more…)
Thanks to A. for the update on the abandoned car on Indiana Ave, NW:
“today’s the day. Exactly 2 weeks to the day the car is FINALLY getting towed“
“Dear PoPville,
Hyundai with Utah plates showed up overnight on Appleton. Parking job suggests the parker was either ditching it or has a lot of misplaced trust in the world… (more…)
“Dear PoPville,
I’m in the process of renting out my space to a tenant that uses the DCHA voucher program. The tenant-to-be seems great, is doing all the paperwork on their end, and is ready to move in ASAP. The problem here is DCHA. We submitted the appropriate paperwork well over a month ago and to say they are moving slow is an understatement. They are taking days, if not weeks, to reply to us with really no movement towards approval. (more…)
Indiana Ave. NW between 6th and 7th
“Dear PoPville,
Car is still out there in the street. A cop showed up at one point…looked at the car and ticket then called me back to say that I had to call 311 again. Which I did…again. I won’t go into all the conversations I’ve had because you just would not believe me. But if you live in DC you might. (more…)