Apparently, and historically, they're on the same team vs the neighborhood.

Both restaurateurs should make a vow to eliminate or shield any fluorescent lighting from their respective public spaces, please!

wburg- I can't answer as to how many live within walking distance but the vast majority of the students at SHPS are delivered and picked up via vehicles. This appears to be the case at most schools in the region. I have never seen more than a dozen or so bikes in the racks at the school. Very few students walk or bike to school because their parents are very afraid. If you look at the traffic as shown in the pictures and the speeds of vehicles on H Street you can understand one reason why. The imagined threat of child abduction has been elevated to an ever-present fear by our media. I live a block away and an immediate neighbor drove his daughter to and from SHPS every day in a diesel-pusher, dualie pick-up truck until she was in the sixth grade or so. She also had obvious issues with her weight.

The city is very inconsistent in their loose-in-the-street policies. I opted out of the green container program and am paying the higher fees yet I don't get service every week. It's often several weeks between pick-ups. Then when I do get the LITS pick-up, all of my neighbors, who are paying the lower fees for containers, also get their piles picked up. So I feel like an idiot for paying the higher fee. I realize there is supposed to be a schedule for city wide LITS pickups, especially during the fall, but that seems to have been abandoned ages ago because the smaller crews just can't keep up with the sheer volume of leaf material. The city crews can't be expected to scrutinize a list for who has paid for LITS and who hasn't so the system is not working.

Arum, there was a response in the fifth comment... see also the previous article by Deb which had other links to design images.