“Walk in to work,” she said, and indeed the work began shortly thereafter when Harris swore in three new Democratic senators: Alex Padilla, her replacement as senator from California and the state’s first Latino to hold the position; and new senators from Georgia, Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff, whose victories in a pair of Jan. 5 runoffs knotted the chamber. At 33, Ossoff became the youngest Democrat sworn in as a senator since Biden, who was 30 when he first took office in 1973..

Je m’tais dit que j’allais me forcer crire une note tous les jours (avant ma reprise de travail en tout cas) mais c’est difficile quand mme, je ne suis pas journaliste et je n’ai pas le talent de Julie Schittly. Aujourd’hui, je suis all djeuner chez mon pre. On a parl de choses et d’autres et je n’tais pas press de partir.

Architect Kevin Burow showed plans for a three story mixed use building with 20 dwelling units (15 one BR, 5 studios), 934 sf of commercial space, 19 indoor parking stalls at grade and 3 outdoor surface stalls. Planning staff has advised the team that Dewey Ct will be considered the ‘rear yard’ and requires a rear yard setback. My takeaway was the general consensus of nearby neighbors was a preference for a different housing type, such as townhomes, that would better fit the scale of the neighborhood and be more family friendly.

The JCCIC recently announced that attendance at the inauguration will be strictly limited because of the pandemic. Traditionally, the JCCIC makes 200,000 tickets available to members of Congress to hand out to constituents for the ceremony, but this year each member of Congress may attend with a single guest. The JCCIC said the size of the crowd will resemble that for a State of the Union..

At the August 11 meeting of the Plan Commission, the PC unanimously voted to approve the conditional use application of Joe Krupp to demolish an office building and construct a four story mixed use building with 3014sf of commercial space, 32 dwelling units and 36 parking stalls at 2158 Atwood Ave. The parcel is zoned Traditional Shopping District (TSS). The proposal required four conditional use approvals: for construction of a four story building; for construction of a mixed use building exceeding 25,000sf; approval of over 24 dwelling units; and to modify the upper story setback required next to a residential zoning district (to address concerns of neighbors on Division St, the setback on the north side of the building was increased and the required rear yard height transition requirement adjacent to a church in a residential district was modified)..