Ideas are listed below by DC Ward. Click on the links to view the ideas. Once you view an idea, you will have the opportunity to comment on it and/or send it to someone.
| 5.23.2006 |
Coin-operated public bathrooms |
| 5.08.2006 |
Lower rush hour traffic, limit noise and air pollution, improve quality of life |
| 5.05.2006 |
Combating Illiteracy |
| 5.05.2006 |
Create a combined Central Library, City Museum and Visitors Center |
| 5.05.2006 |
Advisory Neighborhood Commissions are a beautiful concept of civic engagement, but lacking a training infrastructure, too frequently they operate far below the ideal. |
| 5.05.2006 |
Expanding the idea of the "People's Counsel" to BZA, Zoning Commission, and Alcohol Beverage Control Board Matters. |
| 5.05.2006 |
Promoting anti-litter behavior through experiential learning in school |
| 5.05.2006 |
Build a community of learning centered around the schools through family learning contracts. |
| 5.05.2006 |
Poor relations between MPD + DC neighborhoods. |
| 5.05.2006 |
School drop-outs / lack of goals for students |
| 5.05.2006 |
Lack of information or proposals for addressing community-wide problems. |
| 5.05.2006 |
Disparities between neighborhoods + neighborhood governance in DC |
| 5.05.2006 |
Illegal parking near Monuments (during rush hour) - Summertime solution |
| 5.05.2006 |
Lack of affordable housing |
| 5.05.2006 |
Create "Virtual Tunnels" for transferring between Farragut North/Farragut West and Metro Center/Gallery Place |
| 5.05.2006 |
Love My Neighbor? How Can I? I Don't Even Know Him. Solution: Printed "Listservs." |
| 5.05.2006 |
Ask the dropouts. |
| 5.05.2006 |
Education in the City |
| 5.05.2006 |
Make the District less congested by declaring it "No Car" day once a month.
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| 5.05.2006 |
Make Georgetown fun again by turning M Street into a broad pedestrian walkway, like they have in Barcelona or Munich or other European cities. |
| 5.05.2006 |
Building bricks to better education |
| 5.05.2006 |
Procurement of the District's Electricity |
| 5.05.2006 |
ADOPT-A-SCHOOL PROGRAM |
| 5.05.2006 |
FRESH START FOR THE HOMELESS |
| 5.05.2006 |
Build a Monument to the Millennium at Barney Circle |
| 5.05.2006 |
DC Waterfront Property required to be mixed-use Development |
| 5.05.2006 |
HOMELESSNESS IN D.C. |
| 5.05.2006 |
To Provide a System that Connects Local Government with Artists to Provide Creative Solutions to Ongoing Challenges and Problems |
| 5.05.2006 |
Thank You System |
| 5.05.2006 |
Reduce litter in DC |
| 5.05.2006 |
Eliminate paper car tags |
| 5.05.2006 |
Increase the DC parking tax |
| 5.05.2006 |
Develop a wellness program to reduce health care costs for DC workers |
| 5.05.2006 |
To provide opportunity for our children, the next generation of DC citizens, we plan to build a Playground Garden at Peabody School. |
| 5.04.2006 |
GREEN DEVELOPMENT COMPLEX |
| 5.04.2006 |
DISTRICT COOPERATIVE HEALTH FUND |
| 5.04.2006 |
HOLISTIC LIVING DEMONSTRATION CENTER |
| 5.04.2006 |
Increase the activity of all DC residents |
| 5.04.2006 |
Tax the "Gourmet" Coffee Stores |
| 5.04.2006 |
Renovate every DC High School Field |
| 5.04.2006 |
HOT lanes Extended into DC |
| 5.04.2006 |
Change the DC Flag |
| 5.04.2006 |
Encourage seniors to get out of their homes and remain active by letting them ride METRO for free |
| 5.04.2006 |
Limiting the Damage that Renovations and New Construction Can Do to Affordable Housing and Existing Communities. |
| 5.04.2006 |
Turn all the security cameras in town into something positive by making them available for viewing on the Internet |
| 5.04.2006 |
Turn closed schools into community centers |
| 5.04.2006 |
ORGANIZE AN OFFICE OF COMMUNITY JUSTICE TO MORE EFFECTIVELY COMBAT CRIME |
| 5.04.2006 |
A CLARION CALL FOR A STATE OF EMERGENCY ON HIV/AIDS IN THE DISRICT OF COLUMBIA: A 10 POINT ACTION PLAN |
| 5.03.2006 |
Human Capital Re-investment |
| 5.03.2006 |
Annual Throw Back Day |
| 5.03.2006 |
Express metro bus from Armory-Stadium to BWI |
| 5.03.2006 |
save gas, stay healthy, reduce trafic and air polution. Include showers in all new DC office buildings. |
| 5.01.2006 |
Community Plant Exchange: Sharing Excess Plants and Flowers |
| 5.01.2006 |
Developing a greater sense of community by empowering citizens and aggregating our common-sense wisdom. |
| 5.01.2006 |
Create a Washington, D.C. "Hometown Ambassadors Corps (DC-HAC)" |
| 4.30.2006 |
Above-ground Metro signs signifying incoming/departing Metro train schedule |
| 4.27.2006 |
Share public school space with public charter schools. |
| 4.27.2006 |
Affordable and integrated housing |
| 4.27.2006 |
Diversity, Diplomacy & Mediation |
| 4.27.2006 |
Public Parking Lots |
| 4.27.2006 |
At Last, A Good Use For Automated Phone Technology - A Phone Call Can Prevent Pollution |
| 4.25.2006 |
Our Kids Need Nature/We've Got It! - Survivor: Anacostia |
| 4.25.2006 |
Payment in-lieu-of Taxes (PILOT) Project |
| 4.25.2006 |
"Green" DC Public Schools Would Improve Children's Health |
| 4.24.2006 |
Let's get cars off the road ASAP by encouraging residents and others to use motorcycles and scooters to get into the city. |
| 4.24.2006 |
Can create new companies and good paying jobs based on the research conducted at its universities |
| 4.24.2006 |
Give regular public tours of the Wilson Building.
We could bring in tourists off Pennsylvania Avenue and teach thousands about DC's lack of voting rights. |
| 4.24.2006 |
Limit truck deliveries to non-rush hours, easing traffic and pollution while also making the streets safer. |
| 4.24.2006 |
Bring more families back to DC by offering a $5,000 per child local tax credit. |
| 4.24.2006 |
Report cards for school principals, which can be reviewed by parents who want to evaluate the school. |
| 4.21.2006 |
Eliminate Litter - "Pick up 3 on the 3rd" |
| 4.21.2006 |
Starbucks in Metro |
| 4.20.2006 |
Foster and Maintain School Choice for Parents of DC Schoolchildren |
| 4.20.2006 |
Further Driving the Idea of Taxation without Representation |
| 4.20.2006 |
Children ride long distances to get to school. Give good administrators power to improve neighborhood public schools. Poverty, crime and gridlock will decrease. |
| 4.20.2006 |
Allow buildings to exceed present height limits if they meet "Green" building standards. |
| 4.20.2006 |
When you've gotta go, you've gotta go.... |
| 4.19.2006 |
Make the Anacostia more exciting with an annual fishing tournament |
| 4.18.2006 |
NO Turn on RED signs at Intersection |
| 4.18.2006 |
Citizen's Technical Committee |
| 4.18.2006 |
Dog racing at RFK stadium when the Nats move to their new stadium in 2008 |
| 4.18.2006 |
Giant, 8-story climbing wall in the District to improve fitness, encourage activity, use vacant space and promote tourism |
| 4.18.2006 |
Emergency room openness to help patients and family |
| 4.18.2006 |
College growth fund for low income residents |
| 4.18.2006 |
Microchip registration for dogs/cats - This limits the number of dogs in the city and improves animal care |
| 4.18.2006 |
"I was thisty and you gave me water" |
| 4.17.2006 |
Relieve Rush Hour Congestion within DC via rigid enforcement of "No Parking/No Standing" Lanes during rush hour and ALL TIMES they are noted enforced. |
| 4.17.2006 |
Maximize the quantity of DC Residential Parking Spaces by painting "spaces" delineating approximate parking boundaries, thereby eliminating countless "wasted spaces" and maximizing Residential Parking capacity. |
| 4.14.2006 |
Agencies to Promote Traffic Reduction by Persuasive Programs |
| 4.14.2006 |
Get Tough on Repeat Offenders |
| 4.13.2006 |
Change DC public high Schools to allow students in high school to major in particular subject areas. |
| 4.13.2006 |
WAKE UP the Council! |
| 4.12.2006 |
Reintroduce Half-Day Preschool and Kindergarten Programs |
| 4.12.2006 |
Higher Education Lottery |
| 4.12.2006 |
A Campaign to Promote the Self-Worth of DC Residents |
| 4.11.2006 |
A practical metered Taxi system |
| 4.10.2006 |
Increase citizen participation in our government |
| 4.10.2006 |
Give young people an alternative to high school and college with an expansive technical/trade education system that meshes with an apprenticeship program upon graduation. |
| 4.10.2006 |
Beautifying the D.C. area and increasing community participation through an art competition to design new manhole covers in the D.C. area |
| 4.09.2006 |
Break Height Cap/Build More Affordable Housing |
| 4.07.2006 |
Single Sex Schools |
| 4.07.2006 |
A dedicated drug hotline |
| 4.07.2006 |
To decrease crime level the District needs mandatory jail time for gun related crimes. |
| 4.06.2006 |
Cleaner DC |
| 4.05.2006 |
Greener DC today, for Cleaner Air tomorrow |
| 4.05.2006 |
Buy back guns |
| 4.05.2006 |
Homes & centers for the elderly should be co-located with youth centers and orphanages. |
| 4.05.2006 |
Reduce "No Turn on Red" Signs |
| 4.04.2006 |
City-wide School Libraries Project |
| 4.04.2006 |
RFK Stadium Youth Athletic Complex |
| 4.04.2006 |
Blended Funding for Services for At Risk Children |
| 4.04.2006 |
Rebuild the Schools: Architect Contest |
| 4.04.2006 |
Maximize parking spaces in residential areas |
| 4.04.2006 |
Address the city's hunger, obesity, malnutrition and diabetes issues by teaching people how to cook and eat well. |
| 4.04.2006 |
Free Public Preschool |
| 4.04.2006 |
Make hunger and malnutrition illegal for children and the elderly in the District of Columbia. |
| 4.04.2006 |
Competitive, High Quality Public Schools: Within Our Reach |
| 4.04.2006 |
Allow after care housed in DC public school buildings to stay open until at least 6:30pm |
| 4.03.2006 |
Expand and Improve the Metro and Metro Bus Service to Make the City More Physically Accessible to All |
| 4.03.2006 |
Reopen a Bigger and Better City Museum and Make it More Accessible to All |
| 4.03.2006 |
Move the President's Residence out of D.C. |
| 4.03.2006 |
Bury 395 |
| 4.01.2006 |
High-Volume Security Scanning for Public Transportation Systems |
| 3.31.2006 |
Smack people in the head when they do something stupid! |
| 3.30.2006 |
Cut out welfare. It only holds people down. Make welfare something attainable only if you go to occupational school or college. |
| 3.30.2006 |
Enforce Jaywalking Laws |
| 3.30.2006 |
Bring Back Taxi Stands |
| 3.30.2006 |
Voting Rights for All (Starting Locally): Open Primaries for DC Elections |
| 3.30.2006 |
Decriminalize It |
| 3.29.2006 |
Seems like only suburbanites get to park illegally |
| 3.29.2006 |
Making D.C. a Better Place by Improving Our Nationals |
