The District Department of Parks and Recreation will convene a meeting this evening to discuss renovations to the park at 11th and Monroe Streets NW, sometimes known as Trolley Turnaround Park.

Penn Quarter Living gives us a heads up that there is a not very well publicized public meeting scheduled tonight to discuss a proposal to install a large mural at one entrance of the Gallery Place/Chinatown Metro station. The Chinatown Community Cultural Center is ‘proposing a “large-scale Chinatown mosaic mural” for the 7th & F St Metro entrance, otherwise known as the Verizon Center entrance. The proposal will be presented by Martha Jackson Jarvis, who…

District Department of Transportation director Gabe Klein is set to meet with the public tonight to provide an update on the epically delayed plans for a streetcar line along H Street NE. The project is the second of two stalled streetcar plans, the other along South Capitol Street in Anacostia. In advance of tonight’s big meeting, which is being co-hosted by Advisory Neighborhood Commissions 5B, 6A and 6C, the Washington Business Journal’s Jonathon O’Connell…

Community organizers from the 5th District Citizens’ Advisory Council, the Ward 4 Education Council, the Eastland Gardens Civic Association, the Council of Churches of Greater Washington-Social Action Committee, and the DC Federation of Civic Associations have put together something they’re calling a “City-Wide Community Meeting on Crime” tonight from 7 p.m. to 8:45 p.m. They’re urging residents from all over the city to come together to “stand up and speak out,” and say they’ve invited…

The District Department of Transportation is hosting a city-wide public meeting tonight on the final draft of the District Draft Pedestrian Master Plan. If you still haven’t had a gander at the plan itself, you can read it here. The plan includes a mix of efforts, including things like restriping crosswalks, changing signal timings, installing more Rapid Flash Beacons, and other tactics that target 61 “high hazard” traffic intersections. Some of the dangerous intersections and…