There is a church on 204 E Del Ray that has interesting panels on it doors. (You may need to enlarge to see the detail). There’s also lots of interesting Art Deco buildings around Del Ray. Not sure about their doors though.
Stephanie Elms
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![‹ [AVA] Gas powered leaf blow...
you all do realize the hypocrisy on so many levels right? The city of Alexandria has exempt themselves from this new regulation!
we are all giving our local government more and more power instead of asking each other to cooperate and perhaps have those blowers use limited to specific hours of the day...
what's next? Yes, mowers, trimmers, generators.. etc etc
What about fireplaces, burning wood? They too should be banned! While some of you enjoy the odor of burning fireplaces they output incomplete combustion horrible for all! Should they all be banned?
What about gas appliances? Should they all be banned?
Back to giving government more power, when we ask for restrictions against others parking on our blocks we are asking our city to charge all of us to park in front of our own homes!
We have allowed residents to restrict vehicles by asking for speed bumps, bike lanes etc yet we continue to drive a car with just one passenger wasting fuel polluting our environment! Vehicles that as as many claim a great danger to](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:3zq3tli2gkagglust5xcwrwd/bafkreibqse6j27a4emevv2mcrtjbve44f6orwitt2ortkfoh6mad4slunq)
![[AVA] Gas powered leaf blow...
We have allowed residents to restrict vehicles by asking for speed bumps, bike lanes etc yet we continue to drive a car with just one passenger wasting fuel polluting our environment! Vehicles that as as many claim a great danger to pedestrians. Why aren't we banning cars off our streets? Maybe we are little bit at the time by squeezing our streets out.. streets are so narrow now that one has to pull over for oncoming cars... or, when someone wants to turn no one can go around the turning car thanks to bump outs to protect pedestrians who have so far to safely walk... many in Alexandria without a driveway can't park in front of their homes and have to choose to stop driving or park blocks away...
About mulch...
Mulch is bad on several levels.
first, it promotes an environment for termites, as the wood decays it is a perfect moist bed for termites which when mulch is against your house or other structures has negative consequences. i refuse to use mulch.
second, how is mulch made? It’s made by large very loud diesel burning grinders that pollute our neighborhoods with both noise and diesel fumes!
Again, I refuse to use mulch!](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:3zq3tli2gkagglust5xcwrwd/bafkreiaz5nsdkcsa4bfzdupnwde4koxlzjqh2m632gmn3kajrcmzvu4uym)
