D.C.’s Historic Preservation Review Board tabled a vote about whether Barney Circle in Southeast should be approved as a historic district.
The board will wait to schedule a re-hearing after it and the Historic Preservation Office have been able to meet with residents on all sides of the issue to discuss concerns, Tanya Washington, a spokeswoman for the D.C. Office of Planning, said Friday.
Wilbert Hill, the neighborhood’s Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner, said ANC members supported the historic district proposal unanimously, but some residents still had concerns about historic district requirements.
“Some people still need to hear more explanation about the overall dos and don’ts of the historic district,” he said.
Hill said the idea of making the area a historic district has been around five or six years, after hopes that it would be included in the Capitol Hill Historic District were disappointed.
