Jessica Castro, a restaurant server who moved to the District last June, has always thought of her Shaw neighborhood apartment as a residence. Pepco doesn’t seem to think so.
Castro’s place sits above two floors of offices, so the electric company says it is classified as "non-residential."
This might be a minor technicality if that status didn't [...]

The Issue: As summer began giving way to fall, idyllic life in the Palisades was shattered by a dose of cold, cruel reality from D.C. electricity provider Pepco. To improve electrical reliability, Pepco wanted to cut down about 400 trees in the neighborhood as well as (gasp!) 16 others along a few blocks of MacArthur [...]