H Street's status as D.C.'s premiere emerging neighborhood might be in jeopardy by a proposed limit to the number of alcohol licenses the street could be allotted, which we suppose is newsworthy only if you believe the corridor doesn't have too many bars already.

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In the past few years, 17 bars and restaurants have opened along a 13-block stretch of the street, and, as The Hill is Home reports, a Capitol Hill ANC is considering imposing a liquor-license limit this fall. Should this come to pass, H Street would join Adams Morgan, Dupont Circle and Glover Park as neighborhoods with such caps.

And if it doesn't come to pass, H Street will join Adams Morgan, Dupont Circle and Glover Park as neighborhoods which were formerly "emerging."

[DCist; WCP]