Neighborhood Notes - Foxhall: 12 September 2001
This week we
provide an update on some things that are NOT happening. The soccer field at
Hardy Rec. Center will not open this fall, as DPR have accepted the wisdom of
letting the roots of the sod have a full year to get established, so Spring 2002
is when we next expect to see Stoddert and city soccer teams.
The upcoming
Georgetown 10K road race will no longer go through residential neighborhoods,
instead it has a new route: from Georgetown Park mall east on M Street to
Pennsylvania Ave, right at Washington Circle to 23rd St, left at Constitution
Avenue going east to a turn-around near 7th St. then reverse back to the start.
The organizers had hoped to use Rock Creek Parkway but were denied by NPS.
Rumors about an
imminent expansion of Rock Creek International School are also premature. Like
many schools, RCIS is strategically looking out ten years or more, given the
realistic constraints of the building and property available at the former Hardy
Elementary school and are asking themselves, along with the neighbors who live
alongside, what are the options to go from K-5 to add grades 6, 7 and/or 8? Can
this be done at this site, or have a middle school at another site, or move
entirely to a K-8 school in another county? This is an issue Georgetown Day
School faced before, including considering the option to buy Riverside Hospital
– in GDS case they expanded on their own land. Space options for RCIS are much
more limited, and these will take time to sort through – but they also have
many more years left on their lease with DCPS.
© Bob Andrew, Foxhall
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