Neighborhood Notes - Foxhall: 15 November, 2000

This week we are fortunate that a full slate of fourteen candidates has stepped forward to be on the Foxhall Community Citizens Association board, at the annual meeting being held at Hardy Rec Center Wednesday November 15. Barring any electoral irregularities (naaah – that doesn’t happen, does it?) or last-minute surprise volunteer candidates from the floor, these fourteen will be ratified. Often winter-time annual meetings don’t bring lots of members, being inherently dry events by nature, but we do not anticipate problem with having our quorum of 25.

That is because we expect a good turnout, not so much for the election or to hear from the Office of Planning, but for the last item on our agenda, possible development of the former Brady estate on Foxhall across from the German embassy. Will it be developed as single family homes, as the whole site is zoned, or is it still possible that it may
be purchased as land for conservation? Or will neighbors, facing possible inevitable re-development at some future date, urge instead a lower density use like mansions, or non-residential use like a 9-hole golf course? What about vehicle access to this site, on a downhill curve of Foxhall not unlike the former Cafritz estate dispute for the Field
School. Will any potential developer and DPW work together to ensure a safer outlet at the new signalized intersection planned for Whitehall and Foxhall?

Talking of that, what ever happened to that project, now that Gary Burch retired from DPW? We are now finally getting into a MedStar-funded study of solutions for Reservoir Rd, and hopefully D.C. Office of Planning’s new Ward-based coordinators will work with a new DOT organization that is being spun off from DPW to ensure that transportation planning is coordinated with land use.

 © Bob Andrew, Foxhall