Councilor Evans made it crystal-clear when he turned up at last week’s FCCA monthly meeting that he won’t permit participation by Foxhall residents in Ward 2 redistricting of ANC’s, suggesting instead our residents concentrate solely on the Ward 3 ANC process. Our invited speakers, Councilors Patterson and Mendelson, took a more open approach, as already shown by Councilor Patterson allowing ANC members in Chevy Chase being moved to Ward 4 to also serve on Ward 3’s ANC committee. Councilor Mendelson, rightly enough, as chair of the Redistricting Subcommittee will have no specifics to deal with until all eight Ward committees report out later this year.

As far as FCCA concerns over GU, at least in the campus planning process the Association is named as a Party to the agreement, and as such to GU's ongoing quarterly feedback process mandated by the BZA. However yet unfinished is the revision of city regulations to put campus plans on a sounder basis - deal with development outside campus boundaries, annual monitoring, economic impact on city services and tax base, etc. The lawsuit by GWU put a chill into Office of Planning’s efforts to revisit D.C. code, and we trust they will get over being disheartened and complete this important job.

FCCA’s other concern is residential parking - will our neighborhood again be overrun with daily parkers who then walk over to GU, or ride express D5 buses into downtown. Although Councilor Patterson has introduced two new bills to deal with residential parking, Councilor Evans gave his assessment that once this Pandora’s box issue is re-opened the end result might be more narrowly defined areas for permitted parking. e.g. residential permit would work ONLY in your own neighborhood. Glover Park’s Chris Liveley is heading up a committee to thoroughly research residential parking options.