Neighborhood Notes - Foxhall: 8 November, 2000
Next Wednesday, November 15, FCCA will hold its annual meeting
in the Hardy Rec. Center at 7:30 pm. A slate of candidates will be up for election as
Officers and Board members, including Pete Ross
who is standing for the position of President, as this incumbent’s three-year term is
up. I will stay on the Board for next year ex-officio, and look forward to supporting
Pete. In his offer to serve, despite an understandable chagrin in losing a Ward 2
Councilman Democratic primary, Pete shows his commitment to neighborhood services and
planning is genuine and sustained.
The meeting will feature the new Neighborhood Planning
Coordinator for Ward 3 Robert Collins to
talk about “Neighborhood Cluster Plans”. You might ask why Foxhall is included
in a Ward 3 cluster – we have always been included in the same Comprehensive Plan
issues as the Palisades and Wesley Heights, because of our overwhelmingly residential
nature, also for our non-historic district status (quite unlike Georgetown, whom we have
been yoked with politically in ANC2E only since the mid ‘80’s Census adjustment
which took us out of Ward 3 to make up for Ward 2 population loss). Council could still
change Ward boundaries yet again after 2000 Census data is released in April 2001, to keep
Ward populations equal as required by the Home Rule Charter.
New Neighborhood Services Executive Director Patrick
Canavan also expects by next week to appoint the last remaining Neighborhood Service
Coordinator position, also in Ward 3. NSC’s are senior managers who coordinate
activities involving two or more agencies, and resolution of recurring problems within
targeted areas in a Ward.
If NPC’s can synchronize Land Use and Transportation Planning, and
NSC’s ensure better coordination between e.g. DPW and MPD, we will have made progress
– but at what price?
© Bob
Andrew, Foxhall
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