Tell me about Spring Valley

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:OP if you're looking to buy in upper NWDC you should definitely familiarize yourself with the Spring Valley FUDS map. We were uncomfortable buying in another hot upper NW neighborhood because of its proximity to the FUDS.

Step right up, AU Park!

Unless you are speaking of the tiny part of AU Park that was part of the FUDS, this only makes sense if you also eliminate the Palisades, Wesley Heights, and Kent - any neighborhood that borders the FUDS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP if you're looking to buy in upper NWDC you should definitely familiarize yourself with the Spring Valley FUDS map. We were uncomfortable buying in another hot upper NW neighborhood because of its proximity to the FUDS.

Step right up, AU Park!

Unless you are speaking of the tiny part of AU Park that was part of the FUDS, this only makes sense if you also eliminate the Palisades, Wesley Heights, and Kent - any neighborhood that borders the FUDS.

Yes, I eliminate all of them because I want safety for my family and tranquility away from the highway in the sky (ie flightpath, which is a blight on these neighborhoods and an environmental hazard at least equal to FUDS).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP if you're looking to buy in upper NWDC you should definitely familiarize yourself with the Spring Valley FUDS map. We were uncomfortable buying in another hot upper NW neighborhood because of its proximity to the FUDS.

Step right up, AU Park!

Unless you are speaking of the tiny part of AU Park that was part of the FUDS, this only makes sense if you also eliminate the Palisades, Wesley Heights, and Kent - any neighborhood that borders the FUDS.

Yes, I eliminate all of them because I want safety for my family and tranquility away from the highway in the sky (ie flightpath, which is a blight on these neighborhoods and an environmental hazard at least equal to FUDS).

Um, what parts of NW DC do you believe are not blighted by one environmental hazard or another?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP if you're looking to buy in upper NWDC you should definitely familiarize yourself with the Spring Valley FUDS map. We were uncomfortable buying in another hot upper NW neighborhood because of its proximity to the FUDS.

Step right up, AU Park!

Unless you are speaking of the tiny part of AU Park that was part of the FUDS, this only makes sense if you also eliminate the Palisades, Wesley Heights, and Kent - any neighborhood that borders the FUDS.

Yes, I eliminate all of them because I want safety for my family and tranquility away from the highway in the sky (ie flightpath, which is a blight on these neighborhoods and an environmental hazard at least equal to FUDS).

Um, what parts of NW DC do you believe are not blighted by one environmental hazard or another?

Seriously. Every part of DC has issues, it is a city. Plane, train, automobiles, safety /crime, access / walkability, traffic, nightlife, greenness... you make your choices and love with it, but every neighborhood has its pick of poisons. Just pick the one with the least offensive ones to you. Fr example, while I adpres these areas for.other reasons, on days when the wind blows ip.from across the river, half of old / towm / del ray smells like sewage.

The flightpath comment is just as bad to me as Trump's idea that a wall keeps out drugs when the majority of the drugs come by shipping container.

Have you looked at the flight paths? In detail? They go through literally dozens communities on both sides of the river in various directions.

The worst is georgetown, by far, where you have planes and helicopters very low at all times going to a from bases in addition to commercial floghts. IMHO. but for some reason, all these planes only make noise over a swath of palisades, and kent when the dcum cronies get really fired up. Not Georgetown, not McLean / ChainBridge, not montco, nope!! Only over the bungalows in Palisades. Okay......

[Anonymous]

We weren't comfortable with AU Park or the parts of the Palisades that directly border Spring Valley. Happy in Glover Park now. The airplane noise doesn't bother us.

[Anonymous]

I imagine these threads are started by an agent who's hyping AU Park. I also think there's a Spring Valley agent who's always highlighting that the FUDS map included a bit of AU Park (basically Friendship/Turtle Park area) and implying that all of AU Park is just as dangerous as Spring Valley (doubtful!). It's a hoot!

[Anonymous]

Spring Valley glows.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We weren't comfortable with AU Park or the parts of the Palisades that directly border Spring Valley. Happy in Glover Park now. The airplane noise doesn't bother us.

But what about the strip clubs?

[Anonymous]

Horace Mann, while still good, now is a notch below Janney. For this reason, I would strongly consider A.U. Park.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We weren't comfortable with AU Park or the parts of the Palisades that directly border Spring Valley. Happy in Glover Park now. The airplane noise doesn't bother us.

But what about the strip clubs?

Obvs, they're a nice bonus!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I imagine these threads are started by an agent who's hyping AU Park. I also think there's a Spring Valley agent who's always highlighting that the FUDS map included a bit of AU Park (basically Friendship/Turtle Park area) and implying that all of AU Park is just as dangerous as Spring Valley (doubtful!). It's a hoot!

That would be one stupid agent to start these threads. I always assume the comments claiming AU Park (beyond the southern tip that was on the FUDS) is problematic are by someone who is bothered by AU Park's popularity, or come from a disgruntled Spring Valley resident who wants muddy the waters about where the risk lies. AU Park's problem in comparison to other bordering neighborhoods is that it has "AU" in its name, making people assume that it's historically connected to the university, which it is not. Well before AU committed the empty land it owned in Spring Valley to the military, AU Park was already being residentially developed and marketed to buyers. So we know that it wasn't leased as a chemical weapons testing ground during WWI.

[Anonymous]

I believe the OP had no idea about Spring Valley. I have noticed lately that people don't talk about the munitions issue anymore and soil cleanliness is also not mentioned in many listings. I thought, by law, they had to disclose, but it's not in many of the write-ups or online descriptions. I think new buyers have no idea that this issue has been going on for over 20 years. Pretty sketchy!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Are you a Republican? I'm completely serious. It's known for being where a high concentration of DC's tiny population of Republicans live.

And also the poison soil.

Coincidence?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We weren't comfortable with AU Park or the parts of the Palisades that directly border Spring Valley. Happy in Glover Park now. The airplane noise doesn't bother us.

But what about the strip clubs?

There's just one. It's not a big deal.

[Anonymous]

Why would anyone who is planning to raise their children in their home buy in Spring Valley. The risk alone prevented us from buying....would you gamble with your children's lives? I also love the idea that these families shop at Whole Foods and try to eat organic and live healthy lives, but yet they are wiling to buy a house on top of a known WWI chemical weapons dump. Fascinating!