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[quote=Anonymous]In 2018, the FCCA tried to push through a resolution “on behalf of the community” asking the mayor to renew LAB’s lease of the Old Hardy building. They claimed that unless the lease was extended, the city would repurpose the building as a homeless shelter or a public high school, both of which they apparently did not want in their neighborhood. The community they were purportedly speaking on behalf of showed out in force to tell them what they thought of them so they dropped the resolution. The FCCA then successfully applied to NPS to have the building designated as a “historic place” (https://planning.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/op/publication/attachments/Rose%20Hardy%20School%20Nomination_0.pdf), knowing that this would complicate the repurposing of the building to a public school. So now that the city is restricted from using the building for other purposes, the LAB School lease is almost certain to be extended. But because Ward 3 desperately needs another elementary school and because there is no land elsewhere, the city has decided to use part of the park next to Old Hardy as the site for the new elementary school. And so now the FCCA is complaining bitterly about the loss of their park and all the traffic that will be created by having three schools in close proximity. Of course, this situation that FCCA is now bemoaning is one they very much helped to create.[/quote]

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