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[quote=Anonymous][img][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m OOL, but from looking at the imagery on Google Maps, it looks like the construction of “Barrett Field” displaced a couple of trees at most. What am I missing?[/quote]

Synthetic turf.  Uprooting and replanting of 4 trees.  Traffic.[/quote]

I managed to find some older imagery and realized that the changes are a lot more drastic than they initially appeared. I’m glad they’re finally giving up Jelleff (maybe), but I’d be pissed off if I lived in Chevy Chase and they tore up a bucolic neighborhood park to put in an ugly turf football field that is going to radiate heat like an ovulating sow during summer.[/quote]

I grew up right by there. I don't know that I would call it a bucolic neighborhood park lmao. The episcopal school was always run down. Still, what it was beats a turf field in your backyard, so from that standpoint I understand the frustration of the immediate neighbors.

That being said, the residential zones in DC are zoned by right for things like schools, nursing homes, churches, govt buildings, and a few other large buildings that can cause traffic and various other disruptions. Just because there didn’t used to be something that has always been allowed by the law in the past, doesn’t mean there won’t be forever. The neighbors really need to get over it, or move.[/quote]

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