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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

it wasn't a neighborhood park. It was an open field used by the ECC when it was operational that was otherwise generally closed to the public (though many neighbors illegally ran their dogs there), which it hasn't been since COVID. There were dozens of scurb weed trees that were removed and several heritage trees that were relocated on site.[/quote]

This is what it looked like in November 2021: https://maps.app.goo.gl/3KeCyLVfPLph12Y79[/quote]

Yes, that is what it looked like, but that doesn't change the above description. It was not open to the neighbors as a "park" - it was an open space with a bunch of weed trees and a few heritage trees. It was mostly unused space.[/quote]

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