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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yeah, a lot of parks -- Palisades, Hearst, Ft. Reno -- are owned by the feds and leased to DC so they are off-limits for other uses. One of the things about Hardy is that it is a rare park that is owned unencumbered by DC. [/quote]

Not even close to true.

At one point in time all land in DC that was not privately owned was in fact Federal but with Home Rule most DC land was in fact handed over to DC.  And every few years some odd pockets of land that were Federal (these are mostly quirky pocket parks) get deeded over to DC as part of Federal legislation.

Hardy is not the rare park the is owned unencumbered by DC - if a park is managed by DPR it is owned by DC so that includes Palisades & Hearst in your example.  And DPR in fact manages some land for park functions that is Federal which is the case with parts of both Ft Reno and Fort Dupont.

Now there is an NCPC review required on all sorts of projects if there is a perceived Federal interest and in the case of Murch for some reason a portion of the Murch property in fact is still Federally owned.

And the same restrictions apply to DC owned land that apply to privately owned properties around the public "parking" which requires generous setbacks from the street and of course zoning laws also apply and as far as I know laws around re-moving trees (which in DC are very strict) also apply to publicly owned properties.

So there are a lot of restrictions on what DGS/DCPS/DPR can do with their properties but in most cases Federal ownership of land is not one of them.[/quote]

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