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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OMG. Would some kind soul break down this extremely long post? [/quote]

Let me try . . . The Foxhall Community Citizens Association (FCCA) is scared of public school children. The public school serving Foxhall - as with many others in Ward 3 - is over-crowded. A solution to this problem appeared in the form of a public school building leased out to a wealthy public school until 2023. Instead of doing what the community wanted and advocating for this public school building to be given back to DCPS, the FCCA did all it could to ensure the lease was extended in virtual perpetuity. The FCCA eventually got what it wanted, but the city then announced a plan to build a new public elementary school right next to that school building. This new school building may end up taking away a bunch of land currently used for a public park. In response, the FCCA is pulling all sorts of shenanigans - including naked attempts to misrepresent community sentiment and harking back to the old NIMBY favorite on parking concerns - to stop the construction of a public school building that would help alleviate overcrowding in the Wilson feeder pattern.  [/quote]

Wow. And I thought the Cleveland Park NIMBYs were crazy.  [/quote]

This is 100% my impression. I sadly live in this neighborhood which i refer to as sh1th--le village because the neighbors, just a few are so nasty.  They will literally drive you from your own home and don't dare do any kind of improvemt or construction or dcra will breathe down your neck and even though it gets tossed out or no Vio it's still such a waste of time, harassing and awful. Oh and don't dare be a minority or married to a minority, these disgusting bags of garbage will treat you like dirt.  I wish the city would demolish the neighborhood and i OWN there.[/quote]

I didn’t know a lot about the neighborhood before all of this drama started and figured that the FCCA was unrepresentative of community sentiment. I’ve been truly appalled about what I’ve learned about it through the responses on the listserv and the accounts of those few minorities that live there. Finding out that people who harbor views like this live in DC and participate in civic associations was an unwelcome shock. Maybe the worst thing about it is that they have, at least, managed to hold up the opening of both the elementary and high school proposed for the area.[/quote]

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