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[quote=Anonymous]I can totally relate to the histrionic snob thing. I've had to deal with one just like that. These folks deserve no quarter. Don't warn, just call the warden on them, DCRA, towing whatever. I've been spoken down to as a "new person/young person" and told oh this is just the way things have been here for 30/50/250 years crap, like i was being ridiculous. I was like this is the law and you are the one violating it. But some of the folks who've been here since before dirt was a thing feel they are in charge and can do whatever they want. My fear is the politicians give in to them.

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I just did a quick google maps survey of the area and came up with a list of schools already in the area (1 mile cutoff)

Schools nearby:
Lab School Campus #1 (0.0 mi)
Lab School Campus #2 - Reservoir Rd (0.7 mi)
Georgetown Day School (0.3 mi)
Montessori School Of Washington DC (0.3 mi)
St. Patricks Episcopal Day School - Macarthur (0.4 mi)
St. Patricks Episcopal Day School - Whitehaven (0.7 mi)
George Washington University - Mount Vernon Campus (0.6 mi)
The River School (1.0 mi)
The Field School (0.9 mi)
Georgetown University (0.6 mi)
Washington International School (0.9 mi)
Duke Ellington (1.0 mi)

Did I miss any?  Do we really need a 13th school in a 1 mile radius?[/quote]

Looks to me like strong empirical evidence that this is a good location for schools.[/quote]
Shrug. We're not part of the holy FCCA community, but we live a couple of blocks from Hardy Park.

The whole fear of a traffic apocalypse that would be brought about by a new school is nonsense. Traffic issues on MacArthur and Foxhall have never had anything to do with the schools in that area. That's just a drop in the bucket for roads that are commuter arteries from Maryland.

The FCCA people were the types who used pre-renovation Hardy Park as their own personal, off-leash dog park, then got all huffy when people told them their dogs need to be on a leash. To them, the park is a personal playground. If they could get away with it, they'd bulldoze the playground area to keep neighborhood kids out. They're a bunch of fundamentally dishonest, histrionic snobs who are horrified by the idea of public schools kids in their neighborhood.  [/quote][/quote]

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