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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Have we pushed for the Fort Bayard Park at River Road and Western Avenue. Federally owned and maintained but nearly unused by the neighborhood compared to the amount of land. This Federal land could be handed over to the city. It is not doing the American citizens any good. But the neighborhood could really make use of it. Have we tried to see about Fort Reno and other land around Alice Deal? The Hearst field is already well used and I think a pool would be pushing out soccer players etc, just as would have happened at Turtle Park if a pool had been included in the new design. 
Joan, in Friendship Heights[/quote]

This is the same argument used by Cliven Bundy to appropriate federal land for himself and his cattle.   He is nearby, so why can't he just have it?

NPS will stand firm against this sort of provincial nonsense; it's a non-starter[/quote]

Yup, won't happen; and if it did, it should be used for a school. Ward 3 does not have enough schools for the population.[/quote]

Why does DC need more elementary schools when John Eaton is 60% OOB and [b]Hearst is significantly higher than that[/b].  If more school capacity is needed, DCPS needs to throttle back OOB spots as kids move through the school.

In any case, DC is not going to locate a new school on a small site (even if they did own it) on the MD border on Western Ave.
A much more appropriate site for a new school, if one is needed, is the Second District police station site on Idaho Ave.  But not DC is doubling down there by building a 50 unit homeless shelter, so that site will never be a school.[/quote]

Nope Hearst is already down to 50 percent and falling (I say this without saying it is a good thing or a bad thing; it is just a fact).  Both of these schools are also on the small side for Ward 3.  Janney and Murch are near 700 with no ability to get bigger, and many of the other Ward 3 schools like Key and Stoddert are also bursting.  I don't think another school is likely in Ward 3, but it could relieve overcrowding if it could be made to happen.  VERY unlikely that it would happen on NPS land though.[/quote]

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