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[quote=Anonymous]Posted on DC Watch by Byron Adams, Committee of 100:
 
In testimony delivered to the DC Historic Preservation Review Board, the Committee of 100 on the Federal City called on that group to reject a District Department of Transportation (DDOT) proposal to locate a streetcar maintenance facility at Spingarn High School in Northeast. The Committee of 100 says that the facility will eliminate green space and “is totally unsympathetic to the aesthetics and architecture of the Spingarn campus.”
 
Spingarn, located on Benning Road, was the last District school campus constructed in the Colonial Revival style. In addition, the school complex, construction of which began in 1951, was at that time the first predominantly African-American high school built in DC in thirty-five years. In addition, the school is part of a four-school campus that, in conjunction with the adjacent historic Langston Golf Course, provides a college-like setting. As a result, the neighborhood Kingman Park Civic Association has nominated the school and campus to receive landmark status. While the landmark application is pending, no action that would degrade the property can occur. Landmark status, if granted, would make it harder for DDOT to locate the facility at Spingarn.
 
DDOT would use the facility for the storage and maintenance of streetcars on the proposed H Street/Benning Road line. DDOT originally intended to locate the facility beneath the “Hopscotch Bridge” near Union Station, but it was unable to secure permission to do so from Amtrak, which owns the station and needs the space for its own projects. Once that plan fell through, DDOT hastily chose the city-owned Spingarn site after little more than a cursory review of other alternatives. That is yet another demonstration of the pitfalls of the piecemeal planning process which DDOT has followed. The Committee of 100 continues to support the creation of a world-class streetcar system. But DDOT’s haphazard planning process, studded with artificial deadlines, has consistently put the agency in the position of fighting with the communities it ought to serve.
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