The good thing for Maret is that if you had to design a villain more repellent than a tony private school football program, CCDC Vandals would be it.

I also feel like these people need to go back and reread the Lorax because they have taken some wrong lessons lol. Maybe Lafayette can host a book club. Better do it now before all their brains are Swiss cheese from the turf chemicals.

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Anonymous wrote:I can’t believe they turfed it. Disgusting.

Right?

They should be dumb and go contrary to every school, city agency and sports club in the world who have been using artificial turf for 40 years because it is durable.

They already have access to two turfed fields. This is just some kind of weird flex move.

They didn't have access though. And further, it was a private transaction made with another legal entity. They went through the zoning and permitting process, the public had its say. There was nothing nefarious or illegal about it. If the neighbors opposed it so bitterly, they should have offered to top the Maret purchase/leasing price.

They literally have a large turf field on their campus. Their preferred access to Jellef is well known. Was it legal to turf another field? Apparently. Was it a good idea? Absolutely not. Let’s be honest here, Maret isn’t exactly know for their sports teams.

Yes, but their campus is relatively tiny (not as small as GDS though) and they didn’t want to make choices on changing their campus (like Sidwell did). They could anticipate their deal for Jelleff (also far from their campus) was going to end so they needed another space.

So what, the kids bus up there after school for sports? Doesn’t that take a long time? It’s far.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I can’t believe they turfed it. Disgusting.

Right?

They should be dumb and go contrary to every school, city agency and sports club in the world who have been using artificial turf for 40 years because it is durable.

They already have access to two turfed fields. This is just some kind of weird flex move.

They didn't have access though. And further, it was a private transaction made with another legal entity. They went through the zoning and permitting process, the public had its say. There was nothing nefarious or illegal about it. If the neighbors opposed it so bitterly, they should have offered to top the Maret purchase/leasing price.

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Anonymous wrote:I can’t believe they turfed it. Disgusting.

Right?

They should be dumb and go contrary to every school, city agency and sports club in the world who have been using artificial turf for 40 years because it is durable.

They already have access to two turfed fields. This is just some kind of weird flex move.

Anonymous wrote:I can’t believe they turfed it. Disgusting.

Right?

They should be dumb and go contrary to every school, city agency and sports club in the world who have been using artificial turf for 40 years because it is durable.

Anonymous wrote:I can’t believe they turfed it. Disgusting.

Leave it to Maret to choose actions that infuriate the community around them. They've learned nothing from the Jelleff fiasco.

I can’t believe they turfed it. Disgusting.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m OOL, but from looking at the imagery on Google Maps, it looks like the construction of “Barrett Field” displaced a couple of trees at most. What am I missing?

Synthetic turf. Uprooting and replanting of 4 trees. Traffic.

I managed to find some older imagery and realized that the changes are a lot more drastic than they initially appeared. I’m glad they’re finally giving up Jelleff (maybe), but I’d be pissed off if I lived in Chevy Chase and they tore up a bucolic neighborhood park to put in an ugly turf football field that is going to radiate heat like an ovulating sow during summer.

it wasn't a neighborhood park. It was an open field used by the ECC when it was operational that was otherwise generally closed to the public (though many neighbors illegally ran their dogs there), which it hasn't been since COVID. There were dozens of scurb weed trees that were removed and several heritage trees that were relocated on site.

This is what it looked like in November 2021: https://maps.app.goo.gl/3KeCyLVfPLph12Y79

Yes, that is what it looked like, but that doesn't change the above description. It was not open to the neighbors as a "park" - it was an open space with a bunch of weed trees and a few heritage trees. It was mostly unused space.

Have they caught the vandals?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m OOL, but from looking at the imagery on Google Maps, it looks like the construction of “Barrett Field” displaced a couple of trees at most. What am I missing?

Synthetic turf. Uprooting and replanting of 4 trees. Traffic.

I managed to find some older imagery and realized that the changes are a lot more drastic than they initially appeared. I’m glad they’re finally giving up Jelleff (maybe), but I’d be pissed off if I lived in Chevy Chase and they tore up a bucolic neighborhood park to put in an ugly turf football field that is going to radiate heat like an ovulating sow during summer.

it wasn't a neighborhood park. It was an open field used by the ECC when it was operational that was otherwise generally closed to the public (though many neighbors illegally ran their dogs there), which it hasn't been since COVID. There were dozens of scurb weed trees that were removed and several heritage trees that were relocated on site.

This is what it looked like in November 2021: https://maps.app.goo.gl/3KeCyLVfPLph12Y79

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m OOL, but from looking at the imagery on Google Maps, it looks like the construction of “Barrett Field” displaced a couple of trees at most. What am I missing?

Synthetic turf. Uprooting and replanting of 4 trees. Traffic.

I managed to find some older imagery and realized that the changes are a lot more drastic than they initially appeared. I’m glad they’re finally giving up Jelleff (maybe), but I’d be pissed off if I lived in Chevy Chase and they tore up a bucolic neighborhood park to put in an ugly turf football field that is going to radiate heat like an ovulating sow during summer.

it wasn't a neighborhood park. It was an open field used by the ECC when it was operational that was otherwise generally closed to the public (though many neighbors illegally ran their dogs there), which it hasn't been since COVID. There were dozens of scurb weed trees that were removed and several heritage trees that were relocated on site.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m OOL, but from looking at the imagery on Google Maps, it looks like the construction of “Barrett Field” displaced a couple of trees at most. What am I missing?

Synthetic turf. Uprooting and replanting of 4 trees. Traffic.

I managed to find some older imagery and realized that the changes are a lot more drastic than they initially appeared. I’m glad they’re finally giving up Jelleff (maybe), but I’d be pissed off if I lived in Chevy Chase and they tore up a bucolic neighborhood park to put in an ugly turf football field that is going to radiate heat like an ovulating sow during summer.

I grew up right by there. I don't know that I would call it a bucolic neighborhood park lmao. The episcopal school was always run down. Still, what it was beats a turf field in your backyard, so from that standpoint I understand the frustration of the immediate neighbors.

That being said, the residential zones in DC are zoned by right for things like schools, nursing homes, churches, govt buildings, and a few other large buildings that can cause traffic and various other disruptions. Just because there didn’t used to be something that has always been allowed by the law in the past, doesn’t mean there won’t be forever. The neighbors really need to get over it, or move.