Res 04-12
ANC 3F RESOLUTION REQUESTING REVIEW OF DC DEPARTMENT
OF PARKS & RECREATION PLANS FOR FORT RENO PARK
Advisory Neighborhood Commission 3F
North Cleveland Park, Forest Hills, & Tenleytown
4401-A Connecticut Avenue, NW, Box # 244
Washington, D.C. 20008-2322
WHEREAS: Fort Reno National Park is within the boundaries of
ANC 3F and ANC 3E, and residents of both ANCs use and enjoy this National
Park in a variety of ways; and
WHEREAS: the District of Columbia Department of Parks and Recreation
(DPR) has entered into an agreement with the National Park Service to maintain
an area in the southwestern section of the park for ball fields, an expansion
of the area now in use as ball fields; and
WHEREAS: ANC 3F has learned that DPR is contemplating substantial
public improvements to this area of Fort Reno National Park that could affect
residents’ use and enjoyment of the park and the sense of the park as a historic
site;
THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED THAT: ANC 3F requests that the DC Department
of Parks and Recreation submit to it in writing for the ANC’s review any
plans it develops for Fort Reno National Park before the plans are sent to
the National Park Service; that DPR give ANC 3F 30 business days to review
the plans, as required by DC Code Section 1-309.10 (b) (the ANC Act); and
that DPR give the recommendations of ANC 3F great weight, as required by
Section 1-309.10 (d)(3).
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Approved by a vote of 6- 0-0 at a duly noticed public meeting
of ANC 3F on April 19, 2004, with a quorum present.
/s/ Karen Lee Perry
/s/ Cathy Wiss
Karen Perry, Chair
Cathy Wiss, Secretary