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| Environmental Info |
Friends of St. Patrick’s
1801 Foxhall Road, NW
Washington, DC |
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| Significant Features of Existing Site |
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Two promontories |
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Two swales – north one is a pristine Dell, south one is a once-farmed and terraced meadow |
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Deep forestation to east (Glover Archbold Park) |
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Small forested park to North (Whitehaven Park) |
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Waters of the US about 40’ into site, at southern swale |
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Wetland off-site, fed in part by northern swale |
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Deep drop in grade immediately east of Foxhall; general grade change of about 100’ from west to east of site |
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Noise from Foxhall at western-most portion of site |
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View shed through northern Dell, from Foxhall, to Glover Archbold Park |
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Significant retaining walls at old house site |
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Residential street and neighborhood to south |
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Trees:
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Significant walnut grove in northern Dell |
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Significant conifer near original house site |
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Mature trees throughout site, though many are in failing condition |
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Organization of School and Residential portion
for minimal environmental impact |
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School buildings are arranged compactly on the northern promontory, and tucked up into the grade near Foxhall.
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Makes use of grade change to minimize the perceived scale of the buildings from Foxhall |
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Keeps the massing of the buildings out of the pristine Dell, thereby preserving the Dell as a natural resource area |
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Reduces noise from Foxhall for School |
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Maintains view shed through dell to Glover Archbold from Foxhall |
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Practice field mitigates between residential and School, and holds to the west along Foxhall, again out of the pristine Dell, at that area of the site where the extent of grading required for its size is minimized. |
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Residential neighborhood uses the existing house site, and is arranged around a loop road that takes advantage of existing road bed and topography, to minimize grading. Connection is to an existing public road – 45th Street – and curves to avoid a large Sycamore tree. General location of new neighborhood extends an existing neighborhood, and maintains residential scale along Hoban Rd. |
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Tree preservation: over 50% of the healthy special trees are preserved. This is done by sensitive road and house-site layout, and maintaining a 25’ setback at house sites that border the parks. |
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Storm water management is designed to highest District standards and best management practices. Rate and quality of water is managed back to pre-development condition. Note: water required to shed into northern dell to maintain feed to off-site wetland. |
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Environmental Assessment Report |
An environmental assessment (EA) has been prepared to address the potential environmental impacts associated with the development of a 17.3-acre parcel at 1801 Foxhall Road in northwest Washington, D.C.
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| Friends of St. Patrick’s Episcopal Day School LLC (“FOSP”) is a private, limited liability corporation which was formed to purchase the property at 1801 Foxhall Road, N.W. in order to donate it to the Vestry of St. Patrick’s Episcopal Parish (“Parish”) for the purpose of building a middle school/high school campus for St. Patrick’s Episcopal Day School (“School”). FOSP has donated approximately one-half of the property to the Parish and intends to sell the remainder to a for-profit developer for the construction of a residential development. Neither the Parish nor the School are members of the FOSP and neither have any control, direct or indirect, over the FOSP or the construction of the residential development. |
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