Home Foxhall Project Project History FAQ’s Fact Sheet BZA Application Traffic Reports Environmental Info Archaeology Arborist Reports Operations Plan CHNA Provisions Key Team Members Barnes Vanze Elm Street Development Wells & Associates Sasaki Associates St. Patrick's About St. Patrick's Contact Us	Project History April, 2004 “Friends of St. Patrick’s Episcopal Day School” announces that they have won the bid for the 17-acre Casey Mansion Foundation property at 1801 Foxhall Road, NW. The Friends of St. Patrick’s is a private entity made up of a group of St. Patrick’s Episcopal Day School families. Following this purchase significant time is spent developing a strategic plan for ultimate use of the land taking into consideration the needs of the school, environmental impacts, and neighbors’ concerns regarding this property. Due to the size and cost of the property, only part of the property will be designated for a school. - - May, 2004 – March, 2005 Eleven months are spent in the planning phase. Anthony Barnes, of the local architecture firm, Barnes Vanze, is brought on as lead architect of the project. Barnes works in close contact with Sasaki Associates, a national architecture and land planning firm located in Watertown, Massachusetts, with a particular expertise in academic campuses and challenging environmental projects. Sasaki assigns two experienced principals to the project: One is a former school head with extensive school planning experience; the other works nationally on environmental projects with challenging topography bordering on national parkland, similar to the Foxhall property. - - April – May, 2005 St. Patrick’s Episcopal Day School launches a survey titled, Shaping the Future…A Dialogue about St. Patrick’s. A professional pollster (also a parent) and a team of volunteers conduct an oral and written survey to over 300 parents, church members, and faculty soliciting feedback on St. Patrick’s expanding to a high school at the Foxhall property. Surveys were conducted confidentially in-person. - - June, 2005 St. Patrick’s presents a preliminary plan for 1801 Foxhall Road to the D.C. Office of Planning. Directly following, meetings are arranged with community leaders and neighbors surrounding the Foxhall property. The presentation is the result of more than 20 iterations studied with local lead architect Anthony Barnes and a team of professionals. This group developed a basic conceptual plan that would allow St. Patrick’s to establish a new middle and high school campus using approximately half the total Foxhall acreage, on the north side of the Foxhall Road property, closest to the existing Whitehaven campus. A detailed, 2-page letter is sent to the St. Patrick’s community discussing latest developments surrounding 1801 Foxhall Road. The Vestry of the St. Patrick’s Episcopal Church approves the gift of 7.72 acres of land from the Friends of St. Patrick’s. This transfer of land allows the school to move forward with initial plans. - - June – September, 2005 Results of the over 300 Shaping the Future surveys are inputted and tabulated. An executive summary of the results was reviewed by the Board of Trustees in September. - - September – October, 2005 St. Patrick’s began to schedule meetings with Advisory Neighborhood Commission 3D and local citizens associations for 1801 Foxhall Road. - - October 2005 – December 2005 Principals from the Friends of St. Patrick’s, the St. Patrick’s Episcopal Day School administration, and lead project consultants met with the representatives from the Colony Hill neighborhood and agreed to create three organizing committees relating to the 1801 Foxhall project.  It was determined that these committees would be divided into three distinct areas of interest:  Architectural, Construction Management, and Traffic and Access.  These committees included members from both St. Patrick’s and Colony Hill and addressed concerns on all three areas of interest.  More than two dozen meetings were held during this period of time.   ANC3D and neighborhood meetings were held in October, November and December in which St. Patrick’s presented their plans for the 1801 Foxhall property.   The Friends of St. Patrick’s showcased their plans for the property through consultants and experts in the following areas:  architectural, environmental, traffic and access management, and school administration.   The St. Patrick’s Episcopal Day School Board of Trustees and the St. Patrick’s Episcopal Church Vestry unanimously passed resolutions to move forward with the establishment of a middle and high school. - - January 2006 The three committees formed by the Friends of St. Patrick’s and Colony Hill neighbors; Architectural, Construction Management, and Traffic and Access continue to meet.  Neighborhood citizens’ association meetings continue throughout the month to share information and answer questions and concerns regarding the 1801 Foxhall plans.   Additional neighborhood citizens association meetings continue on the topic of the 1801 Foxhall plans. - - February 2006  On February 16, ANC3(D) voted overwhelmingly to approve the Friends of St. Patrick's plans for the 1801 Foxhall site.  A Bureau of Zoning Adjustment (BZA) meeting was held on February 28 however, the Friends of St. Patrick's 1801 project was postponed as the prior hearing ran longer than planned. The BZA then set a new hearing date of June 13.  - - March 2006 Following the initial BZA hearing, the Friends of St. Patrick's and administrators from St. Patrick's  met with neighborhood representatives to listen and discuss their collective ideas and requests related to the1801 Foxhall project   This session was productive.  St. Patrick's informed the parties that they heard many ideas that they could work with and possibly incorporate into their plans.  - - June 2006 On Tuesday, June 13, St. Patrick's team of professionals spent a single day at a Bureau of Zoning Adjustment (BZA) hearing to request approval for the application for a special exception for school use of 1801 Foxhall Road to create a middle school and high school.  Additionally, St. Patrick's presented the case for approval from the BZA for a companion request for the residential development of approximately eight acres in the southeastern section of the property.  St. Patrick's entered the hearing with the support of the District’s Office of Planning and Department of Transportation, the ANC 3D, and the neighborhood associations surrounding the property. - - July 2006 St. Patrick's receives unanimous approval from the Bureau of Zoning Adjustment (BZA) for a special exception to create a middle school and high school of 440 students and 100 faculty and staff on approximately 9.25 acres of the property.  Additionally, a companion request to permit residential development on about eight acres in the southeastern section of the property was approved by the BZA. Back To Top - - 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.