PCA Adopts Resolution on Field School
Neighborhood Alliance to Study Traffic Impact

March 24, 2000 -- At a packed March PCA general meeting, the following resolution was overwhelmingly passed in response to the Field School's zoning application:

Recognizing our neighbors' serious concerns about increased traffic, especially on their residential streets, the Palisades Citizens Association will support the Field School application with the following conditions:

1. That the Department of Public Works be required to create, implement and enforce a traffic mitigation plan for side streets off Foxhall Road, including 49th Street, that is acceptable to the community in order to keep Field School traffic and commuters off residential streets, including, but not limited to:
~ A sign that bans left hand turns at W street northbound onto Foxhall Road during morning rush hours and other such signs that keep traffic off neighborhood streets
~ Additional stop signs
~ Other traffic deterrent measures for residential streets
~ No installation of a traffic light at W Street and Foxhall Road

2. That during the morning rush hours between 7:30 and 9:00 a.m., no left hand turns may be made by southbound cars from Foxhall Road into the Field School; and that the Field School take all reasonable measures to require that its parents, students and staff do not use neighborhood side streets to reach the school.

3. That the Field School will support the Palisades Citizens Association in opposing the proposed traffic signal at Foxhall Road and W Street, but will support the proposed traffic light at Whitehaven Parkway and Foxhall Road.

At the February PCA general meeting, we passes Bill Smith's resolution calling for the modernization of the DC Fire Department. A reliable source tells your newsletter that, since then, the mayor has agreed to put 18 new pieces of equipment into service and to add over 100 new firemen.

March, 2000 -- Because neighbors are so concerned about the potential impact of traffic from the Field School on Foxhall Road—especially during the morning rush hour—The Neighborhood Alliance has agreed to help fund a new traffic study.
The results will offer a second opinion to the one which has been prepared for the school by Gorove/Slade Associates.
If you would like to help us pay for this study, please send a contribution to: The Neighborhood Alliance, 4701 Berkeley Terrace, NW, Washington, DC 20007.
For questions, call Penny Pagano at 338-7926.