This rendering of the landscaping around the Bundy School was released by the Office of Property Management on July 9, 2009. Click to download full size pdf.

This is a rough summary of points that were brought out for the first time publicly at last night’s (July 9) meeting headed by Office of Property Management Director Robin-Eve Jasper. You can find another summary here. ANC 2C02 Commissione Kevin Chapple finally got the key questions answered that could have been answered by any of the third tier bureaucrats — if not Jasper herself — who we tried to contact initially.

• The land tranfer of the vacant lot east of the Bundy athletic fields is due to take place this fall.
• These parking requirements for the Bundy School building tenants will be determined in the next 30 days.
• The school site rendering on display at the meeting showed 18 parking spaces, so only 40% of the vacant lot would theoretically be used if the tenants needed a full 60 free private parking spaces. The Bundy Lot is big enough for at least 100,
• The Bundy building has roughly 37,000 or 38,000 sq ft of gross floor space, and will have 60 full time staff. By any calculation we’ve heard of, this should not give the Bundy School building tenants the 75 parking spaces that is was purported they needed. Tenants should either get 1 parking space for every 600 sq ft of usable floor space if they treat Bundy school as an office building or 2 space for every 3 or 4 employees (and 1 for every classroom) if they put the building in the same category they would put a school.
• There will probably be space left on the vacant lot at Bundy for an alternate use after OPM determines the parking needs for the Bundy Building tenants — so they probably will not need 75 spaces
• OPM will have nothing to do with what gets planned for the remaining vacant lot space,
• Bridget Stesney form DPR informed us that the Friends of Bundy park application has officially been put on hold until the land transfer occurs and parking needs of the Bundy Building are sorted out and they determine if the remaining space at the vacant lot can meet at least the minimum requirements for a dog park. The dog park application will be processed fully like any other after those factors are determined. It’s not dead yet. If it were, they could have told us so and saved all of us any further trouble.

Jason Yuckenberg confirmed that Councilmember Jack Evans’ office was informed about the private meeting Jasper had with the ECCA Monday night (where she rallied up most of the anti-dog park/pro-parking lot heat that we heard last night). Yuckenberg told me that “we would never have a meeting in a community without informing the Ward councilmember.” But they apparently did not communicate with ANC 2C02 Commissioner Chapple.

At this point, it might be helpful to communicate to the ANC2C02 Commissioner, the Ward Councilmember and OPM that local residents believe that some use of the abundant street parking in the surrounding area should be considered when determining the parking needs of the Bundy School tenants.