Opinion ID: 2164332
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Heading: The Views of the Advisory Neighborhood Commissions.

Text: Advisory Neighborhood Commission (ANC) 3-E, whose jurisdiction includes the Fort Gaines area, opposed the proposed location for the new law school. The Commission contended that the proximity of site 4 to private homes in the Fort Gaines neighborhood, combined with the increase in the number of people who would use the facility, would have an adverse impact on the neighborhood. ANC 3-E also apprehended a potential increase in traffic and parking on adjacent residential streets. The Commission recommended that the law school be located instead on site 5, which is currently a parking lot on Nebraska Avenue.
In a report dated October 13, 1989, ANC 3-D, which has jurisdiction of the area in which parcel B is located, approved most of the 1989 campus plan, but opposed the proposed amendment of the campus boundary. ANC 3-D maintained that the proposed amendment would leave an insufficient buffer between the University and the development that would take place on Parcel B, with adverse consequences for residents of the Glenbrook Road neighborhood. The Commission urged the Board to redraw the campus boundary to include and retain twelve existing mature trees which, in its view, were critical to the maintenance of an adequate buffer. Finally, ANC 3-D recommended that the contract purchaser of Parcel B be required to enter into a covenant with the adjoining homeowners which would require the purchaser to include a landscaping, grading, and sloping plan for this area.