Alexandria Park & Recreation Commission To Hold Public Hearing On Armistead L. Boothe Park Field Conversion Environmental Exception

Press release from the City of Alexandria:

Apr 6, 2021 at 7:49 PM

Alexandria
Park & Recreation Commission to Hold Public Hearing on Armistead L.
Boothe Park Field Conversion Environmental Exception

For Immediate Release: April
7, 2021

The Alexandria Park & Recreation
Commission will hold a public hearing on the proposed Armistead L. Boothe Park
Field Conversion Environmental Exception at the Park and Recreation Commission
meeting on Thursday, April 15, 2021. The community is encouraged to review the
proposed field conversion plan and provide input via email until Wednesday,
April 14, 2021 or at the public hearing. For more information, visit
the Park &
Recreation Commission website to view the March 18, 2021 video
presentation.

The Armistead L.
Boothe Park field project will convert the existing natural
grass athletic field to a full synthetic turf diamond field with synthetic turf
rectangular field overlay. The site has
several environmental constraints, including the floodplain and
two Resource Protection Areas (RPA). While the project is unable to
remove all encroachments from the 100-foot buffer of the southern RPA, the
proposed plan does create a 50-foot buffer from the footprint of the existing
field and will remove all existing impervious surfaces out of the 100-foot
buffer on the western RPA. A special exception granted by the Planning
Commission will be necessary to permit the field within the RPA.

For comments or questions,
please contact Bethany Znidersic, Acting Division Chief, at Bethany.Zniderzic@alexandriava.gov
or call 703.746.5492. Comments will be accepted by email until 5 p.m. on
Wednesday, April 15, 2021.

Register in advance for this
public hearing at https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_LRyhb80CR02q-1I5TELyGg.
After registering, you will receive a
confirmation email containing information about joining the public hearing.

You may also participate in
the public hearing by phone:

• Call
  in number: 301.715.8592
• Meeting
  ID: 933 4669 4007
• Passcode:
  614673

A video recording of the
public hearing will be available on the Park &
Recreation Commission website following the meeting.

In response to CDC guidance
related to COVID-19, there will be no in-person public meetings and all
engagement will be conducted virtually through online platforms pursuant to
Virginia Code Section 2.2-3708.2(A)(3), the Continuity of Government ordinance
adopted by the City Council on June 20, 2020 or Sections 4-0.00(g) in HB29 and
HB30 to undertake essential business until further notice.

For reasonable disability
accommodation, contact jack.browand@alexandriava.gov or
call 703.746.5434, Virginia Relay 711.

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This press release was produced by the City of Alexandria.The views expressed here are the author’s own.