The Mount Vernon Council of Citizens' Associations
Comprehensive Plan APR Nominations

LRSP-2009-07:  Dogue Creek Pumping Station

WHEREAS, the MVCCA is participating in the Area Plan Review 2009-2010,

WHEREAS, the Long Range and Strategic Planning Committee of the MVCCA has facilitated numerous charrettes and gathered input from community stakeholders and MVCCA members,

WHEREAS, nominations for the Area Plan Review Comprehensive Plan have been formulated,

WHEREAS, the Long Range and Strategic Planning Committee has spent the past several months reviewing the current Comprehensive Plan as applicable to the Mount Vernon Magisterial District and adjoining areas and has recommended a change nomination to that Plan for the Area Plan Review 2009-2010, such nomination containing the following features:

Preserve Open Space
in Dogue Creek Treatment Plant Site
Nomination Overview

Nomination Subject:  Dogue Creek Treatment Plant

Location:   5408 Old Mill Rd.

Vision Overview:
· Revise current comprehensive plan language to reflect conversion of facility from sewage treatment plant to pumping station and its continued use for that purpose. 
· Delete references to future development and density.
· Expand the current Comprehensive Plan’s description of possible “community serving public facilities” for which it might be used. 

This 6.1 acre parcel lies almost entirely within the floodplain and the RPA along and between Dogue Creek and the North Fork of Dogue Creek. 

Portions not in use by DPWES should be preserved as open space.  Its location adjacent to George Washington’s Grist Mill at the confluence of Dogue Creek and the North Fork of Dogue Creek supports uses that draw on its special historical and environmental character.  It contains portions of the historic Potomac Path that ran between the Grist Mill and Old Mill Road.  Community-serving public facilities might support passive uses to promote watershed stewardship and historical walking tours, for example, a boardwalk and nature pathway to provide walking access to Dogue Creek, North Fork of Dogue Creek, and Washington’s Grist Mill.

Development Conditions Overview: 
· Assure preservation as open space of all portions of tract not used by DPWES.

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the Co-Chairs of the MVCCA are hereby directed to prepare and submit a Comprehensive Plan change nomination which incorporates the foregoing features.