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Transfer of Jurisdiction of Part of U.S. Reservation 357 for the Mayor’s Official Residence Resolution of 2003
PR 15-381

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Chairman Linda W. Cropp at the request of the Mayor

A PROPOSED RESOLUTION IN THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

To accept the proposed transfer of jurisdiction over public land in the District of Columbia from the United States, by the Department of the Interior, National Park Service, to the District of Columbia, for the purpose of providing open space, access, and the installation of a security gate, guardhouse and driveways for the proposed Mayor's Official Residence, that certain land in the District of Columbia known as part of U.S. Reservation 357, with a street frontage along Foxhall Road, N.W. consisting of one and eight tenths acres, more or less, of land.

RESOLVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, That this resolution may be cited as the "Transfer of Jurisdiction of Part of U.S. Reservation 357 for the Mayor's Official Residence Resolution of 2003."

Sec. 2. Pursuant to section 1 of An Act To Authorize The Transfer of Jurisdiction Over Public Land in the District of Columbia, approved May 20, 1932 (47 Stat. 161; D.C. Official Code §10-111), the District of Columbia government accepts the transfer of jurisdiction from the United States, by the Department of Interior, National Park Service, for the purpose of providing open space, access, and the installation of a security gate, guardhouse and driveways for the proposed Mayor's Official Residence, that certain land known as part of United States Reservation 357, in the District of Columbia, with a street frontage along Foxhall Road, N.W. consisting of one and eight tenths acres, more or less, as more particularly described on attached Exhibit A.

Sec. 3. The Secretary of the Council of the District of Columbia shall transmit a copy of this resolution, upon its adoption, to the Mayor of the District of Columbia; to the Surveyor of the District of Columbia; to the Director of the National Capital Planning Commission; to the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives; to the President Pro Tempore of the United States Senate; to the Director of the General Services Administration; to the Director of the National Park Service; and to the Regional Director of the National Capital Parks, National Park Service.

Sec. 4. Fiscal Impact Statement. The Council adopts the attached fiscal impact statement as the fiscal impact statement required by section 602(c)(3) of the Home Rule Act, approved December 24, 1973 (87 Stat. 813; D.C. Official Code §1-206.02(c)(3)).

Sec. 5. This resolution shall take effect immediately.

EXHIBIT A

Part of a tract of land described in deed from Elinor R. Brady (formerly Elinor M. Ryan) to the United State of America, recorded on June 22, 1946 in Liber 8772, folio 169, among the Land Records of the District of Columbia, described as follows:

Part of a tract of land called "Whitehaven," also known as "Valley View Farm," more particularly described as follows:

Beginning on the east line of Foxhall Road, of varying width, at a point removed the five following courses and distances from the intersection of said east line of Foxhall Road and the south line of W Street, of varying width:

1.) With said east line of Foxhall Road, South 0° 43' West, 616.78 feet

2.) Continuing with said east line of Foxhall Road, South 5° 19'45" East, 144.02 feet

3.) With the south line of land known for purposes of assessment and taxation as Lot 818, Square 1346, East, 39.34 feet, to the east line of Foxhall Road as widened by plat of Transfer of Jurisdiction recorded in Book 130, page 14 among the records of the Office of the Surveyor for the District of Columbia

4.) With said east line of Foxhall Road, as widened, South, 40.21 feet, to a point of curve

5.) 56.73 fees on the arc of a curve to the left of radius 900.84 feet (chord bearing = South 1° 48' 15" East, chord = 56.72 feet), to the true point of beginning thence leaving said true point of beginning and running through said land known for purposed of assessment and taxation as Lot 804, Square 1346, the four following courses and distances: 

6.) East, 240.96 feet

7.) 60.29 feet on the arc of a curve to the right of radius 280.0 feet (chord bearing = South 42° 05' 28" East, chord = 60.18 feet)

8.) 377.14 feet on the arc of a curve to the left of radius 5,025.88 feet (chord bearing = North 84° 30' 24" East, chord = 377.05 feet)

9.) South 7° 38' 35" East, 100.0 feet, on a radial line, to the south line of land known for purposes of assessment and taxation as Lot 804, Square 1346

Thence along said south line of land known for purposes of assessment and taxation as Lot 804, Square 1346, 648.96 feet on the arc of a curve to the right of radius 5,125.88 feet (chord bearing = South 89° 59' 02" West, chord = 648.53 feet), to the east line of Foxhall Road, as widened, aforesaid; thence with said' east line of Foxhall Road, as widened, 155.0 feet on the arc of a curve to the right of radius 900.84 feet (chord bearing = North 8° 32' 15" West, chord = 154.81 feet), to the place of beginning, containing 78,408 square feet or 1.8000 acres.

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