SPRING VALLEY-WESLEY HEIGHTS v. D.C. ZONING

No. 02-AA-575.

856 A.2d 1174 (2004)

SPRING VALLEY-WESLEY HEIGHTS CITIZENS ASSOCIATION, et al., Petitioners, v. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA ZONING COMMISSION, Respondent, American University, Intervenor.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided September 2, 2004.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph E. Sandler, with whom John H. Young, Washington, was on the brief, for petitioner.

Donna M. Murasky, Assistant Corporation Counsel, with whom Arabella W. Teal, Interim Corporation Counsel at the time the brief was filed, and Charles L. Reischel, Deputy Corporation Counsel at the time the brief was filed, were on the brief, for respondent.1

Maureen E. Dwyer and Paul A. Tummonds, Jr., Washington, for intervenor.

Before SCHWELB, FARRELL and GLICKMAN, Associate Judges.


GLICKMAN, Associate J.

American University maintains two campuses in residentially-zoned districts of northwest Washington, D.C. The Main Campus is located on a seventy-six acre plot of land at Ward Circle, where Nebraska and Massachusetts Avenues intersect. The eight-acre Tenley Campus is located a mile away at Tenley Circle, where Nebraska Avenue intersects with Wisconsin Avenue. Because these locations are zoned for residential use, the Zoning Regulations of the...

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