CIA EXPANSION PROPOSAL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP89-00244R000400740048-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 3, 2008
• Sequence Number: 48
• Publication Date: May 13, 1983
• Content Type: LETTER

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DOW, L OIINES & ALBERTSION
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May 13, 1983
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J. CMRISYOPHER REDOING
OF COUNSEL
FRED W. ALBERYSON THOMAS H. WALL
THOMAS W. WILSON L. ADRIAN ROBERTS
COMM;ss.CNP.RYS
MAY 18 1983
Mr. Glenn T. Urquhart
Chairman
National Capital Planning Commission
1325 G Street N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20576
Dear Mr. Urquhart:
UrrlCE
Re: CIA Expansion Proposal
Representatives of the Lynwood Homeowners
Association recently had the opportunity to review your
memorandum of April 13 distributed to some of the citizen's
associations in the vicinity of the Central Intelligence
Agency. For your information and for purposes of future
notices, please be advised that Lynwood is a community of
approximately 45 homes and additional undeveloped lots on
the south side of Route 123 just west of the Evermay sub-
division. Your memorandum was supplied to us by the Evermay
Community Association. Please include us on the mailing list
for all future notices.
We have had an opportunity to discuss the CIA
expansion with members of that association and members of
the Clearview Manor Citizens Association. Our concern with
the CIA Headquarters expansion deals principally with the
off-site road improvements tentatively proposed for the area
in front of the CIA entrance and adjacent to the intersec-
tion of Routes 123 and Route 193. We understand from the
administrators of the Virginia Department of Highways and
Transportation that the road improvements are in the process
of being finalized with the assistance of the design office
of that department and a consultant.
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Mr. Glenn T. Urquhart
May 13, 1983
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In connection with those improvements, your memorandum of
April 13 solicited written comments by this date in advance
of the June 1983 meeting when adoption of the "proposed
federal capital improvements program for the national capi-
tal region" is tentatively scheduled. Accordingly, we have
these preliminary comments and suggestions:
1. We believe that the NCPC should require that an
updated traffic study of the Routes 123 and 193 corridors be
conducted to determine the level of traffic in that area
particularly during the morning and evening rush hours. Any
study conducted during the next few months should take into
account the fact that during the summer months the traffic
along those roads appears to diminish somewhat. We trust
that any updated traffic studies will be made available to
the neighboring citizens associations for their examination.
2. Based on our discussions with the VDH&T staff,
it appears that the current off-site proposal, a copy of
which is attached, calls for three overpasses located
approximately where the traffic signals currently are in
front of the CIA and at the intersection of Route 123 and
Route 193. The final plans scheduled for this summer may
vary from the current proposal. Accordingly, we request
that the drawings be placed in the public record immediately
and that copies of the final plans be made available to us
for comment well in advance of the public hearing.
3. We are very concerned that the CIA may not have
considered all possible alternatives to the current propo-
sal. One such alternative would be for the CIA to design
off-site road changes for the GW Parkway entrance to the CIA
grounds in coordination with the National Park Service and
Interior Department. We believe that the GW Parkway
entrance is currently under-utilized and that traffic stu-
dies will demonstrate that to be true. Alteration of the GW
Parkway entrance to the CIA in lieu of changes to the Route
123 entrance would have the beneficial result of reducing
traffic noise and other adverse environmental impact in the
Route 123 and Route 193 area. Given the substantial wooded
borders lining the Parkway which serves as a green barrier
between it and the few homes nearby, the environmental
impact of the changes on the Parkway would be minimal when
compared to the proposed changes to Routes 123 and 193 where
many homes are located.
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Mr. Glenn T. Urquhart
May 13, 1983
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5. Please advise us upon the scheduling of any
formal or informal meetings concerning the CIA expansion.
We would be pleased to participate in such proceedings or to
meet with any representatives of NCPC and other governmental
units to discuss this project and review the final plans.
We appreciate the opportunity to give you our pre-
liminary comments and welcome the opportunity to so so in
the future. If you have any questions or additional infor-
mation regarding the interests of the Lynwood Homeowners
Association, please contact me or Mr. Giuseppe Cecchi, 1209
Aldebaran Street, McLean, Virginia 22101.
Very truly yours,
cc: The Honorable Charles S. Robb, Governor of Virginia
The Honorable John Warner, U.S. Senator
The Honorable Paul S. Trible, Jr., U.S. Senator
The Honorable Frank Wolf, Congressman
Ms. Nancy Falck, Supervisor
Mr. David Gehr, Va. Department of Highways
and Transportation
Mr. Harold King, Va. Department of Highways -
and Transportation
All Lynwood Homeowners
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