[Archived] City Looking for Residents Interested in Serving on Windmill Hill Park Steering Committee

City Press Release


	City of Alexandria, Virginia Office of the City Manager Alexandria City Hall 301 King Street, Suite 3500 Alexandria, Virginia 22314-3211 www.alexandriava.gov Telephone: 703.838.4300 Fax : 703.838.6343

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: THURSDAY, JULY 5, 2001
CONTACT: KIRK KINCANNON, DEPUTY DIRECTOR, DEPARTMENT OF RECREATION, PARKS, AND CULTURAL ACTIVITIES (703) 838-4842

City Looking for Residents Interested in Serving on Windmill Hill Park Steering Committee

On June 26, the Alexandria City Council approved establishing a Steering Committee that will spend the summer months developing the final design plan for Windmill Hill Park for presentation to City Council in the fall. This nine-member Steering Committee will have six citizen-at-large positions, two from each of the City’s three Park and Recreation Commission Planning Districts.

Persons interested in serving on the Steering Committee in a citizen-at-large position are to e-mail or write City Manager Philip Sunderland, no later than July 13, and include a short statement regarding their interest in this project, their mailing address, day and evening phone numbers, and e-mail address, if available. The City Manager’s e-mail address is phil.sunderland@ci.alexandria.va.us and the mailing address is City Hall, 301 King Street, Alexandria, Virginia 22314.

The City Manager and the Mayor, Kerry J. Donley, will review all expressions of interest and then appoint the six citizens-at-large shortly after the July 13 deadline.

In addition to the six citizen-at-large positions, the Steering Committee will include one designee each from the Waterfront Committee, the Park and Recreation Commission, and the Environmental Policy Commission. The first meeting of the Steering Committee is scheduled for July 25 from 4:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.

Windmill Hill Park was created in September 1998, when City Council approved consolidating five separate parcels of land to form Windmill Hill Park: Pommander Walk, Potomac View Park (also referred to as the Lee Street Park), Gibbon and Wilkes Street Ends, and the Old Town Yacht Basin. The basis for the plan was to consolidate all of the open space/park parcels between Wilkes Street to the north and Franklin Street to the south, and from Lee Street east to the river, into one park area renamed Windmill Hill.

The name Windmill Hill dates back to 1843. This name recalls that the hill to the west side of Potomac View Park became known as Windmill Hill in 1843, when a water-drawing windmill was built there, and the park remained so known throughout the nineteenth century.

For additional information, call Kirk Kincannon, Deputy Director, Recreation, Parks and Cultural Activities at (703) 838-4842.