Page Park work likely pushed to spring as county stormwater approval, accessibility requirements slow project

Page Park’s construction is unlikely to start this year, the village’s new project manager told the Friendship Heights Village Council, because county stormwater approval and related permits must be secured before any grading or permanent work begins.

Jim Wilson, project manager for JFW Inc., told the council that the project requires both a building permit and a stormwater management/sediment erosion control permit and that “the longest path that you have is going to be your storm water management approval and the permits.” He said the county would need to approve a concept stormwater-management design before permit drawings can be finished and that comments expected at the end of July likely will push concept approval to “mid, kind of early October,” with full permits “probably the end of the year.”

That sequence, Wilson said, makes late‑year site work uncertain and means the village should plan for construction activity to begin in the new year and for substantial completion “maybe March, April” when conditions allow. "So they're supposed to be getting comments back…