Kim Patterson, an advisory neighborhood commissioner for the Brightwood neighborhood bordering Rock Creek Park, said she hopes a compromise can be reached but is not sure what that will look like. “Make it a beautiful 18-hole course, but why do we need a driving range?” she said. She blamed the National Park Service for letting the course fall into disrepair.
“If the Park Service maintained it in the first place, we wouldn’t be here today,” she said.
