Breakdown in mediation of GU Campus Plan, while disappointing, was hardly unexpected given the involvement of the deeply divided ANC2E commissioners. Now individual associations like FCCA will have to exercise their party status rights and register our concerns directly with the BZA. A fundamental concern is that the University is already at or over optimum size in this location, as evidenced by them having to move their baseball teams out to Maryland, although not without first trying to buy Ellington Field and Hardy Field. Our detailed concerns include:

• Cap undergraduate numbers at 1990 BZA order levels unless satisfactory housing arrangements can be made
• Only allow expansion in  graduate numbers where GU have identified a programmatic need & defined support
• Formally revamp BZA quarterly meetings to make them accountable with records & to-be-established metrics
• Request BZA order conditions limiting sport and theater events be held only outside evening rush hour times
• Prohibit leasing of their to-be expanded stadium and theater facilities to off-campus for-profit organizations
• Make no changes in the barrier procedures separating north & south campus without baseline traffic data set
  This involves measuring time-of-day traffic volumes on Canal Rd, before and after the new entrance is built

One positive aspect has arisen out of mediation although it will proceed independently of the BZA process. ANC chair Peter Pulsifer and MedStar's John Green are leading an initiative to have DPW institute a mediation study for Reservoir Rd, rather than just stop at impact analysis which is all that campus planning requires.