Neighborhood Notes - Foxhall: 16 August, 2000
This week’s column summarizes GU’s August 10th filing in response to the
BZA July 18th hearing of community issues. (In future weeks we will cover community reaction to this
proposal).
In BZA’s verbal summation of what they had heard from community response to GU Campus Plan 2000, the chair and board members each asked the
applicant to submit for the record an “off-campus student housing management plan”. This is meant to be a proactive approach to lay out
standard of conduct, communicated to the Board and local residents, with surety that controls are in place.
GU’s proposal has now been submitted, through their planning attorneys Wilkes
Artis, to BZA and local community association chairs. This program contains several components:
- Acknowledgement by GU that it will not tolerate and will address adverse
impacts from students living off campus, including noise, drinking, partying, parking and disrespectful behavior.
- A revised Code of Conduct with stiffer sanctions, penalties and
education procedures for students living off-campus.
- Creation of Students’ Neighborhood Action Monitoring Action Program
(SNAP) to include vehicle monitoring in nearby neighborhoods.
- Creation of a new neighborhood council, Alliance for Local Living (ALL)
to meet monthly with GU, plus invited reps from DPW and DCRA as required.
- Increased coordination with MPD to assure institutionalized approaches
to student conduct issues off-campus.
- Implementation plan than can be monitored, tracked and evaluated,
shared with ALL, and reported annually to the Office of Planning and the Zoning Administrator.
Update BZA in academic year 2004-2005 (a full year after new S/W Quad dorms are projected to be operational) on the program, identifying goals
achieved and benchmark data. At that time, BZA can impose further conditions on GU if, in its judgment, the program has not succeeded.
GU’s program is conditional on being allowed requested enrollment increase.
© Bob Andrew, Foxhall
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