Neighborhood Notes - Foxhall: 18 October, 2000
On October 6 Georgetown University filed its response to the BZA for additional
information on its campus plan, as did a group of residents working on behalf of six
neighborhood associations.
GU’s filing is an eight-page document that was required by BZA to cover: off-campus
housing program specifics and resources, reporting system (indices) for tracking and
resolving resident complaints, changes to their code of conduct and broadening the types
of sanctions, mechanism for MPD coordination, being a responsible partner with the
community, cooperation with DPW on student vehicles and with DCRA on off-campus housing
code violations, registering vehicles that are associated with GU, notifying parents on
‘code of conduct’ problems, go to 24-hour hotline, tell how GU’s Board of
Review works, update of student enrollment figures, GUSA response on discipline outreach,
and monitoring MedStar helicopter flights.
While residents filed a different approach from GU with a “Position Paper on Student Behavior and Community
Impact”, one intriguing difference in the dynamics is inclusion for the first time of
STUDENTS as part of coming to resolution. They attended the BZA-mandated quarterly in
September, prepare articles for “The Hoya” and
participate in “ALL”, the new GU-sponsored
“Alliance for Local Living”. Having finally been invited to attend ALL (Foxhall
was deemed to have insufficient problems reported), I can vouch for their
representatives’ abilities to help us ensure education, not just punishment, for
problem kids.
Neighbors quality-of-life desire for no increase in number of students shouldn’t be
interpreted as being anti-student. We share in common that on-site facilities provide
quality, supportive life. We simply believe any expansion off-campus shouldn't be in
residential neighborhoods but in areas of the city that need development, and that any
students who live within our neighborhoods adhere to the same shared respect we would
expect to/from any neighbor.
© Bob Andrew,
Foxhall
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