Neighborhood Notes - Foxhall: 27 September, 2000
Last week GU had their only quarterly scheduled opportunity to
meet with association heads and ANC commissioners before BZA makes a determination in
November on their campus plan. On progress and key details of the SouthWest Quadrangle,
project Manager Carl Mayfield exhibited reassuring command and recall of all his facts, to
be expected from a man with experience from projects like the MCI Center. On Canal Road
entrance redesign, only details of several acres of required land swaps between GU and NPS
remain before presentation of FHWA’s final design at
NCPC. On Wormley School, all plans are on hold until the BZA ruling,
although GU did share arrangements of their purchase of National Academy of Sciences
building on Wisconsin. NAS will lease it back for two years, plus occupy 50% for another 5
years.
Jeanne Lord gave an overview of three new off-campus
initiatives. In the first, volunteer older students working for SNAP (Students’
Neighborhood Action Program) will follow up on all Hotline calls, as well as patrol
Burleith and West Georgetown in a marked car three times per night. A new Alliance for
Local Living (ALL) workgroup headed by Rev. Mike Garanzini will each month examine the
logs of Hotline and MPD reports for patterns of systemic problems. And GU has also
required all off-campus students to provide their address and landlord information, so in
event of any neighborhood complaint the University knows (if it is a GU student) exactly
where to followup.
“SNAP” could be effective if it commends
well-behaved students, only sanctioning those who abuse neighborhood life, rather than
tarring all students as unruly. “ALL” might succeed, if it welcomes specific
input (as situations call for this) into their meetings and makes results of its process
open, while maintaining individual confidentiality.
© Bob Andrew, Foxhall
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