Neighborhood Notes - Foxhall: 28 June, 2000

At a special FCCA meeting, 92% of residents attending voted BZA should continue to require Georgetown University to maintain the same cap on undergraduate numbers as in 1990, but to allow a modest increase in graduate numbers to 400.

 This is the number proposed by Julie Wagner of the Office of Planning during mediation, in response to a request by professional facilitator Robert Fisher to make recommendations that both GU and neighborhoods could live with. The number is higher than the 200+ graduates that GU knows that it has specific need for now, but well below the unsubstantiated 49% growth of around1400 that GU have requested in their 2000-2010 campus plan.

Thanks to consistent effort over decades by past and present FCCA boards, this neighborhood has maintained its residential character. GU’s own data shows we maintained a stable proportion of mainly medical graduates. Medical students will reside here longer than say MBA students, so have a larger stake in seeing quality of life doesn’t decline. However, with continual changes in how medicine is funded, there is no certainty there will still be a medical school here in 10 years.

 Although group homes packed with large number of unrelated people do add to pressures for our parking spaces, MPD and Parking Enforcement are being encouraged to enforce DC’s residency requirements. Many new residents still seem unaware it is now quite inexpensive to have their plates changed to be DC tags and thus become eligible for Ward 2 parking stickers

 This neighborhood also has not gone unnoticed by television media. The “Fox Morning Show” today featured aspects of our life, such as keen members of our Garden Club and the bustle of pre-school programs at Hardy Recreation Center.

© Bob Andrew, Foxhall