Neighborhood Notes - Foxhall: 31 October 2001
What a great weekend we just had! The Foxhall and Palisades
neighborhoods were alive with groups getting together to celebrate life.
Saturday afternoon we held our annual Halloween costume parade and pumpkin
decorating party at Hardy Rec. Center, with every kid (over 50 of them) getting
an individual creative
category certificate.
Sunday afternoon the firefighters at Engine 29 culminated a
day-long cooking marathon to serve hundreds of neighbors, to the sound of a
great-sounding live band, drawn from the FEMS
ranks. Every family bought a side dish or desert, so there was plenty for
everyone, washed down with apple juice and cookies.
On a more serious note, relations between GU and BZA over the
GU Campus Plan 2000 have worsened with a count-down between the BZA’s “Order
on Reconsideration” of August 6th and GU’s filing with the DC
Court of Appeals. Although neighborhood associations already protected their
legal rights by also filing as interveners, whatever happened to GU complying
with the order already issued? Under that timeline, GU had ninety days to
prepare revisions to comply with this order, which would make them due in the
first week of November. At this stage, it is simply not clear if GU will honor
the order, ignore it, fight just a handful
of conditions in the order, or will attempt to have the entire plan
overturned.
Some student groups, not included as they should have been by
GU in development of campus plans are now raising concerns about ‘student
rights’, but with no specific past grievances to air. It is unfortunate that
the BZA felt it necessary, based on evidence presented, to require of GU to
demonstrate that it is enforcing its own Student 'Code
of Conduct'.
© Bob Andrew, Foxhall
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