Upcoming community meetings on Georgetown’s 2010 Campus Plan
Posted by: Molly Redden in News, Vox Populi, tags: 2010 Campus Plan, Burleith, Georgetown Neighborhood, Meetings
On our last few posts about the 2010 Campus Plan and the Georgetown Neighborhood, a few student commenters have said that students need to show up in greater numbers to the community meetings that organizations the Citizens’ Association of Georgetown, Burleith Citizens Association, and even the University itself holds about the community and the 2010 Campus Plan.
It’s true that the age distribution at these meetings tends to be a little … one sided. So, if you’re interested in attending a meeting, there are two that Vox of slated to take place in the next week. The first will take place tonight in Burleith, with the BCA hosting. From a neighborhood listserv:
“TONIGHT: SPECIAL COMMUNITY MEETING
Wednesday, April 21st, 7 p.m.
Washington International School, 1690 36th St
(36th St. between Reservoir Road and R St.)Only once every ten years do Burleithians have an opportunity to voice their position regarding the University’s plan, and NOW is that time …. The University’s plan will be shaped and supported by expert architects, consultants, and lawyers—all paid by the University. Burleith has no budget to pay for our own experts to articulate our position. So, we are asking for your help.
Consider contributing to the Burleith Community Fund to pay for experts (to the extent we cannot find them among ourselves) to help us counter the experts the University will certainly have on their side. Go to www.burleith.org to donate to the BCF via PayPal
COME TO THE MEETING AND FIND OUT HOW YOU CAN HELP FIGHT THE PLAN!”
So, there’s that. Then there’s the final community meeting Georgetown University will host about the 2010 Campus Plan. It’s on Monday, April 26, from 6:30 to 9 p.m. at Georgetown Visitation (1524 35th Street Northwest). Members of the Georgetown administration will present their final draft of the plan with information residents asked for in previous meetings, and material on the final draft of the plan will be available here shortly.
Vox will be sure to keep you updated on who’s holding meetings on the Campus Plan, where, and when. And of course, if you can’t make the meetings, we’ll always cover them in excrutiating detail.
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I will be at Monday’s meeting. I think other students and alums (especially young alums) should be there IN FORCE.
I am going to try to attend Monday’s meeting. Maybe as an alum/still student/past Burleith res/probable Burleith res this summer they’ll take me seriously!
…I’m basically Satan incarnate. Should be interesting.
Good Lord! There’s a college next to my house!? When did this happen!?
I have gone block by block, house by house, and I will be there to present to the True Georgetowners my list of houses of students, people masquerading as True Georgetowners whom I suspect to be students, as well as homes of True Georgetowners who may be sheltering and hiding students in their basement.
I was at the the Burleith Citizens Association meeting tonight. I have to say that I understand their concerns, even if I do not agree with them. 3,000 more grad students will not mean they will all move to Burleith and West Georgetown. They do have valid, ongoing concerns about the fact that crummy student neighbors not keeping up the lawns and not cleaning up their trash properly reduces home values in the neighborhood. I will say, though, that this seems like an easy fix: give Off-Campus Student Life more resources to educate students about the responsibilities of their lease and then hold them to it more effectively after the more complete education.
Also, what happened to making a Jello mold to give to new neighbors when they move in. If the neighbors took ten minutes to meet the students next door, we would have fewer fears of 61Ds.
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I’m a resident whose wife is a GU grad alum. Why doesn’t Georgetown build a grad dorm outside of Georgetown and run GUTS there? Like, in Rosslyn, elsewhere in north Arlington or on MacArthur. I think both sides are right – we can’t eliminate the small remaining green space behind the gates, but we also can’t demolish 6 historic townhouses on the 1789 block. A grad dorm outside of Georgetown could house way more grad students (and professors) than the piddly 120 beds called for on the 1789 block in the current plan, and affordable housing is the key obstacle to grad students and professors accepting positions at Georgetown.