Comments on: Both 2010 Campus Plan petitions have significant flaws

By: Vox Populi » Tomorrow’s Campus Plan Hearing: What to Expect

Vox Populi » Tomorrow’s Campus Plan Hearing: What to Expect — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 21:02:13 +0000

[...] to discredit the university’s petition in support of the campus plan. When DC Students Speak submitted their petition in support of the campus plan to the ANC back in February, Commissioner Jeff Jones called the petition invalid because some of [...]

By: On the Citizens Associations of Georgetown and the presence of a silent majority | DC Students Speak

Wed, 26 Jan 2011 15:14:58 +0000

[...] the Kansas problem was in fact an error caused by its geomapping software (the Georgetown Voice confirmed this [...]

By: @Numbers guy2

@Numbers guy2 — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 15:00:20 +0000

If I recall, Georgetown University is included in the ANC2E district (SMD4, for the most part, but also portions of SMD2 and SMD3). As a result, all of the students within Georgetown University are just as valid participants in the ANC2E political process as the neighbors living nearby. The 800+ signatures on the petition are representative of supporters within ANC2E and beyond– students or not, we’re all in the same political district and we all have a stake.

By: @Numbers guy

@Numbers guy — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 01:25:15 +0000

Sadly, your numbers are not in fact correct. Nor is your point a good one, as Incorrect made clear.

By: DR

DR — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 01:16:56 +0000

The point is that CAG and the BCA used the smokestack and 1789 block issues to get signatures opposing the plan. GU dropped those projects from the actual plan filed in December. The plan’s opponents submitted the petition and signatures to the ANC, as if it were based upon the current plan, when in fact it described a plan that was never filed. The CAG and BCA web sites both still link to the petition, as if the 1789 block and smokestack are still issues. Rubino and company are being dishonest with their own neighbors and the city government by pretending that the signatures represent opposition to the existing plan and not admitting that their petition is no longer valid.

By: Gracious neighbors

Gracious neighbors — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 00:09:45 +0000

For my next trick, I will move next to an elementary school and force the city to make abortions mandatory. All these kids are ruining my HGTV lifestyle.

By: Incorrect

Incorrect — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 23:45:50 +0000

Short term students are subsequently replaced with more short-term students, making the student population just as “long-term” as the residents.

By: Numbers guy

Numbers guy — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 23:29:51 +0000

Uh, there are, what, 10 times the number of students than there are long-term residents in surrounding neighborhoods, so of course the student petition will be longer than the one from the citizens associations.

Big deal.

The long-term local residents have more at stake.

By: JS

JS — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 21:03:33 +0000

Hey Geoff,

The DC Students Speak petition is not in fact flawed: Commissioner Jones may have attempted to imply such, but if you read over GoPetition’s policies you will see why so many signatures appear to be from Kansas. Individuals that have untraceable IPs and do not list their ZIP code are automatically placed as dots in the center of the originating country: for the US this happens to be Kansas.