Posts tagged Student Housing
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Weekend links: Pluses and minuses
Meet “Rush Plus”; Less entrance, more closing; No decision on campus plan; No more fund; Cities should pay more?; Super walkability; And…. Keep reading…
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Weekend links: Wintry mixed uses
Clear your sidewalks; Stop discriminating against mixed-use; Gingrich sneers at urban living; Red bikes and pink blooms on the Mall?; Union Square still recordable; DC won’t limit your photography; The FederalExpressway?; Book Exchange project approved; Reforming food truck rules; And…. Keep reading…
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Town-gown planning can be more constructive
The DC Zoning Commission will hold its final hearing tonight on the Georgetown University campus plan. Some neighborhood groups and ANC 2E continue to strongly oppose the plan, despite a number of concessions on the part of the university. Does DC’s campus planning process actually help solve problems or just create strife? The process does not encourage effective dialogue… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Neighborhoods change, or not
Georgetown retail changing; Progress and dysfunction in ANC 5B; Not my Ward 8; Georgia Ave won’t get funding; Urbanism for students; Council donations may be illegal; Post closing local bureaus; And…. Keep reading…
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Neighbors oppose redevelopment of Dupont parking lot
The First Baptist Church of Washington proposes to build a 9-story, 228-unit apartment building on the site of its surface parking lot at the corner of 17th and O Streets, NW. Some nearby residents object to the plans due to concerns over noise, parking, and the specter of the project becoming a student dormitory. Keep reading…
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Improve campus life to fix Georgetown town-gown relations
The Office of Planning’s recent recommendation to require Georgetown University to house 100 percent of undergraduates on campus would both severely damage Georgetown student life and fail to achieve the campus plan opponents’ objectives. A better approach would be to make campus a more desirable place to be. If Georgetown improved student gathering spaces,… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Taxes get plaudits
Bag tax doesn’t harm DC business; Tax hikes on table in MD; Georgetowners want “sanctions” against students; Gray backs Rhee’s firings; City vehicle leases get scrutiny; Two options for Union Station entrance; Sea level rise worst in Chesapeake; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Hate the Redskins (even more)
Snyder sues WCP, draws attention to his bad press; Snyder gets view, park loses trees; 395 HOT lanes out; Plazas could fight crime at Truxton Circle; How useful is the Circulator website?; Are you a car-free skeptic?; Streetcars4DC reviews report; And…. Keep reading…
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On-campus housing not the answer for Georgetown
In “GU takes student ghetto approach to housing undergrads,” Ken Archer argues that Georgetown University has created a “student ghetto” by failing to guarantee undergraduates four years of on-campus housing. In response, he suggests four locations where the University should build “multi-use” facilities behind the gates. However,… Keep reading…
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GU takes student ghetto approach to housing undergrads
On December 30th, Georgetown University filed its 10 Year Campus Plan with the DC Zoning Commission. While the Plan has led to frayed relations between the university and the Georgetown neighborhood, the central dispute concerns what is not in the plan: an increase in on-campus undergraduate housing. Why should Georgetown University be expected to build additional… Keep reading…