Office of Planning Sides with Neighbors, Calls for 100 Percent Housing for Undergrads
In response to the Georgetown University campus plan, the Office of Planning came down strongly on the side of neighbors.
The D.C. Office of Planning (OP) called for 100 percent housing for traditional undergraduate students (TUS) at Georgetown University by the Fall of 2016 in a report submitted to the Zoning Commission Thursday. (The full report is available in the companion PDF for this story.) In the report, OP echoed concerns consistently raised by neighbors in the ramp up to the Zoning Commission hearings. "OP is concerned that the maximum total enrollment of students...places the surrounding neighborhoods at the tipping point of diminished residential character. Off campus student living and commuting traffic add to the deterioration of the residential character of the surrounding neighborhoods." The OP agreed with the University's self-imposed …
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