Press conference: Citizens "versus" GWU and the campus plan vis-a-vis the Foggy Bottom neighborhood

Aerial view of Washington Circle, looking northeast with Foggy Bottom Metrorail station in the foreground. HABS DC,WASH,645-2. (Source: Library of Congress.)

From the Federation of Citizens Associations of the District of Columbia:

Are you tired of watching the city government do the bidding of well-connected developers -- regardless of the impact on our neighborhoods?

Please join the Federation of Citizens Associations of the District of Columbia, the Committee of 100 on the Federal City, the Foggy Bottom Association and concerned DC residents for a breakfast press conference and community briefing regarding efforts to stop George Washington University and the DC government from violating the law and polluting the environment by gutting their existing campus plan development agreement.

George Washington University’s campus plan is a binding agreement with the city that sets reasonable limits on development in order to protect neighborhood residents and students from pollution, noise, traffic and other threats to quality of life. The University has violated its existing agreement and is seeking the DC government’s approval to scrap it and write a new one with few neighborhood protections. The new agreement would reward unethical, illegal behavior and radically expand commercial development without an environmental impact statement.

The effort to stop the new campus plan has implications for all DC neighborhoods seeking to maintain their quality of life in the face of pollution and overdevelopment. If this city gives the green light to George Washington University to break its word, no neighborhood is safe.
So join us on Tuesday morning. Have some breakfast, meet fellow concerned citizens, and learn about the latest efforts to stand up for the rights of DC neighborhoods and how you can help!

WHAT: Breakfast press conference and community briefing

WHO: Federation of Citizens Associations of the District of Columbia
Committee of 100 on the Federal City
Foggy Bottom Association
Concerned District residents

WHERE: Melrose Hotel, 2430 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW – Washington, DC

WHEN: Tuesday, April 18, 2006 at 10:00 AM

Index Keywords: civic-engagement; town-gown