1100 4
th
Street, SW, Suite E650 Washington, DC 20024 phone: 202-442-7600 fax: 202-442-7638
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MEMORANDUMTO:
District of Columbia Zoning Commission
FROM:
Jennifer Steingasser, Deputy Director, Development Review and Historic Preservation
DATE:
May 5, 2011
SUBJECT:
Case No.
ZC-10-32
: Request for Special Exception approval of a new campus plan for Georgetown University, filed by Goulston & Storrs, P.C. for the President and Directors of Georgetown College
contribute significantly to the local economy and employment. When located within residential zones, theimpacts of a university must be evaluated against the standards of the zoning regulations and considered carefullyto avoid adverse impacts to the residential communities that surround them. Student housing, student lifeactivities, and academic and administrative operations must be provided and arranged to avoid adverse impacts onsurrounding communities, with special attention paid to ensure that the quality of life of existing residentialneighborhoods is not diminished. With conditions the Georgetown campus plan can facilitate the fulfillment of their academic mission and not be objectionable to neighboring property.
SUMMARY RECOMMENDATION
Georgetown University has applied pursuant to § 210 of the Zoning Regulations for special exception approval of
TheOffice of Planning commends the efforts made by the University through their March 31, 2011 prehearingstatement to increase housing by 2013, relocate 1000 students in the Graduate School of Continuing Studies(SCS) and maintain their currently approved parking inventory.The Office of Planning recommends the 2010 Campus Plan be approved with the following conditions:
Und
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rgraduat
e
Enrollm
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nt
:1.
The traditional undergraduate student (TUS) enrollment be capped at 6652
1
as proposed by the applicantin the application dated December 30, 2010 and the Pre-hearing Submission dated March 31, 2011;
Maximum Total Enrollm
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nt
1.
Maximum total enrollment shall included TUS enrollment as capped and all other students taking aminimum of one class at the main campus regardless of program or status;2.
The maximum total enrollment on the main campus be capped at 12,959
2
for the 2011-2012 and 2012-2013 academic years3.
The maximum total enrollment on the main campus be capped at 13,432
3
for the academic year 2013-20144.
The maximum total enrollment on the main campus may thereafter be increased to 13,941 subject to anyadjustment related to reduction in TUS cap
1
Appendix L of the Dec. 30, 2010 Application
Page 3 Sections V and VI.
2
12,959
equals the proposed cap of 6652 traditional undergraduates and the enrollment at the end of the 2010Campus Plan of 4,485 graduate and 822 medical students as noted in Appendix L of the Application and 1,000Continuing Studies/non-degree/2
nd
Degree Nursing students;
3
The increase
represents a 7.5% annual increase after 2013; historic figures represent an estimated annual growthin graduate and non-traditional undergraduate growth since 2008 in a range of 6%-7%.
Zoning Commission Application No. 10-32Georgetown University 2010-2020 Campus PlanMay 5, 2011 Page 2
Campu
s
Hou
s
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1.
University provide 250 new beds as proposed in the pre-hearing statement dated March 31, 2011 by theFall semester of 20142.
University housing be provided for 90% of the TUS enrollment by the Fall semester of 2015;3.
University housing be provided for 100% of the TUS enrollment by the Fall semester of 2016;4.
If housing is not provided for 100% of the TUS enrollment by the Fall of 2016, the TUS enrollment shall be reduced annually by 25% of the difference between the TUS enrollment and the number of university provided beds, until 100% of the TUS enrollment is housed in university provided housing approved as part of the campus plan, effective for the Fall of 2017 through the Fall of 2020;5.
The University may increase TUS enrollment up to the original cap after reductions are made only if additional campus plan approved student housing is available for each undergraduate to be enrolled up tothe TUS enrollment cap;6.
The location of all University provided housing shall be approved by the Zoning Commission as part of the campus plan or amendment thereto and shall not be within zip code 20007 or east of the 37
th
StUniversity gates;
Enrollm
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nt Cal
c
ulation
1.
Compliance with enrollment counts shall be calculated each semester and not calculated by averaging between semesters;
M
e
di
c
al Fa
c
iliti
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s
1.
Further processing for the Medical Facilities (including MedStar Health) be limited to those identified asMHC-1 through MHC-4, MHC-6 and MHC-15 and that a more comprehensive plan for the Medical
be provided as an amendment to the 2010-2020 Campus Plan, including parking andtraffic impacts.
Additional information
1.
Additional information be provided regarding the du
employees of contractors or other non-
employees coming to the campus and their means of getting to and from the main campus.Because the original application dated December 30, 2010 was modified by the pre-hearing statement datedMarch 31, 2011 and the OP reports refers to each for reference and citation, OP will refer to the originalapplication filed on December 30, 2010 as the
Application
and the pre-
.
SITE DESCRIPTION
Location:
Legal Description: Square 1321, Lots 811, 815, 816, 821, 823 through 827;Square 1222, Lots 62, 801 and 802;Square 1223, Lots 62, parts of 65, 66 and 67, 86, 807, 808 through 810, 812, 815, 826,827, 831, 834, 843, 846, 847, 852, 853, 855, 857 and 858;Square 1226, Lots 94 through 101, 105 through 107, 803, 804, 811 through 815;Square 1248, Lots 150 through 157, 160 through 162, 800 through 802, 894, 805, 829through 831, 834 and 835;Ward/ ANC: 2EZoning: R-3 and C-1
Zoning Commission Application No. 10-32Georgetown University 2010-2020 Campus PlanMay 5, 2011 Page 3
Acreage: 104 acresThe campus is located in the west side of Georgetown. It is generally bounded by Prospect Street, N.W. on thesouth, Glover-Archbold Park on the west, Reservoir Road on the north and the Cloisters condominiumdevelopment and the Convent of Visitation on the east. On the east, south of P Street, the traditional portion of the campus is bounded by 37
th
Street but the full campus boundaries extend east to 36
th
Street and 35
th
Street, andincludes square 1225 and 1222, and most of squares 1248 and 123. No changes to these campus boundaries are proposed.Academic, administrative, athletic and dormitory buildings are primarily located on the southern two-thirds of thecampus, with a medical complex occupying the north side. The medical complex includes research and academicfacilities and a hospital operated by MedStar.Vehicular access to the campus is from Canal Road, the primary access point. Access to the medical complex isfrom Reservoir Road and the Prospect Street access is for emergency and service vehicles. Campus roads permitinternal circulation.
NEIGHBORHOOD CHARACTER
The campus is primarily surrounded by historic residential rowhouse communities including Burlieth andHillendale to the north, West Georgetown to the east, and Foxhall just west of the adjacent Glover-Archbold Park.Office, retail, and eating, drinking and entertainment establishments are located to the west and south in thecommercial corridors along M Street, NW and Wisconsin Avenue, NW. To the south is Canal Road and thePotomac River.The adjacent West Georgetown neighborhood is part of the Georgetown Historic District established by Congressthrough the Old Georgetown Act in 1950. The district is a National Historic Landmark and the Old GeorgetownBoard of the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts reviews all plans for construction or alteration of any building withinthe district. West Georgetown is predominately characterized by historic, narrow lot, rowhouse structures thatdat
wider streets of the
There are also some small apartment and single family buildings.The vast majority of the rowhouses in West Georgetown between Reservoir Road, M Street and WisconsinAvenue are residential homes that are directly attached to the neighboring houses and do not have garages or on-site parking access. Most of the homes share rear lot lines with their rear neighbors. Only 21 of the 35residentially zoned squares in this area have even a partial alley and only seven (20%) have alleys that arecontinuous through the square. Thus the narrow
vehicle parking, service activities and trash collection.The Burlieth neighborhood to the north of Reservoir Road is also characterized by narrow lot, rowhousedevelopments that date back to the
The area has a more uniform and connected alley system but theresidential lots are uniformly narrow, ranging between 18 and 20 feet in width with a regular pattern of adjoiningrowhouses from block to block with no interruption.Both neighborhoods are densely developed rowhouse areas with typical heights of two to three stories and lotdepths that typically range between 90 and 140 feet but it is not unusual to find lots as short as 50 feet.It is the
t pattern of single family rowhouse residences that defines thecharacter of these neighborhoods and also makes the neighborhoods fragile with limited capacity to absorbadverse impacts such as noise, litter, parking or excessive traffic. Whereas a detached residential structure withside yards would have a built in horizontal separation and buffer, and a high rise residential building has a verticalseparation, a rowhouse community has neither.
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