NU,
city try to quell off-campus parties
Boston Globe - 21 Sep 2004
...BOSTON, MA - Mayor Thomas M. Menino called
on the university to exercise greater control over its students living
in Mission Hill, a trouble spot known for its large parties on the weekends.
''Northeastern has to be more responsible for its students,"
the mayor said. ''It's frustrating. I'm concerned about it. We will
not allow [students] to disrupt the quality of life of those neighborhoods."...
Hot
Towns Time - 16 Nov 2003
...lower costs, tax breaks for employers, funding for entrepreneurs
and a deepening pool of skilled and educated workers. Many are college
towns...livability is often the clincher...
College
drinking culture has an impact on neighborhoods Star Press - 16 Nov 2003
...They [neighbors] say students partying in houses in once-quiet residential
neighborhoods - and spilling out into yards and alleys and streets -
damage property, lower real-estate values and force longtime residents
to move...
Neighbors
clean up or move out of neighborhoods Star Press - 16 Nov 2003
..."In my block, I walk the newspaper down to my neighbor every
day," Ware said. "I take a bucket and tongs and pick up trash.
I can fill that bucket up every day with beer bottles and whiskey bottles."...
Answers
to campus drinking culture vary Star Press - 16 Nov 2003
...In Tuscaloosa, Ala...the city reduced the late-night operating hours
of bars. Westchester, Penn., requires that new student housing be 400
feet apart.
In West Lafayette, a neighborhood association
near the Purdue University campus formed an organization to buy homes
and sell them to families instead of people who will rent them to students...
Georgetown,
DC Supreme
Court refuses GW case GW Hatchet - 9 Oct 2003
...The U.S. Supreme Court declined Monday to hear GW's case against
a city housing order prohibiting the University from building nonresidential
facilities. While the decision brings an end to GW's three-year battle
against the order in federal court, University officials said they would
continue to seek the order's reversal in the D.C. Court of Appeals...GW
now has until August 2006 to meet the 70 percent mark and provide an
on-campus bed for every student that causes enrollment to exceed 8,000...
GW
wins short-term court victory: Appellate court affirms city's right
to limit University growth G W Hatchet - 15 Sep 2003
...A Thursday court ruling will give GW an additional four years to
comply with a city order that requires the University to house 70 percent
of undergraduates on campus. The order also prevented GW from constructing
nonresidential facilities such as a new business school building...
City
Backed In Dispute With GWU Ruling
Gives D.C. Right To Curb Campus Growth
The Washington Post - 05 Feb 20003
...The ruling will compel GWU to house more than 70 percent of full-time
undergraduates either within campus boundaries or outside Foggy Bottom,
whose residents have long complained that the ambitious university and
its students are changing the character of their historic neighborhood...
February,
2001 - The Board of Zoning Adjustment voted 3-1 to amend George
Washington’s 10-year campus plan to preclude the university from
increasing enrollment and constructing and renovating new buildings
until it houses 70 percent of its undergraduates.
Foggy Bottom's 800-Pound Gorilla
(Washington
Post article, May 20, 2001; Page B8)
On April 25
George Washington University filed suit in federal court against the
District; its mayor, Anthony Williams; the city's Board of Zoning
Adjustment; and the board's individual members. Its suit claims that
the zoning board's recent decision to tie enrollment growth to on-campus
housing was unconstitutional.
