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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The restrictions on UDC for school related traffic are strict and there was a lot of negotiating just to get Murch to swing in that location for two years, mostly due to traffic (which is why Murch has to bus kids from eight block away). The ANC, etc. look at schools very differently than an office building. It is a different kind, pattern, and volume of traffic.[/quote]

The truth is that everyone wishes that UDC would pack up and move away from the neighborhood.  It's such a downer on commercial activity, etc.  It would be better if UDC relocated to a more central location closer to where more of its students live.  Imagine how the UDC campus could be redeveloped for housing, commercial, a school site, recreation.  I've also wondered why the neighborhood doesn't get the Metro renamed "Forest Hills," which sounds so much more pleasant than "Van Ness-UDC."   The latter is not a neighborhood.[/quote]

People may disagree with this poster's bluntness, but the fact remains that the UDC campus is a brutalist ghost town at pretty much all times (Murch's swing space pretty much quadrupled the foot traffic in the area, but that will be going away after June). The city needs to rethink the space, because it could be used so much more efficiently. UDC's footprint either should be reduced (in no way does it need all of that space) -- so that the campus shares space with commercial and residential development -- or moved altogether to a more central location.

Of course, this will never happen because UDC -- now little more than a glorified community college -- is so politically entrenched.[/quote]

Aren't there local politicians who still propose to rename UDC as "Marion Barry University of the District of Columbia"?  You can't make this stuff up.[/quote]

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