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[quote=Anonymous][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]

I live in this neighborhood.

The students and staff that work and study at UDC are welcome in our neighborhood. I am thrilled that we have a vibrant educational center that draws students from across the city to this patch of town.[/quote]

This sounds like a flack post from the UDC communications department.  There aren't many people who would call UDC a "vibrant educational center" with a straight face.   :lol: [/quote]

The only vibrancy on UDC's campus comes from a temporary elementary school that is leaving in four months.[/quote]

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