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@Richard

Granted in each instance, the respective universities probably should have begun a public planning process much earlier, rather than relying on presentations to ANCs after the process was done

I'm not sure what you mean by "done." Both GU and AU have made numerous changes to their plans since the Zoning Commission process and hearings started. AU made some changes just this week and may make even more. Wouldn't that constitute a public planning process? In what sense was their process "done"?

There's a limit to how much you can discuss institutional priorities and challenges in a public setting. That's true even for public universities, much less private ones. I don't think it's feasible for any organization to bring in members of the public from the very beginning of the planning process.

@Jake

Blunders like Mount Vernon, the Cloisters, and Wormley School are really the result of poor internal processes and leadership. Certainly no one from the surrounding communities was going to be coming in and telling the University it should do a better job of utilizing those properties. In all three instances, GU did what the neighbors wanted - it didn't expand and, in fact, contracted.

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