As discussed yesterday, GM attended a community meeting Wednesday night to discuss the surplussing of the Hurt Home. And as will be discussed here shortly, the process by which the Office of the Deputy Mayor for Planning and Economic Development is surplussing this property does not appear consistent with the spirit and perhaps even the letter of the new Public Land Surplus Standards Amendment Act of 2009.
But today, GM wanted to address a statement made by the DMPED representative that appeared to be accepted as true by the audience: namely that Georgetown is a neighborhood of single family homes.
While there are plenty of single family homes in Georgetown, there are also plenty of apartment buildings and condos in Georgetown too. For instance, the map above shows the blocks around the Hurt Home with the multi-family dwellings in red. As you can see, there are at least ten apartment or condo complexes.
It’s just worth remembering when we talk about what type of a neighborhood we have and whether any one project will fundamentally change it. Georgetown isn’t a neighborhood of just single family homes. It’s a mixed neighborhood of single family homes and multi-unit dwellings.
That doesn’t mean the the Hurt Home proposal might not be too large. But it clearly would not be a new phenomenon for the neighborhood.
The Georgetown Metropolitan 
And, I’d like to add that many of the buildings in Georgetown that appear to be single-family homes actually contain multiple units. We have a large number of basement apartments in this neighborhood, one of which I live in. My husband and I rent the one-bedroom basement unit of a townhome, and the owners of the house live in the floors above us. “Hidden” density, you might call it.