Housing
program leaves students feeling ostracized
Iowa State Daily - 21 Sep 2004
...AMES, IA - Controversy has enveloped a program intended to help
families buy homes in student neighborhoods
by providing the new homeowners with financial assistance. Students
in the affected neighborhoods said they are being discriminated
against.
Housing for Sustainable Neighborhoods is a non-profit
organization designed to connect buyers and sellers in neighborhoods
near campus.
"It's a neighborhood effort to stabilize neighborhoods
so there's balance between student and non-student housing,"
said Pat Brown, president of Housing for Sustainable Neighborhoods.
The program provides financial assistance to buyers
who want to purchase a family home -- but as a condition of the
contract, a buyer must reside in the home and cannot turn it into
rental property for 20 years...
Meetings
ease tension between students and neighbors
Loyola Greyhound - 21 Sep 2004
...BALTIMORE, MD - So far, "I haven't heard anything to lead
me to think that [this year's relationship between students and
neighbors] is anything but good and promising," said Ann Walsh,
the president of the North Baltimore Neighborhood Coalition (NBNC).
"If everyone lives up to their end of the
bargain, it think it can be a good relationship. I think that Loyola
is a model that hopefully other colleges and universities can emulate.
That is always premised, however, on the community and the students
and the college living up to their expectations."
The current agreement with the NBNC includes a
cap on student enrollment, specifications on the properties that
Loyola can buy and own, an agreement to have to trash picked up
between the hours of 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. and regulations for students
on parking in the neighborhood.
"Many of the things [the NBNC is] requesting
are quite frankly pretty fair," said Sawyer, adding that some
of the time students are living within a close proximity to young
children and elderly residents...
Campus
Neighbors Propose Historic District as Challenge To University’s
Encroachment Berkeley Daily - 14 Jan 2005
...BERLELEY, CA - Sandwiched between the two UC Berkeley campuses
and Claremont Canyon Regional Preserve is a narrow wedge of hillside
marked by narrow one-lane roads threading through some of Berkeley’s
most distinguished houses, including the creations of Frank Lloyd
Wright, Julia Morgan, Bernard Maybeck and William Wurster.
And if two residents of Panoramic Hill have their
way, their neighborhood will become a federal historic district, a
proposal endorsed Monday by Berkeley’s Landmarks Preservation
Commission.
In a 62-page application submitted to the state Office
of Historic Preservation, Janice Thomas and Fredrica Drotos single
out 61 homes for specific designation, including Thomas’s own
1911 home at 37 Mosswood Road, designed by noted Berkeley architect
Walter H. Ratcliff.
The next step comes Feb. 4, when the State Historic
Resources Commission considers the application during a meeting in
Bakersfield.
Maryln Lortie, historian with the state office, is
optimist about approval: “In my 20 years with the office, this
is one of the nicest residential districts I’ve ever seen. It
has all of the stars of California architecture, everyone from Maybeck
to William Wurster. It’s really quite beautiful.”
Lortie said state approval is highly likely, as is
the final step—acceptance by the federal Keeper of the National
Register, who typically responds within 45 days.
“We have a really good track record in winning
approvals,” Lortie said.
When landmarks commissioners were informed of the
proposal this week, one mused, “I wonder if there’s a
hidden agenda behind this.”
“Isn’t there always?” quipped another.
And Janice Thomas is the first to agree.
“Take a look at the university’s latest
Long Range Development Plan, Volume IIIA, page 9-1.8, second paragraph,
where it talks about historic resources. In the tables listing representative
conditions, our neighborhood isn’t identified as having any
historic resources,” she said. “We should at least be
mentioned.
“So much for accuracy and thoroughness.”
Hillside neighbors have had ongoing battles with
the university and hope that national recognition will give them added
leverage against UC intrusions.
Thomas and other neighbors stopped a 1999 effort
to install permanent television lights at UC Memorial Stadium, winning
their victory on the grounds that the proposal would adversely impact
the historic resources embodied in the homes on the hillside.
A second try by the school was rejected last year
on the same grounds.
At the same time of UC’s first try for lights,
neighbors were disturbed at the construction of new housing on the
slope that was starkly out of character with the others.
“On one property we went to the Landmarks Preservation
Commission, and we were told we would have more influence of designs
for new projects if we formed a historic district,” she said...
Historical
status could keep students from West Side Pipe Dream - 19 Oct 2007
... BINGHAMTON, NY - The West Side of Binghamton — now one of
the largest hot spots for off-campus housing — may not be available
for future students, as parts of the neighborhood have been declared
historic districts ...
The naming comes after efforts made by the West
Side Neighborhood Association of Binghamton — a group
of residents dedicated to preserving the neighborhood’s standard
of living and to the reestablishment of the “historically
family-centered character of the West Side,” according to
the organization’s Web site ...
Neighborhood
groups exercise their political muscle Chapel Hill News - 25 Oct 2003
...The Coalition of Neighbors Near Campus formed
earlier this fall to unite residents of the various neighborhoods
concerned about the impacts to them of UNC expansion...
DCVB's Newcomer Info Portal: Window
to a Web of Neighborhood Info
Newcomers often "shop" a community and its neighborhoods
as visitors first. Now, several of Durham's thriving historic neighborhoods
- Old West Durham, Watts Hospital-Hillandale, and Trinity Park - are leading a trend to enrich
their informative websites with history and background so important
to residents, visitors, and newcomers alike.
Newcomers and visitors can easily find Durham's neighborhood
organization websites through DCVB's relocation and neighborhoods
portal on www.durham-nc.com. Through this portal, newcomers
are connected to the variety of community and neighborhood information
they need, including local government information, public and private
school contacts , and other relocation services - even help for relocating
a business to Durham.
To date, several Durham neighborhoods are linked through DCVB's
portal, including the following three:
The Old West Durham Neighborhood Association
(OWDNA) website, coordinated by association president John Schelp
and 'webspinner' Pam Spaulding, is a particularly deep example - featuring
neighborhood history, a virtual tour, and historic photographs. Just
last month, OWDNA debuted a self-guided walking tour of the neighborhood,
promoting this historical walk on its site.
The Trinity Park Neighborhood Association
(TPNA) website, maintained bywebmaster John Durrance, is another
great example of how neighborhoods are adding dimension and texture
to their presence on the Web. TPNA's site incorporates a calendar
of events, history and archives section, and online store. Especially
unique is its virtual map tour, which gives
the history of specific homes.
Not only are Durham's historic neighborhoods bringing a wealth of
information to the Web, but also new or newly redeveloped neighborhoods
are looking to their historic counterparts as role-models. Trinity Heights, a National Register historic
neighborhood that has recently undergone a Duke-led redevelopment,
has a growing presence on the Web.
Newcomers also regularly stop by the official
Durham Visitor Information Center Downtown to pick up an Official
Durham Visitors Guide or Street Map. Here, they will find Durham
neighborhoods clearly marked for further exploration and listings
of other organizations providing newcomer information.
Headingley
Against Landlordism , acronym HeAL, presents an extensive site
and actively is organizing for Houses in Multiple Occupation (HMO)legislation
within the UK.
Project HANDS...the
"Homeowner and Neighborhood Defense Strategy" for all persons
in Macomb Illinois to band together improve the quality of life people
our city.
Madison, WI
City
of Madison Neighborhoods - a truly extensive site, showing how
a major university city can be supportive of the neighborhoods that
make it up.
As
students inch into Old Orchard, residents react
Toledo Blade - 20 Sep 2004
...Toledo, OH - Traditionally, complaints about unruly student behavior
have come from other neighborhoods around UT, including Bancroft Hills,
Byrne-Hill Estates, and Secor Gardens, said
Bob Krompak, director of the Ottawa Community Development Corporation,
one of the city's nonprofit neighborhood organizations.
For the first time this year, he said, a spattering
of those complaints have come from Old Orchard - a neighborhood known
for its Tudor homes, colorful landscaping, and streets with English
names: Middlesex, Cheltenham, Pemberton.
And though the problems have been somewhat isolated,
the concern from some of the university's northern neighbors across
Bancroft Street is that the incidents are the beginning of a worrisome
trend...
