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College
Town Wins Award
Lexington Herald-Leader - 31 May 2004
...The Lexington Kentucky College-Town Study has won the 2004 Congress
for New Urbanism Charter Award in the Neighborhood, District and Corridor
category. Lexington's College-Town design for an urban development project
was a collaboration between the University of Kentucky, Lexington-Fayette
Urban County Government and the Lexington Downtown Development Authority
and is a product of the Ayers Saint Gross urban design planner firm
with offices in Baltimore and Washington D.C. The design outlines the
potential future development of an area between downtown Lexington and
the UK campus, an area bounded by Maxwell, Rose and Upper streets and
the Avenue of Champions (Euclid Avenue).
Uptick
in bedbugs reported in Lawrence
Journal-World - 31 May 2004
...Check the sheets tonight, and don't let the
bedbugs bite.
The little bloodsuckers are back.
They've wriggled into at least one Lawrence apartment
and two Manhattan apartments this year, according to the Kansas State
Research and Extension Office.
But Lawrence pest control professionals say the bugs,
which DDT insecticides virtually wiped out in the 1940s, have infested
even more area living quarters than what's been reported.
Downtown
overhaul a struggle
Daily Times - 30 May 2004
...SALISBURY -- As Tom Becker of Urban Salisbury was unveiling a revitalization
plan for downtown Salisbury more than a year ago, he said attempts at
developing the city's center historically has been compromised by taking
one step forward and two steps back.
Judge
takes hard line with defendants accused of violence on UConn campus
Journal Inquirer - 29 May 2004
...STORRS - A Vernon Superior Court judge and prosecutors took a hard
line this week against the first batch of young adults seeking a special
program to erase criminal charges following dangerous or violent behavior
after the University of Connecticut's national basketball championships
and Spring Weekend...
Designers
Reveal Plans for Future University Housing
Daily Nexus - 28 May 2004
...SANTA BARBARA - "The campus is somewhat off by itself - most
people have to commute. As housing prices continue to escalate, people
continue to move further away," Gindroz said. "UCSB also lacks
something the best universities have; its own community. The goal here
is to see how the whole surrounding area can become its own community."
The housing plan creates approximately 3,500 new units,
800 of which would replace existing units. A major aspect of the plan
is the Ocean Road housing project, which would convert Ocean Rd. from
four lanes into a two lane road bordered by housing and parking garages.
Gindroz said this would create a dynamic, lively transition from the
campus to Isla Vista...
Zoning
panel approves St. Thomas expansion
Pioneeer-Press - 28 May 2004
...ST. PAUL - "They're bulldozing a stable neighborhood,'' said
Margaret Diblasio, giving the gist of opponents' position on the plans
that call for razing several houses and buildings along Summit Avenue
and, over the next 10 years, erecting two academic buildings and a series
of student housing structures.
The blocks between Summit, Grand, Cretin and Cleveland
avenues have been tagged for the school's use for more than 20 years
but its announcement four years ago that it wanted to redevelop the
blocks caused a neighborhood backlash...
Field
narrows for campus housing contractor
Carolina Morning Sun - 28 May 2004
...NEW RIVER - As proposed, the successful company would design and
build the buildings then maintain the facilities under an agreement
with the university.
"This is the way more and more universities are
choosing to provide much-needed housing," Upshaw said.
The project would be financed with bonds sold by the
commission and repaid with rent revenues...
Polo
launching retail concept
Crain's New York Business - 28 May 2004
...Polo Ralph Lauren is launching a retail concept called Rugby that
will target college students in university towns,
according to executives familiar with the plans.
The company will debut the first store in a potential
chain in Harvard Square, at a location now occupied by Abercrombie &
Fitch...
OU
will pony up $25,000 toward city's Palmerfest expenses
Athens News - 27 May 2004
...Athens City Council Monday night arranged to receive $25,000 from
Ohio University to help reimburse the city for police and
other costs related to May 15's Palmerfest...
"As people have mentioned, that's a lot of money
for a small party," remarked Third Ward Councilwoman Nancy Bain,
referring to the public controversy over the expenses.
City officials had pegged the overall cost of dealing
with the annual student block party at $85,000.
Palmerfest resulted in 106 arrests, mainly for intoxication
and underage drinking, and four violations of the recently adopted nuisance-party
law. Nearly 100 officers were on patrol for the event, along with additional
mounted police and volunteers.
Locals
prepare to face partyers:
Potential for 'free-for-all' worries some, others say behavior has improved
Daily Northwestern - 27 May 2004
...EVANSTON - An ambulance almost stopped Evanston resident Janet Irons
from going to church on the Saturday of Memorial
Day weekend last year.
It blocked her driveway as it was loaded with intoxicated
Northwestern students to take them to the hospital -- at 3 p.m.
Dillo Day is notorious for student parties that begin
in the morning and last all day, and Irons and other Evanston residents
said they are concerned about property damage, party noise and proper
student conduct in city neighborhoods...
UVa-Wise
Board kicks around housing ideas
Coalfield Progress - 27 May 2004
...UVa-Wise must move forward with developing the "college village"
project on land it owns near Bee Line Market, Kaplan said. Two private
developers are interested in the proposal, he said. The village would
have student apartments, faculty housing, shops,
restaurants, doctor offices and more.
The college should consider partnerships with the private
sector to get new housing developed, Kaplan said...
Former
Nelsonville official: City needs to get ready for change
Athens News - 27 May 2004
...Jones said Nelsonville today shows parallels with Athens in the 1960s.
The northern city, for example, must deal with the impact of college
students living off campus, many in former single-family homes converted
to rentals. This has created the same kind of town-gown friction that
plagues Athens, he said.
"You'd be surprised how intimidated some people
are, especially older people, when young people come in (to their neighborhood),"
he said, adding that he sees "a lot of resentment on the part of
residents of Nelsonville" against HC students...
Student
member on council still in conception stage
California Aggie - 27 May 2004
...Davis City Councilmember Stephen Souza has been working over the
past two months to begin fulfilling some of his campaign promises, including
a plan to place an ex-officio student member on
the council.
At the council's May 1 goal-setting retreat, Souza
said he wanted to explore putting a non-voting student on the local
governing body. The idea went under the council's process and governance
goals, not an item in its top seven objectives for the next two years...
Malden
backs mixed-use project
Council OK's $138m proposal to build grad student housing
Boston Globe - 27 May 2004
...The Malden City Council unanimously gave preliminary approval Tuesday
night to a $138 million project that would reconfigure its downtown
with a mixed-use development that proposes housing for 800 graduate
students from Boston-area colleges and universities...
Many communities are wary of college students and their
often disruptive lifestyles, but Malden sees the calmer graduate student
as a population that could help revitalize its downtown...
A
building moratorium for the entire Campustown area was unanimously rejected
by the Ames City Council on Tuesday while leaving the area's tax abatements
intact.
Ames Tribune - 26 May 2004
...The Iowa State University neighborhood has been planned as an urban
center with many residential features. But as more high-rise apartments
are developed and the pace quickens on growth, city planners, local
historians and neighbors are concerned for the aesthetics, the historical
integrity and the urban issues associated with
the growth.
"If we lose our historic buildings, we're
going to lose the flavor of the community," said council member
Sharon Wirth...
Death
by drinking
MN Public Radio - 26 May 2004
...Reaching your 21st birthday is an important milestone in life. It's
a time of celebration. Unfortunately, it can be a day of tragedy, as
it was for Jason Reinhardt. Reinhardt turned 21 this year. On his birthday,
he died from an overdose of alcohol, while trying to consume 21 drinks
in an hour. Jason's mother, Ann Buchanan, hopes the death of her son
can shock young people into realizing that alcohol is legal, but lethal.
Cars,
colleges and communities
Colorado Daily - 26 May 2004
..."Don't it always seem to go, that you don't know what you got
'til it's gone/They paved paradise and put up
a parking lot." So sang Joni Mitchell sang in her classic hit "Big
Yellow Taxi."
But Boulder Mayor Will Toor and University of Colorado
Professor and former Boulder city councilman Spense Havlick know what
they've got in their new book "Transportation and Sustainable Campus
Communities": a story of how college towns throughout the world
deal with cars...
A
victim made 911 call in fatal blaze
Indianapolis Star - 26 May 2004
...BLOOMINGTON - The fire killed three men, all Indiana University students
from the Greenwood area who had attended Center Grove High School. The
fire broke out in a two-story, off-campus house in Bloomington, apparently
an accident in an area investigators now say was crowded with electronics...
UW
officials say dorm proposals fill a real need
Wisconsin State Journal - 25 May 2004
...For this fall, UW-Madison has more than 800 people on the waiting
list for university housing - a number that has stayed constant for
the last several years, Housing Director Paul Evans said. University
residence halls also have opened their doors slightly above occupancy
for the past five years, although that kind of "over-booking"
is by design; because a small percentage of students
always drop out or don't show each fall, some students are routinely
housed in temporary quarters for a few weeks until spaces open up. <
UW-Madison also paid the Washington-based student housing
consulting firm Brailsford & Dunlavey a fee of less than $5,000
to do an independent assessment, Evans said. <
The company, described as the largest such firm in
the country, came up with a similar conclusion, although B&D suggested
the university add even more, according to the report released this
month. <...
Housing
code step gets OK from council
Oregon Daiy Emerald - 25 May 2004
...The Eugene City Council unanimously approved a motion
Monday night to draft a housing ordinance similar to one used in Corvallis,
moving Eugene residents closer to a new housing code.
The motion called for city staff to create an ordinance
that would provide for local enforcement of housing standards. Housing
regulations are currently provided by the Oregon Residential Landlord
and Tenant Act; however, the city lacks ways to enforce these rules,
and renters seeking recourse against their landlords must use the city
court. Under the suggested ordinance, negligent landlords could face
fines...
Bedsits
banned in bid to revive our suburbs
Sheffield Today, UK - 25 May 2004
...New plans to limit the number of student houses in Sheffield will
see a ban on bedsits in popular neighbourhoods.
Council planning bosses are to cap the number of shared
houses in areas which are swollen by the city's 40,000 students.The
figures are yet to be confirmed, but it means once areas such as Broomhill,
Crookes and Ecclesall Road have a fixed percentage of student houses,
developers will be banned from turning any more homes into bedsits...
Unlocking
the door:
Inside the battle for affordable housing in Athens
Online Athens - 25 may 2004
It's easy to spot gentrified houses in the Hancock Corridor - a stretch
of houses between Prince Avenue and West Broad Street - according to
the land trust's Benham. Investors are buying them, fixing them and
selling or renting them to students.
Just look for the freshly painted houses, she said
- they're like a beacon flashing an advertisement: ''Student housing
available here.''...
Meanwhile, no one is sure how many people have sold
houses and left Athens because they couldn't find another home to buy
with the proceeds of their family home.
''I would love to know if people are leaving the county,''
Benham said, adding that she doesn't know of any comprehensive study
about whether that's one of the effects of gentrification in Athens...
Letter:
Landlords get 'sweet deal'
Press & Sun-Bulletin - 25 May 2004
...In Binghamton, renting single and two-family houses to students is
the usual route taken by landlords. Even though the living arrangement
is typically a violation of the current Binghamton zoning law, the city
only sporadically enforces the law, thus allowing such landlords to
engage in completely unregulated business.
Furthermore, these landlords get a tax break, since
their rental houses are taxed as residential property rather than at
the higher rate for commercial property. They also don't have to comply
with code requirements such as sprinkler systems or fire exits that
might affect a commercial building...
City
delays conclusion of housing study
UW Student, Canada - 24 May 2004
Waterloo city councillors might not consider the results of a Student
Accommodation Study until September instead of next month, after a decision
to delay.
Councillors voted unanimously on Monday to extend "the
deadline for conclusion of the study." They also directed staff
to develop a new plan for the rest of the study and present it to council
at its meeting on 7 June...
Parking,
occupancy take another step forward
Winona Daily News - 25 May 2004
...The Winona County Planning Commission continued discussing increasing
the minimum required number of off-street parking spaces for homes and
rental units at its Monday meeting.
The commission so far has informally agreed to reduce the allowable
number of unrelated people in a rental unit from five to three and require
each rental unit to have at least two parking spaces...
Mom
and Pop
Local businesses are a part of what makes a city, and they need your
help during summer
State News - 25 May 2004
...On the evening of a blazing East Lansing summer,
follow the Red Cedar east, winding through the bramble, and weaving
past the low ash branches until you reach a small clearing just past
city limits. You're in small business Valhalla, where East Lansing independent
businesses go to die.
The death knell sounds for Sidestreets Deli, Blue Note
Cafe, Bilbo's, Small Planet, Kilwin's, Bagel Fragel, the Dog Pound,
and the entire cursed corner of Grand River Avenue and Abbott Road.
There lie the small East Lansing businesses that couldn't turn a profit
and were forced to bow to locking up forever, or letting a national
chain set up shop. There are plenty more we're missing, too...
Provo
faces common concerns
BYU News - 24 May 2004
...Town-gown squabbles are a normal part of life in college towns,
but zoning ordinances are a perpetual hot-button issue here in Provo...
Provo City Council modified how the family is defined
in housing ordinances for a single-family dwelling in August 2003. For
"baching singles" - unrelated college students living together
in a single-family residential zone - the number of residents was decreased
from three students to two in 12 neighborhoods...
Inside
the battle for affordable housing in Athens
Athens Banner-Herald - 24 May 2004
...The ''housing wage'' in Athens - the amount a person must make to
afford a two-bedroom apartment - is $10.77 an hour. That's slightly
less than $23,000 a year and, according to the 2000 U.S. Census, more
than 45 percent of Athens adults make less than $25,000 a year. That
means nearly half of the community's workers either can't afford a basic
two-bedroom apartment or barely can...
Power
shifts Tuesday:
Mayor-elect describes city as 'inactive volcano'
Daily Gleaner, Canada - 24 May 2004
...MacLaggan became involved in civic issues through the College Hill
Neighbourhood Association, a group she helped revive to battle absentee
landlords and student rowdiness in overcrowded homes converted to student
rentals. MacLaggan wants to see the residential character of single
family neighbourhoods spared from the onslaught of profit-driven landlords...
Banning
the Vote
Wire Tap - 23 May 2004
...If only students would go out and vote.
Except their vote isn't welcome in Brunswick, Maine.
Or in Prairie View, Texas. Or, as a matter of fact, in Utica, New York.
All of these college towns – and many others – have local
statutes that limit students from establishing residency and registering
to vote...
College
life, as seen from student level
Boston Globe - 23 May 2004
...Inspired by his experience, he and his colleagues at Carnegie-Mellon
University created a prototype Prowler for an entrepreneurial class.
Where existing guidebooks gave only a few pages at most to any particular
college, Prowlers would devote an entire 60-page book to each institution.
The team focused on Clark University in Worcester, publishing that
first edition at Kinkos.
Developing the idea after college, the group began
hiring freelance writers to compile student surveys. With a successful
first run, they set in motion a plan to make new editions every year,
this time hiring a student writer from each school to compile campus
opinions. Today, Boston-bound high school grads can learn about Boston
University, Boston College, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and
Tufts from the Prowler, and editions for more schools are in production.
And while they're gaining momentum at Barnes & Noble, you can order
them online for $5.95 each...
Action
urged over student homes boom
icCoventry, UK - 22 May 2004
..."Communities are breaking down now because people are being
pushed to sell houses for these sorts of developments.
"We don't want to end up with a situation where
when people complain about noise they're told 'This is a student area
and it's nothing to do with you', which is happening in some parts of
the country...
Wright
State to get new housing
Dayton Business Journal - 21 May 2004
...Several decades ago, when much of the old dormitory housing for many
schools was built, schools had access to various government loans for
construction, he said. That's no longer the case. As a result,
universities have been able to ease the building regulations. Private
contractors are not held to the same standards as governments and schools
and therefore can build for less cost.
And the design of choice is the apartment, or suite,
style rooms, such as those being built at Wright State, he said.
"For 25 years, if not more, almost none of the
old, traditional dorms have been built," Schwarzmueller said. "It's
been the apartment-suite style. That's what people have come to expect."...
Borough,
WCU consider allowing police to patrol outside jurisdiction
Daily Local - 22 May 2004
...WEST CHESTER -- Borough officials are discussing the possibilities
of engaging in an agreement with West Chester University that would
allow university public safety officers to patrol outside of their
jurisdiction, which they are currently not allowed to do.
The agreement could potentially allow joint patrols
of both campus and borough police, said West Chester Police Chief Scott
Bohn...
Tackling
the issues: City, college work out problems
Wilmington Star - 21 May 2004
...A hard-working group is making headway in tackling problems arising
from college students living off-campus.
Complaints reached a crescendo on a couple of fronts
last year.
A discussion about group homes and halfway houses involved
questions about how many unrelated people should live together...
WOU
antiwar forum recalls Kent State dead:
Two men who were shot on May 4, 1970, share their stories.
Statesman Journal - 21 May 2004
...MONMOUTH — Joe Lewis stretched out his right arm and extended
his middle finger toward a line of Ohio National Guard soldiers. Then
a bullet tore through his abdomen.
Meanwhile, Jim Russell tried to duck behind a tree
when buckshot hit him in the temple and ripped off part of his knee.
That was more than 34 years ago...
Trash
to Treasure sale approaches
Centre Daily - 21 May 2004
...UNIVERSITY PARK -- What does it take to keep 75 tons of perfectly
useable items from ending up in a landfill?
Dedication. Time. And lots and lots of people.
For the third year, those elements are coming together
in Centre County United Way's Trash to Treasure sale...
Villa
Julie Opens In Owings Mills
Jewish Times - 21 May 2004
..."We are responding to student demand," said Glenda
LeGendre, Villa Julie's spokeswoman. "Students want the college
experience in housing. We already have a waiting list."
The residence buildings represent another stage in
Villa Julie's progress. Founded in 1947 as a two-year all-women's institution
with a religious affiliation, the school over the years has become a
private four-year co-educational college. Villa Julie attracts students
from every county in the state and now, hopefully, from the region,
according to Tim Campbell, Villa Julie's executive director for financial
affairs, who has been overseeing the campus' development.
Local
rental property owners criticized the city for the fairness of the program.
Eagle Publications - 20 May 2004
...MACOMB - Three years ago city aldermen voted to put in place a phased-in
inspection program. During the first three years each rental property
in the city was inspected for health and safety issues, with other potential
violations of the city's property maintenance code listed
as well, but only as recommendations.
Starting July 1 the inspection list will be started
over and the city's rental inspector will then be checking for all violations
of the city's property maintenance code...
Neighbors
Upset By Rowdy, Drunken College Students
KOIN - 20 May 2004
...MONMOUTH, Ore. -- A neighborhood in Monmouth says disrespectful college
students are taking over their family-friendly community, and nobody
is doing anything about it.
Neighbors say [their] home video is an example of unruly partiers on
their street...
OU
rejects offer by private group to keep Mill St. Apts. open
Athens News - 20 May 2004
...A group of investors is arguing that OU shouldn't tear down the Mill
Street Apartments, but should allow them to rehab the complex and continue
to run it as graduate and international student
housing.
"We think that the (complex) is sturdy, structurally
sound," explained Eugene F. Dunham, Jr., of Tampa, Fla. "It's
got a couple of issues, none of which seems crucial."...
Fox
to debut new series across calendar
Times Union - 20 May 2004
..."Athens," a drama from the creator of "The O.C.,"
about the battles between rich outsiders and townies in a New England
college town. It premieres in January...
High-Class
Handout
Tax incentives help trim the décor of luxury condos near the
Plaza.
The Pitch - 20 May 2004
...Things are happening south of the Country Club Plaza. The University
of Missouri-Kansas City is building a trendy residence hall along Oak
Street. A public library branch will occupy the lower floors of a $70
million office building under construction at 49th and Main streets.
New condominiums at 51st and Walnut streets pay homage to the Mediterranean
architecture of the Plaza...
Shops,
walkways eyed for Harvard Allston campus
Boston Globe - 20 May 2004
...CAMBRIDGE - The windswept and traffic-plagued trip over the Charles
River from Harvard Square to Allston could become a pleasant stroll
over a bridge lined with shops and covered walkways. It could also be
a quick ride on a state-of-the-art tram. Or a jaunt above a decked-over
riverside artery.
Those are among the blizzard of ideas to be released today by Harvard
University professors and administrators asked to suggest ways the university
should develop its 200 acres in Allston...
Forbes
mag high on State College
Centre Daily - 20 May 2004
...State College is the ninth-best "smaller
metro" area in which to start a career or business, according to
a ranking in a May edition of Forbes magazine.
The national assessment rated 318 metropolitan areas
on various criteria, including the cost of doing business, the number
of doctorates per capita, education levels, job growth, income growth,
the crime rate, the cost of doing business and the cost of living. Smaller
metro areas were defined as those with populations under 335,000...
Degrees
of risk
Telegraph, UK - 19 May 2004
...A landlord's best hope of turning a profit now is to take on student
tenants, writes Rose Gibbs. But how much of a gamble is it?
The image of student lets has long been that of the 1980s sitcom The
Young Ones. Who in their right mind would let a respectable property
to a bunch of ne'er-do-wells whose lives revolve around dope parties
and all-night essay crises, who will plot world revolution in the attic
but who never get around to washing up the breakfast things?...
Hill
slows down for summer sans students:
University area residents reflect on their neighborhood
...BOULDER - despite the fraternity galas one block away and the swarms
of students who drift past her front yard hunting for keggers, there's
something about University Hill that has kept Finley's parents there
for 10 years, with no plans to move.
"There are trade-offs. ... Do you want peace and
quiet, or do you want to live one block away from the park, the library
and restaurants?" Finley said. "You just suck it up and pray
you don't get another rock through your window. My parents have replaced
theirs a couple times."...
Merchants
brace for loss of student dollars this summer
Greeley Tribune - 19 May 2004
...The exodus of students from northern Colorado universities after
final exams means more than empty parking spaces
around campuses. Those suitcase students also take with them the cash
they spend at area stores.
Most merchants near the University of Northern Colorado
in Greeley and Colorado State University in Fort Collins know that students
leaving will mean fewer customers, so they take pre-emptive action by
ordering less merchandise, holding sales to attract those young consumers
who do stay and, generally, getting ready to wait it out. And of course,
there are always those reliable regulars who get them through the slow
times...
St.
Norbert College, De Pere end community police program for
financial reasons
Green Bay Press-Gazette - 19 May 2004
...A full-time officer will leave the beat at the end of this month
after the college failed to pick up half of the estimated
$65,000 cost and the city chose to direct its resources to a new “team
policing’’ project.
By all accounts, having an officer dedicated to foot
and bike patrols around the western rim of the college for the past
three years helped ease complaints of noise, rowdiness and vandalism
associated with off-campus housing. Fourth Street resident Laura Guild
fears those problems may return...
Binghamton
City Council
WICZ - 18 May 2004
...BINGHAMTON - The new zoning law could restrict where students can
live. Legislation proposed in Binghamton's City Council would allow
students to share houses that are designated as "common interest
households" meaning that the occupants can live together if they
share a lease, expenses and use the rooms appropiately. The new law
would restrict students from living in areas that are not zoned for
high occupancy. BU administrators say students should be able to choose
their own neighborhoods...
USA
pulls plug on sale of Hillsdale
Mobile Register - 18 May 2004
...The University of South Alabama has given up
on its negotiations to sell the Hillsdale housing development to a community
group.
In July 2001, the Hillsdale Area Community Development
Corp. had offered USA at least $23 million to buy the 750-plus homes
and lots that the university owns in the development, which lies between
the western side of the main USA campus and Cody Road.
The university wanted to escape the headaches of being
landlord for Hillsdale, where more than 300 USA-owned homes are vacant
and decaying. In many, front doors stand open and broken windows gape
at the street...
Off-Grid
College and Retirement Community in the Works
Pure Energy Systems - 17 May 2004
...PORT AUSTIN - A small group of families have gone together to purchase
20 acres of a decommissioned radar base on the thumb of Michigan. It
is being converted into "an off-grid college campus and retirement
community that will teach all the off-grid technologies, skilled trades,
as well as the normal college level academics."...
Attorney
gives OU students advice on dealing with police at spring parties
Athens News- 17 May 2004
...With Palmerfest and other spring parties on the near horizon, Maggie
Sallah, a staff attorney at the Center for Student Advocacy at Ohio
University, Wednesday evening discussed precautions students may take
to avoid criminal charges and to uphold their rights as citizens at
the university...
Palmerfest
parties on, despite intermittent rain, army of cops
Athens News- 17 May 2004
...The annual block party draws large crowds of Ohio University students
as well as out-of-town guests. Palmerfest features individual parties
at nearly every house on Palmer Street, a student neighborhood on Athens'
lower east side. The all-day fest -- in which drinking appeared to be
the main activity -- tested the city's newly enacted nuisance-party
ordinance...
Investors
queuing for campus properties
Otago Saily Times, Australia - 17 May 2004
...Typical of the larger Dunedin houses on the market is a Union St
house being marketed by Mr Cazemier as a blue-chip investment for $1.25
million. It was converted into 12 studios for students on fixed-term
tenancies worth a total $2410 a week.
Mr Cazemier said there had been several $1 million-plus
sales around the university in the past year and he expected the Union
St property to be popular with North Island or overseas investors...
Police
flood beer-soaked block party
Athens News- 17 May 2004
...The Athens Police enforced the new nuisance-party law four times
during Palmerfest on Saturday, the first time the law has been triggered
since it went into effect April 1.
Overall, a large and visible police presence appeared
to keep trouble to a minimum during the annual block party in the lower
east-side student neighborhood...
EDITORIAL:
Bike-friendly GF, EGF
Grand Forks Herald - 17 May 2004
...Missoula, Mont., Brunswick, Maine, and Corvalis, Ore., all are college
towns and famously good places to live. So what
have they got that the Grand Cities haven't got?
Designation as "bicycle friendly communities"
by the League of American Bicyclists, for one thing. The designation
captures a communitywide commitment to a high quality of life...
Alumni:
School ties entice home buyers
Atlanta Journal-Constitution - 17 May 2004
...Private developers building university-themed subdivisions are appealing
to alumni looking to reconnect to the glory days
of college or to be close to the intellectual stimulation of courses
and lectures. Some are geared to aging baby boomers or retirees and
have age restrictions.
Golfing communities aimed at graduates of Georgia Tech
and the University of Georgia are under construction, as is a condo
project near UGA's Sanford Stadium in Athens. These projects have created
alliances with alumni or athletic associations by promising cash and
a small percentages of sales...
Renters’
union to discuss hiring officer
Salem States,am-Journal - 17 May 2004
...MONMOUTH - Union spokeswoman Amanda Griffith described the new officer
as a “police officer for renters and for rental agencies.”
“It’s a possible answer to what’s
going on between renters and homeowners,” she said, referring
to the Griffin Estates neighborhood, where Western Oregon University
students renting houses have clashed with homeowners...
Writers
find quiet, quaint Hillsborough the right place to get creative
Herald-Sun 16 May 2004
..."We wanted to be close to Chapel Hill, but not necessarily in
the thick of it, so this seemed like a great compromise," Payne
said. "I like the small-town feeling of it and the closeness to
cultural things, closeness to the libraries at
UNC and Duke."
The combination of old-time, small-town feeling and
urban advantages and cultural attractions gives Hillsborough "a
little bit of the best of all possible worlds," he said.
Because of his home's location, Payne can stroll
downtown for dinner and to shops along Churton Street. But he also has
access to Duke and UNC's libraries for research needed for his books...
Portlander's
tale of '50s college couple rings true
Press Herald - 16 May 2004
...superbly written in accurate detail reflecting small-town America
46 years ago - David Karraker begins "Running
in Place." And manages to evoke an almost palpable sense of nostalgia.
"They made the turn and headed past the tree-shaded
homes on Main Street," he writes, "to the business district
- the Kroger's supermarket and the hardware and the bank and rows of
shops - with hardly a sideways glance, and onto a nearby tree-shaded
side street to the converted storefront apartment they'd rented two
weeks before."
Via
the BBC, two [college] towns meet over breakfast
Boston Globe - 16 May 2004
...But, comparing the two Cambridges, Dann said, "it's uncanny,
some of the similarities."
Both are centers of high technology that play host
to world-renowned universities (the University of Cambridge is about
500 years older than Harvard), have the same size population of roughly
100,000, and are located on rivers (the Charles is wider than the River
Cam). Both also struggle with problems such as traffic congestion (Maclean
praised the access here to public transportation), expensive housing,
and high retail rents that attract chain stores and push out local shops.
"It's impossible to get on the property ladder,"
Dann said of his Cambridge, a county town 48 miles northeast of London...
College town nixes development because codes are
not written for mixed use
Oxford, OH - 16 May 2004
EDITOR'S NOTE:
The Oxford, Ohio, planning commission unanimously voted down a proposal
for a mixed use commercial/residential development because the city
codes, revised last year, are not written with a definition for mixed
use.
"We're trying to do something that basically raises
the bar," the developer said. He urged the planning commission
members to approve "something special" for this small college
town.
"What do they want to see?" the developer's
attorney asked. "A first-class development or a general retail
development over which they have no control."
See the architect's plan for Stewart Square
at this link.
If you're interested in college town planning issues, it will be well
worth your time. He provides a comments link as well.
Taverns
under the microscope
La Crosse Tribune - 16 May 2004
...Mayor John Medinger said he wants the task force to "look at
all issues and make dramatic recommendations back
to the city."
"I don't mind looking at downtown bars,"
Medinger said, "but if you drive by the university on a nice spring
day, you'll see 50 people out on the lawn drinking."
Medinger and Woodruff both identified house parties as significant contributors
to alcohol abuse and said something needs to be done about them...
Same
river, different results
Winona Daily News - 16 May 2004
...As La Crosse, Wis., grapples with the drowning of Jared Dion, many
people wonder why Winona hasn't had similar drownings.
After all, both cities are on the Mississippi River. Both cities
have large student populations. Both cities have downtowns within blocks
of the river. Both cities have downtown bars. Both cities have riverfront
parks near downtown. Both riverfront parks have sea walls and deep water
so large boats can dock.
So why, some people wondered, aren't drunken
Winona students drowning like they are in La Crosse?
Despite the similarities, there are significant differences between
La Crosse and Winona...
City
housing plan spurs debate
Students may miss public hearing
Press & Sun-Bulletin - 15 May 2004
...BINGHAMTON - City Council is now considering a new piece of legislation,
introduced by Sanfilippo at a recent work session, called a "common-interest
household," which would allow four or more nonrelated individuals
to live together in areas of the city zoned for high-density housing.
That way, O'Gara, Pinto and the other 10 women could continue living
in the house legally, since it is zoned R-5...
Pig
On Leash Makes College Root Out Policy Meaning
Tampa Tribune - 15 May 2004
...SARASOTA - Robin Crews has a beef with New College's pet visitation
policy.
Or maybe it's pork, as in, her 15-pound potbellied
pig. The 3-month-old Vietnamese miniature pig, affectionately named
Beef, was recently banned from the college campus after school administrators
enforced a policy that bans dogs from certain areas...
Ordinance
introduced to end 'McMansions'
Princeton Packet - 14 May 2004
...The council unanimously introduced the ordinance
and will hold a public hearing June 22.
Several residents and one local builder spoke out against portions of
the ordinance, claiming the change would lower property values and unjustly
deprive property owners of their rights.
Other residents expressed support for the proposed ordinance.
Mayor Joseph O'Neill said while the ordinance in effect represents a
downzoning, the purpose is to preserve economic and social diversity
among the borough's neighborhoods.
"We should be quite clear that this would not allow owners to build
what they currently could do right now," Mayor O'Neill said. With
land valued at $400,000 an acre in the borough, the municipality...
Commission
Denies Landmark Status to Amos Cottage
Berkeley Daily Planet - 14 May 2004
...preservationists launched their campaign only after the city’s
Zoning Adjustment Board had approved demolition of the house to make
way for a six-unit residential complex on the site.
Architect Timothy Rempel, who owns the property with
spouse Elizabeth Miranda, appeared to argue against preservation.
“Given the dilapidated condition of the structure
and its lack of exterior or interior integrity and low historical value,
we want to replace it with needed housing,” Rempel said. “Six
families will be able to live where one does now.”...
Duke:
City request 'unrealistic'
Herald Sun - 14 May 2004
...DURHAM -
Citing Duke University's myriad contributions to Durham, a university
official said Thursday the city's request for at least $10 million to
help pay for a proposed downtown performing arts center was unrealistic.
The city also wants Duke to pay $1 million a year in
lieu of property taxes for the next 10 years, a sum the university will
negotiate, said John Burness, Duke's senior vice president for public
affairs and government relations...
Geoffroy
speaks on future of Veishea, ISU
Ames Tribune - 13 May 2004
...While the town-gown relationship is good, the student-community
relationship is not.
"I think it's important for leaders to
remember there are 28,000 students that have a very, very strong interest
in the community and what happens to it," Geoffroy said. "They
should not be forgotten in important decisions."
Geoffroy hopes that a commission under development
to examine the relationship between students and the community will
reveal why it is strained...
Chancellor:
KU wants to be good neighbor
Journal-World - 14 May 2004
...LAWRENCE - In an online chat on www.ljworld.com, the Journal-World's
Web site, Hemenway said the university was near an agreement with the
city on proposed zoning that would give the city more control over campus
expansion.
"Obviously we did not have this process well enough
developed on the Ohio Street properties," he said. "The final
result of that episode has, I think, made the university more sensitive,
and I have high hopes that the future will see this process work well."...
This
week’s winners and losers
Statesman Journal - 14 May 2004
...MONMOUTH - Loser: Some folks think police and neighbors overreacted
to a fight and underage drinking last weekend in Monmouth’s Griffin
Estates neighborhood, home to many Western Oregon University students.
“If you live in a college town, it should be expected it’s
going to be loud on weekends,” Kayla Peterson told a reporter.
Correction: If you go to college, it should be expected that you’re
trying to become a mature adult. Self-control and consideration are
part of that...
Organization
gives books to needy children
Spectator - 13 May 2004
...The UW-Eau Claire First Book College Advisory
Board was founded by Don Mowry, director of service learning, in fall
2003.
The organization was brought to campus in order to
benefit the community through the efforts of Eau Claire students, said
board co-chair junior Jill Bryan.
"We try to raise as much to donate books to schools
and programs who help low-income families," Bryan said. "We
stress the importance of having books in the home and reading them."...
City
seeks $1 million per year from Duke
Herald-Sun - 13 May 2004
...DURHAM -- The city of Durham wants Duke University to pay $1 million
a year in lieu of property taxes for the next
10 years and to pony up at least $10 million to help pay for a proposed
downtown performing arts center.
In a May 7 letter to outgoing Duke President Nan Keohane,
City Manager Marcia Conner wrote that while the city appreciates the
university's generosity in the community and its economic impact on
Durham, city leaders believe it should do more to cover the cost of
government services on which its students and employees rely...
Students,
good neighbors?
California Aggie - 13 May 2004
...As new and long-settled residents of Davis alike - especially those
living in the central part of town - find themselves increasingly surrounded
by students, they are forced to put generational and age differences
aside and live in harmony - or at least attempt
to.
"There are some students living in this community that are horrible
neighbors, and some that are wonderful neighbors," said Davis Police
Department spokesperson Lt. Colleen Turay...
Students'
flatmates are bugs and mice
The Guardian, UK - 13 May 2004
...The National Union of Students yesterday called for all student accommodation
to be licensed in an attempt to end exploitation
by profit-hunting private landlords.
British Gas claimed landlords were risking students'
lives by failing to fulfil legal obligations to have gas appliances
professionally inspected every year. Chris Bielby, head of quality and
standards, said: "The rise in amateur landlords means people are
gambling with students' lives. A shabby carpet is one thing but the
time has come to turn up the heat on those who are knowingly putting
students at risk."..
UK
cops wield 'chocolate cosh' against drunks
Independent Online - 13 May 2004
...LONDON - Police confronting the effects of the affluent society after
drink-fuelled weekend partying - particularly in university towns -
are fed up.
"Alcohol-fuelled violence in town and city centres
on Friday and Saturday nights has become the norm. We need to alter
this state of affairs if we are going to make any impact on the rise
in violent offences," says Rick Naylor, president of the Police
Superintendents' Association...
Renters
Rumble Over Student Housing
WBNG - 12 May 2004
...BINGHAMTON - Construction crews are busy turning parts of the Vestal
Park Plaza into new apartments for Binghamton University
students.
The multi-million dollar project is the work of Newman
Development.
But now the company has asked Broome County's Industrial
Development Agency to bond, tax free, up to 60 million dollars for the
project...
Castlebar
landlords feeling the pinch
Western People, Ireland - 12 May 2004
...One Castlebar landlord, who did not wish to be named, claimed the
large number of new developments and housing estates in the area has
caused a saturation in the rent market and said he was finding it extremely
difficult to get tenants in more recent times for properties he owned
in the centre of the town. He found that most people who were renting
houses and rooms in houses were students. “There are only 1,000
students in the town however, and if students find suitable accommodation
in their first year, the liklihood is they will stay there until they
are finished in the GMIT. A lot of people who are working in the town
are finding it easier to buy a house and the numbers renting have rapidly
decreased.”..
Student
complex plans refused for second time
Western People, Ireland - 12 May 2004
...The Students' Union of GMIT, Castlebar, has criticised a decision
to refuse planning permission for a second student complex in the
town.
The first complex, which was the controversial application
at Saleen was refused permission following an appeal to An Bord Pleanala
last March. The proposed development would have catered for up to 250
students.
Castlebar Town Council have now refused permission
to Martin Moran Builders for the construction of 22 students accommodation
dwellings or apartment units with associated site works at The Curragh,
Castlebar...
One
student's trash could be another's treasure
Ithaca Times - 12 May 2004
... "The goal of RSVP is to keep recyclable goods out of the landfill.
Our mission is to protect the environment from needless pollution through
reuse rather than abuse," Waye said.
With the creation of R.S.V.P, Ithaca College students who live off-campus
will finally have a pick-up service option.
For more information or to schedule a pick-up with R.S.V.P. contact
their dispatch at 280-1633, e-mail them at RSVPdispatch@twcny.rr.com
or visit the Web site at RSVPdispatch@cjb.net.
* "Dump and Run" is a Cornell University-organized student
recycling drive that began as a pilot program at Cornell last year.
It has been organized and is used at other colleges throughout the United
States.
Cameron Polek, who took over the program at Cornell this year, said
the group is "an outlet to take the things that students throw
out and regenerate them."
Boxes are placed throughout dorms, cooperatives, sororities, fraternities
and graduate housing buildings on campus. The boxes were put out on
May 10 and will stay there until the May 22. Students, as they prepare
to move out, can throw any usable items they don't want into these boxes.
Trucks donated by Big Red Shipping and Storage pick up the contents
of the boxes and take the items to a donated warehouse space. Once in
the warehouses, volunteers from Cornell and the Tompkins County Probation
Department sort out the items throughout most of the summer. After everything
has been sorted the items are priced for a large yard sale, scheduled
for August 21 and 22 this year. A huge tent will be set up on north
campus and all of the items will be available at discount prices...
Report
suggests drinking on campus
The Forum - 12 May 2004
..."Kids are going to drink regardless," he said. "They're
either going to do it elsewhere or on campus."
The researchers said students should be taught moderate,
responsible drinking habits, and the messages should come from their
peers. They also advocate training for faculty, staff and parents, and
said additional research is needed on the views of alcohol among fourth-
to sixth-graders...
Monmouth
police tighten clamp on neighborhood
Statesman Journal - 12 May 2004
...A fight and underage drinking during the weekend led Monmouth police
to crack down on the Griffin Estates neighborhood, where homeowners
have been at odds for months with partying college students who rent
houses there.
Monmouth police passed through the neighborhood 18
times in five hours Friday evening, Sgt. Page McBeth said...
UK
landscape architecture students unveil vision for Oldham:
Ideas on housing, parks, businesses please residents
The Courier-Journal - 11 May 2004
...The students' goal was to make Oldham the "most livable county"
in Kentucky, with an emphasis on preserving rural character, controlling
growth and sprawl, maintaining open space, and providing more in-county
jobs to cut commuting time.
Development of parks and recreation was a major theme,
the students said, because those amenities help create livable communities,
promote healthy lifestyles and attract new businesses.
City
Council likely to block luxury condo development
The Diamondback - 11 May 2004
...COLLEGE PARK - A motion set for tonight's meeting to deny the preliminary
plans also indicates the project surpasses the 48-unit per acre maximum
set in the city's sector plan. The plan also limits building height
in the area to five stories, though Vogel said
a student apartment high rise planned for adjacent property also violates
these specifications. University View is slated to house 350 one- and
two-bedroom apartments in a 13-story building.
"It will be the same size as the building next
door, University View," Vogel said, who added that he, like University
View developer Otis Warren, agreed to contribute money to restore the
nearby Paint Branch Creek, though the drafted motion said there is no
formal commitment to this...
Will
another new apartment complex be able to attract enough tenants?
Athens News - 10 May 2004
...Will residents of Athens' south side go for the idea of yet another
large student apartment complex? Are there enough students to fill it?
And will the project be able to attract students to move out of houses
in town, to live on the farthest southern tip of the city?...
Banding
together, pulling apart
Press Herald - 10 May 2004
...PORTLAND, ME - Many elected officials came from neighborhood organizations,
including Councilor James Cohen, who jump-started the North Deering
group, and Councilor William Gorham, who was president
of the Munjoy Hill Neighborhood Organization.
"It's a place to get started, regardless of race,
sex or place in society," said Carol Schiller, a member of the
Woodfords-Oakdale group and founder of the Greater Portland Neighborhoods
Coalition.
Developers
consider student housing for downtown project
The Towerlight - 10 May 2004
...TOWSON - A development that could add off-campus student housing
to downtown Towson is in the works.
University officials are in discussions with local
private developer Cordish Company and leasing agent Heritage Properties
about a complex rumored to include restaurants and stores in addition
to housing...
New
Paltz looks at apartment inspections
Poughkeepsie Journal - 10 May 2004
...The change will enable inspections of an estimated 50 to 75 dwelling
units. Announced visits to these apartments could
begin this month.
''We're looking for fire-safety issues mainly,'' Building
Inspector Alison Murray said Thursday. ''We're not looking to see whether
you do the dishes.''...
Housing
price gap a $61,000 problem
Arizona Daily Sun - 9 May 2004
...FLAGSTAFF - Homeowners paying more than 30 percent in housing costs
could be having trouble meeting the payments.
Homeownership in Flagstaff stands at 48.2 percent of
all households, which is about in the middle of similar college towns
in the Mountain West with large numbers of non-homeowning college students
counted by the census as households...
Palo
Alto-Stanford committee sheds longtime cloak of secrecy
Mercury News - 8 May 2004
...After meeting in secret for decades on town-gown issues, a liaison
committee between the Palo Alto City Council and Stanford University
held its first public meeting this week -- heeding the advice of the
city's attorney who warned that closed hearings might violate state
law...
Council
passes chronic-nuisance ordinance
Salem States,am-Journal - 7 May 2004
...MONMOUTH - City Council has voted 4 to 2 to
pass a new chronic nuisance ordinance.
The new ordinance, which makes a home a chronic nuisance
after it gets two nuisance violations within 120 days, took effect Tuesday.
If another citation is written within 30 days, the homeowner can be
cited and could face a fine of $500.
“We are so pleased that that passed,” said
Kathy Downey, a homeowner in Griffin Estates. That neighborhood has
had problems between home-owning families who want peace and quiet,
and college students who rent houses and occasionally party.
A proposed ordinance changing the maximum number of
renters in a home from five to three is still before the planning commission...
Kean
hears residents’ complaints about renters
Atlanticville - 7 May 2004
..."The stories that residents told me of their daily experiences
with disorderly tenants living next door to their homes were terrible,"
Kean said. "No one should have their quality
of life compromised by their neighbors."
Ocean and other neighboring towns have identified problems
with seasonal rental properties that are occupied by Monmouth University
students from September to May and then becoming vacation homes for
out-of-town tenants from June to August...
Love
Thy Neighborhood
Cornell Daily Sun - 7 May 2004
...ITHACA - Oral arguments in Cornell's second lawsuit against Ithaca
in relentless pursuit of the misplaced University Avenue parking lot
are scheduled for today. This case is an appeal of the December 18,
2003 Ithaca Landmarks Preservation Commission (ILPC) decision to deny
the University a certificate of appropriateness for
175 brightly lit and impermeable parking spaces on the Treman Estate.
Needless to say, I am rooting for the city.
Last fall, after winning a lawsuit against the Planning
and Development Board -- which voted 5-2 against the parking lot in
February 2003 -- Cornell presented its parking lot proposal to the ILPC,
because the area in question was declared an historic district in July
2003 by a 9-1 vote of the Ithaca Common Council.
ILPC members decided 4-1 not to grant a certificate
of appropriateness, having deemed parking not central enough to Cornell's
educational mission to justify destroying an historic landscape designed
at the turn of the 20th century by Warren Manning, a nationally renowned
landscape architect, for Robert Treman, a famed conservationist who
donated nearly all of the area's beautiful, natural, public places to
the state, the city, or Cornell University...
Bill
asks UC to pay for growth
Contra Costa Times - 7 May 2004
...BERKELEY - Bates had been elected mayor on a promise to end the acrimony
that has poisoned town/gown relations in the past. But he also promised
to protect the city's interests dealing with the university, which has
traditionally held the upper hand in negotiations because, as a state
agency, it is exempt from local jurisdiction.
His solution was a two-track approach. On one hand,
he dangled a carrot in front of the university by establishing more
cooperative working relationships between UC officials and high-level
city staff. The result was the university's unprecedented announcement
last month that it would voluntarily submit its new downtown hotel/convention
center to the city's permit review process, which it was not legally
bound to do...
Neighborhood
dispute lands in city council committee
Missoulian - 6 May 2004
..."It looks like we've got the makings of one of those perfect
storms here," university-area resident Harold Hoem told the Plat,
Annexation and Zoning Committee on Wednesday near the end of two hours
of debate on the matter. 636 Evans hit the public radar last Monday
when 18 neighbors used the council's regular public comment period to
object to the renter's loud parties, and landlords Brad and Adina Roe's
plan to build a second home in the back yard...
Neighborhood
Prepares For Cinco de Mayo Celebration
WCPO - 6 May 2004
...For the last two years Cincinnati police in riot gear had
to bring control to violent crowds gathering on Stratford Avenue.
This new law passed by the state said if a student
is convicted of rioting he or she could get kicked out of school.
So now folks at UC and in the neighborhood are getting
the word out through fliers and so far it seems to be working...
CODE
OF CONDUCT TO BE REVISED:
Changes to affect off-campus acts
The News-Record - 6 May 2004
...CINCINNATI - Four major revisions to the university's Student Code
of Conduct are being considered, Cummins said.
The first change would include the Ohio Revised Code
Section 3333.38, House Bill 95 in the UC Student Code of Conduct as
an informational tool for students, Cummins said.
House Bill 95 stipulates that "an individual who
is convicted of, pleads guilty to, or is adjudicated a delinquent child"
because of aggravated riot, failure to disperse or misconduct at an
emergency, "shall be ineligible to receive any financial assistance
supported by state funds for two calendar years from the time the individual
applies for assistance."
The bill also stipulates that a student will be immediately
expelled based on conviction of, or pleading guilty to aggravated rioting
or rioting...
College
students are discouraged from voting by local election boards
Rolling Stone - 6 May 2004
...Federal and state courts have clearly established that students have
the right to vote where they go to school, even if they live in a dorm.
But interviews with college students, civil-rights attorneys, political
strategists and legal experts reveal that election officials all over
the country are erecting illegal barriers to keep young voters from
casting ballots. From New Hampshire to California, officials have designed
complex questionnaires that prevent college students from registering,
hired high-powered attorneys to keep them off the rolls, shut down polling
places on campuses and even threatened to arrest and imprison young
voters. Much as local registrars in the South once used poll taxes and
literacy tests to deny the vote to black citizens, some county election
officials now employ an intimidating mix of legal bullying and added
paperwork to prevent civic-minded young people from casting ballots...
College
town mulls ‘animal house’ law
Atlanticville- 6 May 2004
...WEST LONG BRANCH — A new ordinance being drafted by the Borough
Council would require all rental units and their occupants to be registered
with the borough.
The ordinance — aimed at preventing the development
of any "animal houses," which are overcrowded, have unruly
tenants or are not properly maintained — would make registration
the responsibility of the owners...
Mayor
to Rotary: The town, it is a-changin'
Athens News - 6 May 2004
...ATHENS, OH - "what will Athens be like in five, 10, 20 years?"
The city is trying to provide an answer to that by putting together
a comprehensive planning document, he said, but in many ways the future
is uncertain.
Taking a verbal tour through the city, Abel reviewed
the changes that have happened, and are going to happen, throughout
town...
Plans
for old Wise Hospital might involve dorms
Coalfield - 6 May 2004
...WISE - Businessman Thomas Kennedy aims to turn the former Wise Appalachian
Regional Hospital into dormitory space for college students. But dormitories
are not allowed in a Residential A zone, which
is how the land is zoned.
Kennedy wants Wise Town Council to add dormitories
as an approved use within Residential B zones. His goal then is to have
the property rezoned from Residential A to Residential B...
Long-term
Cal plan revealed:
Campus foresees 18% more buildings
San Francisco Chronicle - 6 May 2004
...BERKELEY - Total campus population -- students, faculty and staff
-- is expected to swell 12 percent above the 2001-02
level to 51,260, equal to half the city's current residents.
The new building bulk, a total of 2.2 million square
feet, is three times the growth projected in the previous 15-year plan
for 1990-2005. These figures do not include student housing, which is
projected to rise 32 percent by 2020.
A particular source of alarm is the estimated increase
of 2,300 parking spaces, a jump of 30 percent that Chakos said "does
not bode well for the larger community and overall quality of life."...
Construction
Plan Irks Residents
Daily Nexus - 5 May 2004
...ISLA VISTA - The 40 people that attended the meeting were nearly
uniform in their dissatisfaction with the draft report, which gauged
the environmental impact of the university's proposed residential development,
including the construction of 236 faculty and 151 family student housing
units. Residents protested possible traffic congestion, the impact on
natural habitats and vernal pools, scenic view reduction and population
density...
W&J
on verge of student housing boom
Observer-Reporter - 5 May 2004
...WASHINGTON, PA - Construction of 10 new dormitories that would house
nearly 300 Washington & Jefferson College students is planned to
begin this fall...
UNO
ordinance would allow high-rises in West Campus
news8austin.com - 5 May 2004 (video)
...AUSTIN - The plan also calls for less parking spaces and more affordable
housing, but some are still opposed to it.
"We are concerned because the plan is very drastic,"
Rani Ilai, president of the West Campus Neighborhood Association, said.
The group agrees with the idea behind the plan, but
believes high-rise developments should be considered on a case-by-case
basis.
"There's going to be like an old house, and next to it, two feet
from the property line, a tower. It's going to look kind of strange,
we feel," Ilai said...
Plans
revitalize rental debate
Duluth News Tribune - 5 May 2004
...Students who sign up to be Better Neighbors are assigned a 1-block
area near where they live. They take inventory
of students living in their area, then share the students' names and
addresses with longtime residents also living there.
"Instead of having to call the cops, neighbors
can call the residents who are causing the problems," Hartman said.
Two or three times during the school year, the Better
Neighbor student updates the list and touches base with long-term residents
to make sure problems are being resolved. Students are paid $100 from
UMD for their work...
La
Crosse deaths: Accidents? Murders?
Star Tribune - 5 May 2004
...LA CROSSE, WI - The night Jared Dion disappeared, his friends recalled
seeing him one minute, and then not seeing him the next. He had been
right there, leaving John's Bar with everyone else to catch the bus
home when he must have slipped away, they said...
Property
owners voice concerns over affordable housing project
Roanoake Times - 4 May 2004
...BLACKSBURG - Owners of properties along Blackburg's Lee and Prospect
streets last week got their first chance to offer advice on a plan to
build affordable housing in their neighborhood...
"We want people to point at these houses and say
that's what Blacksburg means when it says low-income housing. We want
to eliminate any stigma attached to the term 'affordable housing.' This
project is a model because it has the opportunity to do that,"
...
Citywatch:
Historic status shouldn't trump seniors' concerns
Daily Northwestern - 4 May 2004
...EVANSTON - I used to think landmark status
was only used in Evanston to screw Northwestern. I was wrong.
Apparently it's also used to screw senior citizens.
In the fall Mather LifeWays announced a $125 million
plan to replace two of its senior care facilities in Evanston, saying
they had become obsolete.
But there was a problem: One of the buildings looks
nice...
Get
the university involved
California Aggie - 4 May 2004
...DAVIS - Students need more affordable housing in Davis, and ASUCD
wants to help. A preliminary meeting with John Whitcombe of Tandem Properties
has made the Nishi property near the Mondavi Center for the Performing
Arts an option for a development akin to The Colleges at La Rue. While
this may seem appealing for commuting students, ASUCD has yet to prove
itself capable of handling a large-scale housing project, and should
take precautions before fully committing itself...
Beware
the ‘Anti-Cruz’
Santa Cruz Sentinel - 3 May 2004
...Building bigger structures for "single family" units is
the beginning of the Anti-Cruz. What will come with these structures
are more people, more cars, more wants and needs, and a different skyline
for the city. Personally, I’m in agreement that the only reason
we need new large buildings in the area is because of an earthquake.
Bringing in more apartment living to Santa Cruz will only degrade the
quality of life for everyone in the community. Sure, it will allow people,
most likely students instead of single families, to live in the units,
but you have to look at how that affects everyone.
Buying a home in Santa Cruz, albeit difficult and expensive, is an adventure
and a commitment that says "I’ll be here for a while and
I’ll care about what happens in my city" — as opposed
to general apartment living (especially when students are involved),
which might imply "I’ll be around for a little while, but
I’m really not too concerned with what goes on outside my social
setting as long as it doesn’t affect my ability to have a good
time with my friends while maybe getting some work done."...
Greeks
Help Clean Up Collegetown
Cornell Daily Sun - 3 May 2004
...ITHACA - Members of the Greek community gathered yesterday afternoon
for the biannual Collegetown Cleanup. The three-hour event was a joint
effort between the Interfraternity Council, the Panhellenic Association
and the Multicultural Greek Letter Council. Fraternity and sorority
members who participated met at The Nines and were assigned streets
by Erica Furfaro '05, vice president of university and community affairs
for the Panhellenic Association...
University-area
rental has become lightning rod in ongoing community dispute
Missoulian - 2 May 2004
...Leaseholder Steve Marlenee says the conflict with his neighbors started
almost the day he moved in at 636 Evans, back in January 2003. But the
conflict leaped citywide last week after some
of those neighbors learned Marlenee's landlords, Brad and Adina Roe,
intended to build a second house in the back yard.
Those neighbors took their case to the Missoula City
Council public comment period last Monday. For more than an hour, they
vented their complaints about Marlenee and his roommates: the loud parties
and frequent calls for police or fire protection, the spilled garbage
and resulting skunks, the yard filled with dog piles and the street
filled with cars.
But what moved the testimony beyond the block was the
Roes' request for a boundary line relocation that would produce a second
buildable lot on the property. Brad Roe owns nine rental properties
in Missoula, and has done a similar lot division for a backyard house
just a block away from 636 Evans...
HOW
SUITE IT IS
NY Post - 2 May 2004
...The 20-year-old NYU bookworm, who spent the last eight months sleeping
in the bowels of his school's library because he couldn't afford student
housing, managed to wriggle his way out of Bobst and squirm into NYU's
posh Lafayette Residence Hall...
Police
try keg limit to tame annual Madison block party
AP - 2 May 2004
MADISON - Madison police decided an annual spring
block party that draws thousands of drunken revelers was out of control,
so they set a four-keg limit per household.
Violating the keg crackdown for Saturday's Mifflin
Street block party - which still gives each apartment between 700 and
800 beers - puts individual parties at risk of being shut down, police
warned. Mifflin Street, near the University of Wisconsin campus, is
lined with old, wood-frame houses divided into apartments, which meant
some addresses were permitted as many as 16 kegs...
POINT
OF VIEW: Griping is a cornerstone of American way of life
Times Dispatch - 1 May 2004
...In a town where the population is about half students at the College
of William and Mary, town-gown relations have been simmering for months.
City officials, ticked off at the noise and less-than-immaculate
appearance associated with buildings that have been rented out as student
housing, have passed local laws to put limits on partying and the numbers
of students that can live in one dwelling.
Students, in turn, have railed against what they see
as persecution by the city and the nonstudent residents that support
the ordinances. At one point this spring, four W&M students were
attempting to run for the City Council in a fight against the perceived
unfair treatment of students.
Only one student was ultimately allowed on the ballot,
and that happened after he quit school. Meanwhile, annoyance on both
sides continues to bubble...
Guest
Viewpoint: City must end double standard in zoning laws
Press & Sun-Bulletin - 1 May 2004
...BINGHAMTON - Because the Binghamton zoning ordinance technically
excludes all temporary student housemates from low-density zones, it
is too strict. Most college towns have a law like the one being proposed,
which accommodates the legitimate need for student housing by allowing
three unrelated people to live together in any dwelling, no questions
asked.
The ordinance also recognizes the need for predictable
enforcement. Thus, a group of four or more unrelated people is assumed
not to be like a family, but also has the opportunity to show that it
is exceptional. The appellate court has upheld this ordinance as constitutional...
UGA
Waiting List Swells to 1,000
WXIA - 1 May 2004
...ATHENS - This fall, freshmen will be required to live on campus,
with the $102 million East Campus Village, the newest on-campus student
housing in more than 35 years, expected to open. The four new
residence halls will accommodate 1,200 more upperclassmen and athletes...
Storm
water puts UNC, town at odds
Herald-Sun - 1 May 2004
...CHAPEL HILL - "It's not like we're asking for any services from
the town of Chapel Hill," Reinhardt said Friday. "From what
I know, our program is just as far along, if not further along, than
their program. There is really no reason for us to be part of a storm-water
utility when we have our own system, our own permit, our
own compliance program and mitigation measures."
He repeated the university's point that taxpayers already
are funding storm-water efforts on the campus and shouldn't have to
"pay twice" by contributing to Chapel Hill's utility...
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