As the University planners battle away for a new dorm site (actually three buildings are being proposed), it is very obvious which site should have been chosen for the Honors College-“themed” dorm. The reasonable location for the $75 million public project would have been the site Nike operatives claimed (East 13th Avenue and Agate Street) for a development called the Academic Learning Center (cost of project undisclosed).
The siting of this controversial private project — an academic center for athletes only — on public land is a new low for dysfunctional UO planning. This dorm conflict may reach a better outcome if the public is well informed of the time and place of the next Campus Planning Committee meeting about this subject. The CPC is more likely to rush forward with little or no information if there are very few witnesses present. Lastly, where are these parking lots which will supposedly replace the spaces lost at the proposed dorm(s) site?
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New dorm project needs to be more transparent
Daily Emerald
December 1, 2009
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