The University Campus Planning Committee will hold a public hearing Friday at 9:30 a.m. in the EMU Fir Room to discuss revisions to the East Campus Area long-term plan.
University planners have tried to alleviate neighborhood concern about new development by hosting a series of public workshops and discussion forums. However, several neighbors and past residents still express discontent for the plan and implications it may have for the area.
The hearing will address revisions and amendments stemming from community input received at a Nov. 4 committee meeting.
The area, commonly called the Fairmount neighborhood, stretches from Agate Street to Villard Street and from East 19th Avenue to East 15th Avenue. It contains approximately 100 residential homes, two-thirds of which would be destroyed or removed after full implementation of the 20-year plan.
“This area has been a haven for low-income University students and their families,” wrote University alumna M.L. Walden, in a letter to the editor published in the Emerald. “Without the low rent housing in this neighborhood, thousand of past University families could not have afforded the education they sought.”
For more information, contact the University Planning Office at 346-5562.

— Aimee Rudin