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 attempted to alleviate neighborhood concern
over
new development by hosting a series of public workshops and discussion
forums. However, several neighbors and past residents are still
expressing
discontent for the plan and the implications it may hold 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 Alumnus 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.