General University Area Updates and Rumours

[timc]

Or they could, gasp, allow (at least in Northdale) on street parking like most cities in this planet do.

I imagine there is a decent revenue stream coming out of parking bylaw enforcement in Northdale.

[darts]

Or they could, gasp, allow (at least in Northdale) on street parking like most cities in this planet do.

It's nice having the streets empty for when there is a heavy snow.

[BuildingScout]

It's nice having the streets empty for when there is a heavy snow.

Other places seem to manage with the same or more snow than us, e.g. Buffalo and Rochester.

[tomh009]

Or they could, gasp, allow (at least in Northdale) on street parking like most cities in this planet do.

I imagine there is a decent revenue stream coming out of parking bylaw enforcement in Northdale.  

You could replace that with a street parking permit revenue stream ...

[Pheidippides]

I stumbled across this proposal, the South Commons Conceptual Plan, for renovations to the south main entrance of the University of Waterloo.
   

It looks like a phased approach to what was in the last campus master plan (2009).

The request for pre-qualification has already closed and the contract is expected to be awarded in spring of 2016 with construction completed during summer of 2016.

Also, the campus master plan is on the agenda for the board of governors building and properties committee for May of 2016,  but I think that is just an annual thing done every May or as needed and not the initiation of a full formal update.

[Markster]

I hear tell of earthworks already getting underway in the grad house green

[timio]

Update from last Monday's Daily Bulletin.

[rangersfan]

I see the two houses on the King St side next to 1 Columbia are fenced off.
I suspect a project is underway here.

[Markster]

I see the two houses on the King St side next to 1 Columbia are fenced off.
I suspect a project is underway here.

Yes.
They're becoming a parking lot for 1 Columbia.

[rangersfan]

That's ugly

[Pheidippides]

I see the two houses on the King St side next to 1 Columbia are fenced off.
I suspect a project is underway here.

Yes.
They're becoming a parking lot for 1 Columbia.

How is that allowed?

[Markster]

How is that allowed?

You can read all about it at this post from last August:
http://www.waterlooregionconnected.com/s...5#pid10425

[Pheidippides]

Progress on the "south commons" project as of yesterday:
   

[notmyfriends]

They've also started work on the St.Paul's expansion, I noticed yesterday. Fewer and fewer open spaces on campus accessible.

https://uwaterloo.ca/stpauls/campus-expansion

[tomh009]

Fewer and fewer open spaces on campus accessible.

Yes.  It's definitely not 1986 any more.