General University Area Updates and Rumours

[ZEBuilder]

Have there ever been any rumours of UW deciding to build a parking garage to free up some land for new buildings? The East Campus area at Phillip/Columbia have 5 buildings in a sea of surface parking, literally right north of the UW LRT stop. There are the two massive student lots at Seagram/University that are also right beside the Waterloo Park LRT stop, and right next to their existing student residences that they are actively growing (ie: the new indigenous-inspired res).  There is a ton of UW surface parking in the R&T Park that is for students; when you look at the parking to building ratio up there, it's kind of ridiculous.

At some point, they're going to need to scrap some surface lots, right??

There is a master plan which builds on most of the existing parking, with a parking garage built next to where E6 is. But right now they're working on M4 and the new Res building so they will get rid of the parking eventually, I know parking lot C is partly in the flood plain so it might be a parking lot for the foreseeable future.