General University Area Updates and Rumours

[danbrotherston]

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??

Lol...UW is a major obstacle to good urban planning and design, and often oppose city projects to improve things (their influence has significantly degraded city/region plans around the IHT and the ION line).

So I find it unlikely that they are going to start making good decisions any time soon.

But they don't really shy away from paving parking lots. They seem to prefer to build on greenspace...which is pretty shitty for students, but they do occasionally build on parking lots. They also have no lack of empty land to build surface parking, and have no care about how far students (or faculty) must walk. The management level staff are insulated by parking in their garage under needless he...erm...Needles Hall.