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Originally Posted by Townie709
Good news! A larger single building makes more practical sense than two smaller buildings spread out across campus anyways.
About the parking situation, I was shocked that the new parking garage built near the Health Science Center was only 4 stories. When they began building I was under the impression that it would be at least 8 floors, as the demand for additional university and hospital parking was already there and is still ever growing.
Instead of building more 4 story garages and taking up valuable land all over the campus, they should evaluate just how much parking they will need now and in the future and build a larger/taller garage that will supply for those needs. If they go the route of building a new garage every 5 years they are going to run out of vacant space very quickly.
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MUN should be working closer with the city and developers to encourage more student housing within the vicinity of the university. Something I've noticed in my current apartment hunt in Fredericton is that there is an effort to increase off-campus housing options. There are a multitude of apartment buildings within walking distance of STU, UNB and NBCC, whereas MUN is surrounded by single family homes that are getting chopped up for an additional basement apartment here and there. MUN is going the right way by increasing residence space, and can open more after the current science building is knocked down in about 10 years or so, but there is an economic opportunity for developers to put up more apartment complexes near campus that is not being realized by anybody.
If more students could get accomodations near campus, there would be far less need for driving from apartments in new construction neighbourhoods like Airport Heights and Kenmount Terrace (2 places a lot of my friends lived when I was out there) to get to class. And in turn, less demand for parking and fewer tie ups on Prince Philip and Columbus in the morning.
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