04-13-2021, 01:30 AM
The speed humps are generally effective, at least on the west side. I know that the one between the Environment buildings and Needles Hall was quite a doozy.
Building condos on the North campus would also raise tricky issues of ownership. I am not mistaken, the University owns all of the North Campus on both sides of Westmount Road but shares the space through a variety of lease agreements. If you added private residential space, it could get sticky.
However, it might work if the University was looking for additional residence space, particularly for upper year students who might not need all of the accoutrements of a first-year residence (like dons and house meetings for instance). With a little bit of imagination, I could even see another "Velocity" (née the Minota Hagey residence) or two planted there. For now, while the affiliated colleges (aka the church colleges) have managed to mix residence and classroom space in the same building envelope, the main campus (as well as WLU) have not mixed academic spaces with residence spaces anywhere else on their campuses.
Building condos on the North campus would also raise tricky issues of ownership. I am not mistaken, the University owns all of the North Campus on both sides of Westmount Road but shares the space through a variety of lease agreements. If you added private residential space, it could get sticky.
However, it might work if the University was looking for additional residence space, particularly for upper year students who might not need all of the accoutrements of a first-year residence (like dons and house meetings for instance). With a little bit of imagination, I could even see another "Velocity" (née the Minota Hagey residence) or two planted there. For now, while the affiliated colleges (aka the church colleges) have managed to mix residence and classroom space in the same building envelope, the main campus (as well as WLU) have not mixed academic spaces with residence spaces anywhere else on their campuses.