SSU Master Plan Revision

Additional New Student Housing Comments and Responses

1. Regarding Issue 10, bullet-point 2 ("Eliminate most parking from the central campus core, supporting central campus core as a pedestrian-oriented area"), the Master Plan should maintain Lots A and D for Reserve, Visitor, and Disabled parking, as well as for parking associated with the Information Center and the University Center. Put the Student Housing presently proposed for Lot D on land north of campus and immediately north of existing student housing.

2. Bad site proposal. Lot D should be retained for Reserve, Short Term, Visitor, and Disabled parking projected at the demand that will exist at 10,000 FTE campus build-out.

3. Should consider relocation of this and any additional student, staff, or faculty housing to the land North of the existing campus and student housing (the land west of the original parcel scheduled for a North entrance). This was disperse traffic flow, with part of it coming in from Expressway rather than ALL of it coming in from South Sequoia or the about to be reconfigured and renamed "Construction Road."

4. Must signalize South Sequoia/E. Cotati interchange (along with existing signalization of Construction Road as the primary entrance for existing student housing, the Sauvignon Village, etc.) PRIOR to ANY more development of south-west campus (including Shultz Info. Center, ETC, University Center, and the three proposed classroom buildings (for which both Cypress and Laurel should be evaluated).

5. Should evaluate alternative of recruiting both more in-service area Freshman and significantly increasing Junior transfers, who won't require nearly as much student housing as do recruits from Orange, LA, & San Diego counties. Believe our present recruitment efforts in this direction are very inadequate!

6. Must address impact of low vacancy rate and high housing costs both on students and on entry level employees (both the large number of faculty who will be hired to replace the large number who will soon retire and similar hiring for similar reasons among non-instructional employees).

7. Both here and in ALL other places, should utilize building materials and building styles architecturally appropriate to the area (NO brutalist or postmodern!)

8. My family and I are hoping that we can plan for family housing within close proximity to the children's school. We also would like family parking too so that we can ideally park in the same location for home, college and preschool. Just think how many less motorists that will mean. This will also mean more walkers and cyclists we hope. A little path from family housing with a bridge over the creek, through the community garden to children's school. Doesn't that sound lovely for our future families!

9. Is any family housing being planned?

10. I believe the current Parking Lot D site, now proposed for additional new student housing (400 beds), is ideal for meeting the needs of student recreational programming (such as intramural leagues, tournaments, and activities), because of its proximity to student housing and the proposed student recreation center (in the proposed University Center). Please try to preserve these fields and consider making any path across it dirt or gravel, instead of concrete or asphalt, for programming flexibility.

11. You should consider placing recreational fields near existing (and currently under construction) student housing. (Possibly where additional new student housing is proposed)

12. What is the demand for an increase in student housing?

13. Hello, I was wondering if incoming freshman of the fall of 2000, will be able to live in this new housing complex, or will it be able to only the upperclassmen.

14. I think that the number 1 priority for this school is to put the majority of the money into housing for new students, freshmen, it is morally wrong to give returning students first priority to housing, when the freshmen need it most. Imagine being 17 or 18 and trying to live in an apartment with bills and such. Not only opinion, but fact, freshmen need to have first priority when it comes to obtaining on-campus housing. Please take into consideration that the new students need to live on campus for their first year, the drop out rate is higher for first time students who have to live off campus.

15. What will the access to the Childrens School be?

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