Stuff from 2008 ND Campus Plan

by Mike (bart), Thursday, May 02, 2013, 12:28 (4735 days ago) @ Mike (bart)

Among their big objectives are:

1. Avoid sprawl as campus grows
2. Develop a parking and transportation plan
3. Examine and strengthen campus approaches
4. Reinforce the pedestrian environment on campus

and also:

5. Minimize hard-scape on campus (could be bad news for parking lots)
8. Preserve the historic core of campus. "Future plans should single out historically significant buildings and take steps to ensure preservation as long as they can be practically maintained and functionally efficient."

Other stuff:

"Land use planning . . . so that residence halls are close to spiritual, academic and social settings." This jives with the idea of a new student center closer to West Quad and other new dorms.

-- They want to put a parking structure or academic building where Legends presently sits. There's also a plan to turn C Lot into "ND Stadium South Lawn with Possible Underground Parking." It seems like the overall ambition is to make an 'Arts District' segue between campus and Eddy st. Commons.

In the long run, they think they can build over nearly all of the parking lots (and, I assume, move the existing parking into structured garages or underground). Obviously, this implies dire things for the tailgate scene, which I would argue actually is in the essential interest of the university to maintain. So with all that said, I'm not sure what the ultimate endgame might be, we'll see what happens.

http://www3.nd.edu/~univarch/documents/campusmasterplan2008.pdf