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Some say too many ongoing processes

Judith Scherr
Friday May 19, 2000

Daily Planet Staff 

 

Southside residents have complained that a multi-tiered city and university planning process obfuscates the interrelationship between land-use, transportation, and housing issues in the south-of-campus area. 

So the Planning Commission took a stab at bringing a range of concerns together in one forum Wednesday night. 

“There’s a lack of comprehensive planning,” Susan Cerny told commissioners, university planning staff and some 35 other attendees at the workshop. 

There are at least three planning efforts running along parallel tracts: 

• A draft Underhill Area Environmental Impact Report; this process addresses the impacts of projects proposed by the university, including a parking structure for some 1,000 cars – or 1,400 vehicles when attendant-parked – with a sports