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Officials Work to Balance Renovation, Parking Needs
By Jeff Silver
Assistant University Editor
University officials are taking steps to
ensure that parking goes smoothly while
several campus lots are undergoing ren
ovation and construction.
Construction of the S7 parking lot,
located on Ehringhaus Field, is not com
plete. But S7 permits will be honored in
S5 until construction on S7 is complete.
Cheryl Stout, assistant director of parking
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Campus has been busy with many construction projects. Some projects will be completed by the year's
end, although many are long-term in nature. Here's an update that will help you keep up-to-date.
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Construction Update
0 Alexander/Connor/Winston Residence Hall Renovations: Start: 7/10/2002 Est. Completion: 12/3/2003
0 Sonya H. Stone Black Cultural Center: Start: 6/24/2002 Est. Completion: 2/4/2004
0 Student Union Addition: Start: 6/19/2000 Completed: 7/29/2002
0 New South Campus Residence Halls: Start 11/2000 Completed: 7/2002
0 Science Complex Phase I: Start: 7/2902 Est. Completion: 8/04/05
Science Complex Phase II & III: Est. Start: 10/12/05 Est. Completion: 9/30/08
SOURCE: http://WWW.UNC.EDU AND DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY
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services, said the Department of Public
Safety undersold the S5 lot to prevent
overcrowding. “There will be enough
room to accommodate both,” she said. S5
will close spring semester, she said.
DPS has posted a sign in the S5 lot
and sent e-mails to permit holders to
explain the modified policies.
Another large construction project is
the expansion of the park-and-ride lot on
Estes Drive. Stout said work will be com
plete for student parking beginning today.
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She suggested that students park on
the western side of the lot where securi
ty and lighting will be concentrated at
first. DPS sent out this information via e
mail to holders of PR lot permits.
Sophomore Megan Bearrows said she
is not worried about parking in the lot but
added it would be unfair if she cannot find
a spot. “If they oversold the parking
spaces, I would be pretty upset,” she said.
Once all work is complete, which Stout
said would take a couple weeks, 600
Construction Abounds on UNC Campus
Ramshead is scheduled to open in 2005
By Meredith Nicholson
Assistant University Editor
Students arriving on campus this
week were greeted by more orange
fences and fewer trees, and officials say
this will not be an uncommon sight on
campus this year.
Bruce Runberg, associate vice chan
cellor for planning and construction,
said that projects on campus will be
stepped up this year and that there are
more than 90 projects in the works.
Campus construction is gaining
steam in part because the Chapel Hill
Town Council approved the first pro
jects this summer under the new devel
opment ordinance, which gives the
town 15 working days to review appli
cations for construction of projects
under UNC’s Development Plan.
In July, University officials submitted
a request to begin work on six projects,
including the renovation of Alexander,
Connor and Winston residence halls
and the new science complex. The town
approved all six projects a week later.
Runberg said many of the projects
will affect parking and transportation on
campus this year, but officials will be
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spaces will be offered to students in the PR
lot Students can sign up on the waiting list
for these spaces on the DPS Web site.
This year, many campus lots will be
gated -a move officials said will keep
enforcement costs down. Gating the SI,
N1 and N2 Morehead lots will be done by
the end of August, Stout said. SI and N1
will be for permit holders only, while the
N2 Morehead lot will offer permit and
hourly pay spots and will be a manned lot.
Gating the N2 Porthole and N4 lots is
posting signs on campus and alerts on
UNC’s Web site with alternate routes.
Runberg said one of the biggest con
struction projects this year will be the
beginning of the Ramshead, which will
contain a three-level parking deck with
700 parking spaces, a grocery store, a
dining facility and a recreation facility.
Officials anticipate that Ramshead will
be completed January 2005.
Runberg said that Ramshead will be
the linchpin between North and South
campuses and that it is part of an effort
to make South Campus more appealing.
Dean Bresciani, interim vice chancel
lor for student affairs, said projects like
the new Ramshead building will help
transform the image of South Campus.
Officials are trying to dispel the stigma
of living on South Campus with projects
like Ramshead, the new residence halls, a
proposed student and academic services
building and renovations like landscaping.
“The goal is not to make (South
Campus) better than North Campus,”
he said. “It’s to level the playing field.”
Runberg said the construction of a
new science complex will be another
major project on campus this year.
The first phase of the complex, which
projected to happen by the end of
September, Stout said. N4 will lose
spaces to gating and to renovation on
three North Campus residence halls.
Student parking also will be impacted
by steel-coating in the Morrison lot Aug.
24 and 25. Cars will not be allowed for
those two days. Stout said she is not con
cerned about the temporary space loss
because all lots are free on weekends.
The loss of spaces also has affected
hardship parking. Pamela Barone, who
consists of anew building between
Wilson Library and Kenan Labs and an
addition to Phillips Hall, is expected to
be completed by August 2005.
Another major project under way is
the Sonja H. Stone Black Cultural
Center on South Road between Coker
Hall and the Bell Tower.
The new 44,500 square-foot, $9 mil
lion center - funded entirely by private
donations - will include seminar rooms,
classrooms, a 10,000 volume specialized
library, a 400-seat theater, an art gallery
and administrative offices for the center,
the Institute of African-American
Research and the Upward Bound Project.
It is scheduled to open February 2004.
After eight delays in the first phase of
the Student Union project - the opening
of the Union addition - officials evaluat
ed the performance of the contractors and
decided it would be best bid out the
remaining work to new contractors,
Runberg said.
Runberg said Phases II and 111 - the
renovations of the old Union - will be
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heads student government’s hardship park
ing committee, said the total allotment of
428 spaces is down from previous years.
Barone said die committee will have to
be more selective of applicants this year.
“The number of students that need hard
ship parking aren’t decreasing,” she said.
Hardship applications are due Aug. 26,
and permits will be distributed Sept. 6.
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packaged as one 10-month project stage
than two six-month stages.
Preliminary work is expected to begin
after classes end in December and actu
al construction will begin in January.
Chancellor James Moeser said offi
cials also probably will move forward
this year with some privately funded
projects that were delayed last year in
order to prevent appearances that the
University was spending unwisely dur
ing the state’s ongoing budget crisis.
Construction of a large video board
for Kenan Stadium and lighting the Bell
Tower were among the projects
delayed.
All projects under way are a part of
the Master Plan, a long-term plan for
campus growth.
Runberg said the University is actu
ally ahead of schedule because so many
of the bond projects were able to begin
work earlier than anticipated.
The University Editor can be reached
at udesk@unc.edu.
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