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Christopher-Titus Mark Vanderwall-Brown
Tue, 12 Oct 2010 00:40:02 +0000

The additions and new buildings look acceptable, but what where are the college’s plans for replacement parking? Is there going to be a plan to build a supplemental parking structure or external lot? There will begin to be outraged local students when the student body who lives in that area of Portland realize they can no longer drive to school. Also, they will be unable to park at SE and commute. How is the district going to deal with this problem?

This may seem like a small design flaw, but in taking up parking and building more capacity, the college will be increasing the number of students without adequately replacing the commuter infrastructure. This will leave a lot of students stranded, or unable to attend classes at this campus. Sylvania is already packed to the absolute maximum and still increasing students? Will the city be constructing local park and rides where students can park and take the bus two or three blocks? I think not.

This is a major problem for students like myself that I have not seen in any of these plans as being addressed. Replacing the current pavement with shrubby is nice, but at what costs? To student access? If there was an underground parking structure under this new building facility, such as at the University of Washington, then I could understand, but at present, I, along with my fellow students, do not see any appreciable effort being made into the transportation problem. New classrooms are important, but simply trying to replace over 70% of the existing parking with more classroom capacity, which will increase the number of drivers and students per capita, while shifting students over to existing (and already taxed city parking structures) is going to create one hell of a mess.

I hope the design team realizes the disaster this very likely could cause US, the students of Portland Community College, or the local parking fiasco that will result when we start blocking up local and existing streets around the local SE community to park as has happened in NE, which is continually resulting in angry and disgruntled locals.