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June 09, 2008, 11:21 AM ET
Planning for a Denser, Walkable U. of Utah
The Salt Lake Tribune reports that the University of Utah’s trustees will vote today on a plan to build 40 new buildings and make the university’s campus significantly more walkable. The plan emphasizes development in the campus’s historic core.
“The thought is to make campus more dense, so it has a greater sense of intensity, more cohesion to make it more pedestrian friendly,” Randy Dryer, chairman of the Board of Trustees, told the Tribune. “It’s designed to develop a greater sense of community and concentrate human interaction.” The development will also be integrated with the light-rail system in Salt Lake City and may lead to elimination of some parking lots.
The plans will add 3.8 million square feet of new space and lead to demolition of 16 buildings with a total of 400,000 square feet of space.
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