Too Dilapidated for Cars? Let It House Students!

Is this a case of legislative overreach? The Stamford Advocate reports that a state representative is pushing the University of Connecticut at Stamford to consider turning an aging parking garage into a dormitory.

“The garage is breaking down,” Jim Shapiro, a Democrat who represents Stamford, told the Advocate. “It needs several millions of dollars in repair.” Which, to his mind, makes it a prime candidate for a renovation transforming it into student housing, classrooms, and retail space.

The story says that lack of dorm space on the campus has been one of the primary obstacles to growth there.