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Meeting Subject:                        Community Advisory Committee Meeting

Location:                                    UNLV Campus Services Building #164

Meeting Date / Time:                  October 23, 2002 / 1:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.                

Issue Date:                                 January 29, 2003

Prepared By:                              SmithGroup JJR

DISCUSSION:

The purpose of this meeting was to present and review the Preliminary Master Plan.  The committee members were presented a brief history of the plan's development, its component systems, and refined "metrics."  This plan represented a significant change in scale and level of refinement from the previous documents.  Additionally, the 3D model and fly-by were presented.  The session was well attended and the material was favorably received.

The following comments and ideas were recorded:

• The proposed closing of Brussels on campus presents an access problem to the Interfaith parking lot.  University representatives will facilitate a meeting to discuss property and issues of access between the Interfaith and Latter Day Saints organizations.  Both parties agreed to this strategy and to a long-term solution to closing parts and/or all of Brussels.

• Several concerns were raised about consolidating the NCAA tennis facility and proposed parking garage north of Harmon.  Committee representatives voiced concerns about a tennis venue on top of the parking structure citing wind, recruiting, noise, etc. as problems.  Additional concerns were raised about soccer field displacement and the need to maintain (numeric) gender equity for playing surfaces / facilities.  It was suggested that the planning team find examples of Division I Tennis programs used in conjunction with parking structures.  SmithGroup JJR will find relevant examples for the next scheduled session in December.

• RTC representatives commented on several important trends impacting the long term movement of people on campus.  First, single ridership was "up" in the Las Vegas valley in the 1990s and transit use was "down."  Second, to meaningfully increase multi-modal transportation on campus, incentives must be implemented.  The leading incentives include decreasing single occupancy vehicles by increasing the cost, ease, and availability of parking on campus.  Additional incentives include encouraging park-n-ride opportunities (with potential federal funding dollars).

• Has the planning team and/or the university considered altering class timing to shift peak parking occupancy times?  Yes, the consultant team and university representatives indicated that this idea was being considered.

Respectfully submitted by:

SmithGroup JJR

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