Is this road expansion going to require tearing into the historic Fort Douglas area? The existing structures and infrastructure cannot support this type of expansion, and destroying the history of Utah is a steep price for a road. Please do not get rid of our historical buildings, museums, and artifacts for this road to go in.

What is this Trax spur accomplishing? As far as I know, there is no public transportation along the east 215 corridor, which is where most of the Foothill traffic is commuting to/from. How does adding this additional Trax line reduce the traffic on Foothill for those coming and going on 215? If this is connecting to something, that's great. If it's just going to a dead end and reducing the space for the continually required traffic, I'm not seeing the win.

Preserve and improve the brutalist buildings on campus including Art & Architecture building, Social Sciences, and Humanities.

A cap would be amazing here! It's really difficult crossing here, with just the pedestrian bridge available and little if any facilities on the road.

Please get rid of all surface parking lots possible. It's rough walking from the southwest part of campus up to the Library / Gardner Commons with all of the surface lots you have to walk through. Not much bike access here too. More walking/biking connectivity, and lots more trees and green space!!

do NOT realign trax here, it is already far enough away from campus to be very inconvenient so pushing it even further away will just make trax less attractive to commuters.

Enhanced how? I'd love to know more of what that means.

More garages like the covered one in the business area instead of huge parking lots.

I don't understand why we need to do "commercialization" all over Research Park. A University is for education and research, and we have excellent clinical facilities. I'd sooner pull together the healthcare group (e.g. create ways for the Research Park-based programs and the Health Sciences Campus programs to easily travel back and forth to facilitate collaboration) than create stores. Although if you see healthcare as commercializing, fine, but it works better as a public good.

Connections to the "Car-light" core is abysmal from the north for pedestrians and active transport. You have a completely inadequate crossing from Federal Heights Drive that is dangerous and disruptive or requires climbing a 10%+ gradient to get to the traffic light crossing. You have absolutely no options for pedestrians (or even connected sidewalks for that matter) from Penrose Dr. You have a HAWK light for what is essentially a four-lane highway in North Campus Dr. You then have a non-ADA-compliant crossing at the traffic light at Wolcott St. These are all potential thoroughfares for pedestrians and active transport that are woefully inadequate. UDOT has to get serious about being a transportation department for campus and not just a highway department. From my experience, the lack of cohesion here has little to do with Salt Lake City or the University.

Research Park's roads and infrastructure needs a major upgrade from the 90's office park style that it is currently. Roundabouts would help many of the intersections (that don't have lights currently), real pedestrian crossings with HAWK lights, real active transportation infrastructure, etc.

Surface parking lots are the opposite of maximizing space.

Extend Trax down foothill! If you truly want to reduce car traffic on campus then public transit MUST BE PRIORITIZED. Trax should also run every 5 - 7 minutes during peak commute times.

Our student, faculty, and staff community includes many who have children. Please find a way to create subsidized child care on campus. This will allow our student body to grow and attract the faculty and staff needed to ensure an excellent education and campus experience.

I think that, if there is going to be an area completely set aside for student life, a more comprehensive Union building needs to be created. I also think that students should be able to engage more with their student government.

A Trax stop where Marriott Hotel, Continuing Education, and ARUP are would be a welcome addition!

Love this if paired with frequent, fast, easy, accessible ways to move within and to the car-light core from other areas.

Currently the university's youth summer camp programs use President's Circle as a hub for operations and for parents to drop off and pick up their children. We would hate to lose the ability to do this as the feeling of belonging created in this space for families and youth is incredibly valuable for the university as it creates lifelong learners. The car logistics in PC also work really well for this program.

Continuing education is located in research park and the community likes that we have the feel of campus but that we have free parking and that we are easier to find and access than anything on the academic campus. This is an important thing to preserve for the continuing education programs.

Continuing education programs would love to be part of this planning!

I would add master planning for satellite campuses to this section. If the university could identify what it wants the historic campus to be used for and then create satellite campuses for specific or highly flexible programming then there could be opportunities to solve challenges that come with expanding campus in one of the most expensive parts of the city as well as creating wide access to a section of land that feels increasing small and hard to access.

Increased connectivity is much welcome and on-demand connectivity that is free and available throughout the evening as well as the daytime would help us do community programming.

An age-friendly campus is incredibly important. The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute can help provide programming and space for older adults age 50 and better. The program needs space with free parking, shuttle service or easy public transportation access, ADA provisions, modern classroom spaces, and third spaces to gather.

The continuing education programs (like Lifelong Learning, Osher, and Youth Education) can help be the community's front door to the U.

I would love to see the university add modern learners to how it thinks about students. Modern learners can be anyone in the community and they can interact with the university largely online.

As a professional in the continuing education side of the U (currently located in research park), our modern learners love to see ample and free parking, improved public transportation access, age-friendly design where people of all ages and mobilities can interact and hold space together, improved affordable and healthy food options during daytime and evening classes, learning spaces that are flexible and tailored to an adult learner, learning spaces that provide cooking/dance/youth science lab, etc programming possibilities, and third spaces for the community to gather. Our program teams can program this kind of on-campus space to welcome the community if it is available to us.

I’d like to see upper campus housing slowly be shifted towards graduate student housing while the university continues to invest in undergraduate housing on lower campus. As it stands, there is essentially a segregation line (Mario Capecchi) between your wealthy and poor students. There are equity concerns here, too, given the poor quality of all upper campus housing buildings in addition to the demonstrable disparity in commute to classes compared to those who can pay to live closer. Upper campus housing is so bad, in fact, that you do not even show it on your campus tours. Keep undergraduate students living on campus in proximity, and don’t invest in new undergraduate housing on upper campus.

From a graduate who paid for parking passes throughout my time at the U, it felt very wasteful paying a large amount of money to park 5-10mins away from my destination, if I could even find a spot. There is an obvious need for more parking around campus, but I think it should be focused on areas with high volumes of students and the highest occupying classrooms and buildings. Making central parking in these areas will decongest the smaller parking lots closer to buildings allowing students with classes in these buildings to get the most out of their parking permit, and give students going to the business building or Ken Gardner, etc more spaces to park.

A land bridge over Mario Capecchi would seriously increase walkability and reduce the traffic noise that makes this area of campus a terrible place to be.

Separation of bike/scooter and pedestrian traffic along the N/S dual pathways from engineering to the library would enhance comfort and safety. As someone who both walks and bikes along these paths, it's uncomfortable at best to have a bike pop out from behind you / to pass someone walking, and dangerous at worst.

More permanent, third-party restaurants throughout campus would increase convenience in this food desert of a campus and support our local businesses.

I enjoy this approach to shuttling employees to hospital. Will make time and ease for finding parking IF the lot is designated to UH employees only- not students easier.

The University of Utah did not need to shut down identity centers to be in compliance with HB 261. With these centers closing, your institution has made it very clear that you hold no legitimate interest in student belonging and well-being. Without designated places for people to feel safe in their communities, students are less likely to engage and to continue on in their education without that support. As educators, you must understand that a welcoming environment fosters learning, creativity, and connection. You must also understand, that everyone exists in the world differently and therefore, need different and specialized supports. I understand you need to be in compliance with law, but this was poor execution.

If the University’s goal is as you say, to foster student engagement and belonging, then you must bring back identity centers as they are central to completing this goal.

Students also have the right to know why their centers are closing, yet the University has not been forthcoming on this. Staff have a right to know what’s going on as they collaborate frequently and effectively with each other to be able to best support students. The University still has not given any explicit explanation as to why you chose to close these centers. Whether you want to acknowledge this or not, the University has caused harm to the students and your staff because of your actions. Institutional betrayal exists and your actions are a prime example of it.

My feedback is this: bring back identity centers for ALL to feel safe on your campus, not just your demographic majority and create designated spaces where students and staff can grow and learn together.

Turn this into a 4 or 6 level parking lot.

Moving TRAX out of here will allow for the expansion of the stadium to the north and allow more people to attend games and events at the stadium.

The East Village is part of the "commercialization" zone?

Parking is an issue on many college campuses, but most do not allow freshmen to park their cars on campus for this very reason. With public transportation available to and from campus, there is no reason for them to have cars parked in spaces that could be utilized for commuters who are not able to take UTA or come and go from campus at inconvenient times for public transit.

Please god make more parking!!!

All of my classes are near the Business building, but the permit is roughly 400 a semester. I have class 2 times a week for 16 weeks which is only 32 days that I am paying 400 dollars for. Ridiculous!!!!
There should be one permit for all students and one for all staff. No more U, A, B, or any of the rest of the alphabet. Just one plz

The car-light core, a significant part of our university's identity, is located in the academic sector. As a predominantly commuter university, it's crucial to provide parking for those who pay for a permit, while maintaining our commitment to a car-light environment.
1. Don't oversell permits.
2. Optimize parking by utilizing spaces that have been previously dedicated for vertical parking. A sprawling parking lot, such as the engineering lot, is not necessary. Consider the Central Garage, which is the size of a building, as an example for its efficient use of space.
3. Increase dedicated bike/ped infrastructure. Strictly painting the road has been repeatedly proven not to help.
4. Work with UTA and cough up money to increase Trax/bus schedule regularity. If you want people to stop driving, ensure routes take less/equal time as they would by car.

What value would this provide? It seems like we're just building roads for the sake of building roads. This road would further isolate sections of upper campus, which are already a pain to walk to