Tell us your ideas for the campus of the future!

The intersection between 1300 E and University Blvd is always jammed up. There needs to be some way for the train to get through without stopping traffic (maybe a brief tunnel).

More study spaces for people to go and Maby sharing those spaces with new students when they arrive so they don’t just go searching for hours to find a suitable location. As someone working on achiveing a game major. I would also like to see some improvements to building 72 as the place feels empty and when I go there the best part is the classes I’m taking but it doesn’t feel like a game design building more like a computer lab. Besides I also heard from some other students that it’s more prone to flooding than some buildings for its location mostly and being filled with computers that’s a concern for me. In addition to some rooms not being to handle too many devices at a time. So seeing the utility expanded should be amazing event though it could be troubling for anrchetecture and finacing.

Central Campus Trax Station. This is prime real-estate at a Trax stop and a public transportation gateway to campus. Move Facilities 350, Buildings and Grounds 306, 305, Motor Pool and the fuel pumps to Fort Douglas or Research Park. People get off of Trax or buses only to have to walk through parking lots and maintenance areas. It is not an inviting entrance. This should be an area welcoming to all that come to the U of U. What a great place for retail, restaurants, grocery, campus book store, Red Zone, coffee shop, etc.

STOP trying to force people to use public transportation to get to campus! BE REAL! There are people that will ALWAYS drive especially when commuting by public transportation takes a minimum of 1 1/2 hours one way to get to campus. Who, in their right mind, wants to spend 3 hours commuting to/from campus each day? BUILD MORE PARKING STRUCTURES!!! Flat service lots can only accommodate so many vehicles!

In my view, the recent Gardner Commons building was a missed opportunity to add an iconic tower or clock tower to the university landscape. I understand that the architectural style of the campus is very postmodern and eclectic, but regardless of aesthetics I always thought that this was one cozy, elevating element of every great college campus that the U is lacking. If the Union is going to be rebuilt anytime soon, that's the next-best place for such a structure and I hope to see a proper clock tower as part of the design.

There is a great amount of accessible outdoor seating, but much of it is underutilized due to a lack of outlets. In an increasingly digital world, access to outlets would likely encourage additional use of these areas.

Add more accessible and affordable parking!

More parking that accesses different parts of campus. Its a joke that the school doesn't have this already. I have trouble making it to class because of parking issues.

Nap spaces on campus for students. It can be hard for people not living on campus who have long days and large gaps between classes, and on campus nap space would be a great way to recharge.

Expand satellite campuses north and south up to at least Weber county and down to Utah county. There are many students who want to attend the U, but it is simply too expensive for them to make the commute every day or move to slc. Not only for general education as well. I believe it would be helpful for medical school and other graduate programs to expand beyond just salt lake

Parking is so hard to find that students and staff (and others) are parking in the lot East of the stadium early so that they can get a parking stall, and then sleeping, studying or otherwise waiting for classes to start in their cars, with their engines running to either keep cool in the summer or warm in the winter. Could we maybe offer a warming station or invite them to go to the Library instead of emitting so much exhaust? At minimum, we should post do not idle signs throughout and explain why.

While I understand that transportation and parking is difficult and more parking seems like an easy solution, as a transit commuter & pedestrian, I find that much of campus is already covered in parking lots which is quite difficult to navigate. Adding more parking spaces will also only increase traffic flows, slowing down public transportation further and decreasing pedestrian safety. I would not want to see campus turn into half parking garages, especially near south campus. Parking garages are an even further impediment to walkability. As we introduce more and more students to on-campus living, we need to prioritize people and not just cars. Alternative transportation modes such as telecommute and expanded UTA service (such as express commuter routes) would also help tremendously. Employees who can take advantage of alternative transportation modes should be incentivized to do so, so that those who cannot feasibly do so have more parking options.

A dark, quiet, cool room, to destress from external stimulations for those who aren't neurotypical especially.

Creating a parking system that is sustainable and accessible. Driving around to find parking contributes heavily to emission pollution in the Salt Lake Valley. We should be the leaders in how to manage this very simple emission reduction. Technology that allows commuting students and faculty to see which lots are full, or provide a more advanced parking assignment system that reduces parking overflow and allows for folks to know where they can park BEFORE they arrive and have to drive around for an extra 10-15 minutes to find a spot. This would also require increasing the parking capacity for the growing institution AND offering incentives for students and faculty who do not drive to campus.

We need gender neutral restrooms in every building, every floor. We need to be more cognizant of spaces on campus in order to meet the needs of all of our students, faculty, staff and the general public. Also, we need to convert more parking lots into multilevel parking structures to provide more space for parking. Parking passes for staff are unaffordable and need to be reduced. Finally, there needs to be more road exits and entrances to central campus. The flow of traffic is overly congested and dangerous in bad weather conditions on Central, North, and South Campus Drives. In addition, the spill way lane off of Foothill Drive into Mario Capecchi is overly congested and very dangerous for pedestrians and vehicles. This need to change into a separate lane or road instead of a single lane of traffic.

We need to protect our students, staff, and faculty in many, many ways for many, many reasons. One way is to ensure gender neutral bathrooms on every floor in every building. Our buildings also need to have much clearer signage on all sides to help literally everybody navigate the campus easier. This is particularly important for emergency situations so first responders can arrive to the correct location much more quickly, especially for the smaller (and still important) buildings.

More affordable food or maybe a small grocery store thats open 24 hours

A multicultural center with spaces for cultural, community-based events. It could have different types of rooms, including visual arts, a media room, a kitchen (for events), craft rooms, and diverse study and recreational spaces.

Parking should be free for hospital staff below a threshold income who have difficulty with public transportation or easy walking & bicycle commuting. It is hard enough to retain and recruit staff. Good candidates will continue to accept jobs at other U health locations so they don't have to take a pay cut (due to parking costs on campus). Wages for those who work on campus could be subsidize if they have to pay for parking; otherwise, their wages are unfair. The hospital built a new garage, but the advertised cost of parking there for a full-time employee is likely to cost $200 per month. Positions that are already working more than one job (due to the lack of an affordable wage in a hospital position), can't afford to pay more for the same job elsewhere within our system.

Build a mental health boarding center that is separate from the ED. Gold Pod often becomes bogged down with difficult patients resulting in high stress and overload for ED staff. South Jordan often ends up boarding there mental health patients sue to inability to find beds, South Jordan does not have the resources to board patients, let alone those with active mental health issues. When they board they have to pull one of their EMT/MA which leaves them short handed when busy with other medical emergencies. Expand the UNI HOME program to include a high acuity center that is solely for ASD and HOME patients. UNI HOME patients often end up boarding for days to weeks depending on acuity and bed availability at HMHI.

Parking is a theme you will and should see a lot in this feedback. Paying for parking is not financially viable for majority of U Health's finest. I recommend exploring options that would allow for free/low cost parking structures that are for scheduled U Health employees only near upper campus- this would allow for predictability of numbers and need. There should be a robust and frequent shuttle system from those structures to the literal front doors of the campus sites. HMHI, Huntsman, Moran, Main, etc should have their own routes to and from the structures. They should be direct lines. While I understand that there is no financial incentive to improve ease of accessibility to the campus for employees, it would greatly improve job satisfaction and potentially encourage new minds/talent to the organization. I have several colleagues who actively avoid U Health employment due to the atrocious parking infrastructure. We can all agree that UTA's efficiency and access is not keeping up with need. I am certain that if there were badge accessible U Health employee parking locations around TRAX stations, that resource would be further utilized. Disney has an impressive infrastructure for managing staff parking and transport in their cramped California parks. I have no doubts that the University of Utah could do the same.

Foothill needs to be transformed into directional flex lanes ( 5400 South is a great example)

Add faster options to get to the U and Uhealth from Front Runner. Could there be an express line from the downtown stop to Campus stops? the Red line takes a while to get from Central Station up to UHealth, and only comes 1x/hour during the middle of the day.

include a little park and outdoor study area with hammocks?