At the June 13 Ravenna Bryant Board meeting the board heard about the University housing project scheduled to be built on Twenty-fifth NE south of the Silver Cloud Hotel. The project will consist of eight buildings in various styles containing 140 units for approximately 430 single students. It will include parking spaces for 134-140 cars. Entrance to the project's underground parking garage will be on Twenty-fifth, north of the Speedy Lube driveway. The buildings will surround an inner court that focuses on a pond and trees which are now on the site. There will be hardscape (pavers) in the courtyard and large steps leading down to the pond. The pond will be fenced (to keep children from nearby family student housing from falling in) and the project itself will be isolated from the University family housing now located just behind the Storables store in University Village. The public will have access to this open space. As part of the development the University and University Village have negotiated a corridor open to the public leading from the Burke Gilman to University Village.

Comments on the project are due by June 19. They may be sent to Jan Arntz, Environmental Planner, University of Washington, Box 352205 Seattle, Washington 98105-5200 or jarntz@u.washington.edu.

The RBCA board has sent a letter of comment discussing noise (staff will live on site but their phone numbers, particularly for evening should be publicized), parking (if neighbors request a residential parking zone - RPZ - because students are parking in the neighborhood the UW should pay for it), traffic ( please work with SeaTran to minimize danger to pedestrians, bikers and drivers with hodge podge of driveways on that block of Twenty-fifth), public access (record the promise of public access in the event of questions later) and design guidelines (the design here should conform the the University Urban Center guidelines, particularly as to awnings, planting strips and artwork.)