Tell Regents YES! on Housing for Students, Families and Daycare
UPDATE (April 2021): While this UC Regents meeting has already occurred and the project was approved, the project is subject to a second lawsuit from a community group. Let the Chancellor and/or the Project Team know your support! chancellor@ucsc.edu and shw@ucsc.edu
The University of California (UC) Board of Regents will be discussing UC Santa Cruz Student Housing West project this coming Wednesday. Student Housing West will provide up to 3000 beds and 140 housing units to three different groups:
Undergraduate upper division students – Approximately 2700 beds
Graduate students – Approximately 220 beds
Students with Families – Approximately 140 units
It also includes a new Early Education Services Center to accommodate as many as 140 children of students, faculty, and staff located adjacent to the housing units for student families.
Email your comment to the UC Regents NOW
Comments must be emailed to regentsoffice@ucop.edu by end of day Monday, March 15th.
Amplify your support through public comment at the open session on Wednesday, March 17th. Requests to give public comment must be emailed to publiccomment@ucop.edu by 5pm on Tuesday, March 16th. Comments will be chosen at random, so if you can, request to comment so more pro-housing, pro-student voices are heard.
Please reference, in written or oral comments, Finance and Capital Strategies Committee items F4 and F5. Those are the two agenda items related to Student Housing West https://regents. universityofcalifornia.edu/ regmeet/mar21/fin.pdf
Key points in favor of the project:
Affordable family housing, which is urgently needed. UCSC family housing is occupied almost equally by undergraduate and graduate students, and includes non-traditional-aged students and student with families.
Accessibility of childcare services, which is critical to the retention and recruitment of faculty, staff and students.
Reduction of housing pressure in Santa Cruz County, since once complete, approx. 2,000 existing students will no longer be seeking housing in the region.
Sustainability, as the project includes a recycled water system that will collect, treat and reuse 100% of the wastewater generated from the development for 100% of non-potable water uses, including toilets and irrigation, helping the system to achieve the project’s net-zero water goal.
More information about Student Housing West here:https://ucscstudenthousingwest.org/
More information about commenting here: https://regents.universityofcalifornia.edu/meetings/public-comment.html
Agenda for Board of Regents Meeting here: https://regents.universityofcalifornia.edu/meetings/agendas/mar21.html
