Resolution US03/04-1 -- Opposition to possible siting of the
basketball and event arena at or near Howe Field location
Proposed by: Mike Russo, LCB -- Management
For action at: October 8, 2003 University Senate meeting
Sponsored by Mike Russo, Management
Whereas a basketball and events arena is being planned for a
location at or adjacent to Howe Field, and
Whereas this arena would eliminate open space in direct violation
of the Campus Long Range Plan, and
Whereas this arena would be completely out of scale with
surrounding buildings, and
Whereas this arena would result in the elimination or relocation of a
number of student facilities including but not limited to intramural
fields, the three-year old indoor tennis courts, the Outdoor
Recreation Center, and Howe Field itself, and
Whereas a parking structure for the arena may require the
relocation of important track and field facilities, and
Whereas LTD would need to quadruple the number of buses to
serve game nights, and
Whereas congestion around the arena on game and event nights
would overwhelm the capacity of nearby streets, and the parking
structures built along with the arena would create very significant
traffic in the surrounding neighborhood not only for events but
every working day, and
Whereas many of the University's faculty, staff, and students live in
these surrounding arenas and would be detrimentally affected,
Be It Resolved that the University of Oregon University Senate
Hereby expresses its opposition to the construction of a basketball
and events arena at or near the Howe Field site and urges the
University to reconsider its decision and to take the requisite time to
find a more suitable place for such a large facility.
This is a revised version received 7 October 2003 -- if you need to view
the previous version it can be found at
http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~uosenate/dirsen034/US034-1x.html