🚀 go-pugleaf

Wait! Wait! Wait!

The plan is NOT to bulldoze the rose garden and build a structure on top.
The plan is to construct an underground parking structure under Marine
Drive, the rose garden, and under Main Mall, and in the process to
renovate the rose garden completely. Apparently, the rose bushes currently
in the garden are quite old and not in great shape, and are in need of
replacement. (I can't be sure; I'm not a horticulturist.) They will be and
there will be a new garden -- probably nicer than the old -- in their place.

There is no building planned in the green space between Main Library and
Sedgewick. The new Library will be in the "pit" between Sedge and the Math
Building, which is currently just a concrete and grass hole which sees
little use.

There is a plan, a little further off, that a parkade be constructed under
McInnes Field next to SUB and that the field be refurbished in the
process;; the tennis courts would then return. They might even do so when
the Rose Garden parkade is built, since the spaces on top of the tennis
courts wouldn't be as sorely needed.

The plans (as they are -- they are very preliminary) should be available
from Campus Planning and Development. Call 822-8228.

      :=:=> Derek K. Miller                 dkmiller@unixg.ubc.ca
      Researcher, Alma Mater Society        thegrodd@tz.ucs.sfu.ca
      University of British Columbia, Canada