FARMINGTON – The university is proposing to build a five-story, 100-bed residence hall on campus between Lincoln and Perkins streets. The construction budget for the project is $4.2 million.
The University of Maine at Farmington is not straying from its enrollment cap of 2,000 students, said university spokesman Tom Donoghue.
“More and more and more returning students want to live on campus,” he said.
It’s been a trend for 5 to 7 years in a row, Donoghue said.
This increase isn’t caused by more first year students, he said.
Rather, it’s upper class students – juniors and seniors – who want to live on campus.
This year, he said, 1,040 students live on campus with 85 percent of them first year students.
The housing would be at 7 to 9 Lincoln St. and 18 Perkins St. It would go right behind Stone Hall and near the honors building, Donoghue said.
There is a 9,350-square-foot gravel parking area and three university owned, converted residential structures on the property now. The buildings serve various university functions such as a recycling center and honors building, and are scheduled to remain for the current time.
The gravel parking area would be removed, displacing about 35 parking spaces. Parking would be made available at another place for students who live in that hall, Donoghue said.
It would have a bicycle rack area and a street side vehicular drop off.
According to the town’s zoning ordinance, the parking requirement would be 60 spaces. In the university’s project description, it notes that the campus has a surplus of 42 spaces and would need to construct 18 spaces to meet the requirement. The 18 spaces are part of a parking expansion currently underway as part of the Campus Parking Master Plan.
The residence hall would be five stories with a building footprint of about 7,615 square feet and gross square footage of 36,285 feet.
The proposal is scheduled to go before the Planning Board at 7 p.m. Monday, May 10, at the Farmington Municipal Building.
With approvals, the hall is scheduled to open for the fall of 2005.
dperry@sunjournal.com
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