Fairhope, Alabama
COASTAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE CAMPUS
The Times has learned that city officials met recently with new management at the Fairhope campus of Coastal Community College to discuss student parking and other mutual issues where better cooperation could help.
With ever-increasing growth and tourism, competition for the fixed number of parking spaces is intense at times, especially during weekdays when school is in session.
One possible solution proposed by the city is to use the grassy Halstead Amphitheater for student parking during daytime hours; space for more parking may be available elsewhere on the campus as well.
Mayor Wilson called it "a good meeting" and added the Single Tax Corporation is "on board" with the initiative: "That's (parking) the most critical issue right now ... for sure."
CITY OWNED LAND LEASED TO COLLEGE
The property was given to the city by the Single Tax Corporation, and leased to the college (then Faulkner State) in 1987 (by the city) with a stipulation that on-street student parking be provided as well.
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| Students parking on Bancroft Avenue. |
COASTAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE CAMPUS
The Times has learned that city officials met recently with new management at the Fairhope campus of Coastal Community College to discuss student parking and other mutual issues where better cooperation could help.
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| Amphitheater parking? |
One possible solution proposed by the city is to use the grassy Halstead Amphitheater for student parking during daytime hours; space for more parking may be available elsewhere on the campus as well.
Mayor Wilson called it "a good meeting" and added the Single Tax Corporation is "on board" with the initiative: "That's (parking) the most critical issue right now ... for sure."
CITY OWNED LAND LEASED TO COLLEGE
The property was given to the city by the Single Tax Corporation, and leased to the college (then Faulkner State) in 1987 (by the city) with a stipulation that on-street student parking be provided as well.
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| Coastal Community College's Fairhope campus (south end). |
Comments
The students go to class, and then go home. Again -- they go to class, and they go home. Sometimes they buy one cup of coffee and maybe sit there for two hours waiting for their next class. They are not buying $20 lunches at the restaurants, they are not buying $200 dresses, they are not buying jewelry, they are not going to see financial advisors, they are not buying paintings, they are not having their hair styled and colored, they are not visiting the welcome center, they are not buying outfits or toys for their children which they do not have.
It is not used regularly. It is used occasionally and will never draw any significant musical acts because of the noise ordinance and lack of parking. Many of the Live at Five concerts last year were not well attended.
This was also the recipient of an Impact 100 grant as well as money from the Fairhope Single Tax Colony.
I think the intent of the pseudo wealthy was to pretend they like things like the symphony that would look pretty on the cover of Southern Living. However, they decided they would rather hunt and fish.