The Daily Orange

Syracuse Common Council finds way to limit off-campus housing

Abstract:
If at first you don't succeed, find a backhanded way of accomplishing your goal of containing the student population in the university-area neighborhood by making it virtually impossible for new rental homes to go on the market....

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Ingrid Kemp

posted 10/17/07 @ 10:22 AM EST

No doubt, that's shady. But you have to be on Lancaster or nearer for it to be walking distance? PLEASE, my friend. I lived for 3 years two blocks *past* Westcott and walked many a cold, blustery & snowy day to class. Now, if only student tenants would help to shovel sidewalks ... Nah, never gonna happen. My advice: Quit complaining & use your legs while you can!

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Aaron Knight

posted 10/17/07 @ 11:21 AM EST

It's ridiculous at best to assert that students are magically unsafe or incapable of walking to campus when they live past Lancaster or Westcott. While I spent all four years living on Westmoreland, four blocks PAST Westcott Street, I managed to make it to class. Notwithstanding, for getting to and from class there are CENTRO buses operating most of the day at least as far as Westcott & Euclid, and the free zone extends to E. Genesee & Euclid for the non-just-campus route. If you're trying to claim that the average student isn't capable of either ponying up for a $70 Manley parking pass (which has later-night busing) or walking a few blocks to the nearest bus stop when they're too lazy to walk a mile, think again.

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