One Element to Keep Your Eye on When the Business Plan for the UCLA Hotel/Conference Center is Revealed: Parking

The next Regents meeting is scheduled for March 27-29.  If UCLA wants to get its hotel/conference center proposal on the agenda - which is typically published online by the Regents about two weeks before each meeting - it will soon have to unveil its business plan.  The UCLA Faculty Association has been requesting that plan for months, so far without results.

There are many elements of the new plan to consider.  One difference between the original plan, which would have been constructed on the Faculty Center site, is replacement parking.  The original site would have displaced some ground-level parking next to the Center.  The new location involves demolishing a multistory parking structure and more displaced spaces.  Campus policy is that new buildings are supposed to compensate the parking service for costs entailed in lost spaces and replacements for them.  So keep an eye on that element in the plan when it is revealed.

Meanwhile, time is marching on: