No Parking? (and no decision at the Regents)
There are in fact UCLA policies about reimbursing the parking authority for the costs of parking replacement when capital projects displace existing parking. Contrary assertions were made at the Regents meeting on the hotel/conference center.
Below you will find a link to the official parking policy:
Yours truly is in transit at the moment but I am told that the hotel matter was deferred today to the next meeting of the Regents after the embarrassing questions that occurred at the Regents yesterday.
If UCLA is willing to rethink this project as working towards the best way to facilitate conferences on campus, the donor could end up with his name on three structures (guest house, Faculty Center, conference center), the Faculty Center could be made financially viable, and the neighbors and hotel owners could be satisfied. An modified, scaled back plan has been presented on this blog in an earlier post. Undoubtedly, if the chancellor absolutely insists on the project “as is,” the Regents will ultimately yield. But he would use up a lot of credibility going that route.