97-02-13 Campus Partners to Sponsor Student Forum Feb. 19 onNeighborhood Improvements

CAMPUS PARTNERS TO SPONSOR STUDENT FORUM
FEB. 19 ON NEIGHBORHOOD IMPROVEMENTS

     The Student Involvement Committee of Campus Partners will 
hold a public forum for students on Wednesday, Feb. 19, to 
discuss proposed priorities for implementation of the plan to 
improve the neighborhoods around The Ohio State University.

     The forum will be held in two sessions, each with the same 
program, from 4-5:30 p.m. and 7-8:30 p.m. in the Campus Partners 
office, 1824 N. High St.(next to Long's Bookstore).  Snacks and 
soft drinks will be served.

     Student suggestions are needed, in particular, on improving 
the retail and entertainment vitality of High Street and on 
enhancing student rental housing and the quality of life in the 
neighborhoods.  The sessions will be interactive to give everyone 
opportunities to voice their ideas or to respond to proposals.

     Campus Partners last July published its planning document, 
University Neighborhoods Revitalization Concept.  The Campus 
Partners Board of Trustees in December divided itself into four 
ad hoc committees which have been reviewing all the 
revitalization plan's recommendations in four general areas:
--student rental housing and quality of life in the 
neighborhoods.
--retail revitalization along High Street.
--opportunities to increase homeownership in the University 
District.
--faculty and student involvement in the neighborhoods and human 
services in the University District.

     The Campus Partners staff will take input from these four 
committees, from meetings with neighborhood leaders and from the 
student forum to the Campus Partners Board of Trustees later this 
month.  The board will shape the proposed priorities into a work 
plan for Campus Partners for the next year or two.

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For more information on the forum, reporters should contact Kate 
Shaw, chair of the Student Involvement Committee, at 688-1560 or 
Steve Sterrett, community relations director of Campus Partners, 
at 294-7300.


[Submitted by: Von Vargas  (vargas.12@osu.edu)
               
Thu, 13 Feb 1997 10:44:18 -0500 (EST)]
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