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Section 11: Partnering
Research is growing and space to house them is short.
Increase research.
Would private companies and/or groups be willing to volunteer and adopt flower bed maintenance or shrub maintenance to allow more flowers on campus with less money from MSU itself?
The Child Development Center in Herrick Hall provides an important link to community, educational opportunities for students, and early education for young children of faculty and staff.
Daily staff and faculty - sports users could be sent to private clubs and reduce cost to operate and alleviate space demands.
Need: space for research and development.
Integrate campus into community/region as destination node.
Money needs to be spent more for research and for the researcher's benefits.  SO program budgets should not be cut.
Parking of course, but parking close to school (parking garage).  Easier way to arrive at school without searching for parking for 1/2 hour.
Parking!  Develop a comprehensive and consistent parking management plan.  Do we want shuttles?  A garage? More space management?
Parking is NOT an issue (instead what we have is a laziness issue).  ALL parking should be moved off the main campus and a bus system put in place.  In addition, if you live within a mile of a Campus, you should not be allowed to drive.
Take an existing parking lot - one with access to many buildings and build an ATTRACTIVE parking garage.  Build on the southwest corner of Eleventh & College, put services/commercial on ground level.  Makes an edge and a node at a busy campus intersection.
We need to start a Park & Ride situation.  Perhaps placing a parking lot on some of the farm ground and running a bus to campus every 10 minutes.
Parking is not bad here.  Everyone that wants to CAN park on Campus.  This is not true at many Universities.
No Parking Garage EVER!!!  Develop an area for access and transition for the bus system that will be implemented sooner than later.  ENCOURAGE alternate transportation, by not building a parking garage or taking farm land and paving it!
General Plan:  Find areas in which to increase parking.  Either by Fieldhouse or Family & Graduate Housing.
County/City partnering  sharing fields with the High Schools in the area (would bring shared revenues)  may free-up space within campus if these activities move to the perimeters of campus.
Park and rides are a plus for non-handicapped faculty, students and staff.  
Parking needs to be well lit on the edge of campus with shuttles/extended bus system.
Build a performing arts center.  It will benefit the campus and the community and end the dilemma facing the arts community.
Incorporate the Towne Farm into the plan and the city's plan.  Ag research may need to be moved to Red Bluff (or elsewhere).
Additional space for research administration.
Research surge space - need research facility.  Research is eating up too much space in our academic space.
Share space with local high schools - training.
Common high school/campus for phys ed, ECT.
If campus is west of 19th crossing will be a problem.  Who pays for underpass?  19th - MDT.
Performing arts center in conjunction with private and local monies - good idea.  Amphitheater for outside classes and summer performances.
Integrate private enterprise for revenue, i.e. sandwich shop in parking structure or food services in Chem. building or physics.
Move Ag research west of Nineteenth.
Athletics could go west of nineteenth too.  Non-athletic recreation fields.
Parking/Entrance - Find way around campus.  Getting pass at Police Station, Directories, visitor access difficult.  Way finding - man-gates-etc.
How does AG incorporate the expansion of the community, to make the AG lands more appealing to the public.
What is the best of AG (to be sacred).  Where are the areas where Campus (non-ag) might expand.)
Intra-disciplinary collaboration with dept./community.
Partner with city and downtown Bozeman to build a development downtown.  Art center, class space, housing…?  Retail services, MSU store…
Research and industry connections are essential.
Communication - if city gets community access channel - look for creative partnerships to communicate directly to citizen and broader community perhaps use as opportunity for student involvement.
Work with city to create bike routes into campus.
Work with the transportation coordinating committee and Bozeman's transportation plan to fit with broader community.  Seamless traffic flow is MSU and city goal.
Help preserve the Bozeman historic district (east of campus).
Consider impact on Irving School for children of older students.
Integration with the College of Technology to allow sharing of facilities and students with MSU.
Coordinate efforts with city planning to improve traffic patterns.  Determine growth pattern.
You forgot extension services as an integral part of MSU.  Needs: easy access/parking, welcoming atmosphere for guests; these operate like businesses.
Contribute/cooperate with developing mass transit system.
Partner with city, MCT, county to help with traffic/parking/flow.
Buy the story mansion and make it a center for continuing education classes for the community.  It is a great way to hire experts in the community, provide opportunities for local revenues, and generate revenues.
Build research space, new admin building, student center, performing arts, conference center.
Research buildings and classroom buildings - if buildings house research primarily they should be built outside the classroom epicenter and not sacrifice open areas for so few people.
Performing arts center.
Focus growth on research as opposed to student growth.  Focus on 5 year vision but not bigger than 20,000 students.
Research needs to increase. Cap student levels at maybe 15K.  Less student, more research.  Research brings revenue.
IF - visitors can find you, there is no place to go.  Partner with downtown so private enterprise can make ago of a business near Campus.  Build structures with college functioning facilities above and shops on lower levels.
Research provides a lot of funding.
Don't try to completely cut streets out of Campus.  The community visitors need to have ways to come to the campus and get the feel of it before walking through.
…I look forward to hearing in the future how I might be able to help financially.

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