RESIDENTIAL ANALYSIS P R O P O S E D
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One of the challenges of this Master Plan has been to mediate between the need to add new facilities and the need to maintain and support sacred University buildings. This report has made recommendations based on a thorough analysis of building condition and rating, building walkthroughs, capacity analysis based on minimal enrollment growth, our experiences with residential housing and student preference (see appendix for survey results). At the time this Master Plan was conducted, the residence halls, Eagle Landing, and University Apartments existing housing bed count for 2009 was 3,025 (this number excludes 53 temporary off-campus beds not owned by UMW). Based on the analysis of the existing residences, Burt Hill recommends renovating 10 of the existing 18 residence halls which would result in a total of 1,668 renovated beds, which breaks down to 892 hotel-style, 152 suite-style, and 624 apartment style beds. Additionally, Burt Hill recommends that the remaining residence halls (Bushnell, Framar, Jefferson, South, Alvey, and Arrington) and the University Apartments be taken off line and demolished or partially demolished. By doing this, the University has the potential to provide approximately 1,610 new beds on campus. Burt Hill recommends demolition over renovation of these buildings because their existing shells are not adequate to accommodate the new hotel and suitestyle rooms and would result in a significantly reduced overall bed count. These buildings are also in poor condition making renovation more costly per bed as well as impractical financially and programmatically.
For the purposes of this analysis, Burt Hill will identify new residence halls that accommodate the maximum growth potential of 270 additional residential students within a ten year period (based on the existing on-campus residential student percent of 65 percent of total enrollment). This assumes that enrollment will not exceed 4,500 students within that time. By renovating and adding new residential halls to the campus, the following long-term Master Plan goals will be accomplished:
Proposed Building Use Residential
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Maintain the “small liberal arts” residential experience Help to maintain a better on-campus bed capacity Attract and retain students Provide adaptable spaces for future change of use Improve the living / learning environment Meet ADA accessibility requirements Provide state-of-the-art-facilities Support growth within the City of Fredericksburg and UMW Provide the residential amenities demanded by students
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Although there is currently no bed shortage, taking residence halls offline to be renovated will result in bed count shortages. Therefore, it is important to construct a new, higher yield residence hall before any renovations begin in order to prevent any significant housing shortages. Based on our residential growth model, there will be bed shortages beginning in 2025 (15 years) once again, after this plan has been fully implemented. Because there are minimal options for growth within the Fredericksburg Campus proper, these beds could be accommodated at Eagle Village II or another site off campus.