Several members of the Maryland General Assembly have sponsored a House Bill that will require the University of Maryland System that enrolls more than 14,000 students to prepare a Community Impact Statement that is to be posted on the Institution's website. Moreover, it requires the impact statement to reveal how the following are to be effected, the roads , surrounding neighborhoods, procurement of businesses, police protection and so on.
It would be nice for one of elected Delegates to have joined-in so as to include Salisbury University in this piece of legislation so that the residents and County/City officials of Wicomico County and the City of Salisbury would be aware of what's coming 'down the pike'.
After all. . . isn't this what TRANSPARENCY is suppose to be about?
Click here to read the full details of HB-693 - University of Maryland - Community Impact Statement.
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8 comments:
"that enrolls more than 14,000 students"
I don't think SU meets that requirement.
I think it should include all institutions, not just over 14,000.
In a smaller community, a 500 or 1,000 student increase can have life changing effects.
We've seen that here in Salisbury. SU has done its best to operate in secret and hold local people and officials at arms length so it can do whatever it wants.
Transparency. Agreed.
Right they have an impact on our roads water, (which we have a shortage of towers) and I'm glad we are a college town or things would be a lot worse.
It's not the students fault that's they way it is, but to provide adaquate ublic safety water and sewer they have a large impact and need to be included to provide adaquate funding.
The University of Maryland system enrolls 143,457 students. I don't know where you got your info.
Beezer, very interesting. I wonder where they got the 14,000 number? SU as well as the community should demand to be included in this.
I, for one, am contacting our delegate and senator.
Just knowing how exactly SU impacts our area would be a step in the right direction for everyone.
Transparency for ALL.
9:39:
The University of Maryland system enrolls 143,457 students
yes. Where did they get that number? University of MD SYSTEM includes College Park, UMES, SU....among many others. (11 Universities total)
http://www.usmd.edu/
The University should have already been doing this. Where were our elected Council members through-out all of this college expansion and student growth.
Instead of their debating and imposing impact fees on residential and commercial development they overlooked the largest abuser of our City and County's infrastructure.
It is Salisbury University that has been draining our region's resources. Beazer thank-you for shining some light on this subject.
As a state institution, SU is exempt from everything.
But an impact statement would be great.
Two of our council members (you can probably guess which two) have tried to establish something with SU, but as covered in other posts, Janet Dudley-Eshbach is the queen and none shall stand in her way.
Mikey Dunn and his crew were happy to let SU and its partnering landlords do whatever. After all Mikey works there.
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