Mac
Gold Member
My jurisdiction is a rural village of about 2,000 population, with a Colgate University student population about equal. To say that town/gown relations are complex is an understatement.
A CEO from a nearby college town just called asking for help regulating student rental houses in the residential zones of thier village. They can be disruptive to 'family life' and I have a local law I shared with him.
Room & Board rates around here have increased to where landlords can get a far better return on investment renting a house to a group of students than , say, a family of four. And I'm not singling out any one institution either - we have four colleges & universities within 25 miles, and each CEO says the same thing. Heck, my daughter is in her last year of grad school and still hasn't had a dorm room yet!
Bigger cities with bigger colleges have 'university neighborhoods' too. Lots of cities have areas known as "College Town".
Anybody else here working in a similar environment? Wanna swap war stories?
A CEO from a nearby college town just called asking for help regulating student rental houses in the residential zones of thier village. They can be disruptive to 'family life' and I have a local law I shared with him.
Room & Board rates around here have increased to where landlords can get a far better return on investment renting a house to a group of students than , say, a family of four. And I'm not singling out any one institution either - we have four colleges & universities within 25 miles, and each CEO says the same thing. Heck, my daughter is in her last year of grad school and still hasn't had a dorm room yet!
Bigger cities with bigger colleges have 'university neighborhoods' too. Lots of cities have areas known as "College Town".
Anybody else here working in a similar environment? Wanna swap war stories?