By JOSH FRIEDMAN
Cal Poly has delayed the opening of a new residence hall, resulting in some students who signed up for signed up for single-occupancy rooms being required to have a roommate.
The university is currently in constructing a student housing development on campus. The first building of the multi-phase project was due to open for the upcoming fall semester, but has now been delayed.
As a result of the delay, the university is converting four-bedroom, four person apartments in Poly Canyon Village to three-bedroom, six-person apartments. The three-bedroom apartments will also have a designated study room.
The change will temporarily require some students who signed up for single-occupancy rooms to share their rooms with another student. While the change is in place, the impacted students will receive a 50% reduction in their housing fees.
When the new housing complex opens, the Poly Canyon apartments will return to their original occupancy plans.
Is this the one that Central Coast Builders’ Gary Grossman built? What’s the cause of the delay? I hope it’s for inspections!
GG is a private developer, and this is a university housing project (Cal Poly/ the state is the developer, permitting agency, and inspector). They are working with a modular building company plus general contractor(s) for the site development.
Surely the will charge half the price for shared rooms.
“50% reduction” IS “half the price”.
They are. At first, they were only offering a few hundred bucks per month off the original price. But after much backlash, the policy was changed so that any student impacted by this temporary change is being given a 50% of credit during the months they are forced to share a room.
Yes, I read somewhere that the shared dorm rooms will be heavily discounted now.