Roll A was shot on May 27, 1997 between 1 and 3 p.m.
Roll B was
shot on May 28, 1997 at 4:30 p.m. and
May 29 between 8:30 a.m. and 10 a.m.
A1 Chestnut parking - lots of space. Western is negotiating for the Chestnut Professional Building in the background. Zoning and land use history is consistent with Institutional.
B10 Looking south on Indian Street toward Indian Terrace and the Indian/High Street connector. Note the change in paving where the road turns. This is the northern edge of the University's proposed acquisition zone -- approximately 5 city blocks.
A3 Looking south at 618 Myrtle. This is the corner of Myrtle and Indian Street. Indian Street curves to the west here.
A2 Looking north along the western edge of the old Indian Street right of way. The change in paving surface shows the beginning of the street revision. The curve has cut a triangular chunk out of 618 Myrtle's backyard.
B8 Looking west at the corner of Myrtle and Jersey. Myrtle Street continues to the west of Jersey. The post of a city "NO PARKING" sign on that stretch can be seen, but the sign itself is obscured in this view. A house is around the corner to the south of the end of Myrtle. This is in the proposed acquisition zone.
A4 Looking southeast at the Viking Union Addition elevator and stairway. Four of six possible doorways to the proposed parking structure are visible. This parking structure was not built in the 1960's because of demands for free University parking.
A5 Looking south on S. Garden Street. This area is in the proposed South Hill Residential Parking Zone. There is parking on only the west side of the street, though there are houses on both the east and west sides.
B15 Looking north at the Viking Union on High Street. Two trucks are unloading. This area is frequently used as a loading dock for the VU. There is no freight elevator in this building, so this is the only service entrance to the upper level of the Viking Union. In the background the construction work at the Commons is in progress. The Commons has its own loading dock on the west side, but there is no freight or delivery access to the rest of the VU.
B14 Looking south at Wilson Library on High Street. Two delivery vehicles, one from Campus Stores and one from the Print Plant. The library loading dock is immediately behind the white van. The ramped sidewalk meets the arcade. Visible at the southwest corner of the library is the trash pickup area.
B12 Wilson Library seen from the Performing Arts Center Plaza. The library loading dock is in the second arch from the left. The rail is removable. The bags of trash from the library are at the south end of the arcade. This stretch of High Street will be regraded.
B11 PAC Plaza looking at the connector to Red Square. The proposed regrade of High Street will raise the street 3-4'to align with the plaza surface. This matches the grade in Red Square.
A6 Highland Drive and Morey Ave looking south. Diagonal parking on a hill and arterial is unique in the city. This parking is evidence of a parking deficit at the Ridgeway dormitory complex.
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A16a Looking north at the new parking lot west of 21st Street. The willow trees in the middle ground are approximately the point where the lot widens. The cut in the hillside behind the willows provided the material for filling the grade to the south behind the camera.
A17 Looking south towards Bennet entrance at the south end of the new parking lot. The new entry will be through the trees in the background. It has not been cut through yet. There is a witness post, but it does not appear to be in it's original location. No survey marker was visible near this post. We believe the survey marker is approximately 4-6' under the fill from the cut at the north end of the lot and former Councilman Johnson's size 11 feet.
A10 Parking lot at 21st and Bill McDonald Parkway, looking towards Buchanan Towers, the Flag Plaza and the Archives. The timbers which mark the boundary of the parking area have been moved to the south to enable dump trucks and heavy equipment access to this area.
A9 Looking north along the slope of the dump. The abrupt change in vegetation at the north end of the dump marks the boundary of new fill.
A7 Looking west upslope at the dump. Trees have formed a bio-degradable retaining wall which has trapped a bank of uncompacted material approximately 8' tall. This bank interrupts the angle of repose. Debris is a mixture of dirt, garbage, vegetable matter and construction/demolition materials.
A8 Investigator is holding a paver brick like those used in Red Square. These bricks and other material appear to be from the demolition work on Haggard Hall.
B2 Heavy equipment tracks at dump site. New vegetable matter appeared at the site between May 26 and May 27. The blue matchbook provides scale.
B0 Same view as earlier slide, looking towards the Archives building. After informing WWU officials that the site was a potential problem, the timbers which had been moved to the south were moved to block access to the dump.
B1 Looking south towards Bill McDonald Parkway. At the may 28 "cottage" meeting at the VU, WWU Physical Plant director Peter Harris claimed he had "no idea" of the area. Three hours later, Mr. Harris called me to state the material was being dumped by neighbors. He stated that he was errecting barricades and would be contacting University Police. In the future, this will be much easier, since the dump is the site of the new campus emergency services center.
The City of Bellingham should contact the University Police and request a copy of their report. The City should prepare a report on this dump so that the state legislature can determine if this activity endangers the funding for the proposed WWU emergency services center to be built at this location. The 1997 funding for WWU requires local comprehensive land use laws to be observed.
Bellingham Planning staff inform me that there are some options for dealing with this dump:
1) Remove the material, or; 2) Conduct a geotechnical survey to determine the extent and composition of the unstable and uncompacted material and; 3) Engineer the foundation of the new emergency services facility to accomodate the existing conditions.
B4 View looking south from Arntzen Plaza. "Valley Green" is not visible due to elevations and contours.
B5 View of proposed South quad and proposed Field House from the top of the steps between Huxley College and Parks Hall. "Valley Green" is still invisible and would be blocked by the Field House, if built.
B7 Another view across the proposed South quad from the elevation of the ceremonial entrace and flag plaza. The cordoned off area is an earthquake liquifaction zone.
A16 Rock Rings, Steam Sculpture, Manus and aircraft wreckage. This is a landscaped site which is part of the sculpture collection with bowls and swails which frame the two larger works. This view would be eliminated by the proposed Field House and road revisions, since this viewpoint would be obscured by the Field House and the entire area regraded. See the WWUDCMP IVc-13 et seq. for illustrations of proposed impacts on this area and the destruction of the "Whirl, Wind, Wood" installation.
A12 Taylor Street looking west from the Puget Power substation. Sehome High School students, shown here, park some cars in this city street, but most of the vehicles are for the employees of the WWU industrial site. Parking on both sides extends for nearly two blocks.
A13 Looking east at the unregulated free parking for employees of the WWU industrial site at 25th and Douglas in the Happy Valley Neighborhood. Facilities and Planning offices are in the background.
A15 Looking north from the driveway of Catholic Family Services towards the University compost transfer and storage site on Douglas at the east end of the WWU industrial site.
A14 The compost transfer facility is a filled wetland, as shown by the vegetation. The wetland does not appear on the City's listing. This area drains into Connelly Creek.
B16 Campus Express Shuttle at Civic Field. This photo was taken at 9:30 a.m., one of the peak transit times for Western. There are far less than 100 cars parked here.
B18 Looking west across Civic Field parking lot towards the Campus Express Shuttle. Where are all the cars?
A18 Potter and Humboldt looking west 8:30 a.m.. This shuttle does not have room for all the students shown. Some will board the second shuttle which arrives immediately afterwards. Not visible behind the bus is a white Bronco. This is one of several cars that students park in the York Neighborhood to ride the shuttle. Shuttles are drawing student parking into neighborhoods instead of to Civic Field.