In addition to coordinating the logistics of the three projects, the CPC is looking at how the new buildings can be designed to create efficient and pleasant travel routes between campus destinations. According to Ouellette, an area of particular concern is how students will travel between Baxter and the west side of campus. Now people live west of there. We want to have a major entrance on the west as well and create a kind of crossroads so people can come from the west through Baxter to the rest of campus. Right now there is no easy way to get from one place to another.
People end up having to snake through backyards.
We want to create pathways that not only allow people to get from point A to point B but invite them to. Ouellette pointed out that elsewhere on campus there are places where grass has been worn down from foot traffic and other places where existing walkways are hardly ever used. Both Ouellette and Beattie, who also sits on the CPC, stressed that the committee's role is not only to coordinate the three large building projects, but to consider how to make the campus more functional and more aesthetically pleasing. It has been quite some time since that's been done. The last two major campus planning efforts took place in 1985 and 1963.