{"id":355,"date":"2018-04-13T02:36:09","date_gmt":"2018-04-13T02:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/2018\/04\/13\/2018411quinnipiac-to-wait-till-president-olian-assumes-role-before-building-residence-hall\/"},"modified":"2020-09-05T19:45:48","modified_gmt":"2020-09-05T19:45:48","slug":"2018411quinnipiac-to-wait-till-president-olian-assumes-role-before-building-residence-hall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/2018\/04\/13\/2018411quinnipiac-to-wait-till-president-olian-assumes-role-before-building-residence-hall\/","title":{"rendered":"Quinnipiac will wait for new president before building new dorm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Cliff Nadel<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Quinnipiac University plans to wait until new President Judy Olian assumes her role as president before Quinnipiac\u2019s board of trustees approves a final plan and funding strategy for building the new residence hall on Quinnipiac\u2019s York Hill campus according to the Quinnipiac administration.<\/p>\n<p>On March 27,&nbsp;the town of Hamden\u2019s Zoning and Planning Department approved and granted Quinnipiac University\u2019s special permit and site plan to build a new 220-bed senior residence hall on Quinnipiac\u2019s York Hill Campus.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/d\/embed?mid=12JWgAPuknyPl4O1OvtklWX0HWzaiuGLj\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>According to Hamden Town Planner Daniel Kops, Quinnipiac needs to accomplish several tasks before they can obtain the necessary permits to build a new residence hall.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe first step is to revise the plans to make any changes required by the conditions of approval,\u201d Kops said. \u201cThen comply with any other conditions of approval that must be addressed prior to obtaining a Zoning Permit.\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>After complying with the conditions of approval the Zoning and Planning Department can issue a zoning permit to the University.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnce this is done, the University must obtain a building permit from the Building Department,\u201d Kops said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Kops believes because of the size and scale of a project, the whole permit process could take several weeks.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>After filing all of the necessary permits, according to Kops, the University has five years to complete the project but can request a five-year extension.&nbsp; After the University\u2019s permits are approved, it needs to obtain funding and hire a construction company before the project can start.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>According to Kops, as long as Quinnipiac revises and follows the conditions and plans of the approval, there isn\u2019t anything from the town\u2019s point of view that could derail the project.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>According to Quinnipiac\u2019s Vice President of Facilities and Capital Planning Salvatore Filardi,&nbsp;the financial plans to build a new residence hall on York Hill won\u2019t be finalized until new President Olian assumes her role as president of the University.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow that we have the town\u2019s approval, the University is still required to get the final plan and funding strategy approved by the Board of Trustees,\u201d Filardi said.&nbsp; \u201cGiven the timing and the cost of the project, I expect that such a decision will not be addressed until the new president takes office.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>After the project is approved to move forward, Filardi anticipates that the new residence hall will take about 18 months of construction to complete.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnce the projected is approved to move forward, we will have a typical schedule of construction; starting in the spring and completing in the second summer, some 18 months later with students occupying that fall,\u201d Filardi said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/s\/Conditions-of-Approval-for-new-residence-hall-on-York-Hill\"><strong>Here are the conditions of approval that Quinnipiac has to follow in order to receive a zoning permit and be able to build a new residence hall<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quinnipiac plans to start construction on new residence halls soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":356,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[7,4,214,213],"class_list":["post-355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hamden","category-quinnipiac","tag-hamden","tag-quinnipiac","tag-residence-halls","tag-york-hill"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2825,"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355\/revisions\/2825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}