2011年5月22日 星期日

Another impact is less obvious

Another impact is less obvious


Another impact is less obvious — unless you happen to live close to campus. Year by year, block by block, more single-family houses in the neighborhoods surrounding OSU have been converted from owner-occupied housing to student rentals.Shop the latest moncler outerwear handpicked by a global community of independent trendsetters and stylists.

The result has been an inexorable — and perhaps irreversible — shift in the character of a large swath of Corvallis.

“As students take more of the housing within a defined boundary, the other people leave,” said City Councilor Dan Brown, a retired OSU business professor and a longtime resident of the College Hill neighborhood. “One by one, families and nonstudents get chased out.Let's look at this piece of ralph lauren hoody in white.”

One result of this rental creep is an increase in traffic congestion and parking conflicts. A two-car garage is plenty for a house occupied by an average family. But as a rental, the same house might hold four or five students with four or five cars — most of which wind up parked on the street.

Another is what might be termed a clash of cultures.

“There’s always a party going on,I have 2 authentic north face jackets purchased at authorized NF dealers.” Brown said. Drunken college kids frequently revel late into the night, shouting down neighbors who ask them to cut it out. “At 2 o’clock in the morning,authentic ralph lauren polo Shirts For Men And Women. that’s disturbing to people who have to go to work on Friday morning.”

And Brown sees another problem with this demographic shift: College students are making up an ever-greater proportion of the city’s population, yet almost none of them pay property taxes.

As a public institution, the university also is exempt from property taxes. Brown thinks it might be necessary to find a way to tax students as a way of shifting some of the burden for city services onto OSU.If you want to buy jacket, authentic moncler jackets womens is the best choice.

“My problem as a city official trying to pay the bills is how to get the revenue to do that, and it’s a problem trying to get enough revenue when you’ve got a town that’s 50 percent students,” he said. “I’m glad OSU is here, and there wouldn’t be a Corvallis without OSU. But you’ve got to figure out a way to pay for services.”

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