Waukesha - The Common Council has sent a proposed four-story student housing project on Grand Ave. near Carroll University back to the Plan Commission out of aldermanic concerns about a shortage of parking and pedestrian traffic mid-block.
No one spoke in opposition at Tuesday's public hearing.
The project is the second phase of Pioneer Hall by Clysmic Properties, with the first co-ed dorm around the corner on College Ave. opened in October 2008 on the site of the vacant Waukesha Rubber Co. It houses 264 students.
The new hall would replace a dated strip mall and former youth center on Grand Ave. north of College Ave.
The new hall would contain 55 apartments, each housing four students, and including two bathrooms, a living room and a kitchen. The project currently includes underground and outside parking - about one stall for every two students. It would also have ground-level retail space.
City planner Michael Hoeft said aldermen were concerned that the parking was insufficient for both students and retail patrons. He said they also concerned that the sidewalk layout encouraged pedestrians to cross mid-block on Grand Ave.