MORE PARKING FOR COLLEGE 1,000 SPACES TO HELP ACCOMMODATE GROWTH AT AVC.Byline: Jim Skeen Staff Writer LANCASTER - Work is expected to begin this spring on a $3.2 million parking lot that is the first in a series of projects aimed at preparing Antelope Valley College Antelope Valley College is a comprehensive community college located in Lancaster, California, USA. It is operated by the Antelope Valley Community College District, with a primary service area of 1,945 square miles covering portions of Los Angeles and Kern counties. for bigger enrollment. The project will add about 1,000 parking spaces at the campus' north end to relieve chronic parking congestion The condition of a network when there is not enough bandwidth to support the current traffic load. congestion - When the offered load of a data communication path exceeds the capacity. . The project is in design and college officials hope to put it out for bids around April. ``In April or May we will start the project,'' said Doug Jensen, the college's director of facilities and campus development. ``It will take about four months to complete.'' The project is the first funded under a $139 million bond measure approved by Antelope Valley This article is about the Los Angeles County region. For the census-designated place in Wyoming, see Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming. The Antelope Valley voters in 2004. The bond will fund projects aimed at updating the Lancaster campus, which has several buildings more than 40 years old, and to start the initial development of a Palmdale campus. The overhaul is needed, college officials said, to accommodate enrollment expected nearly to double to more than 23,000 students by the year 2015. AVC (1) (Advanced Video Coding) The video compression techniques used in the H.264 standard, jointly developed by ISO and the ITU-T. See H.264. (2) (Audio Visual C officials said preliminary design work is in progress on an $8.9 million complex that will house a new operations and maintenance building, a warehouse and new greenhouses for agriculture courses. The operations and maintenance building is considered a top priority in part because the existing building is located where the college plans to build a $27.7 million health and science building. The health and science building will be funded with state funds, provided that California voters approve an upcoming statewide bond, and a matching contribution Matching Contribution A type of contribution an employer chooses to make to his or her employee's employer-sponsored retirement plan. The contribution is based on elective deferral contributions made by the employee. from the local bond revenue. The building has a tentative completion date of 2011. The health and science building will include 44,000 square feet for labs and classrooms to support biological sciences and physical sciences, including a planetarium planetarium, optical device used to project a representation of the heavens onto a domed ceiling; the term also designates the building that houses such a device. A modern planetarium consists of as many as 150 motor-driven projectors mounted on an axis. . An additional 21,000 square feet will be dedicated to the health sciences including nursing, emergency medical services An Emergency medical service (abbreviated to initialism "EMS" in many countries) is a service providing out-of-hospital acute care and transport to definitive care, to patients with illnesses and injuries which the patient believes constitutes a medical emergency. , surgical, cardiovascular and radiologic technology. Also in line for state funding is a new 400-seat theater. The building could also double as a large lecture hall lecture hall n → sala de conferencias; (UNIV) → aula lecture hall lecture n → amphithéâtre m . Jim Skeen, (661) 267-5743 james.skeen(at)dailynews.com CAPTION(S): photo Photo: (color) Cars crowd the parking lot at Antelope Valley College. Work is expected to begin this spring on a $3.2 million parking lot to handle increased enrollment. Jeff Goldwater/Staff Photographer |
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