The Sky’s the Limit for UNM Buildings

class="mine">There’s a damn scary headline and thought: the sky’s the limit! Enjoy one last look from the Duck Pond or Johnson Field to

the mountains. Where do we put the 10 story Starbuck’s Parking Garage? mjh

PS: Remember when Starbuck’s

crushed a little local coffee vendor named Sam Buck who ran Sambuck’s? I think Herman Melville’s estate, or the creators of BattleStar Galactica,

should sue Starbuck’s.

ABQjournal: Sky’s the

Limit for UNM Buildings; 2 1/2-Story Restriction Tossed by Regents By Olivier Uyttebrouck, Journal Staff Writer

University

of New Mexico regents agreed Tuesday to abandon a 46-year-old restriction that limited the height of new buildings to 2 1/2 stories. …

Regents since 1960 have approved a number of exceptions to the limit, including a four-story Humanities building and a three-

story mechanical engineering building. [mjh: Oh! So there never really was a “limit,” was there?]