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Wayfinding Subgroup, May 24, 2012

Wayfinding Subgroup meeting 5/24/12 10:30 am-12:00 pm, HIG 221

In attendance: Eric Boyce, Jeff Brown, Kevan Frazier, Debbie Griffith, Don Gordon, Ben Judge, Gregg Kormanik, Garrett Male, Patrice Mitchell, Rob Nelson, David Todd, Eric Tomberline, and Luke Withrow.

Guests:  Chad Roberson and David Lancor from PBC+L

Rob Nelson called the meeting to order at 10:30 am.

  • Reviewed goals of the wayfinding and signage project.
  • Reviewed existing conditions. UNC Asheville currently has 4 different types of signage totaling 90 signs on campus. PBC+L recommends doubling that number.
  • Proposed types of signage includes:
    1. Gateway (Someone suggested adding 1 additional at Merrimon corridor-would require an agreement with City, or property owner)
    2. Perimeter Banners (we need to add more banners near 525 Broadway and between the Future I-26 off ramp to Campus Drive).
    3. Vehicular directional signage
    4. Loop banners
    5. Parking identification
    6. Informational Kiosks
    7. Pedestrian directional signage
    8. Building banners (on select buildings, these would be multi-use, sense of place, cultural banners, not building identifiers)
    9. Building Signs
    10. Wayfinding Subgroup added Building Signs on the actual buildings.
    • Other types of signage to include in the project: secondary perimeter signage, walking trails, shuttles, etc.
    • PBC+L identified 7 visitor types that all need to get to a specific parking location. Discussion ensued if this was the right list.
      1. Sherrill Center/added Kimmel Arena
      2. Lipinsky
      3. Belk/added HLH
      4.  Admissions
      5. Reuter Center
      6. Visitors Lot
      7. Possibly Non-residential Student Parking
      • Group discussed locations for the information kiosks.
      • Discussed the need for our permanent signage to accommodate temporary signage in some “elegant” way (i.e., magnetized, a slot to include, digital, etc.) PBC+L recommended figuring out how many instances of temp. signage we would encounter to figure out cost effective way.
      • Need for a Policy on Signage. You must use this template, you must post in this way, you must…
      • Include academic departments on building signage? Group liked the idea to encourage our academic mission, and sense of place to include the academic departments on a ground sign in front of buildings.
      • Discussed the addition of a pull-off spot with manned or unmanned kiosk coming up from the roundabout before the Bermuda triangle.
      • Cost of project. PBC+L priced the simple replacement of what we currently have at $150k to $200k. Double the signs for $300k to $500k. All of it, including the Bermuda Triangle and the gateway signage for $500k to $1m.
      • Group asked about prioritizing and phasing in the project, i.e., $150k a year for 5 years. Would run into the problem of new signs next to old signs.
      • Need to look at it as solving the problem. How do we solve the admissions problem? Take the Admissions entrance and fix it all. Go area by area as we have the money.
      • PBC+L will work on some drawings with prioritized signage and the costs associated.
      • More questions about the timeline. August 1 will be tough. Pole banners may be doable by then.
      • PBC+L needs the range for the $. Are they looking at $20k or $300k?
      • Discussed our most critical priorities:
        1. Visitors to Admissions (prospective students and parents)
        2. Stumble-upon Visitors (just in the area visitors)
        3. Visitors for Events (Sherrill, Reuter, etc.)
        4. Remove the Bermuda Triangle money from the equation. That money would come from elsewhere.

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