So, the university wants to make a parking lot out of a parking lot instead of leaving it as a parking lot, with no reflexive UO spin about turning it into a "world-class, state-of-the-art, cutting-edge" parking lot? Has to be fake news.
And the university needs permission from a city government that turned its own city hall (circa Romania's "Google" era) into, well, not even a parking lot? Who's on first again?
We've traveled this road of local National Register of Historic Places before. It's July. That means boredom and BBQ. What are those precocious, Civic-minded firebugs up to these days?