Y. to restrict singles to a 2-mile block

Clark praised the 163-unit Alpine Village rapidly taking shape on Freedom Boulevard north of the Provo High School football field — inside the BYU boundary but outside SCAMP.

BYU's boundary extends from Center Street to 2230 North, and from State Street and 500 West to 1450 East and Seven Peaks Boulevard. Nearly 100 percent of single students are already living within that block, university spokeswoman Carri Jenkins said, up from about 92 percent when the school announced the boundary in 2003.

Right now, 15,011 BYU students live within the boundaries in 23,953 BYU-contracted off-campus spaces.

Another 5,072 single students live on campus.

Married students, who make up 25 percent of the BYU student body, are not required to live within the boundaries. Some single students live at home, and BYU does make a few exceptions for some single students to live outside the boundary, Jenkins said.

Clark said the BYU statistics, despite the desire of Utah Valley State College students and other college-age men and women to live near BYU, bolster her argument that Provo should oppose any more student apartment complexes outside the SCAMP area.

"Does Provo need more?" she said. "I don't think so."

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