Students crossing their legs while walking in Campustown will soon have a form a relief.

Maggie Luttrell, Government of the Student Body ex-officio City Council liaison and junior in history, gave an update of the Student Affairs Commission at the Ames City Council meeting on Tuesday, which included the opening of two buildings that would allow the public to use the restrooms.

Cyclone Plaza, 200 Stanton Ave., and Stomping Grounds, 303 Welch Ave., have both agreed to open their restrooms to the public from the hours of 8 a.m. to 2:30 a.m.

Although the City Council has approved to pay the $333 monthly fee for the restrooms to be open, City Manager Steve Schainker said the facilities would not be officially open until next week.

“We don’t have the signs in place yet, so it probably won’t officially be open until next week,” he said.

The cleaning up Campustown project was also going well, Luttrell said.

Luttrell also said the Campustown Court project is also underway and expected to be at least started, if not finished, by spring.

The council also approved a change to the rules of the Student Affairs Commission, which were brought by Luttrell.

The Government of the Student Body, rather than the council, will now approve student positions for the commission. The terms will now begin Sept. 1 and conclude at the end of August. Also, the representatives from the Interresidence Hall Association, International Student Council and Ames High School no longer have to be presidents of those organizations.

In other news, the council also approved the Preliminary Plat for the Estates West Subdivision. The project is set to build 11 single-family homes at 516 North Dakota Ave.

The request was for the developer, Hunziker Land Development Co. LLC, to remove all the existing structures and build the new homes, according to the Council Action Form.

With the new development the site will lose 53 trailer units.

City councilman and academic adviser Dan Rice expressed some concern about this fact.

“I totally love this project,” he said.

However, Rice said he was only “60 percent” for the project because it was removing the low-income housing.

Chuck Winkleblack, of Hunziker and Associates, came forward and said the existing structures were old.

“There really was not a way to improve what was there,” he said.