The University of Georgia is on a pool-closing spree. A month after officials announced they're closing Legion Pool, they now say they'll also close a pool at the new health sciences campus at the former Navy Supply Corps School.

"We looked at it and decided we did not need it for any purpose," said Kathy Pharr, who is overseeing construction on the new campus. "We thought it would be a liability, so it will be closed very soon."

UGA administrators presented their plans for the campus to neighborhood residents Thursday night, talking about everything from rehabbing old buildings to transit to parking. The Navy school was fortified and closed to the public after 9/11. UGA took it over when the base closed, taking down a fence and opening up the campus. Residents said it already seems more inviting. "I think this is a beautiful addition to the neighborhood," Peter Norris said.

The campus, which officially opened last week, is home to about 800 medical students, public health students, faculty and staff. It will grow to 1,400 once it's fully built out in 2015. The growth has brought concerns about additional traffic and an influx of students that administrators addressed Thursday. Only graduate students and upperclassmen will be allowed to live on campus, and only the medical students will be allowed to buy parking passes. "We want to push them to the bus," Pharr said. UGA buses will run every 20 minutes from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. between the health sciences campus and South Campus. They're free for the general public to ride as well, but people who are waiting at Athens Transit stops will have to flag them down to get on.

UGA recently finished renovating five buildings on the new campus at a cost of $11.4 million and has plans for five more in the coming years. One building that's not on the list, though, is a Carnegie library that used to be a Navy museum. It doesn't have an academic purpose, so it's low on the list of priorities, but UGA is hoping to raise $1.9 million in private donations to turn it into a student center. "We love the building," Pharr said. "We want to see it done right."

UGA is hosting an open house at 10 a.m. Wednesday featuring U.S. Sen. Johnny Isakson, R-GA.