Community members from the University of California, Davis and the city of Davis will have their first crack at the Long Range Development Plan update at 4-5 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 30, in the Cabernet Room of the Silo on the UC Davis campus. This new LRDP review promises to be a focused and relatively short process that will concentrate on new information, new regulations or changes, say campus planners. "It's going to be important for people to know that we are doing only what is essential for good planning, and we're going to conduct the update in the most economical way that we can," said Jerry Hallee, chair of the LRDP Task Force, a group of UC Davis planners and administrators who have responsibility for preparing the plan update and environmental review. The 1989 plan needs to be updated because a state appeals court set aside the campus's LRDP in 1991, upholding a lawsuit that challenged the plan's environmental impact report because it did not include a low-level radiation research site south of the main campus. But rather than just focus on the site of the former Laboratory for Energy-Related Health Research, Rick Keller, director of facilities, planning and capital budgets, said that the LRDP Task Force decided the update needs to recognize the changes in planning resulting from the state recession and budget reductions. Enrollment is one of several planning assumptions that will stay the same. Student enrollment continues to be projected for 26,850 for the end of the planning period 2005-06. At the Sept. 30 meeting, the LRDP Advisory Committee, a group of university, county and city representatives chaired by Interim Executive Vice Chancellor Robert Grey, will be briefed. Campus planner Bob Segar will summarize the LRDP process and ongoing planning since the LRDP was finished four years ago. Another three-hour workshop is planned for 4-7 p.m. Oct. 21 in the Cabernet Room on selected topics to be updated, giving the advisory committee and public a chance to comment. Segar expects to forward a draft plan in November, with the completed plan and environmental impact report ready for the UC Board of Regents in July 1994. One example of new information since 1989 suggests that the campus should revisit its plans for service zones that handle water, sewage and other campus needs. For instance, a recent report on upgrading the waste-water treatment plant has made it clear that the plant will require expansion during the LRDP planning period and the needed expansion will require that the plant be moved. An example of new regulations since 1989 is the change in air quality rules that has made them more stringent since the plan was completed. The state budget experiences, coupled with the real estate recession of the past three years, also suggest certain reconsiderations of on-campus student housing. In addition, the purchase of the 1,500-acre Russell Ranch has expanded the possibilities for agricultural research programs and will likely affect the development vision west of Highway 113. Enterprise zones will be another focus, Keller said. "The university is looking to the private sector for partnership opportunities," Keller said. These partnerships are viewed as a way of delivering projects on campus for several purposes -- housing, university-affiliated offices, research buildings and recreation facilities. According to Hallee, the passage of four years proposes some advantages for planning the update. "We now have an 11-year planning horizon, so it will be somewhat easier to predict where we're going to be in 2005," he said.