More details on the drafting of a revised Long Range Development Plan for the University of California, Davis, will be provided Thursday, Oct. 21, during a three-hour public workshop 4-7 p.m. in the Cabernet Room of the Silo on campus.
The plan, when completed and authorized by the UC Board of Regents, will serve as a blueprint to guide campus development through the year 2005. During the workshop, campus planners will provide information about growth plans to be included in the LRDP and seek comments from the public as well as from members of a special LRDP advisory committee of university, county and city representatives.
The revised long-range plan will be an updated version of a 1989 plan, as mandated by a state appeals court.
The workshop will focus on eight areas of the campus growth plan for the year 2005.
• The Academic and Administrative Building Plans will establish the flexibility to accommodate all foreseeable growth. However, the campus predicts a reduction in building space needed to support campus programs, compared to the 1989 projections. It also expects to maintain building density in the core of the campus and to rearrange some of the planned uses south of Old Davis Road to maintain the agricultural field at the entry to campus.
• The Teaching and Research Fields Program expects to maintain and reserve the west campus for field-based research, add Russell Ranch as the Center for the Study of Agriculture and the Environment, and retain other research fields as well as the Student Farm.
• The Student Housing Program predicts housing 25 percent of the total student enrollment, a reduction from the 35 percent assumed in the 1989 projections. The campus expects to replace the old Primero student housing complex with apartments, add apartments to Tercero and housing to other existing complexes, eliminate plans for housing west of Highway 113, and retain Solano Park.
• The Physical Education, Athletic and Recreation Programs will provide flexibility for new facilities and fields. The campus expects to consolidate most of the facilities southwest of Recreation Hall, retain Toomey Field and add new playing fields along Hutchison Drive to retain views and openness.
• The Support Services Program will require new support-service zones. The campus anticipates the need for a new wastewater treatment facility and landfill expansion, and plans for the creation of a hazardous-waste handling facility to provide capacity for anticipated needs.
• The Enterprise Program will identify locations mostly outside the academic core for activities that might generate funds to support the academic mission and other campus programs.
These enterprise activities might include offering space for faculty and emeriti housing, cultural facilities, affiliated research programs and office support.
• The Open Space Program anticipates the expansion of the teaching and research areas along Putah Creek, expansion of the arboretum to better integrate with the campus core, management of existing fields north of the Rec Pool Lodge and north of the Health Sciences complex to perpetuate suitable burrowing owl habitat as long as the habitat remains viable, the preservation of existing and incorporation of new landscaped open spaces in the campus core as new building occurs, and the addition of community gardens as a land-use category to clarify the location of existing gardens and the effects of planned growth.
• The Transportation and Parking Program will anticipate less extensive improvements to the campus "loop road" and freeway access roads, compared to the 1989 LRDP. The campus also expects to decrease by several thousand the anticipated need for new parking spaces, compared to the 1989 LRDP, and to continue and expand the existing transportation systems management programs that alternative transportation.
Campus planner Bob Segar expects to complete a draft of the LRDP in November. Following a public comment period on the plan and its environmental impact report, the campus is expected to submit both to the UC Board of Regents in July 1994.