UC Davis invites continued campus and community participation in the process of shaping and refining the land-use alternatives considered in its Long Range Development Plan (LRDP).
The LRDP Alternatives Workshop will be held during three identical sessions on Tuesday, Feb. 5, from 9 a.m. to noon, and again from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m.; and on Wednesday, Feb. 6, from 4 to 7 p.m. All of the sessions will be held in the AGR Hall of the Buehler Alumni and Visitors Center on the UC Davis campus.
As part of its LRDP process, UC Davis is examining land-use alternatives for accommodating many new students, faculty, staff and facilities in the coming years.
"Growth needs range from new academic buildings and support services to recreation fields and housing," said John Meyer, vice chancellor for resource management and planning. "We are asking ourselves and we are asking our community: ‘What are the challenges and opportunities for addressing this growth?’ ‘How can different LRDP alternatives help the campus change and improve?’ ‘And what alternatives are most environmentally, socially and economically beneficial?’"
Preliminary land-use alternatives will be presented at the Feb. 5 and 6 workshops by UC Davis planning staff and by planning consultants Moore Iacofano Goltsman (MIG), Inc. and William McDonough + Partners.
The land-use alternatives are derived from feedback from previous public meetings, campus committees and campus leaders. Last October, several very successful interactive workshops followed a public talk by McDonough, an internationally recognized "eco-effective" expert whose firm practices ecologically, socially and economically intelligent design in the United States and abroad.
"Further input and feedback are needed to evaluate these alternatives and to help move the university toward a draft LRDP later this spring," Meyer said.
Additional public workshops will be held in April and May. All workshops are free and open to the public. No reservations are required.
By the end of the academic year (June 2002), campus planners intend to arrive at a proposed LRDP, which will then undergo comprehensive environmental review consistent with the California Environmental Quality Act. The environmental review and the proposed plan are expected to be submitted to the UC Board of Regents for approval in the fall of 2003.