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Campus Master Plan Update

Campus Master Plan Update . University of Colorado at Boulder. Master Plan Process. Three Phases Phase I – Assessment Initiation (Plan to Plan) Issue Identification (Stakeholder Interviews) Task Force Formation Phase II – Plan Development Task Force Reports Inventory Analysis

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Campus Master Plan Update

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  1. Campus Master Plan Update University of Colorado at Boulder

  2. Master Plan Process • Three Phases • Phase I – Assessment • Initiation (Plan to Plan) • Issue Identification (Stakeholder Interviews) • Task Force Formation • Phase II – Plan Development • Task Force Reports • Inventory • Analysis • Draft Plan

  3. Master Plan Process • Three Phases • Phase III – Review and Adoption • Reviews and Editing • Approvals • Completion by March 2011

  4. Phase I Findings • Conversations with Deans, Faculty, Students and City, on a wide variety of topics • Discussion included • -- Growth • -- Research • -- Density • -- Land use • -- Academic Villages • -- Transportation • -- Open space -- City/University Relationships -- Sustainability -- Technology -- Challenges

  5. Phase I Findings • Majority View is a view held by most of the people that were interviewed. • Minority View is a unique view that indicated an area that needs additional investigation

  6. Phase I FindingsChallenges • Majority View: “Aligning our aspirations with our resources” will be our greatest challenge in the next ten years • Minority View: • Moving the university beyond tolerance to acceptance on diversity. • Financial constraints on other institutions will make CU pick up a greater share of the burden than we will be able to handle.

  7. Phase I FindingsGrowth • Majority View: We will meet our predicted growth (3500 more students) and it will be difficult on our students and faculty. • Minority View: We will greatly exceed our growth expectations in order to make up for lost state support. • Minority View: We will fall short of our expected growth because we can’t afford the faculty that would be required to do so. • Minority View: Support infrastructure is not in place to handle the student services required for growth, thus becoming the limiting factor.

  8. Phase I FindingsTransportation • Majority View: Parking will be needed in the future. It a severe issue for faculty and staff that commute. • Majority View: Perimeter parking is appropriate as a campus. It may become more remote as time goes on. • Majority View: A freshman car ban would improve campus parking supply.

  9. Phase I FindingsTransportation • Minority View: A freshman car ban would be hard on students. Out of state students rely heavily on their cars. • Minority View: Peripheral parking is a safety concern at night. High nighttime use areas need to have close parking. • Minority View: “We have a walking problem not a parking problem.”

  10. Phase I FindingsTransportation • Majority View: Good transit service is very important to access campus. • Critical for the success of East Campus • Need an efficient shuttle service to and from all parts of campus. • Supports regional goals for reducing traffic.

  11. Phase I FindingsDensity • Majority View: The campus is getting too dense due to all the recent development. • 18th & Colorado is an unattractive urban environment. • The new buildings are too tall and block mountain views.

  12. Phase 1 FindingsOpen Space • Majority View: We are consuming our open space for buildings and it is changing the character of the campus in a negative way. • Minority View: The campus and in particular the landscape and open areas are more beautiful now than it was 20 years ago.

  13. Phase I FindingsHousing • Majority View: The freshman residential experience will continue to be the primary first-year experience. • Critical to acclimating students to college life. • We will be housing about the same number of students in the future • More upper division students should be housed in the residence halls • Minority View: We cannot afford to continue housing all freshman and we will move toward a commuter model.

  14. Phase I FindingsHousing • Majority View: Family housing will be an important tool in recruiting the best graduate students. • Minority View: Consider also single student apartments for graduate students.

  15. Phase I FindingsResidential Academic Programs • Majority View: Residential Academic Programs will become prevalent and most students will experience it in their first year. • Minority View: We are reaching the limits of new programs because we won’t be able to recruit faculty to live and teach in the residence halls.

  16. Phase I FindingsSustainability • Majority View: Sustainability will be an important part of the university’s future. • We have to do our part. • We will need to meet the carbon goals of the 2030 plan • Minority View: Can we afford it?

  17. Phase I FindingsCity/University • Many of the underlying issues from 2001 remain • Grandview • CU-Boulder South • The Hill • Both entities want to work together better • Potential for university affiliates to integrate into the City’s community boards and commissions

  18. Phase II Immediate Next Steps • Master Plan Task Forces • Recreation, Open Space and Athletics • East Campus Vision • Academic Needs and Space Utilization • Transportation • Sustainability • Living/Learning Environments • North of Boulder Creek • Community Partnerships

  19. Phase II Immediate Next Steps • Data Gathering • Space Projections • Area calculations • Traffic analysis • Sustainability benchmarking • Mapping • Topographic • Flood

  20. Phase IIImmediate Next Steps • Next report will be in December or January

  21. Questions? Campus Master Plan Update University of Colorado at Boulder

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