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Campus seeks public input on Long Range
Development Plan
Environmental review process begins, public
comment session set for September 22
If you could help shape the look, feel, and
academic strength of UC Berkeley for the next 15 years, how would
you do it?
That is the question before campus leaders as they begin to design a Long Range
Development Plan (LRDP), which will guide the growth and development of the
campus from 2005 through the year 2020. The current LRDP runs through 2005.
The campus community and public are invited to view initial concepts for the
new plan as well as comment on the scope of issues to be addressed in the plan’s
environmental impact report. A public meeting will take place Sept. 22, from
5 to 9 p.m., at the Krutch Theater on the Clark Kerr Campus.
The session also provides an opportunity to comment on the scope of the EIR
for the planned Chang-Lin Tien Center for East Asian Studies, to be located
on the
central campus across the glade from Doe Library. As the first project built
under the 2020 LRDP, it will demonstrate how LRDP principles will shape future
campus projects.
Two key campus documents have established the foundation for the 2020 plan.
The Strategic Academic Plan outlines how the campus will address the challenge
of
sustaining academic excellence. Based on the academic plan, the New Century
Plan sets out policies and initiatives to guide the campus’s physical
development. Both documents are online at lrdp.berkeley.edu.
The LRDP is subject to a full environmental review under the California Environmental
Quality Act. To see the plan’s scope of environmental analysis, view the “Notice
of Preparation” available online at www.cp.
berkeley.edu.
The official public comment period on the scope of the environmental analysis
for the 2020 LRDP opened on Aug. 29 and will close Sept. 29. Following the
close of the public comment period, UC Berkeley Capital Projects staff will
create
a draft 2020 LRDP and EIR, a single document that will be available for public
review in spring 2004. The final LRDP and its EIR are scheduled to go to the
UC Board of Regents in fall or winter of 2004.
Comments about the scope of the new LRDP and EIR may be made at the Sept. 22
public meeting or sent in writing by 5 p.m. on Sept. 29 to Jennifer Lawrence,
Capital Projects, 1936 University Ave., Suite 300, Berkeley, CA 94720-1382.
E-mail comments may be sent to 2020lrdp@cp.berkeley.edu.
For the latest information on meetings or to be placed on the LRDP mailing
list, contact Capital Projects at (510) 643-0313.
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