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Long Range Development Plan

Final, January 2002

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This page was last updated on May 12, 2005

Download Full Document (9.78 MB)
Preface Information (160 K)
Letter from Chancellor Tomlinson-Keasey
Table of Contents
List of Figures
1.
Introduction (98 K)
Process of Developing this LRDP
Ongoing and Future Public Participation
2.
History of Planning for UC Merced (149 K)
University of California's Need for New Campuses
Locating UC in the San Joaquin Valley
Lake Yosemite Site
3.
Planning Context and Determinants (989 K)
  Academic Planning
  Academic Organization
  Enrollment and Population Projections
  Campus Land Area Requirements
  Comparison of Land Area with Other UC Campuses
  Physical Setting
4.
The Vision for UC Merced (834 K)
A Campus for the New Millennium
Planning Considerations
  Flexibility and Integration
  Sustainable Planning and Design
  Campus and Community
Planning Principles
  The Land
  The Social Heart
  Neighborhoods
  The Meadow and Lake Parks
  Sense of Place
  Connections
  Shadow, Water, and Breeze
5.
Long Range Development Plan Elements (6.78 MB)
Resource Conservation and Environmental Stewardship
Sense of Place
Land Use
Circulation and Parking
Utilities and Infrastructure
Open Space and Landscape
Building Design
Phasing Concept
6.
Phase One (571 K)
Site Description
Establishing a Sense of Place
Program for Phase 1
Circulation and Parking
Utilities and Infrastructure
7.
Plan Policies (56 K)
8.
Appendices (264 K)
A. Derivation of Main Campus Acreage Requirements
B. Bibliography
C. Participants

Documents can also be obtained through Patti Istas with the University of California or from Robert Smith with the County of Merced.

 

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