IV. The Plan to Meet the University's Facilities Needs
2001 Facilities Master Plan: Planning Principles
- Realize Institutional Vision
The campus will be a place of beauty that celebrates history, generates pride, and manifests the university's mission, academic aspirations, programmatic needs, and concern for the quality of life.
- Create a Coherent Campus Design
Campus planning will promote a coherent design that recognizes or reinforces natural environmental patterns, campus planning traditions, and neighborhood organizational patterns and that improves operational efficiencies.
- Practice Good Environmental Stewardship
The campus plan will protect and enhance existing natural environments (woodlands, wetlands, and floodplains) and create connections with adjacent habitats, and new development will be guided by principles of environmental stewardship.
- Increase the Access and Appeal of the Campus for Pedestrians
Campus planning will encourage and invite pedestrians to move freely and safely across campus through appropriate design in and between campus areas and careful control of vehicular access.
- Encourage and Facilitate Use of Transportation other than Personal Vehicles
Plans for development will reduce presence of automobiles on campus and encourage and facilitate all modes of transportation -- shuttle busses, bicycles, new light rails or metro lines -- that will minimize vehicular congestion, consistent with design and environmental stewardship priorities.
- Strengthen Community Relations
Planning and design patterns will strengthen the connections of the campus to the surrounding neighborhood communities and contribute to high quality town-gown relationships.
- Embrace Campus Traditions and Heritage
Planners will use the best features of campus plans nationwide and of the existing campus design as a guide for future development in order to promote organizational and architectural harmony.
- Emphasize the Importance of Open Spaces
Campus design will affirm the essential importance of open spaces -- natural areas, lawns, malls, plazas, patios, places to sit, etc. -- to the image, organization, and quality of the campus environment.
- Achieve Appropriate Development Densities
Building patterns will achieve the density levels and the balance of new development, renovation, and removal that make the best long-term use of available land and financial resources.
- Ensure Greater Sustainability
Planning and building for the long term will be a key goal in the design of new facilities, in the renovation of existing buildings, and in the location of supporting utilities.
- Enhance Campus Security
Planning and design of all areas of campus will make personal safety and the security of public and personal property a priority.
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