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IV. The Plan to Meet the University's Facilities Needs
C. District Development Plans East Campus 
This campus district is bounded by Route 1 to the west, Paint Branch Parkway to the north, and the City of College Park to the south. The image and identity of this area of campus are visually connected to the Historic Core via Memorial Chapel, North and South Gates and the associated lawns, Chapel Lawn and the recreational fields south of Martin Hall. Fraternity Row defines a major campus open space within this district that visually links across Route 1 to Chapel Lawn and Memorial Chapel. The predominant land uses in this district include the Central Heating Plant and other campus service units and facilities, Fraternity Row, and other student residential clusters.
This area of campus falls within the College Park U.S. Route 1 Corridor Sector Plan and Proposed Sectional Map Amendment, conducted by the  Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission (M-NCPPC). The university Strategic Plan calls for this district to be redeveloped as an "East Campus College Town Commons." This area will be a mixed-use college town environment that includes retail, office, and residential uses and a hotel and conference center. A street and pedestrian pattern will strongly link to the campus and to Old Town College Park, and a town square will act as a focus and visual link across Route 1 to the Engineering Fields.
Development plans call for the relocation of campus service units to make this area available for development to be achieved largely through public-private sponsorship (Figure 15). |
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