Learn about the LRDP project

UC Santa Cruz has prepared this web site in order to keep members of the campus community and public informed about efforts and activities under way to update UCSC's Long-Range Development Plan. The Final Draft LRDP and its accompanying Final EIR were approved and certified by the UC Board of Regents at its September 19-21, 2006 meeting.

During the three-year planning effort, a Draft LRDP was completed in January 2005. A Draft EIR was prepared to assess the potential environmental effects related to the implementation of the Draft LRDP.

HIGHLIGHTS

Parties to LRDP litigation agree on settlement

In a message to the campus community, Chancellor Blumenthal announced that an historic agreement has been reached, ending litigation over UCSC's 2005 LRDP and stalling construction of a badly needed biomedical building on campus. For more information about the terms of the agreement, please see this summary of settlement page or read the complete signed agreement. For more information about the litigation that preceded the settlement, please see this litigation background page.

View the presentation to Regents

Chancellor George Blumenthal and Campus Architect Frank Zwart presented the Final Draft LRDP and Final EIR to the UC Regents Committee on Grounds and Buildings on September 19, 2006. Following the presentations, the committee unanimously supported the long-range documents, forwarding them to the full board for consideration on September 21; the full board approved the Final Draft LRDP and Final EIR. You may read the remarks and view the slides that comprised UCSC's presentation to the Regents committee.

Lower enrollment in Final Draft LRDP

Chancellor George Blumenthal recommended reducing UCSC's proposed potential enrollment to 19,500 when he presented the campus's 2005-2020 Long-Range Development Plan to the UC Regents in September 2006. For more information, please go to the press release detailing the campus announcement.