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

UCSC comments on LRDP litigation

Campus and UC officials have provided statements at various stages of the litigation that has challenged the legality of the LRDP's Environmental Impact Report. Those statements include comment on the announcement that a lawsuit would be filed, comment on a Santa Cruz County Superior Court ruling that the EIR required additional analysis, and comment on a subsequent court ruling delaying UCSC's Biomedical Sciences Facility and the court's recommendation that the parties negotiate a settlement to the litigation.

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.