Comprehensive Settlement Agreement
What is the Comprehensive Settlement Agreement?
In an August 9, 2008 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
- A summary of the settlement agreement; or
- Read the complete signed agreement.
For more information about the litigation that preceded the settlement, please see the litigation background webpage.
Read the Comprehensive Settlement Agreement Annual Reports
Each Comprehensive Settlement Agreement Annual Report will be available for review by appointment at the Office of Physical Planning and Construction (located on campus). For your convenience, the current-year annual report is also posted below.
- 2008-09 Comprehensive Settlement Agreement Annual Report (scheduled to be posted in November 2009; the report is currently being prepared by UCSC and the City)
For questions about the annual report or the Comprehensive Settlement Agreement, please contact the UC Santa Cruz Director of Campus Planning (831-459-2170 or ppc@ucsc.edu) or the City of Santa Cruz Director of Planning and Community Development (831-420-5100 or cityplan@ci.santa-cruz.ca.us).
Also see the related annual mitigation monitoring report about the progress on each mitigation measure adopted as part of the environmental review process for the 2005 LRDP.
These documents are provided in Portable Document Format (PDF) and are best viewed using Acrobat Reader, Version 5.0 or later. The Acrobat Reader, available for free from Adobe, allows you to view, navigate, and print PDF files across all major computing platforms.