CCU's Master Plan: objectives, projects, implementation

Key objectives of the CCU Master Plan:

* Maintain a compact academic core

* Link student life uses and student residences to the core

* Redevelop Blanton Circle as a pedestrian quadrangle

* Relocate and change the pattern of parking

* Strengthen the pedestrian environment

* Preserve and enhance the distinctive pattern of wetland sloughs

* Develop a landscape statement at University Boulevard and 501

* Reconfigure Chanticleer Drive and create additional access from 501 and 544

* Relocate the University Boulevard/544 intersection

* Focus longterm growth with the Triangle

Key Projects

1. Parking between Student Health Services and Lackey Chapel and new Public Safety Building
2. New student union complex
3. Blanton Quadrangle and new academic building
4. Fire Tower property parking and Pedway connection
5. Chanticleer West
6.  New student housing on Elvington property
7.  Chanticleer Drive reconfiguration
8.  Tennis and additional recreation fields on East Campus
9.  Athletics District
10.  Baseball/Softball concourse and improvements
11.  Relocate the University Boulevard/544 intersection
12.  New soccer field with stands

Implementation

The Master Plan should be given official standing within the University by virtue of its approval by the University Board of Trustees

The University should establish a standing integrated Master Plan Committee which, along with Project Management with the Facilities Group, is to serve as “gatekeepers” of the Master Plan.