Why prepare a Long Range Development Plan and EIR, and why do it now?
Each University of California campus prepared an LRDP and accompanying Environmental Impact Report during the period 1988-90, with a planning horizon of 2005. As we approach this horizon, a new LRDP is necessary to ensure campus development beyond 2005 continues to be shaped by a coherent vision for the future of UC Berkeley. One major impetus to updating the LRDP is the need to accommodate higher levels of UC enrollment. Due to the dramatic growth in the numbers of college age Californians, the University as a whole must accommodate an increase of 63,000 students over base year 1998 to meet its mandate under the California Master Plan for Higher Education. State law (Public Resources Code Section 21080.09) requires environmental effects relating to changes in enrollment to be evaluated in an LRDP EIR. Another impetus is the recent completion of two visionary campus documents. The Strategic Academic Plan outlines the key challenges the campus faces in sustaining and promoting academic
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