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Administrative Message January 16, 2006 To: UCSC Community From: Denice D. Denton, Chancellor and David S. Kliger, Campus Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor Re: LRDP update: Message from Chancellor and EVCAs you may know, the public-comment period for our proposed Long-Range Development Plan's Draft Environmental Impact Report ended on Wednesday, January 11. We very much appreciate the time and thoughtful consideration of all those agencies and individuals who participated in UCSC's environmental review process. In addition, we want to thank all those who have joined in the process to develop and review the LRDP since the project began in May 2003. During the past three months of the expanded public comment period, we have received comments on the Draft EIR from a large number of people, and a diversity of viewpoints is represented in the responses. As the next step in the process, members of our planning staff have begun assembling and organizing those comments. UC Santa Cruz will respond to every one of the comments received, and the responses will be published in the Final EIR. It is expected that the Final EIR, along with the LRDP, will be completed and forwarded to the UC Board of Regents later this year. It is essential to recall that the Long Range Development Plan is not a mandate to grow. Rather, like a city's General Plan, it is a projection of how growth could be accommodated, should it occur over the 15-year period ending in 2020. The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) defines the process by which a Draft EIR must be reviewed by the public. UCSC's Draft EIR provides a comprehensive examination of the effect of potential growth on topics prescribed by CEQA, including transportation, water usage, and housing. The Draft EIR also suggests specific feasible mitigations to offset the impact of potential growth. Not only has UCSC followed state environmental law, the campus's environmental review process has been both inclusive and open to a degree that is well beyond the CEQA requirements. Even though the comment period for the Draft EIR has ended, you and others interested in this planning project can still familiarize yourselves with the details of the LRDP and the draft environmental review. Please see this web site -- http://lrdp.ucsc.edu As important as the Long Range Development Plan is, it does not describe all the ways that UC Santa Cruz and our community partners can -- and will -- work together on our common challenges. A number of "good neighbor" collaborations have been launched separate from the LRDP process, and we anticipate more to follow. One example is a student-led initiative described in this article -- http://currents.ucsc.edu/04-05/04-25/neighbors.asp We remain committed to continuing to work with our community to address the challenges that we share, as we build our future.
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