Chapter 4— Conserve the University's Finite and Irreplaceable Resources

Develop a land use plan that will establish priorities and strategies for implementing the master plan. This will include a short-term and a long-term plan.

Identify future expansion areas.

Unify and Integrate Campus Development

Improve Vehicular and Pedestrian Circulation on Campus

Improve information mapping, identification, and directional wayfinding signage throughout the campus and on major roadways leading to the campus.

Identify pedestrian and vehicular entry points, traffic routes, and functional needs of students, staff, and visitors. Develop a circulation pattern that addresses the existing and future needs of the campus.

Develop attractive parking areas at facility locations served by an effective roadway network. These parking areas should be connected to campus facilities by well-lighted pedestrian walkways to provide convenient and safe routes.

Provide parking for accessible, disabled students and evening classes.

Reduce vehicular traffic and vehicular/pedestrian points of conflict by improving existing walkways and developing new walkways as needed to respond to pedestrian traffic patterns.

Provide parking near the buildings for evening classes.

Develop well-defined, lighted pedestrian connections to and through campus.

Identify and Locate Future Building Uses and Sites

Identify future building sites, existing building expansion areas.

Provide good connections from the facilities to the existing campus core.

Enhance buildings and define building entrances and related open space areas with walkways, signage, lighting, furnishings, and landscaping.

Identify use of materials that can be modified and modulated while maintaining the overall uniform appearance of the campus.

Show the Potential to Improve the Use of Existing Campus Facilities

• Increase use of Adena hall by reorganizing the interior.
• Increase capacity of student housing
• Relocate library and renovate Founders Hall to meet other spatial requirements

Improve the Quality of the Campus Environment through a Long-Range commetment to Strong design Principles

Provide Design Guidelines

Provide design guidelines for landscaping, pedestrian-scale lighting, sight furniture (trash and recycling receptacles) and signage

Provide guidelines for improving the appearance of all the campus entrances, borders, parking areas, drives and walkways, student activity areas, open space areas, recreational areas, and service areas

Provide guidelines that show compatibility and visual continuity between buildings, old and new areas of campus, open space areas, signage, site furnishings, walkways, roads, drives, and parking and service areas by using similar architectural, landscape architectural, and engineering design details.

Accessibility

Continue to improve ADA accessibility to all existing buildings, new buildings, and other areas of the campus.

Maintain and enhance the open character of campus by preserving open space areas, providing adequate green space around buildings, and using design elements that maintain a pedestrian scale

Maintain and Improve the Passive and Active Green Spaces on Campus

Enhance the open green areas.

Enhance the wetland/drainage areas.

Enhance existing open space areas based on their intended use.

Provide additional, accessible outdoor spaces, emphasizing areas near popular facilities.

Locate and develop open space areas for active recreation, both programmed and unprogrammed, and provide the amenities necessary for these activities.

Develop a variety of gathering places on campus to accommodate formal and informal gatherings.

Install outdoor amenities such as lighting, signage, site furniture, and landscaping throughout the campus.

Improve the Campus Landscaping

Enhance the microclimate of outdoor space through proper design, orientation, and the provision of shelter and landscaping to make outdoor areas comfortable.

Use natural features to help separate, buffer, and screen conflicting uses, views to and from campus, service related functions, and impacts of surrounding uses.

Install a rich variety of plant materials that will thrive with minimal maintenance. Include evergreens and ornamentals to provide interest during the entire year.

Strengthen Linkages with the Community

Encourage use of the college facilities by the surrounding community.
Examples: walking trails and athletic fields.

Plan a strategy for co-existing with the surrounding community.

Successfully connect with residential, industrial, and commercial neighbors.

A proposed wellness center may offer opportunities for use by the community.

Provide walking and bicycle trails to link the campus with the neighborhoods.

Provide an attractive, formal vehicular entrance to the campus that serves the needs of visitors.

Program Elements

1. Relocate the facilities management to another area on campus
2. Add indoor student recreation space
3. Show the location of a potential student center and/or library
4. Potential new childcare center
5. Additional student housing
6. Student gathering areas
7. Student recreation areas
8. Improved entrances
9. Reconfiguration or design of parking areas
10. Relocate the tennis courts
11. Locate the Center for Survey Research on Campus

 Chapter 1 — Introduction
 Chapter 2 — The Newark Campus
 Chapter 3 — Existing Conditions
 Chapter 4 — Goals and Objectives
 Chapter 5 — Alternatives
 Appendix A — Issues

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