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Purpose
The new century finds UC Berkeley at the threshold of major physical change. The substantial capital investments required to improve the seismic safety of our buildings, and accommodate the growing number of college-age Californians, also present us with a unique opportunity to leverage those investments to renew the campus, and provide the space and infrastructure we require to maintain the Berkeley standard of excellence.
Because our resources are finite, however, we must strive to ensure each new investment:
- represents the optimal long-term use of land and capital for the campus as a whole,
- preserves and enhances our extraordinary legacy of landscape and architecture,
- provides the capacity and agility to meet future as well as current demands,
- contributes to a stronger and more vital intellectual community,
- improves the synergy of campus and community, and
- enhances the quality of campus life.
The purpose of the New Century Plan is to provide a sound strategic framework for these decisions.
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Scope 
This version of the New Century Plan covers the core campus and environs, as shown in figure 0.1. Future versions will broaden in scope to include:
- Hill Campus
- Richmond Field Station
- Other UC-Owned Properties
(6701 San Pablo, 2000 Carleton, etc)
- Clark Kerr Campus
- University Village
While the Hill Campus and Richmond Field Station both have potential to play a stronger complementary role to the core campus and environs, both sites also pose significant logistical and environmental constraints to more intensive use. In spring 2002, study committees were formed to assess the future academic roles of both sites: their findings will be incorporated into the next version of the Plan.
The Clark Kerr Campus and University Village will continue as primarily residential sites. However, both sites require significant investment programs to upgrade existing buildings, and the eastern portion of University Village is proposed to be redeveloped as a mixed-use housing and retail complex, in partnership with a private developer. The future use of the Clark Kerr Campus is also subject to legal covenants with the City and neighboring property owners, which extend through 2035.
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Figure 0.1
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Organization
The New Century Plan is organized around a set of Strategic Goals. Each deals with an aspect of the capital investment strategy, and is supported by Policies and Initiatives, which outline the specific actions the university should take to implement the Goals.
- Policies are measures the campus shall take to guide and shape - and in some instances limit or prohibit - new capital investment, to ensure resources are used wisely, and the quality and amenity of the campus environment is enhanced by each project.
- Initiatives are more proactive. Whereas the Policies enable the campus to guide and shape new projects, the Initiatives describe actions that serve the interest of the campus as a whole.
The Project Portfolio presents an illustrative vision of how the Policies and Initiatives might be realized on the campus. The Portfolio is followed by a section on Project Guidelines, which augment the Policies with more detailed criteria for Location, Space Utilization, and Design. The Plan concludes with a section on Project Approval, which describes how its strategic elements should be used to frame and inform investment decisions, through the capital projects approval process.
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Implementation
A strategic plan is only as effective as its means of implementation. The Berkeley campus has been the subject of many outstanding analyses over the years, yet capital investment decisions tend to be ad hoc: not because the campus lacks sound decisionmaking principles, but because there has been no clear linkage of those principles to a practical decision sequence.
The campus has taken action to change this paradigm, by forming the Executive Campus Planning Committee and by establishing a new, clear approval process for capital projects. The ECPC serves as the advisory body to the Chancellor for all capital investment decisions. The New Century Plan serves as the strategic framework for those decisions:
- the Policies and Guidelines in the Plan provide the foundation for the review of individual projects, to ensure capital investment decisions both optimize the use of resources and help realize the campus vision. The section on Project Approval describes the staff and committee reviews, and ECPC actions, required at each phase of a project.
- the Initiatives provide a comprehensive, long-term agenda of investments to enhance the quality of campus life. They enable the campus to pursue a wide range of public and private funding sources, with the confidence each individual Initiative fits within an integrated vision for the campus as a whole.
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