Master Planning

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Master Planning
Master Planning

• Presented by Jon Varnell
• Director of Facilities and Campus Services

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Master Planning

• Master Planning is an analytical and creative
  activity that results in a coordinated set of
  decisions (the plan) about actions to be taken to
  accomplish stated goals.
• Master Planning is aligning facilities assets to
  support strategic goals.

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What is a Master Plan?

• Establishes the physical framework for the long
  term evolution of a campus
• Establishes a vision embodied in guiding
  principles
• Ensures the enhancement of unique attributes of
  an area
• Represents a consensus about underlying values
  and principles to govern area development
• Serves as a living document sustained through
  continuous, open, and inclusive discussion

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Benefits of Master Planning

• To ensure that your facilities support your
  strategic plan
• To create a shared vision within your
  institution.
• To make better use of your existing site and
  facilities.
• To establish a realistic schedule and capital
  budget.
• To unify the aesthetic assets of your campus.
• To enhance credibility with lending institutions.
• To focus and energize your fundraising and
  development efforts.

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Successful Master Planning

• Commitment of Highest Authority
• Appointment of Campus Planning Advisory Committee
  with a Defined Role in Process
• Understanding Existing Conditions and Identifying
  Issues on and off the Campus
• Building Consensus and Promoting Good Public
  Relations Internal and External
• Inform and Advise Capital Improvements Plan
• Build Flexibility into the Plan to Accommodate
  Changes and Updates
• Present Preliminary and Final Recommended Plan
• Using the Plan Effectively

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Master Plan Objectives

• Perform a space needs utilization study to
  evaluate current space, to determine suitability
  of current space and to establish future space
  needs for specific academic programs.
• Establish growth potential and/or limitations of
  all academic programs and spatial requirements
  for existing and new programs.
• Evaluate the use and availability of all land and
  real property.
• Define the physical resources required to sustain
  and advance the Universitys missions, goals and
  objectives.

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Objectives continued

• Describe and dimension physical improvements for
  all proposed academic, residential and services
  spaces of the campus.
• Determine and coordinate the location of existing
  and future campus improvements to achieve a
  functional, attractive and comprehensive design.
• Establish a well conceived physical framework,
  flexible enough to accommodate changing
  circumstances and conditions not foreseeable when
  the plan was formulated.

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Planning Assumptions Constraints

• Guilford College remains committed as a liberal
  arts education institution.
• Guilford College also recommits itself to the
  excellenceof undergraduate education and to
  teaching as its
• core business.
• Guilford College remains committed to its Quaker
  heritage.
• Guilford College intends to expand its academic
  community through increased enrollment and
  partnerships with other colleges and
  universities. With a planned total enrollment of
  3,300 by 2010.
• As Guilford grows, it will not just become
  larger, but also increase faculty and core
  selections.

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Assumptions Constraints Continued

• Guilford College recognizes the need to pay for
  this plan through an increase in financial
  resources.
• Operational Objectives
• A Balanced operating budget by 2006.
• New Capital Campaign to raise 75 million during
  2008-2014.
• Grow the colleges endowment value to 75 million
  by 2010.
• Upgrade facilities, infrastructure, and physical
  plant.

• Operational revenues are anticipated to increase
  between 2005 and 2010.
• Guilford College is committed to future improved
  facilities, particularly with residence halls and
  a comprehensive renovation of Founders Hall, the
  campus student center.

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Assumptions Constraints Continued

• In 1998, Guilford College moved to Division III,
  NCAA athletics. In this planning term, Guilford
  college continued to strive to reach its full
  potential in Division III athletics.
• Guilford College expects to fulfill the
  strategies within the existing physical campus
  area without significant land acquisitions or
  expansions.
• The college expects the Master Plan
  recommendations to be sensitive to and enhance
  the campus context. This especially applies to
  the materials (brick), scale, proportions, etc.
  of the architecture and open spaces.
• The campus green shall be preserved as a unifying
  open space with no infill building permitted.
• The lakes, natural wooded and marsh areas of the
  campus shall remain undeveloped, though the meadow

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Assumptions Constraints Continued

• The lakes, natural wooded and marsh areas of the
  campus shall remain undeveloped, though the
  meadows area is an acceptable area for potential
  development.
• Many significant monarch trees are valued
  elements of the campus and shall be preserved.
• The college expects responsible and respectful
  environmental sensitivity in all planning
  activities.