I have only looked at a draft of the Long Range Development plan from
2005, so there may have been updates. The draft I looked at seemed
to outline plans to the year 2020 to extend the campus into a SECOND
ring, reaching beyond the outer Science Hill Ring. Meaning, instead
of a core loop and outer science/college 9/10 loop, there will be TWO
outer loops!

The document seemed to emphasize environmental sensitivity. Most
especially, it repeatedly stated that the construction would
completely avoid the "meadows," the fields lying between the extreme
West and East parking lots, the empty lands filling the middle of the
campus.

However, this "outer-outer loop" clear-cuts sections of redwood
forest in the north.

Furthermore, these "meadows," when you think of it, are really
stretches of flammable brush. Dead, brown grass and hay for much of
the year (even though environmentalists agree that not even desert
should be labelled "unecessary" wasteland... all ecosystems are
precious in their own way, yes, yes). Still, it's hard not to value
redwood forest over that brown "meadow" brush.

This is all I've read.



--- In scfuture@yahoogroups.com, "Max" <mcomess@...> wrote:
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> Anyone have any opinions on the protest at science hill?
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