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Issue Based Work Teams
The following table provides a starting point for some of the key process steps and timelines. The co-chairs of the work teams will work with the professional staff to develop a detailed work plan for their team.
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Enhancing the Campus
Improving both physical and functional aspects of campus to create a better learning and working community.
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| Co-chairs: Jerry Rinehart & Denise Guerin |
Guiding Principles:
- Instill a genuine sense of community
- Promote optimization & rationalization of campus facilities
- Increase the mix of uses on campus, including housing
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Examples of Issues to be addressed
- Space optimization
- Development
- Community
- Precinct Plans
- Flexible learning spaces
- St. Paul Agriculture Lands
- Research facilities
- Rec Sports
- Adjacencies
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Natural Features and Open Space
Developing policies related to sustainable design and management practices and building a strong system of open space to tie campus together and to the surrounding community. |
| Co-chairs: Lance Neckar & Art Erdman |
Guiding Principles:
- Identify, preserve and enhance natural features
- Create a cohesive system of open spaces
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Examples of Issues to be addressed
- Sustainability
- Connections
- Minnesota Geological Survey
- Storm Water Management
- Preservation of Agricultural lands
- Riverfront development/preservation
- Flyway preservation
- Riverfront
- Open space
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Movement and Access
Addressing transportation; efficient movement of people whether walking, biking, driving or riding transit or other alternative modes of transportation. |
| Co-chairs:David Levinson and Bob Johns |
Guiding Principles:
- Achieve balanced systems for movement and access
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Examples of Issues to be addressed
- Transit
- Alternative modes of transportation
- Parking
- Circulation
- Traffic/multimodal/intermodal connections
- Signage
- Accessibility
- Service to buildings
- Special Visitors
- Reducing the need for movement of faculty and staff through technology
- Transitway
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Community Connections, Collaborative Ventures and Safety
Hardest to define because it addresses both physical and non-physical relationships; focus on sphere of campus influence and improving relationships with adjacent community. |
| Co-chairs: Sheila Ards & Becky Yust |
Guiding Principles:
- Foster accessibility and a sense of safety and security
- Develop connections
- Facilitiate and ensure healthy collaborative ventures
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Examples of Issues to be addressed
- U Boundary Definition
- Grad/Professional Housing
- Northside initiative
- Public safety
- Community/University Development Partnerships
- Public/Large Venues
- Neighborhood involvement
- Research Park
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Design and Preservation
Exploring design issues to enhance sense of place, improving functional and visual image, and management of historical assets. |
| Co-chairs: Terry Bock and Judith Martin |
Guiding Principles:
- Identify, preserve and enhance natural features
- Create a cohesive system of open spaces
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Examples of Issues to be addressed
- Sustainability
- Connections
- Minnesota Geological Survey
- Storm Water Management
- Preservation of Agricultural lands
- Riverfront development/preservation
- Flyway preservation
- Riverfront
- Open space
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