Long Range Development Plan (LRDP) Outreach

UCSF’s current LRDP describes plans for UCSF’s physical facilities through the 2011-12 academic year and involves two major components:

• Reinvesting in existing sites, including carrying out necessary infrastructure, and code and seismic improvements
• Establishing a major new campus site to provide 2.65 million gross square feet of new space for biomedical research and associated support facilities.  In early 1997, Mission Bay was selected as the location of the major new site.

Since the LRDP was adopted, the UC Regents have approved three major amendments to the LRDP to:

• Allow for the development of housing at the Mission Bay campus site.
• Articulate a new clinical configuration for UCSF involving major inpatient sites at Parnassus Heights and Mission Bay with a major outpatient hub at Mount Zion
• Adopt Mission Bay Planning Principles to guide off-campus development in the vicinity of the Mission Bay site in response to community concerns about UCSF’s expansion there

Please see the Long Range Development Plan site for complete information about the UCSF Long Range Development Plan.

UCSF conducted an extensive and inclusive public participation and outreach process to benefit from the views of individuals and groups in the San Francisco community. UCSF developed a multi-faceted program that included the following.

Community Advisory Group (CAG)

Acting as the central component of the community involvement process, the CAG:

• Provided input into the Goals and Objectives, with a focus on how UCSF could carry out its activities in ways that would improve relationships with nearby neighborhoods and the community at large
• Proposed criteria for selecting new campus sites and evaluating certain aspects of the LRDP’s plan for growth, including transportation, housing, and employment development

Members of the CAG from neighborhoods near the Parnassus Heights site met separately to discuss their concerns about future development at Parnassus Heights. That group helped prompt the adoption of the 1976 Regents’ Resolution limiting UCSF’s growth at Parnassus Heights. They developed a series of recommendations concerning UCSF’s activities at Parnassus Heights, which were presented to the full CAG for discussion and to the public for feedback. The group’s recommendations were then revised to incorporate additional community concerns and submitted to the Chancellor of UCSF for consideration.

Community Workshops

Community workshops were designed to disseminate information to the public and gather feedback about the LRDP from the community at large.

• 15 workshops were held in 8 different neighborhood locations in San Francisco and nearby cities—in communities where UCSF already has a major presence, as well as in areas that UCSF had considered for a new site.
• Input received at the workshops provided the basis for the CAG’s input into the Goals and Objectives.
• In addition, UCSF staff made over 30 presentations on the LRDP to community organizations and block clubs and met with interested individuals upon request.

The foundation of the 1996 LRDP are its Goals and Objectives, created jointly by UCSF and its Community Advisory Group (CAG) and adopted by the Regents as part of the LRDP. These Goals and Objectives describe what the campus and the community are seeking to achieve with the LRDP. Each topic includes the specific goals and objectives, as well as related assumptions, planning principles, and evaluation criteria.

The campus, CAG, and community at large will examine these Goals and Objectives to assess their relevance to the new LRDP and recommend revisions.  For example, Sustainability will likely be a new category, while Transportation remains an area of high interest for the campus and our neighbors. 

Goals and Objectives

UCSF is embarking on its next LRDP, which has an expected planning horizon through the year 2030. Anticipated growth during this time period will need to be estimated so potential strategies to address it can be identified and analyzed. Historic growth rates may decline in the upcoming years due to resource constraints and other factors.

Please see the Long Range Development Plan Site for complete information about the UCSF Long Rang Development Plan.

The purpose of the LRDP community participation process is to ensure maximum public involvement in this important planning process, with a focus on neighborhoods in proximity to UCSF’s main sites. The process will again, as with the 1996 LRDP, lay a foundation of communication that ensures that all parties have input into the plan and receive the information they need about it. With an open and interactive process — identifying the best ideas and ensuring that all points of view are considered—the LRDP can integrate the needs of UCSF with those of our diverse San Francisco community.

Founded in 1992 to provide guidance on the 1996 LRDP, the UCSF Community Advisory Group (CAG) continues to serve as the backbone of the community process. Please see the CAG page for information about CAG meetings. Community workshops will be held in 2012 — and will be broadly publicized.

UCSF’s LRDP completed in 1975 was legally challenged by neighbors surrounding the Parnassus Heights site due to concerns over the density of proposed development there, and ultimately resulted in the 1976 Regents Policy to limit development at Parnassus Heights to 3.55 million gross square feet, which is now often referred to as the Parnassus Heights “space ceiling.”

A second LRDP, completed in 1982, called for the dispersal of UCSF’s functions away from Parnassus Heights in order to comply with the space ceiling while still allowing growth needs to be met. Under the 1982 LRDP’s strategy of decentralization, UCSF purchased and leased a number of satellite facilities including Laurel Heights, the Mission Center building, and clinical facilities at Mount Zion. Inefficiencies resulting from the ensuing scattered operations led to the recommendation in the current LRDP to consolidate further growth at a single major new site, which was ultimately located at Mission Bay.