 Hello and welcome to UC Berkeley's online community presentation about the Long Range Development Plan, also known by the acronym LRDP. My name is Kyle Gibson and I am the Director of Communications for UC Berkeley Capital Strategies. Capital Strategies provides a full suite of planning, design, real estate, construction and development services to UC Berkeley. Capital Strategies is a part of the administrative division and our department includes real estate professionals, architects, planners, engineers, construction managers, and administrative specialists that work together to serve the campus community. Joining me for today's LRDP community presentation will be Wendy Helles. Wendy is UC Berkeley's Assistant Vice Chancellor for Capital Strategies and she is the campus architect. As campus architect Wendy provides strategic and long range planning for the programming, design and development of campus properties, including buildings, infrastructures and landscape projects. Wendy also leads the campus's architectural design review and works closely with external agencies on city and regional planning and on development issues and initiatives. Also joining me will be Marissa Chang. Marissa is a senior planner with Capital Strategies, Physical and Environmental Planning Team. She has three degrees from MIT in urban planning, city planning and in architecture. And in her career Marissa has managed projects ranging from space planning to comprehensive master plans. Marissa has been the lead UC Berkeley campus planner managing the multi-year LRDP update process. So before we begin the LRDP COVID-19 outbreak in collaboration with our public health partners, we are operating in accordance with all public health directives and relevant orders pertaining to the public health emergency. Accordingly, we are hosting today's LRDP community presentation online rather than in person for that. So today we'll start with a presentation that provides an overview of the updated long range development plan and the project schedule. And then I'll post some of the frequently asked questions that have been asked to us that we've received during our ongoing multi-year public engagement initiative around updating the LRDP. So now I'd like to introduce Wendy to give the overview presentation about the draft LRDP. Wendy. Thank you Kyle. Marissa is going to bring up our slides for our presentation. But today I'm going to give you an overview of the campus's 2021 draft long range development plan or LRDP. Every University of California campus is required to have an LRDP, which is used to entitle its space and infrastructure needs. I want to emphasize that an LRDP does not determine a campus's enrollment or overall population. An LRDP approximates a population solely for the purpose of evaluating what facilities a UC campus may need in the future. UC Berkeley's updated LRDP will outline the planning objectives and describe a development envelope needed to meet the University's facilities needs. The planning objectives in our updated LRDP will support the campus's recently updated strategic plan, as well as associated infrastructure needs including seismic safety, transportation and sustainability. After the updated LRDP is approved by the UC Regents in 2021, future projects consistent with the plan can undergo a streamlined review process, both in terms of environmental analysis and university approvals. UC Berkeley's updated LRDP will address university owned properties within the City of Berkeley, as well as a portion of the Hill campus that is within the City of Oakland. UC Berkeley has been and will continue to be intentional in its land stewardship. The central campus, what we call the campus park, accommodates the most academic and research facilities. Campus properties outside of the campus park are mostly housing and administrative functions. The University also has some research and academic facilities located on Berkeley Way in downtown Berkeley adjacent to the campus park. The Hill campus is largely planned to be managed as open space with a limited number of recreational research and infrastructure facilities. We are currently about three quarters of the way through a three year process to update the LRDP. Throughout the process, there have been ongoing campus and community engagement opportunities, including quarterly community advisory group meetings, surveys, in person and virtual open houses, workshops and focus groups. We will release the LRDP is associated draft environmental impact report on March 8, and anticipate presenting the LRDP for UC Regents approval in July 2021. The environmental impact report for the updated LRDP will analyze environmental effects of the plan's potential development described in the LRDP. Chancellor Chris advocates for UC Berkeley to be a low population growth campus. The updated LRDP's planning objectives reflect that goal. However, because enrollment decisions are ultimately made at the state and legislative levels. Our updated LRDP will plan for some campus population growth at about 1% per year through 2036 to 37. To plan for 1% growth per year in UC Berkeley's environmental impact report for the updated LRDP. We consider adding up to 11,070 new student housing beds, 550 new faculty housing units, and up to about 2.5 million square feet of academic and campus life space. The principles and goals describe the LRDP's core values for the physical campus. They are intentionally flexible to provide guidance as internal needs and external conditions change over the next 20 years. First, we want to foster a vibrant and inclusive campus experience for students, faculty, staff, and visitors. That speaks to goals about a welcoming physical environment to the provision of housing and enhanced connectivity between the campus and the city environment. Second, we want to support the strategic plan and its goals for discovery, innovation and interdisciplinary connection. This principle focuses on academic and research facilities. Third, we want to improve campus wayfinding and connectivity, how people get to campus and how they get around campus. We want to make it easy for everyone to get to and around campus from sustainable modes of transportation to better wayfinding and accessibility. Fourth, our campus can be even more sustainable and resilient. This change is one of the drivers of this plan and the LRDP recognizes the need to further integrate sustainability and resilience into every campus system, whether it's landscape, buildings, or infrastructure. Lastly, we need to optimize our campus resources. These resources are constrained. For example, we have limited land on which to build. And so we need to ensure the highest and best use of them. We need to build new buildings but also renovate existing buildings. We need to make the best use of the land we have and plan for our campus to support the Berkeley mission now and in the future. This slide shows the population projections table from the draft LRDP. As you can see from the table, the 2021 LRDP considers more growth than the previous LRDP in order to responsibly plan for growth that may be required by the state legislature over time. This table provides more detail about these population projections. The LRDP uses the 2018 to 19 campus population as the baseline year associated with the EIR. As you can see, by the 2018 to 19 academic year, UC Berkeley's enrollment exceeded our current LRDP's projections. In 2036 to 37 at approximately 1% growth per year, we anticipate 8,490 additional students and 3,580 additional faculty and staff for a total of just over 12,000 additional people. Note that the LRDP population projections are not a mandate for growth. The UC Regents and the state legislature ultimately determine enrollment and the campus has a responsibility to proactively plan for facilities in the long term to support our educational mission and campus population. The 2021 LRDP's development program is an estimate of the space needed to support the campus population. Under the current LRDP, the campus developed approximately 1,300 or half of the student housing beds and about 1 million of the total 2.2 million square feet of space it projected it would need. The updated LRDP space assumption is a net new need of approximately 2.5 million square feet of campus space, which includes academic research campus life and support uses. 1,730 students and faculty beds and 1,240 parking spaces. The 2021 LRDP plans for land use in five primary zones, the campus park shown in blue, the Clark Kerr campus shown in orange. The hill campus west shown in light blue, the hill campus east in green and properties in the city environments shown in red or orange on my screen. Neither our current LRDP or updated LRDP include properties in Richmond or Albany. These sites have their own planning documents. This table from the LRDP shows how the development program could be distributed by campus land use zone. As you can see the majority of academic research and campus life development would occur on the campus park with housing development occurring in the city environments and on Clark Kerr campus. Note that the maximum campus space numbers add up to a larger total than the development program. This is because our needs can and will change over time. And where we accommodate our needs over the next 15 to 20 year period may shift as a result. However, overall campus development would not exceed the envelope established by the development program without an amendment to the LRDP. At its core the LRDP is a land use plan and the 2021 LRDP uses three elements to guide land use, the potential future building areas map shown here on the screen, land use guidelines and land use objectives. The potential future building areas map is part of the LRDP land use section. It identifies potential areas where projects might occur in the future. As you can see this map includes sites with existing buildings that could be redeveloped as well as surface parking lots and other infill sites. Consistent with the table on the previous slide, most sites are located in the campus park with additional sites primarily in the city environments and Clark Kerr campus. The potential future building areas map is complimented by the land use guidelines table that you see on this slide. The Berkeley campus is characterized by mixed use development and the land use guidelines identify which uses are intended for each campus land use zone. This table is an adaptation of the location guidelines table in the current LRDP and provides more detail on potential uses in each zone. It identifies priority and secondary uses in the table. Priority uses are uses that are preferred for a given land use zone, while secondary uses are allowable uses that could also be considered within a specific zone. The land use guidelines are then complimented by additional detail in the land use objectives, which include campus wide objectives, as well as objectives for each land use zone for historic resources and for potential land acquisition. The Berkeley campus is the UC systems oldest campus, and the campus park is distinguished by many cultural and heritage landscapes and sites that contribute to its unique character. It reflects multiple architectural eras from the classical cores expression of the picturesque and bozards eras to 19th century picturesque buildings along Strawberry Creek to mid century modern buildings located throughout the campus park. On this map, university properties listed on the National Register of Historic Places are shown in dark blue. University properties that are eligible to be listed on the National Register are shown in the lighter blue. University properties that are on the National Register of Historic Places or eligible to be listed in the register are generally also City of Berkeley and state landmarks and historic resources. The campus has expanded to stewardship of its historic resources. The 2021 LRDP includes specific objectives that apply to historic resources, including balancing preservation of historic resources with program needs, reinforcing the historic physical structure of campus, and using the Secretary of the Interior standards for the rehabilitation of historic structures to guide projects involving historic resources. The campus-wide land use objectives also discuss how the campus will consider and evaluate options when contemplating demolition of existing buildings. The draft EIR will provide additional information about historic resources, including buildings that will become age eligible for National Register listing within the LRDP EIR timeframe. This map highlights existing and potential sites for new students and faculty housing. The campus has identified 12 university-owned sites for new housing. To achieve the number of beds proposed in the 2021 LRDP, we anticipate that we will need to develop housing on every site identified. Two of these sites are currently in development, Anchor House and People's Park. The remaining sites represent potential future opportunities, and the university will share additional information as projects are identified. CEQA, the California Environmental Quality Act, is an important aspect of the LRDP, and the university has been working to comprehensively analyze the LRDP in compliance with CEQA. This table shows our timeline for the EIR process. The notice of preparation, notifying the public that we are preparing the EIR, was posted on April 7, 2020, with scoping comments accepted through May 15, 2020. We will release the draft EIR on March 8, 2021, with a public comment period running through April 21, 2021. We will hold an online public hearing on March 29, 2021. Additional details about the public hearing and how to submit public comments will be included in the notice of availability, published with the draft EIR on March 8, and will also be available on our LRDP website. lrdp.berkeley.edu. We anticipate approval of the LRDP by the UC Regents in July 2021, with the final EIR released in June or July. And with that, I'll open it up for questions. Thank you, Wendy. I appreciate that very much. So the questions that we're going, I'm going to pose to you, and Marissa, are a compilation of questions that we have received frequently, as we've been talking with different individuals and groups, both from the campus and the community. Since we started the LRDP update process in 2019, and even some of these are as recent as a few days ago, since we've released the draft plan. So I'll just kind of kick this off a little bit and ask a question I've been asked a couple times just this week, which is, when we did the online scoping session for the LRDP EIR, we also talked about two housing projects, the ones that you mentioned about People's Park and the LRDP Anchor House. And they're not in the draft LRDP specifically. Could you touch on why they're not in the documents, and will they be in the EIR that's coming out in about a week from now on March 8? So this highlights the difference between the LRDP document and the LRDP Environmental Impact Report. The LRDP document applies to development across the whole campus. The People's Park and Anchor House projects are specific projects that usually would just fall under the LRDP if they were to happen later in the future. In this case, they're happening right now. So we are including them specifically in the Environmental Impact Report. And so you will see the documentation on those in the EIR document that will be released on the 8th. And I would just add that there will be separate project approvals for the LRDP as compared to the People's Park and the Anchor House projects. And that is due to the difference between their separate projects and the LRDP is a program level document. Perfect segue, Marissa. I actually would love to have you and Wendy follow up on if the LRDP does not approve our projects. What does? And what is the university's project approval process for specific projects? And how does the LRDP relate to that? I'll have Marissa take that one. Sure. So as I had mentioned, the LRDP is a program level document, so it doesn't identify specific projects. But the campus does have a review and approval process for individual projects. And that's actually outlined in the LRDP in chapter five implementation. And so as projects are conceived of and identified, they'll go through a planning review process on campus. And that essentially involves review by different committees and groups on campus in each phase of the project. And then there is a review concept and feasibility design and in construction. And so projects must, projects will go through that process. And then there is also another approval process that occurs through the Regents, or as delegated through the Regents policy. And that depends on the size of the project. And then there will also go through the CEQA process. So that would include public notices, public meetings, any additional analysis that is needed beyond what is in the LRDP, EIR. And projects that are consistent with the LRDP can typically undergo less analysis through CEQA just because they have been already analyzed in the LRDP, EIR, but that is really a decision on a project basis. And the most important thing to note is that as projects become reality, there is a process by which we notify the community and the campus about the project and the process that it's going through. So another topic that has come up a lot as we have been discussing the LRDP update is about our campus enrollment. And the draft LRDP has projected enrollment numbers that take us through the 2036-37 academic year. And I know you touched on this a little bit, Wendy, when you were talking, but I think it's worth kind of revisiting a little bit. Are those our actual enrollment projections for what the campus is going to be seeing by that year? Where did these numbers come from? And what sets our enrollment? Is this document setting our enrollment or is the Board of Regents the campus? How does that happen? This document does not set our enrollment. It just gives us an envelope within which we could plan for physical growth of the campus in the future. And, you know, unfortunately that requires us to have a little bit of a crystal ball about where the legislature and the regents might take enrollment in the future. Chancellor Christ has been very clear that we are a low to no growth campus. That said, we can't be caught flat-footed with our development envelope in the future, which is why we've anticipated a very low growth of 1% of compounded growth per year. And I will add that that is less than any of the other UC campuses are projecting by far. We simply need to give ourselves enough room within a development envelope to be able to respond to whatever the legislature and regents give us in the future. Okay. And that kind of also segues to a question about our facilities within the plan. Obviously, we're looking at a lot of potential development and it sounds kind of like enrollment that this is something that we're planning a lot of but may not actually do all of, but it's there if you need it. But is there a strategy between are we going to be renovating existing buildings or are we trying to build new buildings? Is there a balance between those? Like what is the plan advocating for in terms of our existing facilities? The plan advocates for both. And we need to have both strategies in order to be able to adapt to what we have in the future. Just like none of us knew that COVID was coming and how this would affect our, you know, use of the campus on a day-to-day basis in the last year, we don't know what will arrive in the next 20 years. We're trying to do our best to set policies and a development envelope that will let us respond to that. We know that we have lots of important buildings on campus, architecturally important, historically important that we want to, that we'd love to renovate. We also know that there are some sites and buildings that don't represent the best capacity in terms of land use, the highest and best use is the term used by developers. Where we may want to have additional capacity in the future and, you know, this will again, decisions will be made on a project by project basis depending on funding and depending on the varying priorities that evolve over the next 20 years. So I'm going to drill in a little bit on one specific area of the document, the Clark Curt campus, because this is definitely an area that we get questions on two very different spectrums when we've been presenting to the campus and the community. We have one group of our neighbors, we're very concerned about development on Clark Curt campus, and there are covenants that we're currently under. And I was hoping you might be able to talk a little bit about what those covenants are because we are talking about potentially some development at Clark Curt campus, especially for housing. And we also have a lot of people in the community that are very encouraging of us wanting to build housing there, but those covenants will govern how that happens. Could you talk a little bit more about that? So when we acquired the Clark Curt campus, which was historically the campus of the blind and deaf for the state of California, when we acquired that in 1982, we agreed to a set of legal covenants for the site for a 50 year period. So these covenants will expire in 2032. And the covenants limit the number of student beds and uses that we can currently have on that site and limits any development on that site. So the expiration of those covenants 2032 occurs within this envelope of the EIR we're looking out to 2036 to 37. So the last five years of this LRDP are really when we could begin developing and densifying the Clark Curt campus with additional housing and student uses. And that's what's reflected in this current document. And I will say that the Clark Curt campus is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and it's just a lovely architectural ensemble of these kind of mission style buildings. And definitely as we get closer to that 2032 date where we could develop out there, we're going to want to take a look at design guidelines and other stylistic, stylistic decisions that ensure that anything we build out there in the future really is compatible with the use it with the historic character of the place and that we develop it in a responsible way that enhances its beauty, but as well as its capacity to address our housing needs. So another question that we've been getting about future development is, if we're going to keep getting greener as a campus. Doesn't that mean that we're going to need to protect and not get rid of our green open space is the plan how is the plan looking at maintaining our green space and open spaces on the campus in spite of that we might need more development. And I would say, you know, this is something that we really committed to the, you know, the commitment to maintaining the open space on campus. As part of this process, you know, we surveyed faculty, staff and students as well as the public early on in this process at the beginning and open space was one of the things that people value the most about the campus. And people use it for relaxation for contemplation, and it's very important to the community. So it was important to us then in this process that the LRDP maintain the current proportion of open space. And that is what we have done in the LRDP so it is, you know, one of the things that we were really looking at is, is it possible to build additional square square footage, additional buildings on the campus while still maintaining the open space and the answer is yes and that is reflected. In the LRDP and I would just add, you know, the LRDP is really committed to our campus sustainability and resilience goals and plans. So things like the University of California on sustainable practices policy for buildings, you know, has stringent requirements for new buildings and for major renovations. As well as the UC carbon neutrality initiative. You know, these are some of the really important goals and policies and policies and plans that guide us. And so, you know, sustainability and resilience, you know, is reflected in buildings it's reflected in infrastructure, but also in transportation and landscape so it's really kind of an all encompassing value of this plan. So I'm going to put this around on you 180 degrees and say, what about our parking lots on very different kind of open space. The plan is also talking about potentially those being good sites for infill projects and new buildings, but I think that means losing parking. Could you touch on that a little bit about how is the plan addressing parking. Yeah, so, you know, open space is really important to the community and I would say parking is also a key need. Many. Well it seems like Marissa is frozen right now and that really increases the potential for a second would you mind starting over on that answer. Yes, apologies. So parking is a key need for the campus. Many faculty zoom just doesn't want us to talk about parking Kyle. Oh, I'm happy to take a lot of pedestrians. You sorry to do losing again. Marissa, let's do a third time to see let us talk about parking. Okay. Okay, so I had mentioned, you know how people really need to. Some people need to drive to campus, you know our faculty and staff. Some students as well. But at the same time, you know, especially on the campus park there are a lot of pedestrians, bikes, shuttles, private vehicles and, you know, having them all together really increases the potential for conflicts and for accidents. And so what we're contemplating in the LRDP is really relocating parking to the periphery of the campus park as much as possible and that will really prioritize. The interior of the campus park for pedestrians, bikes and transit. And, you know, while still providing you know easy parking from the edge of the campus parks you might need to walk a few more minutes into the campus but it will be a lovely walk on your way to where you're going. And I do think it is very important, you know to consider the impacts of removing parking. And you know we definitely plan for relocating parking as much as possible before we actually remove it from anywhere on campus. Okay, third time was the charm. This is another question for either of you, which I think is one that we get asked a lot is that we have this plan with a lot of land use for the next 1520 years in there. That's obviously going to come with a cost are these projects in the LRDP funded projects or funded development. And especially right now, we're certainly in a tough fiscal situation because of COVID. Could you talk about like this is how is the LRDP is it funded, unfunded, and does that influence projects coming forward. We do not know what the financial fortunes of the university will be over the next 20 years not with incredible certainty. So you know this plan allows for development on campus without entirely knowing where that funding may come from I mean we assume that it will be coming from philanthropy and from state funding. Historically those have been our sources, but for all of the projects that are identified in this LRDP know we do not have funding identified for them. But the LRDP allows us to to expedite the environmental review and the entitlement of projects when funding becomes available so we address these individually as funding becomes available. So related to COVID-19 has that impacted the planning for the updated LRDP in any way. And specifically in regards to planning for the campus after COVID does the plan talk about what are we seeing if that would change our planning in any way. What does the LRDP say about the life after COVID-19. So many discussions about this over the last year and what we've what we've come to is that we don't entirely know what the post COVID world is going to look like we have some assumptions and there are many groups that are talking about the future of work and remote work. What we still don't know with certainty where we're going to land over the next 20 years. And there are just so many variables that are out there so ultimately our assumption has been that we will be the most conservative way to approach this is to use our 2018 to 19 baseline and to plan as we were pre COVID which gives us an envelope within which we can develop and as that pushes and pulls with different post COVID assumptions and developments. We have the opportunity to work within that envelope. Artificially restricting it because we felt that there would be less people on campus because of remote work just seemed to be a decision seemed to rely on decisions that weren't completely that were completely baked at this time we don't know what's going to happen in the next two years let alone the next 20 years with that. Do you have anything to add Marissa. I think that's all, you know, I think that's all exactly spot on. I would say, you know, and just kind of emphasize yes, I think that a lot of the discussions about COVID 19 and kind of post pandemic conditions are, you know, based on the assumption that there would be fewer people on campus and we just don't know if that's true we've heard a lot from our faculty and students in particular that they desperately want to be back on campus. It's a very in person experience. And so, you know, it is really important in this case you know since we're looking at the kind of maximum envelope for the campus to be conservative in our estimates. Great. Well let me ask you a follow up on this Marissa about return to campus. The plan is talking about something called a coordinated and adaptable mobility network. It's not a funding name, but it's going to hopefully make the campus much better, especially once we're all back here to enjoy this. You tell us what that coordinated and adaptable mobility network means, and you know specifically like what that would mean for faculty staff and students. Sure, I think this is a good example of where we planners thought that we were being clear and using simple terms, and we think we thought we were but it sounds like we weren't quite as clear as we wanted to be so I'm happy to explain. You know by coordinated and we really just mean that we're considering all the different modes of transportation together. You know thinking about pedestrian circulation while also thinking about where we could put bike lanes on campus so that we know that there's enough space for all the different things that we want to go together and that also things are separated when we think that there might be conflict so you know like an example of this is that we wouldn't put a parking lot in a place where there's no road to get there right or where the road is going to pass through a place where there are a lot of pedestrians because that would create conflict so we want to make sure that everything is kind of coordinated and to bundle things together where it makes sense, but also to separate them when we when we need to. And in that way the systems really reinforce each other, rather than kind of fighting each other. And then with respect to adaptable that really just means that we're trying to think about the future and this comes back to Wendy's comment about the crystal ball. We don't know what's going to happen in the future with mobility either right you know we hear a lot of talk about electric vehicles we hear a lot about you know will we need cars in the future. And I think on that second question, there might be a point at which we don't need cars but we don't know when that will be and we don't know what that will look like so. You know we want the system to be adaptable based on future changes, even if we don't know what they are. I think you know one example where we do know what might happen where we do want to be adaptable is that we know that by 2035. Nobody is going to be buying any vehicles that are not zero emission, that's a state law. And so when we plan for parking facilities, they might have electric vehicle charging stations in them, or they might at least have the infrastructure to accommodate the charging stations. And in that way, even though we're building now by 2035 will have the future adaptability we need to accommodate that change in a way that is not as invasive or expensive as it would be otherwise. Right. I'll also ask you about something the LRDP says that it does is acknowledge the increasing effects of climate change I think you just kind of touched on that a little bit with regards to parking. In what other ways does the plan acknowledge the increasing effects of climate change. You know, I think that the document is really committed to sustainability and resilience and that's really a result of the very alarming and very, you know, fast advancing impacts of climate change that we're seeing. You know, things like the power safety, public safety power shutoffs, things like extended droughts. And these are things that we really can address in the physical environment. So we have some plans and goals and policies that are already set out by the carbon neutrality initiative for the whole UC system, for example, by the UC sustainable practices policy by our own sustainability plan for the campus. And you know those really speak to infrastructure, but there are other methods also to improve resilience. You know, it might be through energy sources both renewable energy sources and finding places to accommodate battery storage. It could be, you know, ways to make our landscapes and open spaces more drought resistant and to also accommodate more stormwater management features. You know, as I had just mentioned sustainability is related to transportation. And I think that reflects, you know, our overall commitment to alternative modes of transportation we actually have already a fair, fairly robust transportation demand management program that has been very successful over the past several years. And then also, you know, thinking about transportation, transportation from the perspective of building housing close to campus. So that people can use alternative modes of transportation to get to campus and it reduces the private vehicles that are coming to the campus. And then you know we just add in terms of buildings. You know, we're not going to build everything new. We're going to renovate some of our buildings and kind of renew existing resources which reduces our embodied carbon. You know, we are required to follow stringent sustainability requirements and I think that, you know, relative to where we do redevelop sites. That's really in order to make highest and best use of the land. And that's an important sustainability consideration as well. So from the climate crisis, let me flip over to another one, our housing crisis and I think you touched on this really well in the presentation I think it is we're addressing again because we get asked about this so much. How does the LRDP address the housing crisis, we know that we've got a extremely large percentage of our students about 40% that cannot look close to campus. We know that that is also a challenge for our faculty and is especially challenging recruitment of new faculty as well as graduate students and postdocs. How is the LRDP looking at our housing crisis. Wow, we take housing. We take the housing crisis so so so seriously and I will add that I'm looking to move in the next four months so this is very real for me as well I completely get the pressure of the Bay Area housing market. The LRDP does what it can do by establishing a very robust goal for development of housing over the next 20 years. And from there, it's, we really have to look at where the funding and financing sources are for any of these projects that are identified within the LRDP. So we can identify them we can be aggressive about identifying them. And actually executing them comes down to funding and financing it also comes down to sequencing and understanding effects of of of projects on on each other on the number of beds that we have available at any given time for instance it's a redevelopment site. And so I'm looking to make sure that we're keeping bed capacity up as much as possible before we before we take any beds offer redevelopment. And so I anticipate at the chancellor's direction that we will be very aggressive and in housing development over the next two decades and we have reflected those numbers and what we are able to entitle or get permits for that's what entitlement needs needs. So we did a very aggressive goal within within the current LRDP. And I would just add this is the most significant housing goal that the campus has ever had in any of its LRDP is dating back to 1956 and I think that is a testament to the commitment to really improve the housing housing situation for our community. So Marisa, let me ask you about one other point that's come up in the LRDP document it says that it's going or the university is going to prioritize diversity and inclusion in campus planning and investment decisions. What does that mean. So I think you know diversity and inclusion are topics that really can be covered in a lot of different arenas and we're excited that it can be really reflected in the physical environment. You know I think that the LRDP touches on diversity inclusion, primarily in the in the public realm, which you know is another planning term, but it means basically all of the space that's available to people outside of buildings. And our goal is to make those spaces as welcoming and inviting as possible. And you know we do that through a number of different strategies whether it's, you know where we locate different land uses, particularly the ones that support community and gathering. We do that through improving open spaces so that there's a place to sit and gather so that people can build community. And I think also you know down to the level of how do you get around campus. Is there a sign that tells you where you're going. If you don't know where you're going and there's no and there are no, there are no pathway signs then you know I wouldn't call that the most welcoming campus in the world and so you know we want to improve all of these different things about the campus environment. And you know there's also a programmatic element to this. You know we're not just planning for academic and research space I think there's a real commitment to campus life space which is all of those kind of social gathering community building spaces and in our initial listening sessions we really heard a lot about the need for social space and how even actually and also for study space and how study space was taking over social space. We consistently heard about from students and I you know this LRDP really responds to that need in the development program but also in the land use guidelines and thinking about you know campus life space as a priority use and almost every campus zone and particularly the ones where we have the most people. I think it also drills down to the styles, the architectural styles that we think about for our new buildings and you know there is a part of, there's a document that accompanies the LRDP, which is called the physical design framework, which gets into our stylistic considerations a little bit more and you know we're, we're actively working on that right now in terms of how do you reflect, how do you reflect a panoply of styles and values within this existing campus and architecture what how does our existing architecture style which is largely classical on the central core, how does that promote or not promote inclusivity and how do we want to think about adding to that in the future in informed ways. I really appreciate that answer I think diversity and inclusion is such an important topic that it's great to see it getting reflected in campus planning, especially in the long term. And one group that we brought up quickly, but I wanted to see if you might be able to highlight a little bit about who they are and what they've been doing to help us. We've had a lot of public engagement with a wide variety of perspectives and groups and workshops, but there's one particular group. That was specific to the LRDP. And that's the community advisory group we also call the CAG. Could you explain what the community advisory group is and who they've included and how they've helped inform the plan. Yeah, so we've been meeting quarterly with our community advisory group throughout the whole process. And that is a group of people that comprises representatives from the districts that are neighboring the campus, as well as local business associations representatives from those groups as well as from educational institutions and, and a few other groups and really kind of our pulse on the issues that and concerns and opportunities that our neighbors and our in the residents of Berkeley see for the campus. And so we've gone to them regularly throughout the process bringing them, you know, the development program the population projections for for review and to get their feedback. We've talked about the physical design framework. We've talked about a lot of different topics, focusing a little bit on housing and transportation and, you know that feedback to understand you know what what things are kind of a mystery about the campus what things seem alarming what things seem really good. Those are all really important for us to know as we've gone through this process and that has been really helpful to us as we've crafted the plan to know. You know what things we should be keeping an eye out for so that we can really be a responsible partner to those in the city, whether they're residents or, or elected officials, or stuff. So that kind of wraps up our planned q amp a portion, we're ending a few minutes early but before we end. I did want to just take a minute to thank Marissa and Wendy for taking the time out of their schedules to do this presentation this q amp a with us. I also want to thank everyone that took the time out of their schedules to watch us today as over the lunch hour, we hope that enabled as many people as possible to be able to take a break from the day and watch. I do want to let everyone know that this will be has been recorded and will be posted on the website. After today. So, if someone was not able to watch please let them know that they can go to lrdp.berkeley.edu to see the recording of the session to be able to download and read the draft rdp document itself. So, it's really to get more information about the lrdp the associated environmental review, and to get additional updates as you move forward towards the draft plan getting presented to the regions this summer. So that again thank you very much everyone for joining us today, and we'll look forward to seeing you and having you join us for our next online presentation. Thank you. Thank you.