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2022 Facilities Plan
Executive Summary
San Diego City College has served students for more than 108 years as one of the fastest-growing community colleges in the nation. City College has as its highest priority student learning and success. The college is committed to providing an array of comprehensive programs and services that support the recruitment, retention, transition, and academic success of students so that they may achieve their academic, career, and life goals. City College’s academic priority is directly coupled with its commitment to address the future needs of campus life and infrastructure. The purpose of the Facilities Plan (FP) is to facilitate the progressive improvement and advancement of the college in order to meet the demands of its rapidly growing community. The FP adapts City College objectives and ambitions of the campus and establishes priorities for future development that plans for managed student growth.
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The Facilities Plan documents strategic adjustments to academic direction and updates visions for the development of City College, a vital component of San Diego and downtown’s rapidly transforming culture. Insight from current stakeholders of City College, the San Diego Community College District, local development groups, and residents of San Diego directly formed the planning priorities and scope of the FP. These entities identified capacities for improvements through participation in open forums and committee meetings that will in turn support the evolving future of City College students and staff.
Although enrollment rates have declined in recent years, the college service area is growing annually, consistent with both the growth rate of California and the nation.
These statistics act as evidence-based directives for the Facilities Plan:
Accommodate the diverse array of students. Study possible implementations of student housing and reorganized programs to support students of all backgrounds and financial or housing insecurities. Review parking and transit opportunities to ensure physical access to education for 16,000 students to 25,000 students on campus moving forward.
The physical attributes and constraints of the existing campus materialize as challenges for City College to confront. The Facilities Plan reviews the surrounding context, existing challenges of site topography, limited vehicular access, and constrained campus circulation to develop a series of opportunities and challenges into penchants for future development. The Facilities Plan document identifies the repair, remodel or replacement of existing facilities that do not meet educational or infrastructural necessity. The plan generates justifiable capital programs that identify preferred land use, potential building addition sites including parking structures and dorm locations, repurposing and modernization of existing buildings, athletic program improvements, identification of potential accessibility barriers, infrastructure opportunity plans, and maximum build-out capacity massings in accordance with department programmatic needs and future demographics of City College. It is possible to implement the plan in a phased manner where students, faculty, and staff may engage in campus events in a safe and comfortable manner with minimal disturbances from redevelopment and minor disruption to the surrounding community. The Facilities Plan shall continue to develop and update alongside challenges as they may arise and evolve as needs change over time, as new opportunities emerge from the surrounding community, or as campus or user-driven priorities are reconsidered.
The result is the 2022 Facilities Plan, a document that describes the current status of the campus, summarizes its needs and goals, and outlines the common vision and purpose for the future of San Diego City College.
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