The city of Berkeley and its community members have denounced campus’s 2021 Long Range Development Plan, or LRDP, and its environmental report for its lack of consideration of impacts on the city.
The LRDP draft provides guidelines on how campus should improve transportation and infrastructure, use campus-owned land and address the housing shortage from now until the 2036-37 academic year. It also provides estimates on the student and faculty population growth for the next 15 years.
“An LRDP is analogous to a city’s general plan which is a zoning strategy for where development would take place if funded, and likewise, does not make development guarantees.” said campus spokesperson Kyle Gibson in an email.