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Primary Planning Issues and Recommendations:
Circulation and Wayfinding –
While there is a strong desire to maintain the park-like quality of the campus, roadway configurations, lack of visual connection to the campus core, and multiple entry points make it difficult to navigate the campus.
Recommendations:
- Create the Inner Loop Road
- Design and implement a welcoming entry
- De-emphasize secondary entrance points
- Create safe, logical intersections
- Establish circulation pattern: drive, park, walk
- Create lantern-like features at all campus core buildings, visible from the Inner Loop Road
Parking–
While there is an abundance of parking and a desire to keep parking lots out of the campus core, existing parking lots are frequently filled to capacity. It is difficult for campus visitors to find parking close to their destination.
Recommendations:
- Introduce buffer strips to all parking lots
- Incorporate additional strategies to address concerns about the size of parking lots and to control heat island effects and stormwater runoff.
- Consider coupling physical and operational measures to regulate parking use and distribution
- Increase parking fees to fund improvements
- Use existing lots to expand parking, if necessary. Building Opportunities – While the campus has excess physical capacity in terms of land and much of the infrastructure, increased enrollment, program expansion or updated building space may require expansion of academic and residential facilities.
Recommendations:
- Maintain a concourse connection to future academic buildings within the academic core
- Create pedestrian-friendly, interactive con-course spaces
- Include courtyards, glass hallways, and other daylighting opportunities in the design and construction of new buildings
- Include lantern-like entry features within the architecture of all new buildings
- Provide for potential expansion of residential and academic building space
Building Opportunities
While the campus has excess physical capacity in terms of land and much of the infrastructure, increased enrollment, program expansion or updated building space may require expansion of academic and residential facilities.
Recommendations:
- Maintain a concourse connection to future academic buildings within the academic core
- Create pedestrian-friendly, interactive con-course spaces
- Include courtyards, glass hallways, and other daylighting opportunities in the design and construction of new buildings
- Include lantern-like entry features within the architecture of all new buildings
- Provide for potential expansion of residential and academic building space
Context/Community –
While the campus seeks to enhance its tradition of connecting to the community, there is also a strong desire to maintain its identity and boundary. Recommendations:
- Promote use of city transit options
- Build multi modal transportation routes to and from campus and within campus boundary
- Coordinate with the City of Green Bay, Brown County, and the Wisconsin Department of Transportation
- Continue to invite the public to enjoy campus amenities
- Encourage use of the arboretum as a unique educational and recreational space
- Promote Weidner Center for Performing Arts and Kress Events Center
- Continue tradition of “Connecting Learning to Life”
- Create partnerships with the City of Green Bay and private developers to encourage adjacent development that supports campus needs and responds to campus customers Sustainability – While sustainable campus design and growth is valuable it must continually be evaluated against UW-Green Bay’s specific needs and constraints.
Recommendations:
- Establish a Sustainable Development Policy with defined action plans and clear targets for all departments
- Create campus-wide sustainability committee
- Create a comprehensive “Best Management Practices” (BMP) guideline for the campus
- Orient buildings for solar access
- Enhance and promote multi modal transportation options in and around campus
- Incorporate recommendations from separate stormwater management study
Sustainability
While sustainable campus design and growth is valuable it must continually be evaluated against UW-Green Bay’s specific needs and constraints.
Recommendations:
- Establish a Sustainable Development Policy with defined action plans and clear targets for all departments
- Create campus-wide sustainability committee
- Create a comprehensive “Best Management Practices” (BMP) guideline for the campus
- Orient buildings for solar access
- Enhance and promote multimodal transportation options in and around campus
- Incorporate recommendations from separate stormwater management study