M e e t i n g     N o t e s     

Meeting Subject:                     Overview Committee    

Location:                                Lied Library, 3^rd Floor Conference Room

Meeting Date / Time:              May 23, 2002 / 10:00 - 11:00 a.m.                

Issue Date:                             September 30, 2002

Participants:                   UNLV                               Consultant Team

                        President Carol C. Harter            Doug Kozma (SmithGroup JJR)

                        Fred Albrecht                             Tim Rorvig (SmithGroup JJR)

                        Ray Alden                                   Steve Troost (SmithGroup JJR)

                        Juanita Fain

                        Tony Flores

                        John Gallagher

                        Tom Hagge

                        Susan Hobbes 

                        Dick Jensen

                        Rebecca Mills 

                        Schyler Richards         

                        Bill Wood                               

Prepared By:                        SmithGroup JJR

DISCUSSION:

The purpose of this meeting was to review and discuss the Preliminary Framework Plan and introduce initial "plan metrics" to the group.  In general, the committee widely endorsed the plan.  The Preliminary Framework Plan will be revised for the June 11-13 campus visit (#5). 

The following comments and ideas were recorded.

·         SmithGroup JJR  provided an overview of the planning process to date and summarized the major principles of the proposed Framework Plan.

·         SmithGroup JJR provided a summary of the direction received from both the Campus Advisory and Community Advisory Committees.

·         The Overview Committee generally agreed (in principle) with the plan elements:

·          Monorail alignment (N-S Swenson/Tarkanian alignment)

·          Loop roads and parking decks (locations, quantity, and distribution)

·          EPA site as future academic space

·          Quads and malls, nodes, courts, and open space concepts

·          Major pedestrian corridors

·          Edge treatment and entrance identity hierarchy

·          Proposed plan density (GSF and FAR)

·          Importance of the utility system (electrical, chilled water, & communications)

The Overview Committee raised the following comments, questions, and observations.

·         Frazier Hall (and its future) will continue to provide some degree of controversy.  The concepts presented in the Preliminary Framework Plan are valid.

·         What is the cost of the monorail?  Can the university tailor the stations (on campus)?  It was described to the committee that much of the monorail constructed in the Las Vegas Valley has been privately funded.  With much of the matching "private funding" completed, federal dollars may be available for this initiative.  Monorail stations can be tailored.  It has not yet been determined if the monorail will be one or two tracks.

·         Did the Preliminary Framework Plan look at the athletic quadrant of campus?  The committee expressed valid concerns about the potential of this area of campus.  SmithGroup JJR to investigate the distribution, type, and amount of facilities.  In addition, the vehicular circulation and amount/utilization of surface parking needs to be studied at the outset of Phase II.  The university agreed to begin a dialog with the athletic director about strategic vision and program potential.

·         Are the intramural fields candidate spaces for academic land uses?  SmithGroup JJR to investigate in conjunction with the NCAA and club fields/uses.

·         It was suggested the old Paradise Elementary School should be kept for continuing education uses, swing space, and remote uses.

·         The new Paradise Elementary School land is "sacred" (not transferable, movable, encroachable, or otherwise usable by the university).

Respectfully submitted by:

SmithGroup JJR

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