FIGURE 1-23: SPEND THE MOST TIME ON CAMPUS - SAN YSIDRO CAMPUS

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Spend Most Time - San Ysidro Campus

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This is the only shaded sitting area available which only includes 2 tables and has to be shared with over 1,000 students each semester. The outdoor sitting areas are extremely limited.

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EXISTING CONDITIONS AND DESIGN GUIDELINES

INTRODUCTION

Campus landscape areas and plants provide a number of important benefits including: encouraging people to use outdoor spaces; reducing users’ stress; improving people’s moods; providing shade to reduce solar gain and increase the efficiency of building systems; slowing stormwater runoff; and improving air quality. Landscape areas compliment building architecture and define and frame spaces for people to gather outside. While each campus project may exhibit a unique design style, each should connect paths of travel and use areas with neighbouring campus projects to ensure smooth transitions. The campus visual aesthetics should be unified through the use of plants listed in Appendix B and products listed in Appendix A. Proposed plants and products not listed in the appendixes of this report are not encouraged, but may be used with approval from the campus project manager. This chapter describes the existing campus landscape features and provides general discussions about future landscape design and development. Consideration for universal design should be made with each product selected and space designed to exceed minimum accessibility standards to meet the needs of the greatest number of people.

CIRCULATION DESIGN

EXISTING VEHICULAR CIRCULATION AND PARKING

Vehicular circulation is a main concern for the Chula Vista Campus, and less of a concern for the other three campuses, although parking accommodations and transit access should be considered at all sites.

Chula Vista Campus

The main Chula Vista Campus is accessed via two main entrances off Otay Lakes Road, as well as two secondary entrances from Otay Lake Road and another from East H Street. Each of these entrances provides vehicular access to the existing Perimeter Road, which currently encloses the majority of the campus buildings. The future Ring Road identified in the Facilities Master Plan will reroute vehicular traffic further from the campus core on the south and east sides of the campus, while still connecting to parking lots and entrance roads.

National City Campus

The National City Campus fronts National City Boulevard, with a parking garage accessed from Roosevelt Avenue behind the main building to the west. The campus consisting of two buildings and a parking area, with landscape spaces between. San Ysidro Campus Otay Mesa Campus

Similarly, the San Ysidro Campus consists of one building, which fronts W San Ysidro Boulevard. Faculty and staff parking is allowed west and south of the building, with handicap spaces provided near the building entrance. Students use the parking lot across the street, accessed from San Ysidro Boulevard. The Otay Mesa Campus fronts Gigantic Street, from which the parking lots may be accessed. The main parking lot is west of the central campus and a smaller lot is located on the east side. A perimeter road, mainly used for fire or emergency access, connects the lots across the north side of the campus.

The existing Perimeter Road on the Chula Vista Campus.