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Existing building
Parking
Recreation
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Renovation or addition
1. Two-story addition to Love North 9. Bancroft Hall renovation
2. Love South renovation 10- Avery Hall renovation
3. CBA addition 11 • Burnett Hall renovation
4. Sheldon expansion (2) 12. Engineering link
5. Richards Hall renovation 13. Mabel Lee renovation
6. Student Union addition
7. Coliseum renovation
8. Boiler replacement, emergency
generator, chiller addition
HH New Buildings
A. Possible locations for Math &
Computer Science center
B. Biological Science bldg.
C. Possible locations for New
Housing
D. General location otvis'itors' center
E. Teaching Auditorium
F. Beadle Center
G. Biological Science Greenhouse
0 New Streets I
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1. Proposed Campus
Loop Road
2. Ninth Street
alternative
3. Proposed Holdrege
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would become a service street.
Because of congestion near 14th
Street, that street also is a target for
diversion in the next century. The
street would remain open to those
bound for a building on campus, but
I would be designed to deter people
who were just passing through.
“We need to offer another option
so that people are not tempted to go
through the center of campus just to
get to the other side,” Benson said.
Parking, a continual thorny
problem, is designed to be alleviated
by the expansion of the shuttle bus
system. The system will connect
proposed and existing perimeter
parking lots with the campus. Ben
son said planners are also working
with parking consultants to deter
mine what sort of parking facilities
will be needed.
“We still haven't decided whether
all that is surface parking or level
parking structures, Benson said.
The eye to the future is not limited
to the boundaries of City Campus.
Renovation of several extended
campus university research
facilities throughout Nebraska
is planned to further the university
in its goal to accommodate both
faculty members and students better
in their research undertakings and
instruction in the years ahead.
The identification of the need for
improvements at those locations is
not new; but the high-priority desig
nations, making their completion
more likely, is, said Dale Vander
holm, associate dean and director of
the Agricultural Research Division
and a professor of agricultural
engineering.
Two proposed off-campus im
provements involve the construction
of a headquarters building at the
Agricultural Research and Develop
ment Center in Mead, and the
construction of a Staff/Lab/Confer
ence Center in Whitman at the
Gudmundsen Rangeland Research
Center.
Modifications, including addition
of handicapped accessibility, will be
made in Scottsbluff to the headquar
ters of the Panhandle Research and
Extension Center at the Elliot Build
^These are part of our outreach
program and land-grant responsibili
ties,” Benson said. *We want to get
out in the state and serve the agricul
tural interests — it’s an area that
folks tend to forget about.”
In Concord and Clay Center at the
South Central Research and Exten
sion Center, a swine research grow
ing and finishing unit, a research
support facility and SCREC Field
Service building addition are in the
works.
A swine research growing and
finishing unit is on the agenda for the
West Central Research and Exten
sion Center in North Platte. A
headquarters and support building
will replace structures that are 30
year8 old.
As is apparent, the
21st century university
extends far beyond the
boundaries of its four cam
puses, and accordingly, the
plans are neither complete
nor definite even after the
blueprints for a new building
are drawn up.
Predictions about the new
face of the University of
Nebraska-Lincoln are uncer
tain, at best. The dynamic
nature of the university and
the rapid evolution of educa
tional needs cannot be for
gotten as planners are faced
with constantly changing
plans and reallocation of
space resources.
Since the university was
founded, its leaders have
drawn up plans that have
been scrapped because of
tightening budgets, improv
ing technology or simply
better ideas. Even as we
enter the 21st century, these
or similar circumstances
cannot be avoided; indeed,
they should be anticipated.
History has shown us that
planning is never an exact
science. However, by using
imagination, flexibility and
patience, planners can effec
tively work toward a century
that promises to continue to
challenge their abilities.