Ventura College Facility Master Plan

Ventura College serves over 12,300 students at its multiple sites, including a 103 acre main campus and a center in Ojai. The college was founded in 1952 and the first campus design drawings were completed in 1955. The 1955 master plan was diagrammatic and showed potential placement for buildings around small courtyards. In 1984, revisions were made to the master plan to show all buildings constructed up to that time. This plan made no provisions for future development. Major new buildings have been planned and constructed without any update to the master plan. This was unfortunate since the scale of the new buildings far exceeds the scale of the existing buildings, completely altering the relationship to the surrounding open space. Marlene Imirzian & Associates was hired to develop a full facility master plan to accommodate growth for the next fifteen years.

Ventura College is planned to grow from 12,350 students in 2000 to 13,275 in 2015. The District Facility Strategic Plan also directs all campus plans to accommodate anticipated campus capacity. We evaluated the campus (based on land area available for buildings, athletics, and parking) and recommended a planned capacity of 15,000 students for the Ventura campus. The campus is the smallest in the District, almost one-third smaller than the Moorpark College site, which has a planned capacity of 20,000 students.

 

Long Beach Community College District Facilities Master Plan

Long Beach Community College District hired MIAA to provide expedited facility master planning and recommendations for bond project implementation for their $180 million bond. We quickly evaluated the District capacity load ratios; developed student and space type projections, and made preliminary recommendations of justifiable spaces. We developed budget worksheets to project anticipated project costs, including fees, contingencies, specialty work, escalation and other related costs. Our team developed a bond budget summary to help the District see projected costs for the projects listed in the bond, as well as all bond related costs. MIAA also assisted the owner in prioritizing bond projects into phases, with projected maximum bond issue amounts for each phase.

A key strategy was to implement new IPPs for projects that, although not previously considered by the District, were justifiable and, if state funded, would significantly lower the bond burden. Other work included comprehensive Construction Phasing Plans, a Five Year Construction Plan, new building and parking lot re-identification, and Graphic Analyses of major program moves. Bond implementation team members received a compilation of the above work in order to facilitate updates during the 15-year bond term.