Frederick Community College Facilities Master Plan Chapter 6 Recommendations, Campus Development 6-B-1 May, 2023 SITE INFRASTRUCTURE AND IMPROVEMENTS Campus Plan, Landscaping and Accessory elements The existing campus is a lovely setting, somewhat pastoral and suburban, and reflecting an academic mission. Its relatively small scale with modest change in grade makes the campus easily walkable. It is very neatly planted and maintained, perhaps a bit too neat! One of the comments in the interviews was that it looks like a golf course, which is both a compliment and a criticism. As is pointed out in the Sustainability section, the campus can use some strategic re-thinking, restoring more natural settings. It is recommended that the College undertake a comprehensive landscape master plan, which would address the landscaping, hardscape, roadways, pedestrian ways, storm water features, way-finding and signage, and accessory elements like site furnishings. More trees will most always be welcome as part of the landscape, providing shade, and contributing to a more collegiate character of the campus. Sustainability considerations are addressed in Section 6E. The existing campus site lighting standards should continue to be deployed. Existing campus seating and tables should be replaced with uniform, aesthetically pleasing, durable and comfortable furniture. New Buildings Four new buildings or additions to buildings are introduced to be completed in 2033: 1. Health & Wellness Building / Building D Renovation 2. Campus Services Building 3. Innovation and Technology Center 4. Enrollment Services / Welcome Center All of these buildings will be served by the loop road, campus driveways, fire lanes / service drives, pedestrian ways, and below-grade infrastructure. Existing and in one case new parking areas will serve these facilities. In addition to the above four buildings, a build-out is shown with additional structures beyond the year 2033. Roadways and Parking Not just for vehicular circulation, but as a major organizing element for the campus, the loop road is accessed primarily from the south entrance at Opossumtown Pike, and traffic tends to proceed in a counter-clockwise direction, entering or passing parking lots 1-9. However the ‘loop road’ is really not a loop road; it is a ‘U’ shape connected to Opossumtown Pike, a public road. The proposed campus development plan introduces a new connection from the south entrance road to the north entrance road on the FCC property. This should be a long term goal, not easily achievable until replacement of Building F, Visual and Performing Arts Center. In addition, due to the impact of the proposed new buildings Wellness & Athletics, Biotechnology, and Enrollment Services, those building footprints will impact some existing surface parking in lots 1 and 5, reconfiguration of the south entrance road, and replacing the
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