1. Franklin Antonio Hall Item 20. Application No
Franklin Antonio Hall Item 20. Application No University of California, San Diego Demolish existing parking lot and construct 4-story engineering building at UC San Diego
Hello and Good Morning Honorable Commissioners, Commission staff and members in the audience.
Thank you Melody for your thorough explanation of the project.
I am Anu Delouri, from UC San Diego’s Campus Planning here as the project applicant, and am accompanied by my colleagues Robert Clossin, director of Campus Planning and our Fire Marshal Chuck Weber.
I am happy to provide a summary of our project. Respected Commissioners, this is similar to the project summary sent to you in the correspondence section of Item 20a. I have hard copies with me as well.
UC San Diego is in full agreement with the Conditions of Approval. We appreciate Commission staffs collaborative efforts on this project and seek Commission approval.
California Coastal Commission Meeting September 11, 2019

2. California Coastal Commission
Our Mission - UC San Diego will transform California and a diverse global society by educating, by generating and disseminating knowledge and creative works, and by engaging in public service.
Our Vision – Student-centered, research-focused, service-oriented public university providing opportunity for all.
UC San Diego is one of 10 UC campus’ within the UC System. Our campus, along with those in the UC system, in recent years is facing unprecedented student growth and is mandated by the State of California to accommodate this growth. The Franklin Antonio Hall project is proposed to help accommodate growth in UC San Diego’s engineering school, one of the top public engineering programs in the country. The Jacobs School of Engineering ranks 11th among the nation's top engineering schools, and 6th in the nation among public universities according to the U.S. News ranking of graduate schools. (U.S. News, published March 2019).
The news report on College Rakings was just released yesterday and UC San Diego is ranked as Number 10 in the 2020 Best Colleges rankings. Top Public Schools National Universities Ranking
The Engineering School is ranked 10th in the nation overall, and 42nd in the world. (US News Best Global Universities for Engineering ranking, published October 2018.)
As of fall 2018, approximately 25% of our students are engineering students (8,976).
The proposed site is one of two only remaining sites within the School of Engineering area being planned on, in response to this mandated growth.
Its in-state tuition and fees are $14,170 ( ); out-of-state tuition and fees are $43,162 ( ). UCSD includes six undergraduate colleges, five academic divisions and five graduate and professional schools. Its School of Medicine and Jacobs School of Engineering are highly ranked. 
California Coastal Commission
Proposed Action: Approval of Coastal Development Permit Application

3. UC San Diego Today 1,162 acres 17 million GSF 600 buildings
Genesee Avenue
La Jolla Village Drive
North Torrey Pines Road
Regents Road
Pacific Ocean
West
Campus
East
Scripps
Institution of
Oceanography
Interstate 5
UC San Diego Today
1,162 acres
17 million GSF
600 buildings
39,000 students
Close to 400 acres of open space
Coastal zone bisects campus
Regent Mandate: UC San Diego to achieve Carbon Neutrality by from buildings and fleet
Gliderport
Project Site
Coastal Zone
Boundary
The UC San Diego campus stretches from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography to the south west, to the east campus located to the east of the Interstate 5 which divides our campus. It encompasses over 1200 acres, with 400 acres of that being protected open space. We currently have approximately 10,500 faculty and staff who educate 39,000 students on the main La Jolla campus. UC San Diego one of the top 15 research institutions in the world. Globally and nationally, our campus is recognized for improving social mobility, offering a high-quality education at an affordable price, producing powerful research, advancing health care and more.
As you can see in the image, the blue coastal zone line bisects our campus resulting in approximately half of our campus lying within the coastal zone, with the southern half of the main campus and the portion east of the I-5 outside the coastal zone. An Environmental Impact Report for the Long Range Development Plan for the entire campus, was approved and certified by the UC Regents in November UC San Diego and the whole UC system is very proud of its sustainability efforts, and in particular that the UC campus will achieve Carbon Neutrality by 2025 from its buildings and fleet.
The project is located on the interior of the campus and adjacent to a campus loop road which has easy access. It is 3 miles by road to the closest beach access, which is down at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography portion of campus. The project, when complete, will be easily accessible by the Mid Coast Trolley which includes two stations on our campus and three in close proximity to campus.
Distance from project to nearest beach access = 3 miles
Beach Access
California Coastal Commission
Proposed Action: Approval of Coastal Development Permit Application

4. Faculty and Staff Parking Lot Including ESHA adjacent to site
EXISTING PROJECT SITE
3.2 Acre Site
85% Asphalt
Staff and Faculty Permit Parking (M-F, Business Hours)
3 miles from Beach Access
Cars Parked to Edge
No Buffer to existing ESHA
Existing thriving 179 acre Ecological Reserve
Existing Project Site
Faculty and Staff Parking Lot
The existing project site is an irregular shaped 3.2 acre, faculty and staff asphalt parking lot used for permit parking, primarily Monday through Friday during regular business hours. The parking lot in its current condition does not include an ESHA buffer and has cars parked to the edge of the site. The site abuts the UC San Diego Ecological Reserve which in its existing condition is well maintained and thriving.
Ecological Reserve
Including ESHA adjacent to site
California Coastal Commission
Proposed Action: Approval of Coastal Development Permit Application

5. Proposed Project PROPOSED PROJECT
Hardscape reduced from 85% to 50% of site
Contiguous ESHA buffer increased from 0 to 25% of site
Eliminates vehicular related runoff from the site
Enhances ESHA and Ecological Reserve
LEED Platinum
Reclaimed water for irrigation
Exceeds energy standards by 20%
Photovoltaics
Water consumption reduced by approximately 40%
The proposed project is an improvement to the existing condition. We worked collaboratively with staff to create a site design with an ESHA Buffer where there was none before, to one that will be 25% of the 3.2 acre site, and to reduce the impervious surfaces from 85% of the site to approximately 50% of the project site. The project will also incorporate landscaped paths that will include native, drought tolerant landscaping and other activity an display areas that will reflect the research that occurs within the building.
Development of the proposed project eliminates vehicular access and runoff from the site, further protecting the adjacent ESHA and Ecological Reserve. It is proposed to be LEED Platinum and includes many sustainable features such as the use of reclaimed water, photovoltaics and reducing water consumption by approximately 40%.
Proposed Project
California Coastal Commission
Proposed Action: Approval of Coastal Development Permit Application

6. TRANSIT Campus shuttle stop in front of project
Mid Coast Trolley Station within 0.3 mile/6 min walk
Bicycle storage facilities, showers, locker rooms on site
500 space campus garage opening fall 2019
57% of campus commuters use alternative transportation
Mid Coast Trolley anticipated to increase campus transit ridership by 10%
83% peak parking occupancy campus wide
UC San Diego transportation sustainability goal of decreasing solo commuters 10% by 2025
Project Site
Future
Trolley Station
As previously mentioned this project once complete will be located within a 6 minute walk to a trolley station. The campus has an alternative transportation rate of approximately 57% percent that is anticipated to rise by 10 percent with the arrival of the Mid Coast Trolley in late 2021 to the campus. Bicycle storage facilities, showers and lockers are provided as part of the project. In addition there is a shuttle stop at the front door of the project that will allow easy access to the project.
The campus working with its agency partners including SANDAG, Caltrans, City of San Diego has deeply invested and collaborated in regional transportation projects, including the expansion of a 6 to 10 lane arterial road, widening of City streets by contributing land and dollar investments, creation of bicycle paths that connect to the nearby Coaster station and more.
The campus has an 83% peak occupancy rate with a minimum of approximately 2,800 spaces open at even given time. The campus is also opening 500 parking spaces this fall that will offset the impact of the 355 space parking loss as a result of this project.
LEGEND
Gilman Transit Center
I-5/Genesee Avenue Interchange
Regents Road Widening
I-5/Gilman Bridge
Mid-Coast Corridor Light Rail Transit (late 2021)
Voigt Bridge Replacement/Voigt Widening
Future I-5 Express Lanes/DAR
California Coastal Commission
Proposed Action: Approval of Coastal Development Permit Application

7. PROJECT GOALS Provides space to improve faculty/student ratios
Collocation enables interdisciplinary research between:
Bioengineering
Computer Science and Engineering,
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering,
Nanoengineering
Structural Engineering
Educating tomorrow's technology leaders in clean energy and transportation, sustainability, health care technology, and cyber security.
This project has been in the planning phase for over two years now and has gone through CEQA and UC Regent approval with all project impacts mitigated for in the Long Range Development Plan Environmental Impact Report. The project will provide space to improve student and faculty ratios, and all of the engineering programs will be provided growth space. This will be a new engineering facility designed for collaborative research, active learning, and technology transfer.
The building is named in honor of UC San Diego engineering alumnus Franklin Antonio who made a generous gift in 2017.
In the words of our Dean, “We are investing in the Jacobs School to ensure continued excellence, relevance and impact as we work to leverage engineering for the public good.”  
The professors within each research collaborative unit in the building will come from a mix of different academic disciplines, namely Bioengineering, Computer Science and Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Nanoengineering and Structural Engineering. Co-locating diverse yet complementary research groups will encourage the interdisciplinary systems-level collaborations necessary for solving the toughest challenges facing humanity. One such example is of undergraduate students who spent 10 weeks this year creating solutions to real world problems. Four UC San Diego undergraduate engineering students invented a lightweight motorized exoskeleton to restore motion to a five year old child who had lost use of his hands and arms, to be able to feed himself, play with his parents, and even enjoy one of the true joys of childhood—picking his nose.
Other senior design teams tackled challenges like a self-cleaning 3D printer, a portable gynecological exam table for use in rural India, and a chamber to study coral in the ocean for long periods of time. This building will enable more such research.
All this will be enabled in the building whose design includes:
* A large, approximately 250-seat auditorium for teaching classes
* Executive education spaces including facilities optimized for online teaching and learning as well as facilities for the Jacobs School’s master’s programs for engineers who are already in the technical workforce.
* Flexible meeting spaces for industry-academia collaborations
* A high-bay laboratory with flexible research space for projects that require high ceilings and access to the building’s loading dock.
* Multipurpose classrooms, faculty offices, meeting rooms and a café.
California Coastal Commission
Proposed Action: Approval of Coastal Development Permit Application

8. UC San Diego in full agreement with Staff recommendation
CONCLUSION
UC San Diego in full agreement with Staff recommendation
Request approval of CDP
In conclusion, we are agreement with the Staff recommendation and conditions of approval and request your approval of the project.
California Coastal Commission
Proposed Action: Approval of Coastal Development Permit Application