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UC DAVIS: Office of Resource Management and Planning December 21, 2001 DEANS, DIRECTORS, DEPARTMENT CHAIRS, AND CAMPUS ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICERS RE: Conference Center, Hotel, and Graduate School of Management Building Draft Focused Tiered Environmental Impact Report The campus proposes to construct and operate a conference center, a hotel, and a building for the Graduate School of Management in the south entry area of the central campus east of the Robert and Margrit Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts (currently under construction), north of the Union Pacific Railroad line, and south of Old Davis Road and the Department of Environmental Horticulture buildings and garden. The conference center would be approximately 75,000 square feet and would include a restaurant, a pub, a 500-person capacity ballroom, meeting rooms, and office space. The hotel would be approximately 40,000 square feet and would include 75 guestrooms. The Graduate School of Management Building would be approximately 45,000 square feet. In addition, Department of Environmental Horticulture teaching and research field activities currently located on a portion of the project site would be relocated to the west campus on a parcel located north of Hutchison Drive near the University Airport. Office space provided in the proposed conference center and Graduate School of Management buildings would accommodate the Graduate School of Management, units within the Office of University Relations, and the Internship and Career Center. The conference center and hotel would provide a state-of-the-art learning and meeting center where ideas and advances could be exchanged in a highly conducive environment. The campus currently does not have adequate space to host state, national, and international academic conferences for faculty researchers. As a pre-eminent research and learning institution, UC Davis' academic program depends on its ability to advance innovative research. The ability to host significant academic conferences and professional meetings on campus would substantially contribute to this campus mission and would facilitate interdisciplinary research and learning opportunities for all academic disciplines on campus. I am writing to inform you that a Draft Focused Tiered Environmental Impact Report (Draft EIR) has been prepared for the proposed project. You are invited to review and submit written comments on the Draft EIR to the Office of Resource Management and Planning through February 4, 2002. In addition, a public hearing to receive testimony as part of the formal record on the Draft EIR will be held on January 22, 2002, at 7 p.m. in the University Club Lounge. Copies of the Draft EIR are available during normal operating hours at the UC Davis Office of Resource Management and Planning in 376 Mrak Hall on campus; at Reserves in Shields Library; at the Yolo County Public Library, 315 E. 14th Street, Davis; at the Vacaville Public Library, 1020 Ulatis Drive, Vacaville; and online at http://www.ormp.ucdavis.edu/environreview/. The public notice for this project, which includes a brief project description, statement of project objectives, and summary of potential impacts, is also available online. Please contact Laurie Hanson at (530) 752-9259 if you would like to obtain a printed copy. Comments on this Draft EIR must be received by 5:00 p.m. on February 4, 2002. They may be e-mailed to environreview@ucdavis.edu or mailed to: John A. Meyer Vice Chancellor - Resource Management and Planning 376 Mrak Hall University of California One Shields Avenue Davis, CA 95616 If you have any questions, please contact UC Davis Environmental Planner Sid England at (530) 752-2432. Sincerely, John A. Meyer Vice Chancellor - Resource Management and Planning 01-184
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