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UC DAVIS: Office of Resource Management and Planning September 8, 2006 DEANS, DIRECTORS, DEPARTMENT CHAIRS, AND ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICERS RE: King Hall Renovation and Expansion project UC Davis is proposing to construct and operate the King Hall Renovation and Expansion project. The project would renovate and expand the existing Martin Luther King Jr. Law School building, located on Mrak Hall Drive, in the southern area of the central campus. Bordering uses include the Arboretum to the south; Mrak Hall and the circular drive to the east; Parking Lot 3 to the north; and an Operations and Maintenance(O&M) complex to the west. A portion of the O&M complex will be moved to a new location within the next year and will be replaced by a new Physical Sciences building. The School of Law at UC Davis moved into Martin Luther King, Jr. Hall, in 1968. To accommodate planned growth and the emergence of new programs as legal education evolved over the past 40 years,the School has incrementally partitioned and converted the space of the existing building to new functions. The result is a facility configuration that is inefficient, disjointed, over-crowded, and fundamentally insufficient to support the teaching, research, and service programs of the School. The Davis campus proposes a project that integrates a 22 percent addition to King Hall with renovation of key portions of the existing building. The project would add approximately 29,795 gross square feet, renovate approximately 20,870 gross square feet, and upgrade building systems in the existing facility. The project would relieve over- crowding and allow consolidation of program functions in the existing building to address the most urgent needs for office space and library space. The project would include a new trial practice room and additional meeting space. The completed project would provide an integrated facility that coordinates office, library, and instructional functions into cohesive program units. The project is intended only to provide relief and raise the ratio of total facility space to students to be comparable with peer institutions. Thus, while adding new space, the project would not add any new members of the campus population. The project would require upgrade of offsite chilled water and steam utility lines. These upgrades likely would not be completed before the building renovation and addition were completed and occupied. Consequently, the project design would include options to provide cooling and heating to the building that do not require reliance upon these upgrades, but which would allow for connections to the campus chilled water and steam loops upon completion of those upgrades. One of five Robert Arneson site-specific sculptures commissioned for the campus, colloquially referred to as the "eggheads," is located on the law school project site. The Arneson sculptures were sited as part of the outdoor campus art collection in the early 1990s. The law school sculpture (titled See No Evil/Hear No Evil and comprised of two of the "eggheads") would be relocated on the Mrak Hall Drive Circle next to the project site to retain the site-specific nature of the installation, per the intent of the artist. Construction of the proposed project is anticipated to begin in winter or early spring 2008 and end in late fall 2009 or winter 2010. I am writing to inform you that a Draft Tiered Initial Study has been prepared analyzing the potential environmental effects of the proposed project. You are invited to comment on the Draft Tiered Initial Study and proposed Negative Declaration through October 9, 2006. Copies of the Draft Tiered Initial Study and proposed Negative Declaration are available during normal operating hours at the UC Davis Office of Resource Management and Planning in 376 Mrak Hall; at Reserves in the UC Davis 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 is also available online at http://www.ormp.ucdavis.edu/environreview/. The notice includes a brief project description, a statement of project objectives, and a summary of potential impacts. Comments on this Draft Tiered Initial Study must be received by 5:00 p.m. on October 9, 2006. They may be e-mailed to environreview@ucdavis.edu or mailed to: John A. Meyer Vice Chancellor - Resource Management and Planning University of California One Shields Avenue Davis, CA 95616 If you have any questions, please contact Sid England, Director of Environmental Planning, at (530) 752-2432 or Rick Keller, Assistant Vice Chancellor - Capital Resource Management, at (530) 752-2433. Sincerely, John A. Meyer Vice Chancellor - Resource Management and Planning 06-088
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