TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY-SAN ANTONIO DEVELOPMENT PLAN UPDATE PROJECT NO. 25-3054 TAbLE Of CONTENTS PREfACE 5 DEMOGRAPHIC AND SPACE PROJECTIONS 11 CORE PLAN 17 OVERALL DEVELOPMENT PLAN 33 CAMPUS ARCHITECTURE 75 SUMMARY 85 APPENDIX 87 4 TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY-SAN ANTONIO DEVELOPMENT PLAN UPDATE | PROJECT NUMbER: 25-3054 PREfACE University Mission Statement 6 Acknowledgements 7 Project Location 8 Introduction 9 Planning Process 10 PREfACE | MISSION STATEMENT UNIVERSITY MISSION STATEMENT Texas A&M University-San Antonio faculty and staff prepare and empower students through innovative and challenging academic and co-curricular programs that contribute to and enrich the economic and social development of the community and region. A solid foundation for success is established through dynamic teaching, scholarship, research, and public service that inspire graduates to lifelong learning and responsible global citizenship. -Texas A&M University-San Antonio website- 6 TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY-SAN ANTONIO DEVELOPMENT PLAN UPDATE | PROJECT NUMbER: 25-3054 PREfACE | ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS DEVELOPMENT PLAN TEAM ALAMO ARCHITECTS DESHAZO GROUP TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY-SAN ANTONIO 1512 South flores Street Circulation and Parking Consultant San Antonio, Texas 78204 400 South Houston, Suite 300 ExEcutivE cabinEt Phone: (210) 227-2612 Dallas, Texas 75202 Dr. Maria Hernandez ferrier President Mike Lanford Phone: (214) 748-6740 Ariel Chavela John DeShazo Dr. brent Marriott Snow Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs briana Walters Angus Chin Dr. Mary Ann Grams Vice President for Student Affairs Steve Stoner Ken Mitts Vice President for Finance & Administration and Chief Financial Officer bENDER WELLS CLARK DESIGN Landscape Architect fACILITY PROGRAMMING AND CONSULTING Dr. Charles Rodriguez Vice President for Strategic Initiatives, Institutional Advancement and Military Affairs 830 North Alamo Street Programming, Master Plan Support Dr. J. Eric Coleman Associate Vice President for Campus Safety and Security/Chief of University Police San Antonio, Texas 78215 frost bank Tower, Suite 1100 Phone: (210) 692-9221 100 West Houston Street Marilu Reyna Associate Vice President for University Communications Larry Clark San Antonio, Texas 78205 ben Vierville Phone: (210) 228-9600 barrett breaux Carolyn Green Christina Martinez Laura Pantano Jose Rodolo Valdez Jack Joyce CNG ENGINEERING Doug Lowe bill bush David Guarriello* Deirdre McDonald Jill Reddish Megan Wise de Valdez MEP Engineer Stacy Güney Douglas H. Carter Tracy Hurley J.J. McQuade Stephanie Scott Margie Vasquez 1917 North New braunfels Avenue, Suite 201 Ena Murphy Kevin Davis Joy Hutchinson Melissa Molina Damon Shodrock Stefanie Wittenbach San Antonio, Texas 78208 Richard Delgado Ravi Kallianpur Jenny Moore Sarah Timm Phone: (210) 224-8841 PAPE-DAWSON ENGINEERS Travis Wiltshire Civil Engineer Greg A. Garcia K.C. Kalmbach Pru Morris Teresa de la Torre Doug Schulze 555 East Ramsey Road Jose Garcia Marshall Lasswell Jan Mundine Rick Trefzer Sharad Paranjape San Antonio, Texas 78216 Joann P. Gonzalez Eric Lopez Roxanne Oviedo Albert Valadez Phone: (210) 375-9000 DATACOM DESIGN GROUP Cara Tackett * David Guarriello is an adjunct faculty who is Communications and Security Consultant Trey Dawson a Professor of Military Service at St. Mary’s 3500 Jefferson, Suite 300 Austin, Texas 78781 PROJECT COST RESOURCES Phone: (512) 478-6001 Cost Estimation John Rob Hicks 14515 briarhills Parkway, Suite 113 TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY SYSTEM Andrew Schmucker Houston, TX 77077 Alfonso M Delgado Phone: (281) 497-4171 Dan Kennedy Director, Project Planning Texas A&M System belinda Williams Dorothy fojtik Project Planner, Project Planning Texas A&M System Greg Edwards Charles Lampe Area Manager South, Texas A&M System Don barwick Manager, HUb/Procurement Texas A&M System 7 TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY-SAN ANTONIO DEVELOPMENT PLAN UPDATE | PROJECT NUMbER: 25-3054 PREfACE | PROJECT LOCATION PROJECT LOCATION The Texas A&M University-San Antonio (A&M-San Antonio) campus is located in southern bexar County in San Antonio, Texas. The university owns four non-contiguous parcels of land: two 5-acre parcels at the corner of Loop 410 and University Way, the 581-acre main campus parcel along Verano Parkway at the southern end of University Way, and the 104-acre parcel south of Mauermann Road just across the creek from the Leon Creek Water Treatment Plant. Pleasanton Road and Mitchell Lake are located east of the main campus parcel while Zarzamora Road and Palo Alto Road are located to the west. The main campus parcel is bordered on the east by the Union bexar County Pacific Railroad. The property north of Verano Parkway is controlled by the Verano Land Group, which LOOP 410 in the process of refining a master plan to create a vibrant university town with A&M- Y A San Antonio as its anchor. The development W Y aims to transform the area into a new T SI R Lake District in south San Antonio with E V connections to the region’s trail systems NI U that will integrate into a compact, walkable D community. ORA RD VERANO PKWY NTON R ZARZAM LEASA P D A O R E T HI W MITCHELL E PL LAKE P A MAUERMANN RD LEON CREEK Verano Masterplan as of 2008 8 TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY-SAN ANTONIO DEVELOPMENT PLAN UPDATE | PROJECT NUMbER: 25-3054 PREfACE | INTRODUCTION INTRODUCTION State of Texas with the goal of “Closing the environment for the foreseeable future. Gaps.“ A&M-San Antonio, as a small but growing first, a set of Guiding Principles for campus, has the rare opportunity to define future programs include the establishment development must be created, which will its physical growth. of Allied Health, Water Irrigation and create a framework to keep process on track Technology Research and Agri-business while also establishing priorities for future This Campus Development Plan conveys Development. Additionally, a Computer development. The A&M-San Antonio campus a vision, a plan, and a process. It is not Information Technology Center will be is in an area rich with history and character, intended to be a static plan but a guide for established in collaboration with the city and but it is not frozen in time. To plan for growth, future development. It is flexible enough to the military’s cyber security initiative. the University must determine where it accommodate shifts in priorities and academic wants to be in the future, then visualize and mission. This Campus Development Plan GOALS fOR THE DEVELOPMENT PLAN plan exactly how it will physically create this serves as a strategic guide for additions and future. improvements to the University’s physical The Campus Development Plan is not environment for the milestones of 5,000, intended to solve all problems for all by following these principles, the physical 10,000, 15,000, 20,000, and 25,000 students. times, but rather is to serve as a flexible development of the campus will not only The University’s mission is to provide guide for the future development. It should meet the space needs of the future, but also higher education to an underserved lower serve as a strategic guide for additions and evolve along with the University. socioeconomic population, supporting the improvements to the University’s physical GUIDING PRINCIPLES Of DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT The Guiding Principles set forth below concepts for pedestrian and vehicular developed through multiple discussions with circulation faculty, staff, and students, were determined 5. be a landmark for the community to be the most integral to defining current 6. Connect the campus to larger regional and future goals for the University: features through greenways, trails and paths 1. Create a student-centered, walkable 7. Promote military relations campus 8. Prepare for the transition to a four-year 2. Celebrate the architectural history of program by developing a plan for on- San Antonio, the Missions and South campus housing to accommodate on- Texas through planning principles and campus residential life. architectural vocabulary 9. Prepare for the evolution and development 3. Create diverse outdoor spaces through of cutting edge, high technology education building organization and campus planning programs. 4. Organize the campus to establish clear 10. Landscape and topography 9 TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY-SAN ANTONIO DEVELOPMENT PLAN UPDATE | PROJECT NUMbER: 25-3054 PREfACE | PLANNING PROCESS PLANNING PROCESS WORKSHOP 1 • further core development • University growth rates building blocks and adjacency needs JANUARY 11, 2012 • Overall site analysis • Cost estimations for campus growth • Refined locations and concepts for The Development Plan began with a series Preliminary information, core massing • Overall utilities analysis (drainage, MEP) • Further refined core plan recycled water, electricity and chilled of workshops and discussions. • Programming wish list • Connection points from the university water • Core components WORKSHOP 3 to Verano development and the regional • Road types and cross sections The consultant team of Alamo Architects • Strategy of phasing out brooks and fEbRUARY 7, 2012 trail systems and facility Programming interviewed Gillette campuses Programming draft, overall plan concepts • Proposed road connections to main WORKSHOP 7 academic departments, students, and the • A&M-San Antonio mission statement • Draft programming document arterials around campus APRIL 17, 2012 administration, asking about their current • Regulatory guidelines presented • Preliminary location of water, sewer, Architectural guidelines spaces, what they liked, what they wanted, • Development Plan vision • Updated core plan recycled water and electricity. • Architectural guidelines based on a set and what they saw as their vision for the • Campus core comparisons with other • Preliminary overall development plan • Location of VIA bus routes and internal of fundamental components University. This information was gathered universities in Texas presented showing main concepts shuttle routes • Concept sketches of what major and organized and has become a part of the • Core massing and component connection points could look like Development Plan. placement options WORKSHOP 4 WORKSHOP 6 • Landscape guidelines based on native • Parking treatment within the core fEbRUARY 21, 2012 APRIL 2, 2012 species Those were distilled into some general Demographics Updated enrollment projections, utilities and notions about locating new programs as WORKSHOP 2 • Demographic projections for the infrastructure, phasing and building blocks DEVELOPMENT PLAN DRAfT well as expanding existing ones throughout JANUARY 24, 2012 region • Updated enrollment projections to MAY 1, 2012 the campus. Several existing issues that the Programming scenarios, site and utilities • Campus capture rates reflect the low scenario campus currently struggles with were also analysis, core phasing, • building blocks needed for each phase DEVELOPMENT PLAN REVIEW recognized; solutions for these are suggested • future needs scenarios WORKSHOP 5 of campus growth (5,000 enrollment, MAY 23, 2012 as part of this Development Plan. • Update on current Verano MARCH 7, 2012 10,000 enrollment, ect.) development concepts Enrollment projections, regional connections, • Presentation of more refined overall DEVELOPMENT PLAN ISSUE • Guiding principles preliminary site utilities campus plan JUNE 1, 2012 • 5 and 10 year proposed plans • Enrollment projections • Overall phasing plan according to 10 TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY-SAN ANTONIO DEVELOPMENT PLAN UPDATE | PROJECT NUMbER: 25-3054