![]() ![]() ![]() Pitzer plans to renovate the Infirmary for a new institute, and has said it plans to leave the rest of the area as natural habitat. Pitzer will buy the one bordering the TRP which includes the Infirmary and the outdoor classroom. CGU plans are not known, but the parcels were recently adjusted to give CGU Foothill frontage which makes it more likely that they will try to move north onto that part of the BFS.Ĭlaremont University Consortium sent out a press release stating that the three 12-acre parcels east of the Temporarily Restricted Property (TRP) would be sold. In the meantime, the 11.4 acres has been divided into four parcels, two of which HMC will keep and two of which Claremont Graduate University will soon own. However, HMC has stated that they intend to build on the land at some future date. Spring 2010.The parking lot proposed by HMC for the western part of the BFS is no longer a problem as the City will reduce the required number of parking spaces if a college prohibits a class (freshman, sophomore) from having cars. HMC also plans to subdivide the property and sell half to Claremont Graduate University for their new School of Global and Community Health. Rumors abound, however, about the future of the KGI site, including whether it will be the site of a School of Public Health.įall 2008 - An HMC Parking Lot (!) and a School of Public Health?Harvey Mudd College is planning to buy the KGI property currently leased to the BFS in order to build a parking lot. On March 25, 2008, Harvey Mudd President Maria Klawe and Scripps Interim President Fritz Weis sent e-mails to their faculty stating that CUC had decided that CUC has concluded that keeping their Central Facilities on First Street is the only financially viable option i.e., the plans to place CUC Central Facilities on the KGI site have been dropped. The new facility would include the physical plant facility now located on First Street the administrative, business, and personnel offices now located in the Pendleton Building on Eighth Street off-site storage for the Claremont Colleges Libraries and a parking lot or structure. Spring 2008 - CUC Central Facilities? School of Public Health?Robert Walton, CEO of the Claremont University Consortium (CUC), announced at an all-CUC meeting on February 19, 2008, that CUC plans to buy the western 11.4 acres of the Bernard Field Station from KGI and build a new CUC central facility parcel. The plan was not, however, ever resubmitted to the City, and KGI's new president, Sheldon Schuster, has stated that he has no plans to build on the BFS. After a long political and legal struggle, CUC agreed to preserve approximately 45 acres of the BFS for 50 years in exchange for FBBFS withdrawing a CEQA lawsuit. BFS faculty were asked to choose which 10 acres to retain for ecological studies as the remaining land would be used for new colleges, a child care facility, and infrastructure.ġ997-2001 - KGI.In spring of 1997, the Claremont Colleges voted to add a seventh college to the consortium, the Keck Graduate Institute of Applied Life Sciences (KGI) and proposed to site the new institute on the western 11.4 acres of the Bernard Field Station (BFS) in spite of overwhelming opposition by faculty and students and the existence of alternative sites. ![]() ![]() A day care center was proposed to be built on the southeastern corner of the BFS.Widening of Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden driveway onto BFS land was proposed.CUC developed blueprints for a Claremont School of Theology parking lot on the BFS.Various projects detrimental to the BFS were proposed: The colleges have still not announced permanent protection of the central 45 acre portion of the BFS, the Temporarily Restricted Property, which was promised to happen after the eastern 36 acres were sold to Pitzer, Scripps, and Harvey Mudd in 2015. ![]()
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