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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
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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-
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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: [phone] Dallas, Texas 75202
Dr. Maria Hernandez ferrier President Mike Lanford Phone: [phone]
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: [phone] West Houston Street
Marilu Reyna Associate Vice President for University Communications
Larry Clark San Antonio, Texas 78205
ben Vierville Phone: [phone]
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: [phone] 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: [phone]
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: [phone] Cost Estimation
John Rob Hicks 14515 briarhills Parkway, Suite 113
TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY SYSTEM Andrew Schmucker Houston, TX 77077
Alfonso M Delgado Phone: [phone]
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
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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-
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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
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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
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