#6.
That the University provide recreational and housing facilities
for Isla Vista residents.
Specifically: that UCSB should . . . formulate a standard lease
though the cooperative efforts of UCSB, students, and Isla Vista
property owners and managers, with a view toward reaching an
agreement adopted by all major landlords in Isla Vista.
ALTHOUGH SOME WORK WAS DONE ON THIS PROJECT,
SUCH A LEASE DOES NOT YET EXIST. THE UNIVERSITY BEGAN BUYING
LARGE APARTMENT COMPLEXES IN ISLA VISTA FOR STUDENT HOUSING
IN THE LATE 1980S.
Specifically: that the University develop contingency plans
for additional apartment-style housing on campus . . . (and)
encourage and assist interested community groups in the formation
of student housing cooperatives . . . .
BOTH OF THESE RECOMMENDATIONS HAVE BEEN
CARRIED OUT.
THE NEW MARRIED STUDENT (STORKE) HOUSING AND SANTA YNEZ HOUSING
PROJECTS HAVE BEEN ADDED SINCE 1970 AND THE ROCHDALE HOUSING
CO-OP WAS ESTABLISHED IN THE 1970s.
HOWEVER, SINCE UCSB ENÐROLLMENT HAS EXPANDED 35% SINCE 1970,
THERE IS A REAL QUESTION AS TO WHETHER THESE EFFORTS HAVE BEEN
SUFFICIENT, BECAUSE THESE ADDITIONAL DWELLING UNITS HAVE ABSORBED
ONLY 20% OF THE TOTAL POPULATION IMPACT OF THIS ADDITIONAL ENROLLEMENT.
Specifically:
that the University use portions of the main campus adjacent
to Isla Vista for parks and playing fields (because) . . . efforts
must be made to blend the dead-end streets of Isla Vista into
the campus so that the feeling of a barrier now present there
is eliminated . . . (and) priority should be given to construction
of the projected University Student Center . . . adjacent to
Isla Vista.
NEITHER OF THESE RECOMMENDATIONS WAS FOLLOWED.
#7. That in view of the present level of services available
to UCSB and Isla Vista, we believe the optimum size of student
population has been exceeded. And until such time as our recommendations
can be implemented and their effected evaluated, the present
size of the student body should be maintained.
THE TROW REPORT HAS NEVER BEEN EVALUATED
BY THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AS TO WHICH, IF ANY OF THE REPORT'S
RECOMMENDATIONS WERE ADOPTED, AND WHAT, IF ANY EFFECT THE RECOMMENDATIONS
MIGHT HAVE HAD.
IN 1983, IVCC ASKED THE UC REGENTS TO ESTABLISH A COMMITTEE
TO UNDERTAKE SUCH A REVIEW. THIS REQUEST WAS DENOUNCED BEFORE
THE REGENTS BY THEN-CHANCELLOR ROBERT HUTTENBACK AS A "RED
HERRING." UC PRESIDENT DAVID GARDNER (by coincidence, a
vice-chancellor at UCSB in 1970) DID NOT SUPPORT SUCH A REVIEW.
THE REGENTS NEVER VOTED ON THE REQUEST; BASICALLY, THEY JUST
IGNORED IT.
OF COURSE, UCSB HAS NOT MAINTAINED ITS ENROLLMENT--IT HAS GROWN
FROM 13,500 IN 1969 TO 19,150 IN 1989.
#8. That the University-wide Administration take action
to provide resources to UCSB to implement the recommendations
of this report.
Rationale: Both the University-wide administration and UCSB
have failed to muster and use the resources available to them
to anticipate and to meet the problems in Isla Vista. We believe
that the planning of UCSB as a campus and in its relation to
Isla Vista has been inadequate and that immediate action must
be given to taking actions that will guard against the repetition
of past mistakes.
THESE FUNDS WERE MADE AVAILABLE FOR THE
YEARS 1970-83. SEE THE ENCLOSED CHART ON PAGE 3.14.
BUT, HAS UCSB CONTINUED TO TAKE THE ACTIONS THAT WILL GUARD
AGAINST THE REPETITION OF PAST MISTAKES?
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