Cleveland State University || Campus Master Plan || Goals

Goals

The Master Plan is based on four goals for the University’s future development.

Connect…create functional and visual links to the City
Connect the CSU campus to the city.

Develop an integrated vehicular and pedestrian circulation pattern by reconstructing the street network.

Advocate for the Innerbelt reconstruction alternative that creates a frontage road at the eastern edge of the campus.
Integrate university needs into the Euclid Corridor project.
Encourage two-way street operation.

Reorder vehicular and pedestrian traffic on and through campus.

Focus pedestrian traffic on city streets.
Disburse vehicular traffic more evenly throughout the campus.

Visually connect the campus to the city

Create views that orient campus users to the city
Create views into campus by improving entries into campus with realigned and expanded staircases, new pedestrian spaces at ground level, and the removal of landscape mounds that obscure interior spaces.

Establish land uses that serve both CSU and the surrounding city.

Creating edge zones with shared uses, improving the environment for commercial development.
Integrate commercial and residential opportunities with educational uses on the campus.
Promote the CSU market to the local business community.
Create or participate in an organization to promote public improvements and private redevelopment.

Collaborate…leverage development opportunities
Identify development opportunities on or near campus that will contribute to the long-term quality and function of the University and the surrounding neighborhood.

Identify locations for current and prospective University needs.
Consolidate development in catalytic locations.

Focus retail uses in two development nodes along Euclid Avenue at East 18th and East 24th Streets.
Locate residential development to enhance the north-south pedestrian spines and Euclid Avenue retail nodes.

Collaborate with the private sector on new development.
Create a mixture of building types and uses.

Complement…improve the character of campus spaces
Create a physical setting that encourages CSU students to stay on campus longer and invites the greater Cleveland community onto the campus.

Develop and implement standards for the university’s physical identity, giving the campus an attractive, cohesive presence.
Strengthen the identity of campus as a distinct place, but change the model from a “fortress” to an “oasis”.
Ensure that all new buildings are oriented toward the street and have a clear and welcoming entry. Retrofit existing buildings to meet this standard.
Develop a variety of active green spaces and gathering places that establish multiple centers of activity on campus.
Encourage the private development of retail, housing, and services that will provide a compelling reason for people to stay on campus.
Create clearly defined and attractive entry points to the campus from major thoroughfares.

Conserve…existing assets and the environment
Preserve and enhance the safety, convenience, and appeal of the campus for all users.

Retain and rehabilitate buildings of historic significance.
Encourage alternate modes of travel through well-designed bicycle, transit, and pedestrian facilities in order to reduce parking demand.
Increase parking density by replacing surface lots with well located parking structures, faced with retail or housing development.
Distribute parking more evenly around the campus with strategically located parking structures and small surface parking lots.
Make connections between parking and campus buildings safer, more attractive and more convenient.
Make exterior pedestrian paths safer and more interesting through a system of crosswalks and pedestrian amenities, added retail and residential development, a linked network of green spaces, and streetscape improvements, so the existing system of interior, elevated pedestrian bridges (the InnerLink) becomes the route of last resort, to provide access for people with disabilities and for the general campus population only in inclement weather.