Campus Master Plan

An Exchange of Thoughts and Ideas

As a major institution located within city boundaries, Seattle Central College develops the campus under guidelines established by the City’s Land Use Code through the Major Institution Master Plan (MIMP) process. The Master Plan identifies locations of new physical development and establishes design guidelines for campus environs. It also includes a Transportation Management Plan along with other actions to reduce negative impacts of proposed development on the neighborhood.

Seattle Central has operated under its current MIMP which was adopted in 2002. Critical assumptions about campus enrollment growth and city policies which underpinned the 2002 plan are now out of date. Seattle Central has submitted a Concept Plan for a new MIMP intended to guide campus development for the next twenty years.

Community input on the Concept Plan is both welcomed and required under city ordinance. The process to gather that input is a joint undertaking by the city of Seattle’s Department of Neighborhoods and Seattle Central. The city has formed a Citizens Advisory Committee which meets monthly during a two year or more long review process.

Please read through the following pages and provide your thoughts and ideas on how to best integrate the college’s planned development with our Capitol Hill neighborhood and community.