Campus Planning and Long Range Development Plan

Tye Simpson Tye Simpson, Director
Campus Planning & Design

Tye’s bio:

Tye Warren Simpson is Director of Campus Planning and Design. The Office of Campus Planning and Design is recipient of several State and professional planning awards and is responsible for physical planning, environmental assessment, regulatory approvals, and long-range development planning.

Tye has served as an officer of the Board of Directors of the Citizens Planning Association and Community Housing Association and periodically a member of the American Institute of Certified Planners, Congress for New Urbanism, American Planning Association, Association of American Geographers, or Society for College and University Planning.

A graduate of UC Santa Barbara, he has been invited to lecture at California State University San Luis Obispo, Occidental College, and UC Santa Barbara and has been a private planning consultant for redevelopment agencies and financial institutions. Tye is an avid paraglider pilot and when wind conditions are unfavorable he can found in the gym as Head Coach (Floor Hockey) for Special Olympics or at home with his wife and three children.

Faculty Housing Plan
September 2006

A Site Plan for Faculty Housing has been completed to accomodate 172 homes on the north Parcel, with 9 single family dwellings and 163 townhome units. The Plan is part of the regional Joint Proposal for the Ellwood-Devereux Coast sponsored by UCSB, the County of Santa Barbara, and the City of Goleta.

Campus Plan
August 2003

UCSB has completed a 9 month process developing a new Campus Plan with the assistance of Pittsburg PA planners at Urban Design Associates. Based on 6 planning principles reflecting the consensus of the campus community, the Plan establishes a pattern of open spaces that serves as framework within which individual building projecs can be developed. The heavily illustrated Plan considers open space, traffic, streets, parking, bicycles and looks at areas of conflict, as well as where development should be located and how they should be designed. General design standards have been identified based on a clear regulating plan, building guidelines, and landscape requirements.

Joint Proposal For Ellwood-Devereux Coast
November 2003

Santa Barbara County and UCSB released the "Joint Proposal for the Ellwood-Devereux Coast", a 127-page proposal that outlines a set of linked and comprehensive actions for residential development, open space and resource protection, and public access on one of the last remaining open coastal lands in western Goleta. The Proposal incorporates UCSB's faculty housing plan described below and student housing along Storke Road. More recent information is available on the Ellwood-Devereux Coast Open Space Habitat Management Plan, including current status, maps and photos.