College of Notre Dame Master Plan EIR for the City of Belmont

Wagstaff and Associates recently completed a project EIR for a proposed expansion of the existing College of Notre Dame campus located in the city of Belmont. The campus occupies the historic Ralston estate and includes Ralston Hall, a designated National Historic Landmark constructed in 1853. The proposed Master Plan, to be implemented over a 15-year period, included construction of new student dormitories, a student center, a technology center, athletic facilities, a parking structure, circulation improvements, and various campus design amenities such as a new college quadrangle. Another key provision of the Master Plan was a new vehicular entryway from Ralston Avenue, the city's only east-west arterial roadway. The EIR evaluated the traffic progression and safety implications, and the visual effects of the Master Plan, as well as concerns relating to land use compatibility (due to the campus location adjacent to single-family residential neighborhoods), cultural and historic resources, soils and geology, drainage and water quality, and utility capacity. (Subcontractors: Crane Transportation Group, transportation planners; Illingworth and Rodkin, Inc., noise consultants; Questa Engineering Corporation, environmental engineers; and CADP Associates, visual simulation consultants.)

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