UW-Madison's Campus Master Plan is serving as inspiration to other major state universities, namely University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.
Approximately 100 community and university members from Chapel Hill, N.C. are in Madison this week to discuss how the Campus Master Plan and the city's construction efforts were agreed upon over the last 11 years.
Special Assistant to the Chancellor Lamarr Billups told The News & Observer for Raleigh, North Carolina that the map depicting the master plan's changes in 1995 did not even take note of the neighborhoods outlying campus borders and that he feared neighborhood meetings.
Town-gown relations were poor in the mid-'90s, according to Madison resident and joint neighborhood committee chair Nan Fey.
""The quality of the dialogue has improved tremendously,"" Fey told The News & Observer.
UW-Madison's current Campus Master Plan projects include the Grainger Hall addition, the Dayton Street Residence Hall—the new Ogg—and other constructions like the new Park Street Welcome Center and Smith Hall.
