Fort Ord Reuse Plan and EIR

This precedent-setting base reuse plan received the 1997 APA National Award for Comprehensive Planning in a Small Jurisdiction. Fort Ord was President Clinton’s national model for base reuse. The plan addressed the design, policy, financial, and environmental challenges of converting the 28,000-acre military base, much of it spanning the boundaries of three local jurisdictions, for civilian uses. The program provides for:

• California State University at Monterey Bay;

• University of California Monterey Bay

• Science and Technology Center;

• Monterey Peninsula College;

• Several new mixed use, transit-oriented villages;

• A municipal airport, two existing golf courses, planned resorts, housing and a veterans cemetery;

• A beach front state park;

• Several thousand acres of habitat management lands; and

• Public services, financing, and implementation.

EMC Planning Group Inc. analyzed and prepared land use and urban design policies to be consistent with local jurisdiction planning documents. EMC Planning Group Inc. wrote a local jurisdiction/reuse agency process, CEQA compliance documents, and shepherded the plan to its approval by the Fort Ord Reuse Authority.