CSUCI MASTER PLAN GAINS APPROVAL.

Byline: Joseph Giordono Staff Writer

CAMARILLO - Additional dormitories, a business center and the purchase of more land were recommended in the revised master plan for California State University, Channel Islands, that was approved Monday by its site authority.

The authority recommended 7-0 that the California State University Board of Trustees adopt the plan, as well. There is no scheduled date for the trustees to act.

``These are some pretty significant changes, I think for the better, from the 1998 master plan,'' said site authority board member Laurence K. Gould Jr. ``But they also only exist on paper, and the trustees will have a final say.''

The revisions to the 1998 CSUCI master plan were in the areas of land acquisitions, academic and business campus site plans, residential land uses and relocation of an elementary school facility.

The revised master plan calls for the purchase of additional land parcels on the western and eastern boundaries of the campus. The new land would provide space for water treatment and storage facilities, and serve to limit future development on neighboring parcels.

The revised plan also includes the addition of a 350,000-square-foot business campus, dormitories to house an additional 1,000 students and more open space preservation - unless that space is needed for parking or development.

Other revisions include changing the mix of residential units, such as homes, town houses and apartments, on the proposed east campus and building a bridge spanning Long Grade Canyon Creek. Site authority members scrapped plans for a golf course near the residential area.

The revised plan also calls for moving a proposed K-8 school to the site of the former children's development center. Officials expect enrollment at the K-8 school to reach its maximum student load of 600 within two years.