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Caption: UIS Long Range Plan - 1970 (Sangamon State Univ)
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•NN -2 approximately $330,000. Sangamon State Is expected to be a major employer In the community, employing more than 2,000 people by 1982. Since the fall of 1969, a cooperative effort of private developers, planning agencies and governmental bodies led by Sangamon State University and Lincoln Land Community College has been developing an environmental plan. 1) A concern for the type of an environment to be created In the area surrounding the two new institutions during this period of rapid growth, the planning leadership in the University, college and community met with representatives of governmental jurisdictions and owners of nearby undeveloped tracts to discuss and assess the future development of the area. Landowners formed the College Area Owners Association, assessed themselves on a per acre basis and hired a planning consultant to work with the public sector. The public sector formed a committee composed of representatives of the City of Springfield, Sangamon County, School Districts No. 5 and 186, the Springfield-Sangamon County Regional Planning Commission, Lincoln Land Community College and Sangamon State University. These agencies collaborated in hiring a planning consultant to work with the Owners Association consultant and the various technical staffs in preparing a concept plan, the result of which is contained in the brochure entitled Development Concept Southeast Sector, Springfield, Illinois (September 17, 1970). In a subsequent action, the two groups unanimously approved the concept plan. This spirit of cooperation and extensive coordination in the development of the plan is the basis for proposing definitive development plans and implementation procedures. In years to come, the significance of this planning effort, which offers individual landowners a unique opportunity to develop a "new town-in town" with the college and university as the nucleus, will be better understood. Property can then be developed separately by individuals or groups of individuals in an orderly fashion according to a single development plan. 2) During the development of the concept plan, it was generally agreed by landowners, as in proper accord with city water extension policy and the best interest of the city, that property would be annexed to the City of Springfield as it is developed. Local jurisdiction interest in the annexation of campus property* 1) In 1955 the City Council passed a resolution establishing a policy that no new water service would be extended outside of the city limits, a policy which has been very successful in expanding the
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