By RITA DELFINER

{A master plan proposing a
nine-building City Universi-
ty campus in South Jamaica
that would, in the planners’
words, “express the college’s
desired role as a link between
communities hitherto divided”
has been approved by the
Board of Higher Education.

York College, the fifth sen-
ior college of the City Uni-
versity, was established in
1966. Since 1967, the school,

which now has an enrollment
of 2100, has been operating
in temporary quarters.

York’s permanent 50-acre
site will be bounded by
159th and d65th Sts., the
Long Island Railroad tracks
and South Road.

The master plan, prepared
by architectural-planning
firm of Snibbe, Tafel, Lind-
holm, calls for construction
of the buildings as a “link”
between the “highly commer-

- design,

cialized, dibatives qeoicils
nantly white and middle-
class area north of the LIRR
tracks and a mostly residen-
tial, less developed area to
the south.”

The proposed campus, nine
structures of contemporary
grouped around a
unifying commons, is expect-
ed to be completed in late
1976, when enrollment is ex-
pected to exceed 6,000 stu-
dents.

The plan stipulates that to

accomplish the “linking” or
the two communities “the
campus should present con-
venient faces both north and

south, providing free access

to and through the campus
and avoiding barriers and
fences.”

The architects believe that
in a community “seriously
deficient” in recreational re-
sources, the open spaces,
walks and cultural facilities
“should achieve invitingness
and easy access” and pro-

ource of refresh-
mend spirit”

in an area | other
by “neglect, ugl
places even squalor.” —

The master plan must sti
be approved by the Board of
Regents and the Governor.
The estimated $62.5 million
construction cost will be. fi-
nanced through the City Uni-
versity Construction Fund
and the state’s Dormitory Au-
thority. i