Neighborhoods & Building Numbering

Building renumbering would organize Mt. SAC’s campus into neighborhoods and renumber its buildings. It would help to make the campus easier to navigate and more accessible, especially for visitors and potential and new students. A building renumbering project would help to address College and community stakeholder input requesting help to more easily find their way into and around the campus.

The recommended numbering system is illustrated in the graphics and charts throughout this section. The three-digit system would help people to find their destinations by first guiding them to the desired neighborhood, and then to the desired facility. It organizes the campus into nine neighborhoods. Neighborhoods are defined, not by function (which could change over time), but by location within the campus’ system of vehicular and pedestrian “front doors” and circulation routes, as illustrated by the Campus Neighborhood Concept graphic on this page. Doing so would align neighborhoods with the campus wayfinding system and pedestrian circulation hierarchy.

Within each neighborhood, buildings would be numbered in clockwise order, starting at the northern-most point. Intentional gaps in the numbering provide for additional buildings to be added in the future. Once a number is assigned to a building, it would not be reused when the building is removed.

The renumbering system would replace the alpha-numeric system that Mt. SAC currently uses with a numeric system that is compatible with the California Community Colleges’ FUSION space inventory database, thereby simplifying facilities planning, management, and operations by eliminating the redundant set of building designations.