Facility Master Plan - Board Approved

Create a distinctive campus entry
Update architectural style
Establish a sense of order
Create an oasis within the campus away from congested surrounding city atmosphere
Enhance way-finding devices
Encourage indoor/outdoor relationships
Give each quad its own identity reflecting its adjacent discipline

With the support of a recent bond measure for $210 million, the Cerritos community has overwhelmingly endorsed a new direction for Cerritos Community College. Their approval of the Facilities Master Plan has empowered the District to realize multiple goals and objectives. The improvement of campus building and aging infrastructure will allow the College to fulfill its commitment to provide a high-quality, academically rigorous instruction responsive to the diversity represented in the student body and served by Cerritos Community College District.

Cerritos College is committed to striving towards developing a campus that is energy efficient and sustainable in order to minimize environmental impact, save operation and maintenance costs, and promote health and well being. Through synergistic design coordination between architects and engineers, the building envelope, ventilation, lighting and water systems can work together to reduce use of natural resources and minimize operational costs without substantially increasing construction costs.

900 new parking spaces had been added. Relieving traffic congestions on Studebaker Road and Alondra Boulevard. In addition a new Loop road has been incorporated into the Master Plan.

State money has been allocated and used for new Science Building the seismic upgrade to the Metals building as well as the Woodworking building. These projects are now completed. Bond dollars were also utilized to complete these projects.