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2016-2022 EDUCATIONAL AND FACILITIES MASTER PLAN
CANYON COUNTRY CAMPUS CHAPTER 1 – BACKGROUND

semester. These numbers served as key indica- proposed sites, however, met all of the district’s space. The Canyon Country Campus is situated
tors of the community’s interest; the potential for needs. Instead, a 70-acre site on Sierra Highway 9.8 miles east of the District’s Valencia campus.
education, growth and innovation was alive and was found that required the purchase of contigu-
well in the southeastern SCV. ous parcels from several different landowners. The instructional spaces at CCC are equipped
with ‘smart classroom” technology (instructor
A NEW CAMPUS Thanks to the passage of Measure C and to stations, electronic classroom controls, comput-
Simultaneously, the District moved forward to the passage of Measure M in November 2006, ers, and audiovisual equipment) even though
develop plans to identify and purchase a site for permanent infrastructure, site development and classrooms are located in temporary, modular
a new Canyon Country Campus. The District a number of modular buildings were purchased rooms. Original design plans provided two des-
established a timeline that began in 1999 with along with the new site, just two miles from the ignated classroom computer labs equipped with
enrollment, section and facilities projections to original ACCESS Center at the Canyon Country 30 student computers each, along with computer
2016. In July 2003, six possible sites were consid- Library. workstations for instructors.
ered for the proposed Santa Clarita Community
College District Canyon Country Educational THE CANYON COUNTRY CAMPUS An additional 36-computer-workstation student
Center. TAKES SHAPE classroom was created with the construction of
With this new site, higher education access in Quad 7; this space was designed to meet the
In November 2001, Santa Clarita Valley voters Canyon Country progressed from two leased instructional technology needs specific to the ca-
approved general obligation bond Measure C facilities totaling 12,600 square feet with 14 reer technical education courses assigned to that
for $82 million. A site on the south or east side classrooms, to a District-owned center of 35,000 campus space. Additional computer lab space was
of the community was listed as one of the uses square feet and 37 instructional spaces, to the also added in Quad 6. Two full-time computer/
of Measure C funds. None of the six original current total of more than 59,000 square feet of audiovisual technicians support the campus.

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