In 1997, the firm of Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates (VSBA) studied master planning issues in general on the several Ann Arbor campuses. During these recent years, there has been an emphasis on a planning “process” which would be constantly in progress and could shift its focus to various emerging issues as they arose over time. This process produced a series of reports dealing with various aspects of the planning process. The first major report compiled from this process was the Overview Report of 1998.