San Francisco State University occupies a sprawling 134-acre site on the southwestern part of the city. The campus is located between an urban edge along 19th Avenue and a rural one overlooking Lake Merced. From its founding in 1958 the campus has grown in a haphazard manner, one building at a time. Growth projection is for a 20% increase in the number of students to 25,000 full-time enrollees in the next ten years, with as many students as possible on campus in order to reduce traffic and parking demand.The master plan reorganizes the campus by opening up the existing valley as a major natural resource, strengthening the urban edge along 19th Avenue, locating key facilities at the four corners and establishing a series of formal landscaped axes linking important destinations. 1,600 new residential units and a dozen new academic buildings are proposed including a new Creative Arts facility and a new Gymnasium/Recreation Center.