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As the fall semester approaches, some UT graduate students and Brackenridge residents are ramping up efforts to make their voices heard as a New York design firm considers possible development of the Brackenridge Tract.

The Brackenridge Apartments Tenant Advisory Board met last week with leaders of the Graduate Student Assembly to discuss how the two organizations can work together to address student concerns while the development firm, Cooper, Robertson & Partners, crafts two master plans for the best uses of the tract.

The biological field lab and graduate student housing on the Brackenridge Tract are essential to the University, but that does not mean they would stay in their current locations, said David McGregor, managing director of Cooper, Robertson & Partners.

The remarks were made at a public information session where the New York design firm disclosed its findings of extensive research conducted about the tract's residents' core values, which include maintaining green, open spaces and traffic flow and development trends in the area.

By Andrew Kreighbaum

Daily Texan Staff

The first in a series of public hearings on the development of the Brackenridge Tract was held Wednesday night at the Lower Colorado River Authority headquarters by urban design firm Cooper, Robertson & Partners.

The UT System Board of Regents picked the New York firm in April to develop a master plan for the lakeside tract.

The UT System signed a contract with New York architecture and design firm Cooper, Robertson & Partners to provide master planning services for the UT-owned Brackenridge Tract.