The charge to this committee is to provide advice to the Chancellor with respect to the physical development of the La Jolla campus, Elliott Field Station and the surrounding community.  In discharging its responsibility, the committee will perform the following specific functions:

• Review sites proposed by Building Advisory Committees or other committees for planned facilities, and advise the Chancellor in regard to conformance with approved plans and concepts;
• Review and advise the Chancellor with respect to long range physical planning issues and planning studies;
• Comment to the Design Review Board regarding designs of buildings and major landscape projects;
• Monitor developments in the surrounding community and evaluate potential impacts on the University to ensure that campus interests including nearby housing, retail services, open spaces and parks, pedestrian and vehicular access and mass transit needs, are adequately considered.

In order to facilitate coordination with the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, the Marine Sciences Physical Planning Committee has been designated as an official subcommittee of C/CPC for major SIO projects. The Park Committee also acts as an official subcommittee to C/CPC.