 Plans for increasing enrollment to 19 @,@ 500 students and adding 1 @,@ 500 faculty and staff by 2020 , and the anticipated environmental impacts of such action , encountered opposition from the city , the local community , and the student body . City voters in 2006 passed two measures calling on UCSC to pay for the impacts of campus growth . A Santa Cruz Superior Court judge invalidated the measures , ruling they were improperly put on the ballot . In 2008 , the university , city , county and neighborhood organizations reached an agreement to set aside numerous lawsuits and allow the expansion to occur . UCSC agreed to local government scrutiny of its north campus expansion plans , to provide housing for 67 percent of the additional students on campus , and to pay municipal development and water fees . 
