This planning document, 'Bestemmingsplan 1983' was agreed upon by Utrecht City Counsil on May 26th 1983. The cross-hatched parts represent the residential areas which caused the controversy between the city and the university. Not only the university opposed the residential aspects of the planning document. The Academic Hospital and the village counsil of the neighbouring Bunnik joined the resistance. The legal procedures to revoke the plan took a number of years and were brought to the highest legal authority in the country. The 'Crown' finally ruled the residential areas not justified (1989) and consequently the cross-hatched locations would never receive a formally acknowleged planning status. For the north-eatern area, a global 1961 planning document of the city of De Bilt had to be taken into account again.

Notable is the fact that this plan already contained the concept of multi-storey car parking (cf. the passage on traffic, transportation and parking, page 35) motivated by limitations on the availability of space. At the time the parking standards (based on a ratio that relates the number of parking places to the number of sq. meters built in a given area) was twice as luxury as the standards that came into use during the mid 1990s.