Making Bend a College Town (sales, legal, moving)

[Dry Side]

BendLocal can you please provide the wording for the land use law that would require a developer to submit a master plan for land they don't own?

Currently the development code requires a master plan for developments of fifty acres or larger. So far OSU Cascades has submitted a site plan for the ten acres they do own.

[kapetrich]

Originally Posted by BendLocal

Classic FUD above. Nothing would change for building a home on a single lot. The context is large scale development.

That is definitely fair.

I did not read the editorial that way, but I definitely see your point based on our context.

My fault for misrepresenting and/or sounding partisan.

[BendLocal]

Originally Posted by Dry Side

Currently the development code requires a master plan for developments of fifty acres or larger.

Do you have the section number of the code that sets the 50 acre requirement?

[Steve Pickering]

Irrelevant. Take a look at 3.6.300 Nonresidential Uses. Sub Section C.

And I don't know where the 50 acres was pulled from. It is much less. See 4.5.300 Master Planned Developments

[BendLocal]

Originally Posted by Dry Side

Currently the development code requires a master plan for developments of fifty acres or larger.

I haven't been able to find the code section for this - can you put up a link or the code section number?

[Dry Side]

No surprise here, as expected approved with conditions..

City of Bend OKs OSU-Cascades Westside campus

[Dry Side]

Source Weekly..

Hearings Officer Approves OSU Cascades Site Plan

[kapetrich]

Not at all a surprise to most of us.

It will be a fascinating brownfield redevelopment project. IMO, it is 'good' such a large education based entity is going to take on this site. Seems out of reach for most.

[BendLocal]

Next phase is appeals.

[BendLocal]

OSU’s Bend campus faces struggle for budget to build

As OSU-Cascades battles a legal challenge to break ground on the first phase of its planned four-year campus, funding for later development may be in danger of being delayed.

Because state money for capital projects is limited, the list offers the Legislature and governor an idea of what projects are most important. University leaders meet to present their “tier one” projects — those they hope to see funded with the greatest urgency — which the Higher Education Coordinating Committee then orders into a prioritized list.

When Oregon State University — which oversees OSU-Cascades — submitted its list of projects, funds for the Bend branch ranked below three other projects.

As a result, the $30 million OSU-Cascades request for state support didn’t even break the top 14, falling into an unordered second tier with eight other projects. In the second tier, funding is far from guaranteed.

OSU-Cascades has already received $16 million in state bonds, backed by $4 million in university funds and just under $5 million in philanthropic support. That money is earmarked to develop a 10-acre parcel with dorms and academic buildings on Bend’s west side, unless a pending land use challenge from residents is able to thwart the project.

Johnson said the $30 million request, which would be complemented with $10 million in university funds, would be used to turn an adjacent 46-acre pumice mine the university is considering for purchase into a workable campus. Money would also be used for an additional academic building, the placing of which hasn’t been set, and to support the master planning process, which will be required by city code if the university purchases the mine.

“The 10-acre campus will get us through 2017, at which point we will reach capacity for the buildings we are planning right now,” Johnson said. “If we want the new building in place, we need bonds in the 2015-2017 session. If we can’t do that, we’ll need to figure out a plan B to accommodate our student population in 2017-2018.”