Making Bend a College Town (Portland, Salem: buy, live, shops)

[Dry Side]

How often does a public university plan to spend many millions of tax payer dollars to mitigate undesirable development land like pumice mines and demolition landfills while completely changing the character of a town by jamming 5,000+ students into an area that is already congested and too small to absorb that number of students and the staff to run the campus?

Irrelevant for the 10 acre site plan. None of that will be used for criteria for evaluating the site plan currently before the city. Only the City Of Bend Development code will be used..

Bend Code

[redguard57]

The whole Cascades project is starting to look ridiculous. I looked at their website and to get a BA from them would require students to take classes at prescribed times in particular semesters with no other options, except some online ones.

[BendLocal]

Originally Posted by Dry Side

Irrelevant for the 10 acre site plan. None of that will be used for criteria for evaluating the site plan currently before the city. Only the City Of Bend Development code will be used..

Bend Code

You missed the point which was that your 'very rare' event of appealing past LUBA is likely in this very rare situation.

[BendLocal]

This article and the comments section give Bend residents a hint of what is to come!

OSU, city bickering again, this time over parking plan amendment

[Dry Side]

You missed the point which was that your 'very rare' event of appealing past LUBA is likely in this very rare situation.

We will have to disagree. If an appeal does make it to LUBA, the scope of the appeal will be limited to potential errors the hearing officer makes in a conditional approval.

If you haven't already, you might want to read some of LUBA's "Final Opinions"..

Land Use Board of Appeals 2014 Final Opinions

You will see the Petitioners (the ones appealing) have to raise potential errors and then LUBA rules on those. Let's say that LUBA sides with the Respondent (the City), the next appeal would have to find errors in LUBA's ruling. My point is as an appeal goes higher up the chain the scope gets more limited. I predict the initial ten acre site plan will be conditionally approved by the hearings officer and appealed. The city will punt and it will go to LUBA which will let the conditional approval stand. At which point I don't believe it will be appealed further.

[BendLocal]

Bend Bulletin weighing in on the issue.

Bend Bulletin Editorial

From there, again assuming appeals, the case would go first to the Land Use Board of Appeals, then to the state Court of Appeals and finally to the state Supreme Court. The process may be cumbersome, but it aims to give land use issues a hearing. It does not imply that there is something wrong with the project as submitted. Oregon’s land use process is designed to give full-throated voice even to concerns of a small minority of opponents.

[Dry Side]

Are you surprised that the Bend Bulletin fully backs OSU Cascades West Side campus plan? They go as far as saying that the city should not waiver in it's support.

This campus is supported from the Governor on down. Don't you think there is huge pressure on the powers that be to approve this? In other words the fix is already in. I believe the three LUBA judges are appointed by the Governor. Appeals are very expensive to the petitioners and in some cases the respondent can ask for the costs back if they prevail. I look forward to posting the LUBA decision that all the petitioners assignments of errors were denied.

[BendLocal]

Originally Posted by Dry Side

Are you surprised that the Bend Bulletin fully backs OSU Cascades West Side campus plan? They go as far as saying that the city should not waiver in it's support.

I sort of thought they'd be proposing Juniper Ridge based on previous articles like this -

Don’t give up on Juniper Ridge

But it would be a mistake to draw the conclusion that it’s all a failure. The recession ground almost everything to a halt. The city does learn from mistakes.

Juniper Ridge could be the jobs future of Bend. It could be transformational. It could be a place where the city can encourage more high-paying jobs that Bend and Central Oregon need.

[Steve Pickering]

I see in todays paper that the lawsuit has put them in a pickle. It seems they require Freshman to live on campus, but they have no housing now.

[Dry Side]

Supporters welcome OSU-Cascades as future neighbor