2.7.1001 Purpose.
The purpose of the Central Oregon Community College Special Planned District/Overlay Zone (“district”) is to implement the Public Facilities (PF) Comprehensive Plan designation at the Awbrey Butte campus of the Central Oregon Community College (“COCC” or “College”). The district is designed to foster an innovative mixed-use area of academic, social, residential, retail and commercial uses/activities that are accessible to students, faculty, and staff and located on lands owned by the College. The district will create a variety of different academic, social, recreational, and commercial amenities that will serve the needs of the surrounding community. The development of College-owned lands within the district boundaries will provide the College with a source of financial revenue that will be utilized to provide additional educational opportunities for the benefit of the community and facilitate the long-term growth and viability of the campus.
The standards of the district implement the PF Comprehensive Plan designation in a manner that will:
•Promote the long-term health, vitality, and growth of the College by strengthening the on-campus living/learning opportunities through careful development and management of the Awbrey Butte Campus.
•Provide for a financially stable College campus environment serving the educational and vocational needs of the Central Oregon community.
•Encourage coordination between the College and the City of Bend, especially in the area of land use planning and review for campus development.
•Accommodate planned Awbrey Butte Campus growth including but not limited to development of: educational, vocational, and mixed-use facilities on lands owned by the College; uses and/or structures associated with research programs; and uses and/or structures associated with lifelong learning, basic skill development, and university transfer education.
•Ensure the compatibility of campus development with surrounding areas by allowing uses and outdoor spaces that promote interdisciplinary opportunities and the shared opportunities of study, housing, dining, services, entertaining, and sports.
•Ensure the adequacy of the public facilities and infrastructure that are needed to serve development within the boundaries of the district.
•Create additional opportunities/flexibility for COCC to develop relationships with private enterprise for the benefit of the College, its students and the community.
•Provide for zoning and land use regulations that allow COCC to rapidly respond to opportunities and changing needs in the College environment.
•Create zoning and land use regulations that allow COCC to utilize its Awbrey Butte Campus landholdings to generate revenues for the benefit of the campus, its students, and the Central Oregon community.
•Develop a fully serviced campus environment that reflects an inward focus on learning and an outward focus on community. [Ord. NS-2271, 2016; Ord. NS-2196, 2013; Ord. NS-2126, 2009; Ord. NS-2016, 2006]