2.7.3710 Purpose.
The purpose of the Discovery West Master Planned Development is to implement Bend Comprehensive Plan policies regarding the West UGB Expansion Area (Master Plan Area 1 under Chapter 11 of the Bend Comprehensive Plan), and to create overlay development standards for the Residential, Commercial and Employment Districts within the Discovery West Master Plan area. The development standards will:
A. Provide a variety of housing types and employment opportunities.
B. Locate higher density housing and employment lands adjacent to collector and arterial streets or public parks.
C. Create opportunities for live/work townhomes and small-scale businesses in selected locations to foster a mixed-use residential neighborhood.
D. Promote pedestrian and other multi-modal transportation options.
E. Ensure compatibility of uses within the development and with the surrounding area.
F. Create an interconnected system of streets with standards appropriate to the intensity and type of adjacent land use.
G. Create safe and attractive streetscapes that will meet emergency access requirements and enhance pedestrian and bicycle access and safety.
H. Implement the relevant policies of the Bend Comprehensive Plan:
1. The central planning concepts are to: provide a limited westward expansion that complements the pattern of complete communities that began with NorthWest Crossing with the existing concentration of schools, parks, commercial and employment lands; and creates a transect from higher densities along Skyline Ranch Road to lower density and open space along the western edge in this area which approaches National Forest land and park open spaces, in order to provide buffers for wildlife and wildfire.
2. Establishing appropriate development regulations to implement the transect concept; develop measures to make the development and structures fire resistant; and implement RL plan designation densities within this area while providing for a mix of housing types and clustering developed areas to provide for open space preservation.
3. Include a minimum of 8.4 percent townhomes (minimum of 54) and a minimum of 28 percent multi-unit and duplex/triplex/quadplex units (minimum 187 units). The minimum required units (total and by housing type) is 639 total dwelling units.
4. Provide a minimum of 12 units of affordable housing. [Ord. NS-2431, 2022; Ord. NS-2423, 2021; Ord. NS-2338, 2019]