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Universify of'Oregon East Campus LandS Land-Use Applications · February 23, 2004 City Council Public Hearing Public Testimony ~7 Submitted by: Lorraine Davis, Vice President for Academic Affairs, University of Oregon, 207 Johnson Hall SAS 20 Years of History: 20 Years of Future Commitment: Mission The University of Oregon is in the business of education. It has always been known that the university would need to develop its east campus lands to meet its mission and commitment to the state. From the late 1950s through the mid-1960s, the university purchased these residential properties ·with the expectation of expanding into the area. Because immediate expansion did not occur, the university managed these blocks as residential property. The expected expansion had still not occurred by the 1980s when the uniVersity eStablished its first east campus development policy, which projected university uses for the next ten years (to 1991). ' Since that first policy 20 years ago, the East Campus Area has developed aCcording to the university's internal policies and the citY's Spedal Area Study..This has resulted in noticeable improvements to the area. Land Development The prefabricated war surplus buildings have been replaced by a series of high -quality buildings including the Musetun of Natural History, the Knight Law Center, the Vivian Olum Child Development Center,' and the upcoming Many Nations Longhouse, all carefully designed and placed in accordance with eStablished polities. In addition, the Bean parking lot was resurfaced and landscaped, and a new quadrangle was established. Many functions previOusly located in houses in the residential areas were relocated to central university locations as stated in Spedal Area Study policy. In addition, the university purchased the former Condon elementary school in 1989, refurbished the building and the play area, and established'a parking lot. In 1991, the Long Range Campus Development Plan was established. It reinforced the university's commitment to the Spedal Area Study and the university's East Campus policy. " In 2001, the university opened 72 units of ~raduate student housing on the last large, undeveloped parcel of PL-zoned land. And now, the new Children's Center at 17t~ and Moss Street has been built. City Council Agenda page 263