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Steve secured approval of Oregon State University-Cascades’ 128-acre campus master plan from the City of Bend, which will allow the university to expand to 5,000 students over the next 15 years. The campus expansion encompasses a 46-acre former pumice mine property and a 72-acre former Deschutes County landfill. The combined properties allow the university to reclaim unusable land for sustainable development and create a long-term community and regional asset.
Steve represented the largest destination resort in Central Oregon in connection with Deschutes County’s destination resort map amendments. He secured approval to add a 600 acre tract to the County’s inventory and successfully defended the County’s decision to the Oregon Land Use Board of Appeals. Steve is currently securing land use approvals to expand the Caldera Springs Destination Resort in Deschutes County.
Steve helped a large destination resort complete a complex and contentious land exchange with the governing homeowners’ association that allowed the resort to consolidate its core resort holdings. Steve also represented a timber company with the disposition of its Central Oregon holdings totaling over 100,000 acres of timberland.
Steve assisted a national hotel developer to obtain land use and variance approvals for a new hotel in Bend’s Old Mill District.
Steve represented a lifestyle center developer through a contentious approval process to build a 300,000 square foot re-developed center and successfully defended the entitlements on appeal to the Land Use Board of Appeals.
Steve represents a large national homebuilder in connection with the City of Bend’s Urban Growth Boundary expansion.
Steve successfully defended the City of Bend’s land use approvals for Oregon State University’s Bend campus before the Oregon Court of Appeals and Oregon Supreme Court. He currently represents the university in connection with its long-term planning efforts in Bend and Corvallis.