Over fall term 2023, Community and Regional Planning graduate students worked with the City of Corvallis to reimagine how a 14-acre site in north central Corvallis, along the city’s 9th Street commercial/mixed use corridor, might redevelop and intensify under the city’s recently adopted commercial mixed use (CMU) zoning standards. Three student groups analyzed the opportunities, […]
In November 2022, the Oregon Department of Land Conservation and Development issued parking reform for cities with populations above 5,000 to address the financial and environmental burdens of parking mandates. In addition to reforms that all included cities must make, the cities with populations over 100,000 must choose between eliminating parking mandates or adopting pricing […]
Over fall term 2022, Community and Regional Planning graduate students worked with the City of Sisters to design a research based redevelopment proposal for the Sisters Elementary School and Sisters School District administration building site. Students analyzed potential opportunities and challenges of revitalizing these two adjoining properties through three different lenses: 1) age friendly neighborhoods; […]
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This report contains the collected work of graduate student groups in PPPM 629: Public Budget Administration over the course of fall term 2022. These student groups conducted research to evaluate and forecast productivity of revenue generating activities for consideration by the city of Sisters to augment their Affordable Housing Reserve Fund. The revenue sources presented […]
This product is designed for Explore Sisters as a client of the University of Oregon’s Nonprofit Management Consultancy capstone course in Spring of 2023 in partnership with the University of Oregon’s Sustainable Cities Year Program. A team of four graduate students consulted for ten weeks by interviewing similar destination management organizations (DMO), facilitating a board […]
University of Oregon Architecture students proposed site designs and adaptive reuse ideas for the existing Sisters Elementary School and outdoor recreational uses and affordable housing. Student housing proposals fell into four main categories: 1) Housing on top of the school 2) Housing on the west side of the site 3) Housing in groups of clusters […]
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The city of Sisters identified the need for 1,100 housing units to accommodate its 2041 projected population growth and is exploring “efficiency measures” as an alternative to expanding its urban growth boundary. Final year Architecture students studied the situation and considered contemporary approaches to how people are choosing to live as the definition of “family” […]
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Situated in the northwest pocket of Deschutes County, Sisters includes varied outdoor recreation options, beautiful scenery, and top tier hiking and mountain biking trails. The city’s thriving downtown is bisected by East Cascade Avenue, which bustles with economic activity and serves as a throughway to Redmond, Bend, and central Oregon. The street is often congested […]
The primary goals of this project were to review and assess the implementation of the 1989 Balboa Park Master Plan and provide recommendations for future plan updates. In the first chapter of this report, we discuss previous planning efforts, including the 1989 Balboa Park Master Plan, City of San Diego General Plan, and the 2021 […]
The Sage Project at San Diego State University (SDSU) was commissioned to develop recommendations pertaining to governance methods utilized for Balboa Park. This comprehensive report addresses what governance model, or models, are the best fit for Balboa Park taking into consideration factors such as size, location, physical features, and the region itself. As part of […]
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