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Joint hearing: County tentatively backs code changes to allow clinics, outpatient care in campus industrial district
Summary
Springfield and Lane County continued a public hearing on ordinance 2503 to allow clinics, outpatient care and physician offices in the Campus Industrial District while excluding hospital‑level uses.
Springfield City Council and the Lane County Board of Commissioners held a joint public hearing on code amendments (ordinance 2503) to modify the Springfield Development Code’s Campus Industrial District to allow medical clinics, outpatient care and physician offices while stopping short of hospital‑level uses.
Staff summarized the record, noting written support from PeaceHealth (Michael Reeder) that endorsed allowing clinics and similar outpatient services but explicitly did not support introducing hospitals, urgent care centers or birthing centers to the district. Staff explained the proposal sought a narrow set of additional uses in the Campus Industrial District rather than a wholesale rezoning to general commercial, which staff had discouraged because general commercial zoning could allow higher‑impact uses such as car lots, fast‑food restaurants or…
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