Planning Commission approves Clackamas Community College 20-year master plan, with conditions

The Oregon City Planning Commission voted to approve the Clackamas Community College General Development Plan/master plan for a 20-year horizon covering 2024 through 2044, adopting the staff'recommended conditions of approval with revisions to conditions addressing tax-lot coverage and ADA/trail-frontage specifics.

Assistant Planner Jude Tadeus presented the staff report, explaining that the master plan establishes a 20-year development horizon and that the code in effect on the applicant's stated application date (08/01/2024) will govern subsequent reviews of projects covered by the general development plan. The commission heard that the applicant proposed roughly 6,000 square feet of new primary-use floor area in two phases and asked for flexibility to review accessory structures up to 3,000 square feet via a type 1 master-plan amendment process subject to additional conditions.

Why it matters: The approval provides a framework for how future campus projects will be reviewed and the threshold for when more detailed master-plan amendment and site-review processes are required. The plan lays out phased priorities including a Natural…