City of Corvallis – Oregon State University
Collaboration Project Update
Oregon State University Faculty Senate
Dec. 6, 2012
What has been happening over the past nine months?
• Three work groups: neighborhood livability, neighborhood
planning, parking and transit.
• Work groups include OSU faculty, staff and students and
community members.
• Appointed by Mayor Manning and President Ray.
• Twice monthly public meetings.
• Review issues and recommend solutions and policy changes.
• Collaboration steering committee decides what
recommendations advance to the City Council and OSU.
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June 28, 2016
Recommendations to date:
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NEIGHBORHOOD LIVABILITY:
Create and distribute campus “living guide.”
Provide more city police officers.
Grow collaboration among Corvallis police, OSP, Public Safety.
Enforce OSU “Code of Student Conduct” off campus.
Cite – versus warn – first offenders.
Increase fines for providing alcohol to minors.
Develop a “social host ordinance.”
Grow “town and gown” practices, resources.
Engage in strategies to address underage drinking.
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June 28, 2016
Recommendations to date:
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NEIGHBORHOOD PLANNING:
Require additional parking for large housing units.
Increase percentage of undergraduates living on campus.
Make student housing a goal of OSU Campus Master Plan.
Explore on-campus private-public housing partnerships.
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June 28, 2016
Recommendations to date:
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PARKING and TRAFFIC:
Coordinate city and OSU transit services.
Promote commute and parking alternatives.
Evaluate and implement variable parking pricing on campus.
Evaluate and recommend next steps for off-campus parking
districts.
• Re-define role of OSU Shuttle.
• Complementary GPS and mobile apps for city and OSU transit.
• Increase city transit ridership by 20 percent annually.
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June 28, 2016
Recommendations to date:
• Parking and Traffic continued:
• Sustain Linn-Benton Loop connecting LBCC with OSU.
• Explore creation of transit hub on campus.
• Utilize targeted communications to promote alternative ways
to reach OSU.
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June 28, 2016
Next steps:
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More study on police staffing and effectiveness measures.
Address staffing needs in Office of Student Conduct.
Communicate to students.
Continue work on variable campus pricing models.
Make decision; promote concept, pricing options, benefits.
Examine and formulate immediate parking district expansion
and improvement recommendations.
• Implement collaborative transit communications.
• Promote transit to expand ridership, reduce car trips to OSU.
• Create a regional Collaboration Project housing work group.
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June 28, 2016
Next steps’ emphasis:
• Focus on doing better, not just doing more of the same and
getting the same results.
• Establish realistic requirements, deadlines, metrics.
• Identify who is responsible to get job done.
• Identify who will fund what.
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June 28, 2016
Faculty Senate Engagement opportunities:
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Participation in variable on-campus pricing evaluation.
Continued engagement in work groups.
Participation in new housing work group.
On-going feedback.
Engagement in expanded “town and gown” initiatives.
As faculty leaders, emphasize Collaboration Project initiatives
that make a difference.
• Share your thoughts with peers and community members.
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