Colvin Oil, LLC has filed an application to develop a commercial center on 2.7 acres at the Murphy/Brosterhousroundabout.  The applications can be found at the Bend Online Permit Center, application numbers PLSPR20220270, PLCUP20220284, PLCUP20220285 and PLMISC20220729.

 

The lot is zoned Convenience Commercial (CC).  The Bend Development Code requires a CC development to be adjacent and connected to residential districts.  Its purpose is to providefor frequent shopping and services needs of nearby residents.  Automobile-dependent and automobile-reliant businesses are not permitted outright in a CC zone, but they may be allowed if they are needed by the adjacent neighborhoods and if they qualify for a conditional use permit.  The applications are posted on the Bend Online Permit Center.

 

Colvin Oil proposes to build the development in three phases.  The first phase would be a gas station and convenience store and later a drive-through food/coffee business.  Over 1,650 people have signed an online petition opposing these two businesses.  See https://www.change.org/p/bend-no-gas-station-brosterhous-murphy.  They welcome this development but are opposed to the traffic and pollution the gas station and drive-through will cause in such dense residential neighborhoods. Jewell Elementary School is 800’ to the north, and Caldera High School is one-third of a mile to the south.

 

The OFDNA board circulated a survey to residents living both in the OFDNA and residents living elsewhere.  The question posed was:

 

Do you support the City of Bend granting a conditional use

permit (CUP) for a gas station and drive thru at Brosterhous

and Murphy (B&M)?

 

429 residents responded.  The results from the multi-neighborhood residents:

 

​No, I am against a gas station and drive thru at B&M:  84.15%

​Yes, I am in support of a gas station and drive thru at B&M: 11.89%.

​Not decided:  .23%

​Indifferent:  3.73%.

 

The results from only the OFDNA residents:

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No, I am against a gas station and drive thru at B&M:   81.51%

​Yes, I am in support of a gas station and drive thru at B&M:   14.72%.

​Not decided:  .38%

​Indifferent:  3.4%.

 

On November 14, 2022, the Old Farm District board of directors voted unanimously to oppose the conditional use permits for the gas station and drive-through.  The Board filed its official comment with the city today.