The Eugene City Council voted five to three to approve the ordinance amending the Fairmount/University of Oregon Special Area Study, the Eugene Code and rezoning property. This would allow UO to move forward with the campus expansion.
UO’s Next Generation Housing Plan is a strategy to develop the east campus area into two residence halls to address housing needs for both first-years and upper-division undergraduate students.
The university has been working since March of 2025 to get three applications that would amend a city code to allow heightened dormitories in the east campus area, remove a land use overlay near Matthew Knight Arena and amend the special area study between UO and the Fairmount neighborhood…