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Public Restroom Facilities At Antique Powerland Antique Powerland is a campus of independent heritage power museums. It is situated on 62 acres of P(public)zone land in Brooks, Oregon. It was established in 1970 as a site for storing,operating and demonstrating historic gas engines,antique tractors and steam traction engines. It began hosting the Great Oregon Steam-Up where the public could observe these early day machines operating as when manufactured and used. After 40 years this event is still going strong with over 22,000 participants over 2 weekends. Antique Powerland began to significantly change in around 1990 when the landowner(Western Antique Power, Inc. or WAPI)began letting 99 year leases to heritage power organizations such as the Northwest Truck Museum. This set the stage for Powerland to have two primary and interrelated activities. One is heritage power events or the fairgrounds venue. The other is a campus of heritage power museums owned by individual non-profit corporations. This duality is clearly identified and supported by Powerland planning documents and Conditional use Permit 09-16. Antique Powerland is located in the P zone(public zone)under Marion County land use and classification ordinances. Powerland as a fairgrounds and now as a museum is a conditional use under the P designation. The most recent Conditional Use Permit and accompanying Conditional Use Site Plan defines allowed uses and pre approves future building locations,use and size. Public service buildings such as restrooms, concession stands, etc. are identified. The permit also describes any improvements required to meet the zone defined conditions. Public restrooms at Powerland have been developed to meet the needs generated by both activities. Up to now this has meant construction of stand alone public restrooms w' distributed over the site. These permanent restrooms are supplemented with up to 40 portable toilets for large events. Public restrooms have not been included in museum buildings. Up through 2000 this was primarily due to lack of sewer service and a ban on new septic leach fields. Powerland joined the Brooks sewer District in 2000 when the third public restroom building was completed. The second reason is that the majority of building permits and approved plans for museum buildings(A-3 occupancy)through 2011 did not require public restrooms. There are two possible cases(see following analysis)where they were specified but for some reason were not included in the building but passed final inspection. In any case Powerland and its Partner Museums have therefore continued with the strategy of building museums without public restrooms and instead built stand alone restrooms. However, future plans for Phase II Auto Museum, Truck"administration building", fire apparatus museum and new entrance building (Gateway)will all include public restrooms. One reason for this is that these buildings are ail high use, including libraries,orientation rooms, classrooms etc. They are much more comprehensive compared to past museum buildings displaying artifacts. I. Public Restrooms at Powerland The current public restrooms at Powerland are displayed on the attached site map. Building 8 This restroom is used by daily visitors at the start of their visit. L These restrooms are also used to support the office and Board