Developers of a proposed destination resort off Century Drive have submitted a conceptual master plan with the Deschutes County planning department.

The property, know as Cascade Highlands, is located across from the Entrada Lodge and the Braeburn subdivision and west of Broken Top.

The site plan includes 379 single-family units, 210 multi-family units, a 300-room resort hotel, 15,000 square feet of commercial and retail space and an 18-hole golf course.

Cascade Highlands LLC owns the land, but Arrowood Development has contracted with the group to purchase the property and develop the proposed resort.

Arrowood’s president is John Lietz and its chairman is Don Bauhofer, the president of The Pennbrook Company.

Bauhofer said he expects the approval process through the county to take between nine and 12 months.

Construction on the land isn’t likely to begin for at least a year and a half, he said.

”If we are really lucky, we will be able to break ground at the end of 2005, but it will more likely be the first quarter of 2006,” Bauhofer said.

The first phase of the project would likely be the 18-hole golf course and resort’s hotel.

The 22,000-square-foot, single-family lots that will come in the later stages of the project will be comparable in price, or higher, than the price of lots in Broken Top.

Arrowood Development has retained Hart Howerton as the designer and planner of the resort. David McLay Kidd, the architect of Bandon Dunes Golf Course, has been chosen to design the 18-hole golf course.

Under an agreement with the Bend Metro Park and Recreation District, a 14-acre public park will be created on the east side of the resort, next to the First on the Hill subdivision.

According to the site plan, Bend Metro Park and Recreation will construct a five-acre park with picnic facilities, a parking area, playground and natural trails and meadows.

The remaining nine acres will be dedicated to natural open space and trails, including a trail head off West Campbell Road.

A second, 10-acre park will be created just west of Broken Top within the resort boundaries. It will have trails connecting to U.S. Forest Service property.

Access to the resort will be through a gated access road at Hosmer Lake Drive, at an extension of Metolius Drive, west from the Broken Top Development and through an extension of Skyline Ranch Road between Skyliners Road and Century Drive, according to the site plan.

Cascade Highlands became one of the members of the West Bend Traffic Consortium, which collectively helped pay for construction of the Bill Healy Memorial Bridge, roundabouts and other westside traffic improvements.

Under the consortium agreement, the group limited the number of residential and lodging units to correspond with a certain number of car trips to the property.

According to the site plan, the number of daily trips made to the property will be 25 trips less than what was authorized for the property by the traffic study.

The site plan also mentioned plans for a shuttle that will run from the resort to the Old Mill and downtown Bend.

The number of employees expected to be hired at the resort will be between 158 and 229 with wages varying from minimum wage up to executive and sales-level pay scales, according to the site plan.

About 30 percent of the number of workers will be seasonal.

Kristy Hessman can be reached at 541-383-0350 or at khessman@bendbulletin.com.