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Intel‘s plan to build a third manufacturing facility at its Ronler Acres campus in Hillsboro has an auxiliary parking and utilities project that would be massive by itself.

Intel also proposes the addition of an 862,410-square-foot building that includes a six-story parking structure and water-treatment facility, according to public documents from the city of Hillsboro. That aspect of the project, which is subject to a separate land-use case in Hillsboro, is known as the D1X multipurpose technology facility, or MPTF1. The parking structure would provide approximately 2,200 parking spaces. Planned site improvements also include a cooling tower and pedestrian walkways. The utility structure would include emergency generation, according to the documents.

Wastewater generated from the fabrication process would be treated on-site and discharged according to Intel’s existing wastewater discharge permit issued by Clean Water Services.

A sound wall and landscaping would be added along Shute Road to mitigate the MPTF1 facility’s impact on neighbors.

The parking and utilities building would accompany the manufacturing expansion, known as Mod3. The third manufacturing building would add 1.51 million square feet to an existing two-building, 2.46 million-square-foot manufacturing facility where Intel makes semiconductors. The three buildings would maintain independent mechanical and electrical utilities.

In January, the state Private Activity Bond Committee approved for the project $120 million in tax-exempt bonding that will be leveraged along with a $30 million allocation from the Oregon Business Development Department for a $150 million bond issuance this spring.

Jacobs Engineering is the architect and engineer for the project. Mackenzie conducted an extensive traffic analysis.

The city of Hillsboro released 240 pages of internal email messages in response to a Daily Journal of Commerce public records request. The messages show the city working with Intel to move toward approval while assuaging residents’ concerns about traffic.

鈥淲e are committed to turning around the Development Review approval as quickly as possible,鈥� Hillsboro transportation planner Don McDermott wrote in a Jan. 29 email message to Intel and Mackenzie managers.

James Evenson of Orenco Station wrote that Intel 鈥渉as acted in good faith to mitigate traffic issues.鈥� Evenson recommended installation of flashing sidewalk beacons and 鈥渘o through traffic鈥� signs around Orenco Station to minimize traffic headaches for local residents.