Open-Access Restroom

In alignment with our Core Values, Lane Community College commits to welcoming, valuing, and promoting diversity among staff, students, and our community and to cultivating a respectful, inclusive, and accessible working and learning environment. Providing and maintaining access to single stall open-access restrooms is a key part of this commitment. 

Open-access restrooms provide safe, secure locations for a wide variety of individuals for whom traditional multi-stall gendered restrooms are inadequate and/or unsafe, including students, staff, and community members who are transgender, non-binary, gender questioning, queer, or gender-non-conforming, as well as those whose health, mobility, religious, family, parenting, or other needs are not met by multi-stall gendered restrooms.

Under this policy, and in alignment with the concepts of universal design, Lane will ensure that:

• all single-stall restrooms currently on our campuses are clearly labeled as open-access restrooms
• all individuals present on our campuses will have consistent access to restrooms designated as open-access without question or restriction
• maps will be posted at the entrance of all gendered restrooms across our campuses that clearly indicate the nearest open-access restroom option
• all online and printable campus building maps that include designations for gendered restrooms will also include clearly marked designations for open-access restrooms
• all future buildings will be required to include one or more open-access restrooms per floor in their design and construction
• all building remodels where the building footprint allows construction of open-access restroom(s) will incorporate one or more open-access restrooms into buildings where they do not currently exist
• all future buildings include at least one public open-access restroom which includes a foot-washing station