GREAT BARRINGTON — As the community frets about the fate of the soon-to-close Bard College at Simon’s Rock campus, one potential use of the property can be scratched off the list — an amusement park. Other things not allowed include golf or country clubs, cemeteries, weed growers, parking garages, lumberyards, large-scale commercial developments, gas stations, car dealerships, airports and “gravel/loam/sand/stone removal for commercial purposes,” according to zoning regulations proposed for the early college campus off Alford Road. The Planning Board on Thursday night unanimously approved its proposed “campus overlay district” bylaw to be decided by voters at annual town meeting in May. The proposal comes after the early college announced in November that it is moving its program to a new campus near its parent, Bard College in Annandale-On-Hudson, N.Y., and closing the 275-acre Great Barrington campus. The community-used Kilpatrick Athletic Center and Daniel Performing Arts Center will both continue programs officially until the end of August, but their future is still in question. Concerns about the fate of the athletic center prompted one of its members — a real estate investor — to propose to Bard College that it essentially give the Kilpatrick to him as a good faith gesture to the community. He will then invest $1.5 million to restore, upgrade and turn the facility into a community-owned organization. While various ideas for the campus fly, the Planning Board members hammered out the proposed bylaw after struggling for months to map out complex zoning for a property that has a variety of uses and is subdivided into 19 parcels. Creating a new zoning district solves a host of problems that will make it easier for developers, as well as organizations to continue using or finding new uses for the campus, board members say. The existing zoning “doesn’t allow much more than residential uses,” said Planning Director and Interim Town Manager Christopher Rembold at the board’s March 13 meeting. The residential classification doesn’t, for example, allow the athletic center to operate there outside the educational zoning framework, noted Planning Board member Jonathan Hankin. An overlay district would allow the campus to stay “viable and alive,” and not fall into disrepair, board Vice Chairman Pedro Pachano said at that meeting. On Tuesday night, the board made a few tweaks to the proposal that included striking out "Commercial amusement parks” as a potential use that would require a special permit. They also modified, on the list of uses allowed without a permit, the sale of food, expanding the definition to “Food or beverage facilities including production, sale and/or consumption on site or off site of pre-prepared foods.” Other uses that are “by right” — meaning they don’t require a special permit from the board — include different types of multi-unit housing, and things like museums, playgrounds, health clubs, and professional offices. Uses that are allowed with a permit include hotels, motels, overnight cabins, camping facilities, restaurants and contractor’s and landscaper’s yards. Also allowed with a permit is light manufacturing, whether in existing or new structures. Any substantial expansion of existing buildings also requires a permit. The future of the campus and the board’s work has not been without drama and turmoil, as residents vie for a voice, and informal groups gather to brainstorm. On Tuesday, Board Chair Brandee Nelson recused herself from the campus overlay deliberations and discussion. She said the engineering firm she works for had been “retained by a private party in relation to the Simon’s Rock campus.” While, “no work by my firm is before any town board or committee for any decision,” she decided to take the precaution, having initially filed with the town clerk “an appearance of a conflict of interest” disclosure form. Pachano is taking her place on this matter. “I would be disappointed if my disclosure created an obstacle," Nelson said, "to the passage of the campus overlay zoning amendment at town meeting." Nelson could not be reached for additional comment.