HomeMy WebLinkAbout00 Applicant Planning Commission PresentationSteve Street Park Path
Comprehensive Plan Amendment
CMA2025-00002
Planning Commission-Applicant’s Presentation
Monday February 2nd, 2026, 7 pm
Project Purpose
Part of the Steve St. Park Project
Installation of a paved ADA-accessible path that would connect two dead end streets –Steve St. and SW 84th Ave.
Requires a comprehensive plan amendment to remove 0.03 acres of Goal 5 wetland buffer protections
Existing Environmental Protections
•“Significant wetland”
and associated 50’
wetland buffer have
Goal 5 protections
•Wetland Delineation
performed by ESA in
April 2025
•Proposed path would
impact a 0.03-acre strip
of buffer (not the
wetland itself)
Existing Conditions
•Significant wetland and associated 50’
protected wetland buffer
•Existing informal path
•Existing chain link fence
•“Degraded vegetated corridor”
•Non-native grasses
•Himalayan blackberry
•Creeping buttercup
•Dandelion
•Some tree canopy
Looking
North to
Steve St
Wetland
Fencing on
the left
Steve St Park Improvements
•Tigard Goal to have high quality parks within a 10 minute walk of all residents
•New 1.37-acre park
•Will serve a “Gap Area” identified in Tigard parks and Recreation System Plan
•Will serve underserved community that is more racially diverse, more multi-family homes, and lower average household incomes than Tigard as a whole
•Critical Recreation Site supporting the Washington Square Regional Center area
•CIP Project
•Funding via Metro Local Share
•Planned Construction Summer, 2026
Environmental Restoration
• 3,790 sf of mitigation adjacent to
existing buffer.
•Will improve existing wetland buffer
from “degraded” to “good”
condition
•Removal of non-native species
•Native species plantings
•Improve quality and quantity of
wildlife habitat
CPA Application
•Neighborhood Meeting on 12/10/24
•Natural Resources Report
•Economic, Social, Environmental, and Energy consequences (ESEE) analysis
•Evaluates the positive and negative consequences of allowing or denying the CPA needed to construct the proposed pathway
•Concludes allowing the proposed CPA and constructing the proposed path has generally better consequences across the four categories than maintaining existing protections
Summary
•Minimal (0.03 acre)impact on existing “degraded” wetland buffer to allow ADA-accessible path
•Key path to connect underserved residents to new Steve St. Park
•Includes mitigation and enhancement of vegetated corridor
Thank you!