Resolution No. 77-23 CITY OF TIGARD, OREGON
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A RESOLUTION ESTABLISHING POLICIES CONCERNING COORDINATION OF
PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT OF STREETS AND LAND-USF PLANNING IN
THE CITY OF TIGARD.
One of the functions of the City undertakes to perform
for its citizens is the planning and development of the streets,
pathways, and sidewalks and the planning and preservation of
open spaces at locations within the city beneficial to the
residents and the commercial enterprises located within the
city. The city also performs numerous other planning functions,
including the review of proposed plans for the development of
property. In order to make all of these planning and development
functions more effective and in order to keep the cost of both
the planning functions and the development of public facilities
as low as possible the City Council has at this time undertaken
to coordinate its various land-use decision-making functions and
its other planning and development functions. The Council finds
that it is advisable to establish a policy in favor of the coordi-
nation of the planning and development of streets, pathways and
sidewalks and planning and preservation of open spaces and its
other land-use decision-making functions. The reasons for adopting
that policy and the nature of the work the Council regards as
x necessary to carry out the policy are set forth in the following
resolution:
Section 1: Zoning and other land-use functions of the city are
related to the development of streets, pathways, and
sidewalks and the planning and preservation of open spaces in such
a way as to make it advisable for the City to cooerdinate its work
in these areas.
Section 2: The land-use decision-making activities of the city take
place in many different ways. Decisions are made by the
City Council, by the Planning Commission, and by the Design Review
Board, as well as the City's staff members. The forms of the decision
include zone changes, comprehensive plan changes, variances, condi-
tional use permits, subdivision approvals, land partition approvals,
the issuance of building permits, design review approval, and others.
Though it is often difficult to prove that any one particular land
development project increases the public need for services and
facilitites provided as a function of city government, it is taken
by the council to be true, as a general proposition, that virtually all
development has some impact. This is true even of remodelings, many
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variances, and conditional use permits and land partitions. Because
of the difficulty of proving such prospective impacts and the expe.7, es
and inconvenience that would be caused by attempts to prove it, it
will he presumed that every instance of development causes significant
impact on needs fcr public services, including streets, pathways and
sidewalks and the planning and preservation of open spaces.
Section 3: It is the policy of the City of Tigard that all of the
City's streets are to be brought to the standards set
forth in The Tigard Community Plan, the adopted Neighborhood Plans,
and the Tigard Municipal Code, and that sidewalks shall be installed
along all streets, and that a bicycle path shall be developed in
accordance with the various neighborhood plans and the comprehensive
plan of the City, and that greenways and other open spaces provided by the
various neighborhood plans and the comprehensive plan shall be estab-
lished, and provisions made for their preservation. Such improvements
shall take place, insofar as City shall have control, as soon as it may
become practicable in each instance.
Section 4: The cost of street improvements, sidewalk installation,
and bicycle path construction shall be borne, to the extent the City
can legally require it to be so borne, by the owners of benefited
property, and not by the taxpayers of the City generally.
Section 5: It is the policy of the City that development shall occur
only on streets improved to standard, with sidewalks in-
stalled and bicycle pathways developed and greenways and open spaces
set aside in accordance with the relevant plan, except in those
instances inahich the proposed developer makes provision for future
improvements and the preservation of greenways and open spaces in
the following ways:
a. Dedication of land necessary to place in the control
of the city sufficient land to develop the streets to its
planned width, install sidewalks and bicycle pathways, and
preserve the greenways and other.open spaces designated in
the community and neighborhood plans.
b. A "half-street improvement," leaving the street on
the side of the center line toward the owner's property one-
half the width of the full planned street width (in addition
to the dedications required in a. above) : or
C. Full improvement of the street or so much of it as
the land-use decision-making body shall find to be reasonably
required on account of the impact caused by the proposed land
use.
In every instance where full street improvement is not required the
applicant shall also be required to enter into an agreement with the
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City by which the applicant agrees not to remonstrate against a local
improvement district street development project, and the City shall
agree that the applicant shall receive credit against his share of
the assessment in a subsequent local improvement district project for
the land dedicated at the time of the application.
Section 6: In certain instances the development of a particular
parcel of land will create traffic pressures on streets,
sidewalks and pathways outside the parcel to be developed in excess
of the capacity of the streets, sidewalks and pathways. In those
instances the land-use decision-making body shall not permit the
development of the parcel until such time as the affected streets,
sidewalks, and pathways have been developed.
Section 7: in order to enforce the policies set forth in this reso-
lution the City Council, Planning Commission and Design
Review Board shall be given the power to require dedications, street
improvements, sidewalk installation, pathway installation, non-
remonstrance agreements, and such other agreements as may be necessary,
and the staff of the City of Tigard shall be required to decline to
issue building permits for single family dwellings until the applicant
for the permit demonstrates that the street upon which the dwelling is
proposed to be built has been improved to standard or the applicant has
made the dedication or improvement required by this resolution.
Section 8: The policies established by this resolution shall be
carried out through the adoption of ordinances granting
to the City Council, the Planning Commission, the Design Review Board
and to the City's staff the authority necessary to require the dedi-
cations, agreements, and improvements described in this resolution.
PASSED: This q day of �i��,, „„,-, , 1977.
Mayor - City of Tigard
ATTEST;
Recorder - City of and
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