06/01/2009 - Minutes CITY OF TIGARD
PLANNING COMMISSION
Meeting Minutes
June 1, 2009
1. CALL TO ORDER
President Inman called the meeting to order at 7:00 PM. The meeting was held in the Tigard
Civic Center, Town Hall, at 13125 SW Hall Blvd.
2. ROLL CALL
Commissioners Present: President Inman; Vice President Walsh; Commissioners Anderson,
Doherty, Fishel, Hasman, and Muldoon
Commissioners Absent: Commissioner Caffall, Vermilyea, and alternate Commissioner
Gaschke
Staff Present: Dick Bewersdorff, Planning Manager; Hap Watkins, Assistant Planner;
Darren Wyss, Senior Planner; Doreen Laughlin, Planning Commission Secretary
3. COMMUNICATIONS — None.
4. CONSIDER MEETING MINUTES
5-18-09 Meeting Minutes: President Inman asked if there were any corrections, deletions,
or additions to the minutes. There was one amendment by Commissioner Doherty. The
amendment was that Ron Bunch, Community Development Director, was marked as
present but was not present. All agreed to the amendment and President Inman declared the
minutes approved as amended.
5. WORK SHOPS
5.1 Buildable Lands Presentation/Discussion
STAFF REPORT
Senior Planner, Darren Wyss, presented the staff report on behalf of the City. He went
through a PowerPoint presentation which was a buildable lands report and land use trends
analysis (Exhibit A). He noted that staff has more data to analyze and will publish a final
report when finished. He then opened up the discussion to questions or suggestions for
potential additional data to include in the final report that would be useful to Council.
QUESTIONS & COMMENTS BY COMMISSIONERS
Commissioner Doherty: What are the reasons for `loss of land'?
Wyss: "Primarily due to development within the city."
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President Inman: We have lots of `buildable land' that's already subdivided. The
development has occurred; it's just a vacant lot at the moment. As far as the Planning
Commission is concerned, we're more interested in what the new development might be.
Wyss: "I can pull the numbers out of vacant parcels 10,000 sq ft or less. I can pull those
numbers out, subtract the acreage, and report back to you on that."
5.2 DCA2009-00003 Omnibus Code Amendment — Housekeeping Items
STAFF REPORT
Dick Bewersdorff, Planning Manager, introduced Assistant Planner, Hap Watkins. 1-Ie said
Watkins would give a brief overview. Watkins gave the report on behalf of the City. He
went over a memo by former intern, Markus Mead. The memo included the amendment
language (which had been included in the commissioner's packets). He said, over the years,
staff has collected any number of scrivener's errors and erroneous references — 150 or so. At
this point, staff went over each section and gave the general reason for the changes.
QUESTIONS & COMMENTS BY COMMISSIONERS
This is regarding Section 18.730, "Exceptions to Development Standards" - regarding the
building height limitations. It's a change for 2 1/2 stories from 35 to 30 feet. Can you really
do a 2 1/2 story house in 30 feet tall? Does the "2 1/2 stories" [verbiage] need to be there, or
can you just eliminate the stories because unless you bury. . .
Bewersdorff and Watkins explained how 2 '/2 stories is actually possible in 30 feet, but said it
probably isn't required language anymore. They could eliminate it.
At this point, they went over some of the definitions.
6. OTHER BUSINESS — It was noted the joint City Council/Planning Commission
Meeting on June 16th, would be in lieu of the June 15th PC meeting.
7. ADJOURNMENT
President Inman adjourned the meeting at 7:45 p.m.
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Doreen Laughlin, Planning Co 'ssion Secretary
A'I ES'T: President Jodie Inman
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