07/06/2009 - Minutes CITY OF TIGARD
PLANNING COMMISSION
Meeting Minutes
July 6, 2009
1. CALL TO ORDER
President Inman called the meeting to order at 7:03 p.m. 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,
Caffall, Doherty, Fishel, Hasman, Muldoon, and Vermilyea
Commissioners Absent: Alternate Commissioner Gaschke
Staff Present: Dick Bewersdorff, Planning Manager; Hap Watkins, Assistant Planner;
Doreen Laughlin, Planning Commission Secretary -
3. COMMUNICATIONS —
Tree Board report from Commissioner Walsh. Walsh reported the board is working on the
Urban Forestry Master Plan (UFMP). He said John [Floyd] and Todd [Prager] will be getting
back to them so they can give some feedback.
4. CONSIDER MEETING MINUTES
6-1-09 Meeting Minutes: President Inman asked if there were any corrections, deletions, or
additions to the minutes; there were none, and President Inman declared the minutes
approved as amended.
5. PUBLIC HEARING [Judicial]
5.1 Omnibus Code Amendment — Housekeeping Items DCA2009-00003
The City of Tigard is requesting approval of Development Code Amendments to
promote consistency among the Code Chapters.
PUBLIC HEARING OPENED
Hap Watkins, Assistant Planner, presented the staff report on behalf of the City. [Staff
reports are available for public review at the City one week prior to public hearings.]
Watkins said this staff report covers scriveners errors, erroneous references, incorrect tables,
legal issues as to what is allowed in commercial zones, an inclusion of Type I action for
minor modification in the conditional use — which wasn't there before; basically a collection
of things needing to be changed. Dick Bewersdorff gave some more background as to how
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this came about. He noted most are minor corrections — not terribly significant. He then
asked if there were any questions.
QUESTIONS BY COMMISSIONERS
None.
PUBLIC TESTIMONY IN FAVOR — John Frewing 7110 SW Lola Lane, Tigard spoke.
He said he was in support of the changes in large part, and has several additions that he'd
like to be considered. Dick Bewersdorff asked that Frewing email those additions to staff so
they can be considered in future "housekeeping" items. Frewing said he would email them
to Bewersdorff. Frewing made a comment with regard to page 8 of 27 of the staff report.
He questioned the wording "minor structures." There was some discussion as to what
constitutes "minor structures". Frewing said the substantive issue he had was the fact that
the word "roadway" was in there. He believed that raised the level to more than "minor".
The commissioners decided to change the wording and leave the word "roadway" out. Thus,
"Public support facilities" #117 will read "Services which are necessary to support uses
allowed outright in the underlying zone and involve only minor structures such as
underground utilities and construction of roadway improvements including sidewalks," etc.
PUBLIC TESTIMONY IN OPPOSITION — No one signed up to speak in opposition
and no other members of the public were present.
QUESTIONS OF STAFF: Is there some sort of a rating on what a minor power line is
and what isn't? No. So is that just an interpretation — and who would interpret? The City
Engineer primarily. This is only regarding facilities that are supportive of a permitted development. Major
power lines would not fall under this definition.
PUBLIC HEARING CLOSED
DELIBERATIONS/MOTION
President Inman noted the only change they'd decided on was page 8 of 27 of the staff
report under "Public Support Facilities" where they decided upon the removal of the word
"roadway."
The following motion was made by Commissioner Caffall, seconded by Commissioner
Vermilyea to recommend approval of the Development Code Amendment DCA2009-00003
including the amendment just approved; the removal of the one word ["roadway"] . The
motion passed unanimously on a recorded vote, the Commission voted as follows:
AYES: Commissioner Anderson, Commissioner Caffall,
Commissioner Doherty, Commissioner Fishel, Commissioner
Hasman, Commissioner Inman, Commissioner Muldoon,
Commissioner Vermilyea and Commissioner Walsh (9)
NAYS: None (0)
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ABSTAINERS: None (0)
ABSENT: None (0)
6. OTHER BUSINESS None.
7. ADJOURNMENT
President Inman adjourned the meeting at 7:28 p.m.
Doreen Laughlin, Planning Comm 1 Secretary
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Al"1NST: President Jodie Inman
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