10/15/2007 - Minutes CITY OF TIGARD
PLANNING COMMISSION
Meeting Minutes
October 15,2007
1. CALL TO ORDER
President Inman called the meeting to order at 7:00 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; Commissioners Anderson, Cattail,Doherty,Fishel,
Hasman,Muldoon (arrived at 7:30),Vermilyea, and Walsh
Commissioners Absent:
Staff Present: Ron Bunch,Assistant Community Development Director;Sean Family,
Associate Planner;Jerree Lewis,Planning Commission Secretary
3. PLANNING COMMISSION COMMUNICATIONS
Commissioner C'affall reported that the Committee for Citizen Involvement is currently seeking
new members for the committee.
Commissioner Walsh advised that the Tree Board would be meeting Wednesday night. He is
hoping staff will sum up the issues from the last joint Tree Board/Planning Commission
workshop. They will work on the issues and come back to the Planning Commission at a
future date.
4. APPROVE MEETING MINUTES
Motion by Commissioner Doherty,seconded by Commissioner Hasman,to approve the
October 1,2007 meeting minutes as submitted. The motion was approved as follows:
AYES: Anderson,Doherty,Fishel,Hasman,Inman,Walsh
NAYS: None
ABSTENTIONS: Caffall,Vermilyea
EXCUSED: Muldoon
5. PUBLIC HEARING
5.1 COMPREHENSIVE PLAN AMENDMENT (CPA) 2007-00003
LEGISLATIVE UPDATE: ANNEXATION POLICY
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REQUEST: The City of Tigard proposes to amend Comprehensive Plan Policy
10.2.1 as directed by City Council to make explicit that annexation is required
before property within its Urban Services Area, but outside the City limits, can
receive city services. These changes also ensure that all policies in the
Comprehensive Plan are consistent with City/County Agreements. LOCATION:
Citywide. ZONE: The proposal is a Comprehensive Plan text amendment it is
not applicable to a specific property or group of properties. APPLICABLE
REVIEW CRITERIA: Tigard Community Development Code Chapter 18.390,
Type IV Procedure; Tigard Comprehensive Plan Policies: General Policies 1.1.1;
Citizen Involvement 2.1.1; Public Facilities and Services 7.4.1, 7.4.2; Urbanization
10.1.1 Metro Functional Plan. Statewide Planning Goals 1 (Citizen Involvement), 2
(Land Use Planning), 10 (Housing), 11 (Public Facilities and Services) and 14
(Urbanization).
STAFF REPORT
Assistant Community Development Director Ron Bunch presented the staff report on
behalf of the City. He advised this application is a result of Council's desire to make sure it
is absolutely explicit for properties located within the City's designated Urban Services Area
and wishing to receive services,that they must first annex to the City to receive services.
This policy will be included with the new Comprehensive Plan update, but since there are
current pending annexation applications,the City wants to do this amendment early so
property owners and developers know that they must annex before receiving City services.
Bunch noted that in the past, homeowners weren't required to actually annex before
receiving City services if they signed a non-remonstrance agreement for future annexation.
In the City's experience, people successfully fought the non-remonstrance agreements in
court and never annexed. Bunch said the proposed application complies with all applicable
criteria and statewide planning goals and recommends the Planning Commission forward a
recommendation of approval to the City Council.
Bunch advised that City services primarily include sewer and storm drainage lines. The term
"services" is defined broadly, because we don't know what services could be included in the
future.
If the City does not approve the proposed amendment, it would make it difficult for
developing properties in the Urban Services Area. We would argue that they cannot receive
City services unless they annex to the City first. We would like the policy to be clear and
straightforward.
Bunch said the City would work with developers to see that annexation applications and land
use applications would run concurrently.
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PUBLIC TESTIMONY
John Frewing, 7110 Lola Lane, Tigard 97223, believes some of the proposed language is
vague and should be clearer. He asked what a potential health hazard would be. Could that
include police or unsafe sidewalks? Ron Bunch advised that the health hazard is defined by
statute as a situation where there is a failing septic tank, contaminated ground water, or
contaminated drinking water that requires the Oregon Environmental Quality Commission
to declare an eminent health hazard to the public. We can reference the statute and the
administrative rules in the amendment.
PUBLIC HEARING CLOSED
Motion by Commissioner Walsh, seconded by Commissioner Callan,to move forward a
recommendation of approval to City Council of application CPA 1007-00003 as amended to
include specific reference to the legislative references in the ORS,including the staff report and
the testimony tonight. The motion was approved as follows:
AYES: Anderson, Caffall,Doherty,Fishel,Hasman,Inman,Vermilyea,Walsh
NAYS: None
ABSTENTIONS: None
EXCUSED: Muldoon
6. COMPREHENSIVE PLAN - HOUSING, ECONOMY WORKSHOP
Commissioner Muldoon arrived at 7:30 p.m.
Associate Planner Sean Fancily presented the draft policy language on housing and economy.
The Commissioners reviewed the proposed policy and suggested the following changes to the
language (responses are written in italics):
• It was suggested adding an action measure to develop a branded marketing effort and
brand elements to preserve their value to Tigard. It's hard to tell one community from
the next. This idea add be encompassed in dezelopinga fornd aronomic dezekiprent pogramand
strategy or zee could add another ation measure
• Should we elevate 9.1.iv to a policy level? We can do that The idea that zee should grozvzehat
zee haze is reflat4 in the"economic gardening idea"to develop zelnt zee already haze here It was
suggested taking the theme of action measures #iv and#v and re-working them into a
policy statement for encouraging growing businesses.
• Commissioner Vermilyea believes that,instead of letting traffic dictate what we can do
in the Tigard Triangle,the City should envision a goal for the area (what we want it to
look like,what do we want the character of the neighborhood to be) and then figure out
the transportation needs for serving that goal. It was decided to "park" this idea and
come back at a later date for discussion.
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• In Goals 9.1 and 9.3,there's not a lot of integration of residential, retail, and commercial
uses (mixed use) and how housing integrates with economic development. Male zee can
nirrphasize/hrgf up the language Can we carrythe language in 10.1.v forward to the
economic development section and blend the two?
• Add the term business clusters to the economic development definitions. It was
suggested drawing the definition from the State Economist's definition. Also, add a
possible action measure to prioritize support for businesses identified as able to develop
into regional clusters. The definition could include some examples.
• Under 9.3.xv,it was suggested to modify the focus to monitoring emerging technology
to ensure competitive priced access. Some Commissioners, on the other hand, do not
believe the City should be involved in being the leader on this.
• It was suggested to add an action measure to add an Economic Development Director
for the City.
• Goal 9.2 could use more details.
• Under 9.2.1, it looks like we're giving land away.
• Under 9.3, can we elevate action measure#v to a clearer policy statement? Staff zeill look
at it Possibly it could be expanded to include all transportation infrastructure etc, and nrntion
Huey 99W. Maybe 9.1 would be a better place for it. Transportation can be included in both
9.1 and 9.3.
• The definition for work force housing should be added to the Economic Development
section.
• 10.2.6 — maybe we could apply this to multi-family housing instead of single family.
• 10.2.9 — the language seems strong and may be inconsistent with the other sections that
we've had on this topic. Suggested language: The City shall require infill development
to be designed to address compatibility with existing neighborhoods. Action measure
#ii might give us the means by which it could be addressed. We may have to break it
down to more action measures.
• 10.2.10 — change the wording to: "home business occupations" or otherwise clarifythat
it pertains to home-based businesses.
John Frewing offered the following comments:
• He expressed concern about wording which could make one particular goal appear
more important than another. The language should be comparable throughout the
entire Comp Plan,so that all goals would be weighed and considered the same. For
example,the strong language in 9.1.3 does not exist in the current Comp Plan. Using
words like seek, balance, and coordinate efforts would be the right wayto do it
throughout.
• Under 9.3.1,he would like to see the Tigard Triangle added to the list.
• He would like to see map 3-3 in the Resource Document updated in the final
document.
7. OTHER BUSINESS
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None
8. ADJOURNMENT
The meeting adjourned at 8:57 p.m.
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A LEST: President Jodie Inman
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