11/19/2007 - Minutes CITY OF TIGARD
PLANNING COMMISSION
Meeting Minutes
November 19, 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 Caffall, Doherty, Hasman,Walsh
and Muldoon (came in late)
Commissioners Absent: Commissioners Anderson, Fishel, and Vermilyea
Staff Present: Ron Bunch,Assistant Community Development Director; Sean Family,
Associate Planner; Marissa Daniels,Assistant Planner;Jerree Lewis, Planning Commission
Secretary; Doreen Laughlin,Administrative Specialist II
3. COMMUNICATIONS
Jerree Lewis reported that the next meeting will be held December 31'. It will be a Public
Hearing on Citizen Involvement and there will be no other meetings in December.
Commissioner Walsh reported that the Tree Board is working on the goals,policies, and action
measure revisions during their workshops. He said they're halfway through and will probably
be done with them at the next meeting.
Commissioner Caffall reported that he'd attended the Committee for Citizen Involvement
(CCI) and that they'd had an update on the neighborhood web pages as well as input on grants
for neighborhood improvements and other things.
4. APPROVE MEETING MINUTES
There was a motion by Commissioner Caffall, seconded by Commissioner Hasman, to approve
the November 5, 2007 meeting minutes as submitted. The motion was approved as follows:
AYES: Caffall, Doherty, Hasman, Inman,Walsh
NAYS: None
ABSTENTIONS:
EXCUSED: Anderson, Fishel, Muldoon,Vermilyea
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5. PUBLIC HEARING
5.1 COMPREHENSIVE PLAN AMENDMENT (CPA) 2007-00006 Tigard
Comprehensive Plan Update of Statewide Planning Goal 9: Economic
Development and Goal 10: Housing
REQUEST: Amendments to the current Comprehensive Plan Topic 5: Economy
and Topic 6: Housing by updating the goals, policies and recommended action
measures to reflect current community conditions and values. The complete text of the
proposed Amendment can be viewed on the City's website at http://www.tigard-
or.gov/code_amendments. LOCATION: Citywide. ZONE: All City zones.
APPLICABLE REVIEW CRITERIA: Community Development Code Chapters
18.380 and 18.390, Comprehensive Plan Policies 1, 2, 5 and 6; Metro Functional Plan
Tide 1, 4, 6, 7 and 12; and Statewide Planning Goals 1, 2, 9 and 10.
STAFF REPORT
Associate Planner, Sean Farrelly, presented the staff report on behalf of the City. He noted
that Staff has found the language included in the amendment (as detailed in Exhibit A) complies
with the applicable state land use goals, the City's Municipal Code and Comprehensive Plan policies,
as well as federal, state, and regional plans and regulations.
The proposed amendment was developed through a review process with several hours of
community input at Policy Interest Team meetings. The citizens used the technical information
included in the Tigard 2007 Resource Report and the issues and values gathered from past surveys
and visioning work to develop draft goals,policies, and recommended action measures to forward to
the Commission. Planning Commissioners reviewed this draft language at an October 15`''workshop
and suggested several revisions. These changes (found at the beginning of the staff report) included:
Economic Development
Goal 9.1
Policy 11 was upgraded from an Action Measure to stress the importance of economic clusters.
Policy 12 was added to address the principle that economic development should be balanced with
other community concerns.
Action Measure i was revised to address the potential need for an Economic Development Director
position for the City.
Action Measure xii was added in response to a request for more integration between residential,
retail, and commercial uses.
Action Measure xiii was added for additional emphasis on supporting existing businesses that have
the potential to develop into clusters.
Action Measure xiv was added as a result of the Planning Commission's suggestion for developing a
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branding and marketing effort for Tigard.
Goal 9.2
The Planning Commission recommended that the policies and action measures for this goal be
expanded upon. Policy 3 and Action Measures i through vi were added in response.
Goal 9.3
Policy 1 added a reference to the Tigard Triangle as a place for higher density employment and
residential growth.
Action Measure v was revised to include other transportation corridors besides Highway 99.
Action Measure xv was modified to reflect the Planning Commission's feeling that the City should
not be involved in creating a wireless internet system,but should monitor emerging technologies to
assure competitively priced access.
Staff added Action Measure xvi to reinforce the desire to balance economic development activities
with other community goals.
Housing
Goal 10.2
Policy 6 was changed in response to the recommendation that any future community design
standards be applied to multi-family housing development,rather than all housing.
Policy 9 was revised to state that infill development should be designed to address compatibility,
rather than exhibit compatibility,with existing neighborhoods.
Policy 10 was changed to make it clear it was referring to home based businesses rather than home
based occupations.
A couple of definitions were added in response to Commissioners suggestions (although these will
be adopted in a separate definitions chapter at a later date.)
A number of agencies/jurisdictions were given the chance to comment on the amendment. Only
DLCD and Clean Water Services responded, and their comments and staff's reply are found at the
end of the staff report. In response to DLCD's comments,Action Measure xii, under Goal 10.1 was
changed to state that inclusionary zoning should be voluntary and under Goal 10.2,Action Measure
xv, was added to conform with state law on clear and objective standards for the development
review process.
The updated goals, policies, and recommended action measures will provide Tigard a more solid
foundation on which to prepare ordinances, associated plans, development standards, programs, and
intergovernmental agreements. Specifically it will provide the tools needed to build on and improve
Tigard's economic health and livability.
Staff's recommendation is to approve the language found in Exhibit A and forward it to the City
Council for their review.
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At this point, President Inman asked the commissioners if they had any questions or
comments — some of which follow:
• 'Where are the definitions in our packet?" Towards the end—Exhibit D
• 'What are `other transportation corridors' in Tigard—where are they?" Typically they're
high capacity roads and would be good places to potentially put higher density housing, more
employment, more retail, because on these roads typically there is transit(buses) on them.
• "On Housing 10.2.vi—regarding policy 6 which denotes "multi-family housing" —
why did we delineate `multi-family' housing?" Other than single family housing? I don't believe
many communities typically have design standards for single family housing—that's usually exempted.
• Commissioner Walsh commented that he believes, for consistency and clarity, that
the language of Goal 9.1.xi should be changed from "economic clusters" to "industry
clusters."
PUBLIC TESTIMONY
President Inman opened up the meeting to public testimony and reminded those present
that there is a 3-minute time allotment and asked that people be as concise as possible.
John Frewing, 7110 Lola Lane, Tigard 97223, had signed in as speaking both in favor of, and
in opposition to, the amendment: He noted that in the prior package there were citations
from the "Tigard for Tomorrow"values surveys that had been done over the years. He
commented that the staff report said that this material was developed from that but in those
lists of values there is nothing that referred to economic development. He commented that
he believes the wording in some of the material is "overly enthusiastic" and in fact seems to
trump the wording of other goals, policies, and action measures in the Comp Plan. He
believes there should be roughly comparable wording across all the sections of the Comp
Plan. For example, regarding Goal 9.1.iii he read verbatim, `The City's land use and other
regulatory practices shall be flexible and adaptive so as not to preclude desirable economic
development opportunities.' He said he would like that to be more even handed in its
wording.
At this point, Mr. Frewing noticed his 3-minute time limit was up, so he said he would then
speak in opposition to this particular item:
He said he would add "consistent with protection of natural resources and contemporary
development of adequate infrastructure." Therefore, he believes Goal 9.1.iii should read:
"The City's land use and other regulatory practices shall be flexible so as to allow
contemporary achievement of all Tigard goals when new business is sited in the City."
He also commented that Policy 5 says "the City shall promote well designed and efficient
development and redevelopment of vacant and underutilized etc..." the word "shall" —is
that a budgetary commitment?As for "efficient development" —Mr. Frewing said he always
asks the question "Efficient for whom?" There should not be code words. He believes the
phrase `efficient development' should be clarified.
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[Commissioner Muldoon joined the meeting at 7:26pm.]
Frewing commented that under Goal 10.1.i— the Recommended Action Measure i calls for
regular update of Tigard's Buildable Land Inventory. He commented that the BLI definition
should be modified to include all the lots in the City that might be subdivided for additional
housing density.
PUBLIC HEARING CLOSED
Regarding regulatory practices, Ron Bunch proposed alternative language: He suggested the
language read "The City's land use and other regulatory practices shall be flexible and adaptive
so as not to preclude desirable economic development opportunities with assurance of
planned or existing infrastructure."
In summary, President Inman said Commissioner Walsh had indicated a change to Goal 9.1.xi
for clarity and consistency for economic to industry clusters. In addition—Ron Bunch had
proposed the above language change regarding regulatory practices.
The following motion by Commissioner Walsh was seconded by Commissioner Caffall: "I
move for recommendation of approval to the City Council for application of CPA2007-00006
Tigard Comprehensive Plan update, Statewide Planning Goal 9, Economic Development, and
Goal 10, Housing—and adoption of the changes cited in Goal 9.1.iii and Goal 9.1.xi, as
suggested, and the findings of the staff report and testimony received."
The motion carried as follows:
AYES: Caffall, Doherty, Hasman, Inman, Muldoon,Walsh
NAYS: None
ABSTENTIONS: None
EXCUSED: Anderson, Fishel,Vermilyea
6. COMPREHENSIVE PLAN UPDATE WORKSHOP — CITIZEN
INVOLVEMENT
Assistant Planner,Marissa Daniels, spoke to the Commission about the Citizen Involvement
Chapter,which is based on, among other things, the key findings of the draft chapter. She said
the Citizen Involvement chapter is different from others in that citizen involvement is not
included in the Tigard 2007 Resource document. She reported that Goal 1 was not addressed
in that document and instead, the resource information and key findings were contained in the
draft chapter. The Citizen Involvement Chapter is also based on the community issues and
values,which were identified by citywide surveys and in the Tigard Beyond Tomorrow
visioning process. It is also based on the current Comprehensive Plan policies, as well as on the
work of the Policy Interest Team and Department Review Team. Daniels pointed out that the
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policy language presented in the draft Citizen Involvement Chapter is a direct result of the
language written at Policy Interest Team meetings.
There was a question as to how the City recruits people. Daniels replied that it is up to whoever
the staff liaison is for whichever committee is in need of people. She noted that, for example,
the Committee for Citizen Involvement (CCI) recently added 5 new at-large membership slots.
She noted that Duane Roberts (Staff) has been very actively recruiting people and that there
definitely is an outreach program in place to get people involved. She also noted that
Commissioner Rex Caffall participated as a member of the Policy Interest Team for Citizen
Involvement.
The question was asked regarding the meaning of Goal 1.1.iv,which states "The City shall
provide staff and financial support to the Committee for Citizen Involvement and any other
appropriate board or committee." Daniels replied that the word "appropriate" should instead
read "appointed." The correction was noted by the commissioners.
At this point,President Inman asked if there was anyone else present who would like to speak.
Daniels introduced Basil Christopher, chair of the CCI. Christopher gave a brief overview of
the work of the CCI. He spoke about the Neighborhood Planning Program.
7. OTHER BUSINESS
There was no other business.
8. ADJOURNMENT
The meeting was adjourned by President Inman at 8:30pm.
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Doreen Laughlin,Administrative Specialist II
A1'1'EST: President Jodie Inman
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