03/05/2012 - Minutes CITY OF TIGARD
PLANNING COMMISSION
Meeting Minutes
March 5, 2012
CALL TO ORDER
President Walsh called the meeting to order at 7:01 p.m. The meeting was held in the Tigard
Civic Center, Town Hall, at 13125 SW Hall Blvd.
ROLL CALL
Present: President Walsh
Vice President Anderson
Commissioner Fitzgerald
Commissioner Muldoon
Commissioner Rogers
Commissioner Schmidt
Commissioner Shavey
Alt. Commissioner Armstrong
Alt. Commissioner Miller
Absent: Commissioner Ryan; Commissioner Doherty
Staff Present: Susan Hartnett, Assistant Community Development Director; Doreen
Laughlin, Executive Assistant; Gary Pagenstecher, Associate Planner;
Tom McGuire, Principal Planner; Todd Prager, Associate
Planner/Arborist; Darren Wyss, Senior Planner
Also Present: Keith Jehnke, Principal at AKS Engineering; Kirsti Hauswald,
Landscape Designer and accredited professional at AKS Engineering;
Councilor Woodard, Council Liaison to the Planning Commission;
Councilor Buehner, President of the Tigard City Council
COMMUNICATIONS - None
CONSIDER MINUTES
February 6 Meeting Minutes: President Walsh asked if there were any additions, deletions,
or corrections to the February 6 minutes; there being none, Walsh declared the minutes
approved as submitted.
PUBLIC HEARING CONTINUED FROM FEBRUARY 6 REOPENED
URBAN FORESTRY CODE REVISION PROJECT: CPA2011-00004/
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REQUEST: To implement the city's Comprehensive Plan as recommended by the Urban Forestry
Master Plan, the City of Tigard is proposing a Comprehensive Plan Amendment adopting the
"Significant Tree Groves" Map and Tigard Development Code (Title 18) Amendments to Chapters
18.115, 18.120, 18.310, 18.330, 18.350, 18.360, 18.370 18.390, 18.530, 18.610, 18.620, 18.630 18.640,
18.715,18.745, 18.775, 18.790, and 18.798. In addition, in support of the Title 18 amendments,
amendments are proposed to the Tigard Municipal Code (TMC) Chapters 1.16, 6.01, 6.02, 7.40,
8.02 thru 8.20, 9.06, and 9.08.
LOCATION: Citywide. ZONE: Citywide.
President Walsh reopened the public hearing. He noted that the public testimony portion of
the meeting was closed; no public testimony would be taken at this time. This would be more
of a workshop meeting - more for the benefit of the Planning Commission. The intent is for
the commission to have good interactive discussion with staff over the material that had been
sent to them. They would end the evening by giving staff any further information they might
want to receive and will come back to a regular continuation of this hearing on April 16. At
that meeting they will reopen public testimony; deliberate; and make a recommendation to the
City Council.
Susan Hartnett, Assistant Community Development Director, gave an overview of the
evening. This would be a fairly informal meeting. She informed them that there will be an
amendments document presented at the April 16 hearing that will include all the amendment
requests that they'd received in testimony so far. Susan explained what would be done tonight.
Todd Prager, Associate Planner and City Arborist, will go over the 10 issues that had been
raised for discussion at the last meeting. They would stop and talk about each one. The
conversations would be captured on the chart pack so that by the end of the evening staff will
have a pretty good idea of what the commissioners thoughts are on all of the issues and how
they are wanting staff to move forward on each of the ten issues. When that's done, they will
open it up to any other possible issues that were concerning them.
Susan introduced staff and their area of expertise. She also introduced the visitors present.
STAFF REPORT
Todd Prager gave a presentation. He spoke about the issues that had been raised and would
be addressed tonight:
1. Tree Canopy vs. Tree Count
2. Balancing Tree Canopy and Open Space
3. Species Selection
4. Canopy Averaging
5. Minimum Preservation
6. Tree/Utility Conflicts
7. Hazard Trees (how they will be addressed by the draft code)
8. Effect of Tree Groves on Property Values
9. Updating the Tree Canopy fee
10. Filing Deed Restrictions for Protected Trees
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He noted that the first 5 issues are the main issues and went over the memorandum that
contained the different issues and staff's discussion and responses. After considerable
discussion, the consensus is below:
1. Tree Canopy vs. Tree Count— They are good with the canopy approach.
2. Balancing Tree Canopy and Open Space — They are good with the proposed
canopy required tiers.
3. Species Selection — They would like a natives incentive amendment
4. Canopy Averaging— They would like an amendment with alternative minimum
lot standard canopy.
5. Minimum Preservation —No changes
6. Tree/Utility Conflicts —No changes
7. Hazard Trees (how they will be addressed by the draft code) —No changes
8. Effect of Tree Groves on Property Values —No changes
9. Updating the Tree Canopy fee —No changes
10. Filing Deed Restrictions for Protected Trees—No changes
Other questions/comments/concerns for staff? There were no other questions or
concerns —just a comment that staff had done a great job and the commissioners felt
more enlightened after this meeting.
Susan summarized what would take place next: Staff has been preparing an amendments
document that contains all of the requested amendments that have come in. The
commissioners will be getting that document on April 16. They will have it two
weekends in advance because it will most likely be a sizeable amount of material. The
meeting on April 16 will be a public hearing for testimony. Staff's recommendation is
that the commission constrains the public testimony to the amendment items.
MOTION TO CONTINUE PUBLIC HEARING TO A DATE CERTAIN
The following motion was made by Commissioner Muldoon, and seconded by
Commissioner Shavey: "I move to continue the hearing until the time certain, April
16."
The motion was voted on and carried unanimously.
PUBLIC HEARING CLOSED —7 minute break
BRIEFING —ANNUAL REPORT TO COUNCIL & 2012 PLANNING
COMMISSION GOALS
Susan Hartnett referred to a memo the commissioners had received in their packets on
Planning Commission goals and presentation of goals for 2012. She reminded them that the
Planning Commission has a dual role as the Committee for Citizen Involvement (CCI)
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pertaining to land-use matters. As part of that charge from council, they're asked to report
back to council on those activities; so that was added to the list of possible things to talk
with council about.
There was discussion about the 2011 Annual Report on the Planning Commission goals and
Committee for Citizen Involvement Activities. Susan noted that, from the email dialog, it
appeared the commissioners were pretty much satisfied with it as it was presented in their
packets. She said there was some discussion about the draft of the 2012 goals. She would like
to have a final decision on both the annual report and the goals because they need to be
attached to the Agenda Item Summary due the following day.
After some conversation, it was decided that the commissioners were good with the annual
report on goals and CCI activities.
There was discussion about separating the topic of economic development from the Tigard
Triangle. They prefer to elevate it to include the entire city rather than just with respect to
the Tigard Triangle. It was decided to add a standalone sentence regarding economic
development which would read "Seeking economic development opportunities that continue
to improve and protect Tigard's natural and built environment as sustainable assets."
They had a short discussion as to who would take on some of the different aspects of the
upcoming joint Planning Commission / City Council meeting on March 20.
There was some conversation about the preference of the commission to meet with the City
Council on substantive issues — structured around a topic —rather than a formal bi-annual
meeting; they prefer workshop formats.
OTHER BUSINESS —None
ADJOURNMENT
President Walsh adjourned the meeting at.9:42 p.m.
Doreen Laughlin, Planning C emission Secretary
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