05/06/2013 - Minutes CITY OF TIGARD
PLANNING COMMISSION
Meeting Minutes
May 6, 2013
CALL TO ORDER
President Anderson 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.
ROLL CALL
Present: President Anderson
Commissioner Doherty
Commissioner Fitzgerald
Commissioner Gaschke
Commissioner Muldoon
Vice President Rogers
Commissioner Schmidt
Commissioner Shavey
Absent: Commissioner Feeney
Staff Present: Tom McGuire,Assistant Community Development Director; Doreen
Laughlin, Executive Assistant;Judith Gray, Senior Transportation
Planner; Cheryl Caines, Associate Planner;Agnes Kowacz,Associate
Planner
PLANNING COMMISSIONER COMMUNICATIONS
None.
CONSIDER MINUTES
April 15 Meeting Minutes: President Anderson asked if there were any additions, deletions,
or corrections to the April 15 minutes; there being none,Anderson declared the minutes
approved as submitted.
UPDATE: SOUTHWEST CORRIDOR PLAN
Senior Transportation Planner Judith Gray introduced herself. She brought to the
attention a flyer advertising a 5/23 (Exhibit
A) regarding the Southwest Corridor Plan soliciting input on potential projects in the
Southwest Corridor, including high capacity transit (HCT).
Judith gave a background of the plan up to this point and went over a comprehensive
PowerPoint presentation (Exhibit B). She also distributed a summary of some of the
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comments from a recent Town Hall meeting (Exhibit C) and told them the
if they think those comments are representative and to make sure that the commissioners and
the people they talk to in the community know that they have an opportunity to share their
view as well. In fact, it is very important that they do.
QUESTIONS OF STAFF
Both Judith Gray and Matt Bihn from Metro took questions from the commission:
What questions will the Steering Committee answer in July?
Among others:
❑❑What HCT mode(s) should move forward for further analysis?
❑❑Where should HCT stations be located?
❑❑What right-of-way will be needed?
❑❑What structural elements should be explored?
Were there any surveys or questions asking what the community preferred? I think
very strong
opinions.
was no content or anything Of course, t
- but that was the answer.
Will this be on an upcoming City of Tigard survey?
Yes, at some point this will be on another survey.
There was some conversation about the City of Tigard surveys traditionally get good
responses, and how important it is to craft the questions so you get some good input.
Who will vote in July?
Members of the steering committee will vote.
Where will the stations be located in Tigard?
The station locations, at this point in modeling, -
, but obviously, once
going to ask the Steering Committee to decide now. That will come later. Station locations
will not be settled at this point. The important thing that needs to be decided now
Should the terminus be in Tigard, or should it be Tualatin or Sherwood? Some
of those major he more things that are decided earlier, and the more analysis we can
provide on things like stations and lane treatments, the better.
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Is light rail a faster way to get around?
If you think about the different light rails we have now, there are two different ways to go
about it. If you think specifically about the Interstate Line in North Portland versus the Green
Line - The Green Line is built for speed it goes along I-205 -
development. The Interstate Line [yellow] is pretty slow but, really the focus was to change the
nature of Interstate Avenue and, if you drove there 10 years ago versus today, or 5 years ago
versus today, you really can see a different type of development. So you need to know what
a certain
type of development that light rail could bring
-offs.
BRIEFING TIGARD TRIANGLE PUBLIC INVOLVEMENT PLAN
Associate Planner Cheryl Gaines s in their packets a draft public involvement
plan for the Tigard Triangle. Currently, they are working with ODOT to choose a consultant
for the Tigard Triangle Plan the development of that plan. In addition to the actual
s going to be the public involvement piece of developing the
plan and staff will be doing the majority of that work. So the consultant will do all the
technical work,with staff doing the majority of the public involvement piece. They will also be
hiring a facilitator for the Citizen Advisory Committee (CAC) to help us in facilitating those
meetings and collecting feedback to give to our consultant to utilize for developing the plan.
She went over a slide giving the public involvement schedule (Exhibit D). It outlays the
schedule for the Citizen Advisory and Technical Advisory committee meetings. There will be
two public meetings for general presentation of the information and feedback. Throughout
this process there will be Planning Commission and City Council briefings after Tasks 2 6.
QUESTIONS
Will there be a time when
Yes, that would be on the Citizen Advisory Committee. Commissioner Fitzgerald volunteered
just now putting together the names of other people we want to invite so
available at the time and who wants to get involved.
Commissioner Fitzgerald asked, How do you decide which developers and businesses you
target? Or are you targeting specific We will try to target some specific people
who
and it would be nice if they
had a background i
interested at that time -
We really want to get a good cross section of people. Between Judith [Gray] and I, we should
ask them if they know of anyone else who might be interested.
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Calista suggested contacting two businesses - Gerber Blades and Graymore Development. She
said she had contacts at both of those relatively large businesses in the Tigard Triangle.Jason
Rogers suggested George Fox University.Jason said he had some contacts there if they need
them.
MOTION
Commissioner Doherty made a motion; Vice President Rogers seconded it:
"I move that we accept the draft as presented."
The motion passed unanimously.
OTHER BUSINESS —
Tom McGuire,Assistant Community Development Director, introduced the new agenda item:
"Call for Future Agenda Items." He said he'd spoken with President Anderson and that they'd
decided it would be a good idea to formally put this on the agenda so that the Commissioners
had an opportunity to bring forth their ideas about what might be good possible items for
future agendas. He explained that if the commissioners come up with something for a possible
item, they could discuss it during this time and then present it to staff. If staff thinks it's
appropriate, they can move on it.
CALL FOR FUTURE AGENDA ITEMS
Commissioner Shavey suggested Kenny Asher, and possibly someone else, speak to them
about successful economic development in Tigard. Tom McGuire said he thought that was a
good idea too and suggested that the other person to speak might be the new Economic
Development Manager. This position is taking the place of the former Principal Planner and is
being advertised now. It closes on Monday, May 20th. Tom suggested that by June or July we
should have this new position hired; so that would be a great opportunity for Kenny to come
and talk to the commissioners - as well as bring that person to the commission to make
introductions.
ADJOURNMENT
President Anderson adjourned the meeting at 8:45 p.m.
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Doreen Laughlin, Planning Co ssion Secretary
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ATTEST: President Tom Anderson
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