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Shannon Marshall, program coordinator in Community Development, reviewed a package of documents that include a DLCD technical advisory (TA) grant agreement (the TA grant that provided $50,000 for the project), a contract with Cascadia Partners to run the planning‑process outreach, an Inclusive Outreach Plan and an Excel “menu” of engagement options. Marshall said the outreach work is at an early stage and that the project website has recently been made available to staff for content development; she estimated a website and survey may be ready within roughly two weeks for internal review and testing.

Marshall described “hard‑to‑reach” maps the consultants produced. The maps overlay census tracts with existing Citizen Advisory Committee (CAC) boundaries; darker colors indicate areas with lower historical response rates to tools such as the American Community Survey and are the areas staff recommends receiving extra outreach attention. Marshall asked commissioners to consider which CAC areas they could serve as ambassadors for — helping get the word out, attending a local meeting, assisting with sign‑in and offering a familiar, local face for residents.

“Some of this is going to actually get woven into the website…so those key messages…will become a series of things that you might, like, hover over. You know? So, like, FAQs,” Marshall said while describing draft website content and outreach materials.

The staff materials ask commissioners to respond within about a week with two items of homework: (1) which CAC(s) they are willing to represent as ambassadors, and (2) whether there are hyper‑local outreach channels — newsletters, community lists, physical bulletin boards or community centers — staff should use in that commissioner’s area. Marshall said modest print flyers (for example, 20 per CAC geography) would be available on request and that larger print runs would require additional resources.

Commissioners and staff discussed outreach scope and jurisdictional complexity. Staff advised prioritizing in‑person outreach in unincorporated areas that lack existing city planning processes while still making the website and survey broadly available to city residents; staff explained that an online survey would collect geographic information (address, ZIP or census track) so responses can later be analyzed by area. Commissioners raised logistics questions — meeting size, evening versus daytime scheduling, and how to estimate turnout — and requested confirmation that staff will provide basic materials and support; staff said they will.

Staff said the immediate outreach phase is constrained by the DLCD grant schedule and current project budget, which runs through June 30; the plan’s public‑workshop phase should be completed in time to feed into the project’s March planning milestones. Marshall and staff asked commissioners to return their ambassador preferences by email promptly.

What happens next: staff will finalize the website and survey content, schedule at least one in‑person meeting per CAC geography (with the option to combine CACs where appropriate), supply outreach materials on request and synthesize responses for use in the county’s next round of plan drafting and the consultant’s March milestones.","mediaType","Video","parentTitle","February 4, 2025 Benton County Oregon Planning Commission Meeting","oneSentenceSummary","County staff presented an Inclusive Outreach Plan and hard‑to‑reach maps, said a project website and survey are under development, and asked planning commissioners to volunteer as local ambassadors for in‑person meetings and targeted outreach before the project's June funding deadline.","taxTitle","Benton County, Oregon","taxId",8787,"location","headline","","shortSummary",{"_33":76,"_35":36,"_37":38,"_39":77,"_41":78,"_43":79,"_45":80,"_47":81,"_49":82,"_51":83,"_53":84,"_55":56,"_57":58,"_59":85,"_61":62,"_63":64,"_65":86,"_67":68,"_69":70,"_71":68,"_72":73,"_74":73},6608834,"Coffin Butte landfill history, capacity and regulatory concerns outlined to Benton County Planning Commission",2035,393000,2428000,"/Search/View?dp=1&key=2934061-8a817ec9b22758e3b4828d27a24c10da&start=393&end=2428","https://assets.pipeline.soar.com/2934061-8a817ec9b22758e3b4828d27a24c10da/thumbnail_393000.jpg","/articles/6608834/Benton-County/Oregon/Coffin-Butte-landfill-history-capacity-and-regulatory-concerns-outlined-to-Benton-County-Planning-Commission","https://secure.pipeline.soar.com/6608834-f51030e9786de6938f60d04517749363/orig.mp4?Expires=1770431532&Signature=mz9SEBioIYo3G6Vc3BQifqaRTlknQzPIqfKiLuvLw9w1zgUFlHZlOWRxLZ5S4pw9rkS4aGWnI7~toEO1b4WVKBL91n8RS0DJb~b8hCS4u3cKAs3FMzAw1mpWaNZkX9iIOtOg4Nu2hG2yD-RZqcwyrq1qt6G5~s~TN8W2aXnPlpMJc1HVHRHx7jSCluctOaVkkG0qxuoDSLyv2SURd0a7GF-11QpHRF42IOusjIgQ0UdfjME~hElqbl0cfOnlBicq8BwFBFnrfww1WN6BzR82RkUErhraK1RGDNiAyyLTcmlOJZf5iJZpH4hUgwSTvQdwUpCZ6G-j4C2BSyCHFZqTlg__&Key-Pair-Id=KUT5TJCACFTXG","Bailey Payne, surveys coordinator for Community Development, told the Benton County Planning Commission at a work session that the Coffin Butte landfill has a long operational history, rising incoming tonnage in recent years and pending land‑use paperwork the commission can expect to see in March.

Payne reviewed a timeline from the 1940s through the present that included military and early municipal disposal uses, a conditional‑use permit (CUP) approved by the county in the 1970s, the emergence of liners and other modern environmental controls after passage of the federal Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) in 1976, later franchise and ownership changes (Valley Landfills, Allied Waste, Republic Services) and intermittent state review for groundwater concerns. Payne said a CUP for a 2.2 megawatt gas‑to‑energy station was granted in the 1990s and that a 2021 CUP to expand over Coffin Butte Road was denied by the planning commission.

“This is looking at how many tons of material have been recovered…our recovery rate’s about as low as it’s ever been since we began keeping records,” Payne said, noting county records show recycling and composting rates have dipped while disposal volumes and per‑capita consumption have increased.

Payne and commissioners discussed the DEQ definition of a regional landfill — 75,000 tons a year accepted from outside an immediate service area — and how closures elsewhere (for example the Riverbend facility in McMinnville) and events such as wildfires and large construction projects shifted waste flows to Coffin Butte beginning around 2016. Payne said the county’s Sustainable Materials Management Plan work (SMMP) is intended to identify upstream strategies to reduce disposal demand over time.

Planning commission members and staff also discussed the procedural path ahead. Payne and staff said state agencies and environmental consultants (identified in the meeting as contacts who will provide technical review) will be in the record when the land‑use application is filed. The Disposal Site Advisory Committee (DSAC) offered to submit its annual community concerns report into the land‑use record when the public comment period opens.

The presentation framed several ongoing points of regulatory and public interest: historic compliance reviews by DEQ, monitoring and methane‑gas controls at the site, previous franchise and MOU terms between the county and site operators, and the public visibility of any expansion proposal. Payne said that if an expansion is approved, existing caps on disposal could be altered and that impacts beyond the county would follow.

A separate, procedural motion at the start of the meeting to approve the Planning Commission’s Jan. 21, 2025 minutes passed; the transcript records several online “yes” votes and the chair announced the minutes were approved.

Planning staff told commissioners they expect the pending land‑use application to be docketed in March; staff also said they will include agency letters and consultant reviews in the planning record and will coordinate how to handle ex parte contacts during the application process.

What happened next: commissioners moved on to outreach and comprehensive‑plan items; staff asked committees and advisory volunteers to gather more historical material and to prepare to submit the DSAC community concerns report when the public comment period opens.","At a Benton County Planning Commission work session, Bailey Payne summarized Coffin Butte landfill history, rising tonnage and regulatory context and said a land‑use application is expected in the coming weeks; commissioners and staff discussed DEQ oversight, past CUPs and monitoring efforts.","actionData","errors"]

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Benton County adopts Inclusive Outreach plan for comprehensive‑plan update; commissioners asked to serve as 'ambassadors'

Coffin Butte landfill history, capacity and regulatory concerns outlined to Benton County Planning Commission