Estacada council directs staff to pursue three-pronged approach after persistent odor complaints at industrial park

The Estacada City Council voted to direct staff to pursue a three‑part strategy to address recurring odor complaints at the city’s industrial campus, including proposed land‑use changes, business‑license amendments and purchase of odor‑monitoring equipment.

Council members approved the direction on a 5-2 roll call vote. The motion directs staff to begin a land‑use amendment process that would stop making new cannabis manufacturing uses outright‑allowed in the industrial zone and to treat current operations as preexisting nonconforming uses while staff pursues clearer inspection and enforcement authority through business‑license changes. The council also authorized staff to pursue an objective odor‑sampling program and to develop enforcement thresholds…