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McMinnville staff recommends staged UGB work plan; council opts not to seek immediate amendment
Summary
City planning staff told a joint work session the city can meet residential and industrial needs inside the current urban growth boundary but not its commercial land need; staff proposed adding a third task to the sequential UGB work plan and estimated $100,000 in consultant costs and more than a year of work, but the council declined to place a resolution on the November agenda to seek an extension.
McMinnville — City planning staff told a joint work session of the McMinnville City Council and Planning Commission on Oct. 14 that land-use efficiency measures can meet the city’s residential and industrial land needs through 2041 inside the current urban growth boundary, but the city still faces a shortfall of commercial land and would need a targeted UGB amendment to address it.
The staff presentation, led by Community Development Director Heather Richards, outlined a two-step sequential UGB work plan the city has with the state Department of Land Conservation and Development (DLCD) and the Land Conservation and Development Commission (LCDC), and proposed adding a third task — a focused UGB alternatives analysis for commercial land — with a requested deadline extension to Feb. 7, 2028.
Why it matters: The sequential UGB process establishes a state-recognized path the city can use to study whether and how to add land to the UGB. Richards said meeting the state’s original March 1, 2026 deadline for an amendment is not feasible for the commercial land need without substantial additional staff and…
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