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Planning commission reviews updated residential buildable-lands inventory, staff to return with public hearing

5771561 · August 26, 2025
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Consultants presented a refreshed residential buildable-lands inventory (BLI) showing roughly 100 acres partially vacant and about 12 acres vacant inside Talent city limits; staff told the commission no vote would be taken tonight and the BLI will be scheduled for a public hearing before a recommendation to city council.

Talent’s planning commission on Aug. 26 heard a presentation and demonstration of a refreshed residential buildable-lands inventory intended to meet Oregon’s land-use requirements and to feed the city’s next housing capacity work. Consultant Matt Brinkley of Green Top Planning told the commission the inventory implements Statewide Planning Goal 10 and related administrative rules and maps where residential land is vacant, partially vacant, developed or constrained. "This is actually the very first section out of statewide planning goal 10, and that is the goal that relates to housing," Brinkley said.

Consultant Nikki Hart Brinkley walked…

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