Troutdale staff to correct town center boundary on comprehensive plan map; three parcels removed in 2022 plan will be formally excluded

Erica Palmer, Troutdale community development director, briefed the Citizens Advisory Committee that the 2022 town center plan adopted a smaller town center boundary than the one currently shown on the city's comprehensive plan and zoning maps. Palmer said the zoning map already shows the updated (smaller) boundary but the formal land‑use process to change the comprehensive plan map was not completed in 2022.

Palmer said the pending Type 4 legislative hearing at planning commission in October will be a "cleanup" to align the maps with the adopted 2022 town center plan. The amendment will remove three properties from the town center boundary: two properties owned by McMenamins on the north side of Halsey and the Multnomah County animal shelter. Palmer said those parcels will remain in their current commercial zones; the change adjusts only the town center boundary, not the underlying commercial zoning.

When asked why the boundary was reduced in 2022, Palmer said staff had gathered the background that removing the three properties reduces potential application of additional town center regulations in those specific parcels and better aligns the zoning work with the Halsey Corridor code audit the city is developing. She said the change is intended to "better align our project with what is actually in our town center plan, rather than what was showing previously."

Palmer said the amendment is primarily procedural: staff will go through the formal hearing process required for a plan and map amendment and will notify affected property owners and the public as required by state land‑use procedures.