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Prineville council adopts ordinance reconciling comprehensive plan map with zoning to clear way for commercial reuse
Summary
Council unanimously approved Ordinance No. 1298 to amend the city's comprehensive plan map to match the existing zoning at the end of Second Street, resolving a decades-old discrepancy and enabling the property owner to pursue commercial development.
The Prineville City Council unanimously approved Ordinance No. 1298, amending the city’s comprehensive plan map to reconcile a longstanding discrepancy with the current zoning map. The measure was presented by Joshua Smith, Prineville planning director, and passed on a voice vote with four council members present.
Smith said the mismatch between the comprehensive plan designation and the zoning map has existed since the city adopted its comprehensive plan in February 2007. He told council the parcel at the end of Second Street has been treated as commercial for years, the owner purchased it as commercial property, and the amendment simply aligns the comprehensive plan designation with existing zoning so the owner may pursue commercial reuse.
Smith said the change is procedural rather than substantive: “When someone applies for a commercial reuse through the land use system, our code and state code says it has to match the comprehensive plan designation,” he said, and the amendment corrects that long-standing mismatch. Smith told council the amendment had already been through the planning commission public hearing process and that no new comments were received since then.
Councilor motioned and seconded the ordinance for adoption; the minutes record the motion passed unanimously (4–0) with the four members present. Smith said that, if the vote was unanimous, the action would serve as the final reading as well as the first reading.
Background: Smith said the conflict between the maps arose when the city merged an older county map with the city zoning map during the comprehensive plan process in 2007, leaving several properties with inconsistent designations. Planning staff have been processing similar corrections over recent years.
The ordinance text itself and any attendant conditions were not read in full on the record in the transcript; the council recorded the adoption as passed with four members voting in favor.
