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Scappoose planning update: downtown overlay, 50-year plan revisions and active land-use applications
Summary
Planning staff briefed the committee on downtown overlay work, updates to the 50-year plan including additional analysis requested by the stakeholder committee, transportation-planning rule trip-cap work, and several land-use filings and active construction projects including Dutch Canyon Phase 4 and a 3-million-gallon water reservoir under way.
Planning staff provided the committee with an update on downtown overlay work, the city’s 50-year plan, and several current land-use applications at the April 17 meeting.
The planner reported several land-use applications under completeness review, including a zone change and conditional-use approval for a proposed self-storage facility at the Cinnamon Tree property and a completeness review nearing completion for Grace Lutheran Children’s Center. An application for Addison Apartments, a proposed 36-unit complex on Northwest First Street, was removed from the April 17 planning commission calendar so the applicant could revise the design.
On the 50-year plan, staff said additional analysis requested by the stakeholder advisory committee has been completed. The planner described work on transportation-planning-rule (TPR) analysis required when properties are rezoned and said trip caps were set for rezoning applicants; those caps would be removed after an update to the transportation system plan. Staff said they have submitted a pre-application for grants to fund a transportation-system-plan update and a downtown strategic plan, and that the stakeholder advisory committee will meet May 20 to review a draft of the 50-year plan document.
Staff also listed ongoing projects and construction: Oxbow headquarters plans about ready to issue for construction; a pre-construction meeting for a user subdivision held April 10; Buxton Ranch planned development second-plan review in process; a 10-lot Habitat for Humanity townhome partition (Casey House) with construction documents under review; review of site plans for the Highway 30 restaurant complex (three restaurants north of Peak Fitness); internal paving and upcoming paving on Callahan Road for Dutch Canyon Phase 4 (33 lots); and construction of a 3,000,000-gallon water reservoir.
Committee members asked clarifying questions about how state statute and the committee’s requests affected assumptions for UGB expansion and whether two-acre parcels would be excluded from additional assumed capacity. Staff said the change was an analytical adjustment for capacity assumptions and would not prevent property owners from pursuing rezones or future infill.
Staff said the planning newsletter and council work session will address outreach and next steps for the downtown overlay and that a final stakeholder advisory meeting for the 50-year plan is scheduled for May 20.
