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West Linn council continues public hearing on proposed vacation of rights-of-way through Willamette wetland
Summary
The City Council paused a decision on Ordinance 17-57, a petition to vacate portions of Fifth Street and Fourth Avenue that run through a locally-mapped wetland, leaving the record open for written comments and scheduling a March 17 deliberation.
The West Linn City Council on Feb. 10 held a public hearing on Ordinance 17-57 — a petition to vacate portions of Fifth Street and Fourth Avenue in the Willamette neighborhood — and continued the matter to allow more written comment and applicant rebuttal.
Planning Manager Darren Wise told the council the petition, filed by SDG-2 LLC (filed as Revision Development LLC / E3 Design Concepts LLC), would vacate “just over 16,000 square feet” of Fifth Street right-of-way and “almost 12,000 square feet” of Fourth Avenue right-of-way. Wise said the affected strips are within the city’s local wetland inventory, floodplain and habitat conservation areas and that the city has no transportation or utility plans that require those rights-of-way.
“The rights of way are currently not used. They’re vacant. There’s no development within them,” Wise said during his staff presentation. He told the council the petition met the statutory signature requirement because the petitioner owns sufficient land in…
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