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City and property owner plan costly Ash Creek daylighting at mill site; funding discussions begin
Summary
City staff said they are preparing to daylight and relocate the North Fork of Ash Creek at the former mill site, a project staff estimate could cost "tens of millions of dollars," and which officials say would reduce flood risk and allow larger, more marketable redevelopment parcels.
City staff told the Economic Development Committee on a combined meeting that a multi‑year, multimillion‑dollar effort to daylight and relocate the North Fork of Ash Creek through the millsite property is moving from planning into discussions about funding and permitting.
The effort grew from a Business Oregon grant to study the corridor and is being led in part by Jacobs Engineering, city staff said. The proposal would pull the creek out of long culverts, relocate it farther south across the site and create a consolidated parcel better suited to industrial or mixed‑use development. City staff said the work could also allow a future FEMA flood‑map revision that would remove some properties from the floodplain and reduce flood‑insurance burdens for homeowners.
Why it matters: committee members described the creek relocation as a…
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