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Coos Bay staff present options for regional problem‑solving project to address urban growth boundary issues
Summary
City planners and consultant Jay Arnold reviewed options for using Oregon's regional problem‑solving (RPS) process and other tools to address areas already built at urban densities outside Coos Bay's urban growth boundary, asking the council for direction rather than seeking a formal vote.
Coos Bay planning staff and consultant Jay Arnold outlined options for an Oregon Regional Problem‑Solving (RPS) project and related Urban Growth Boundary (UGB) work, asking the City Council for direction on whether to proceed.
At a council meeting, Jay Arnold of CSA Planning told the council the RPS process "requires that the county and state jurisdictions all sign up to improvement to essentially do the planning work," and described four core problems the project would target: population accounting for areas already built to urban densities; how to count that population in forecasts; the resulting land‑need calculations; and limits on commercial development in some unincorporated communities.
The discussion matters because parts of Charleston, Bunker Hill and Millington sit outside Coos Bay's UGB but already contain urban‑scale housing and services. Arnold said those areas…
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