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Council introduces 2025 Klamath Falls Urban Area Transportation System Plan for first reading
Summary
Planning staff and consultants presented the 2025 Urban Area Transportation System Plan update, a 20-year vision covering city, county and state facilities within the urban growth boundary; the council accepted findings and introduced the ordinance for first reading by voice vote.
The Klamath Falls City Council on March 3 accepted staff findings and introduced for first reading an ordinance adopting the 2025 Klamath Falls Urban Area Transportation System Plan (TSP), which city staff described as a 20-year, multimodal vision for facilities inside the urban growth boundary.
Planning Manager Joe Wall told the council the update compiles the existing 2012 TSP and more recent plans — including the trails master plan and Safe Routes to School work — into a single document that covers city and county facilities and state transportation components where applicable. "We have an existing TSP from 2012…we receive grant funding through ODOT to update our TSP," Wall said.
Consultants from Kittelson & Associates, including Matt Kittelson and Miranda Barris, said the process has included an advisory committee, public open houses and technical analyses to identify needs, intersections and corridor projects, bicycle and pedestrian facilities, and funding strategies. "All of the lines are completely representative of what will get built," a consultant cautioned, noting the plan is a long-range vision and that project development and funding remain to be determined.
The staff presentation noted the TSP will be incorporated as the transportation chapter of the urban area comprehensive plan (volume 1 and background material in volume 3) and that limited implementing ordinance edits were needed to comply with the state Transportation Planning Rule, including notification requirements for affected agencies and subdivision standards for roads and right-of-way.
A public hearing on the TSP drew no comments. The council then voted by voice to accept the planning commission’s recommended findings and to introduce the ordinance for first reading.
What happens next Introducing the ordinance begins the ordinance-adoption process; subsequent council readings and formal adoption would incorporate the TSP into the city’s comprehensive plan and require implementation steps, project-level design and funding decisions. Staff said the plan identifies hundreds of millions of dollars of potential projects and lists funding strategies for council consideration.
No public testimony was recorded during the council’s hearing on the TSP at the March 3 meeting.
