City and County planning commissions recommend adoption of 2025 Klamath Falls Urban Area Transportation System Plan

The City of Klamath Falls Planning Commission and the Klamath County Planning Commission voted to recommend adoption of the 2025 Klamath Falls Urban Area Transportation System Plan, a 20-year transportation vision and implementation framework covering the city and the urban growth boundary.

The joint public hearing on the TSP included staff and consultant presentations, public outreach summaries and deliberations by both commissions. Jeremy Morris, Klamath County Planning Director, described the plan as an update to the city’s 2012 urban TSP and said it consolidates multiple background plans into a single reference for transportation needs, projects and policies. "This TSP certainly has a lot of lines on a map or dots on a map for existing issues that we know on the existing system and, what we project some of those future issues and constraints will be," Morris said.

Matt Kittleson of Kittleson and Associates, the consultant team lead, said the plan is intended as a long-range vision that unifies city and county priorities. "It's a long range vision, for the transportation system within the urban area, for the county and the city," Kittleson said, and described chapters that document existing conditions, multimodal needs, project lists and funding options.

Why it matters: The TSP sets priorities and creates an evidentiary basis for grant applications and code updates. Commissioners and staff emphasized that listing projects in a TSP is often a prerequisite for competing for state and federal grants and for coordinating construction standards across…