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Councilors debate deferring comprehensive code update; staff say capacity and scope favor staged approach
Summary
Committee members and planning staff disputed whether to cut the code-update line this year; planning director said staff are at capacity with urban growth boundary, comp plan and multiple grant projects and that a two-year audit-plus-update sequencing is typical.
The Canby Budget Committee on May 29 debated whether to move forward this year with a consultant-led comprehensive code update or to defer work and have the planning commission and staff advance the project in phases.
Council President Tracy Hensley proposed delaying the funded consultant work for one year and reallocating that year's funds to libraries, courts and parks programs. Hensley and other councilors argued volunteer planning commissioners could begin identification of code issues and reduce the consultant scope in a later year.
Don (planning director) told the committee the planning department is carrying an unusually…
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