Oregon City commission tables proposal to designate 15.93 acres as future parkland, directs manager to continue negotiations

Oregon City Commission members on Sept. 3, 1997, voted to table a staff proposal to formally designate roughly 15.93 acres near Leland Road as future parkland and instructed the city manager to continue negotiations with affected property owners and return the proposal to the commission for further consideration.

The item, presented as Commission Report 97-130, would amend the parks master plan and the comprehensive plan to identify school-district-owned property and adjacent land as potential community parkland. Planner Tamara DeRidder told the commission the change would not obligate the city to buy the land: "This in no way says we will have to buy this property. It's only a symbol identifying the area for which we need to purchase the property in the future," she said.

DeRidder and staff explained the map change would convert the school-district parcel from low-density residential to parks on the comprehensive-plan maps and that negotiations with the…