McMinnVille staff say land-use efficiency measures meet housing and industrial needs; commercial shortfall remains

City staff and outside consultants told the McMinnVille City Council in a work session that proposed land‑use efficiency measures would meet the city’s residential and industrial land needs inside the existing urban growth boundary (UGB), but would leave a remaining 71‑acre shortfall for commercial land.

Beth Goodman of Echo Northwest and Elizabeth Decker of JET Planning presented results of the city’s sequential UGB work plan, which staff said responds to State Department of Land Conservation and Development (DLCD) requirements. Goodman summarized the underlying analyses: the housing needs analysis identified a 202‑acre residential deficit, an Economic Opportunities Analysis identified a 29‑acre industrial deficit and a 159‑acre commercial deficit. Goodman said the recommended efficiency measures would add capacity equivalent to roughly 1,396 dwelling units and would bring residential and industrial land into balance inside the UGB; commercial efficiencies would cover a little more than half of the previously identified commercial deficit, leaving about 71 acres still unmet.

The consulting team outlined the specific measures that create additional capacity: framework‑plan reassignments after the 2024 parks plan reduced parkland demand; rezoning and upzoning actions already adopted since the housing analysis; an expected reclassification of about 33 acres on Linfield’s campus to higher‑density…