Council adopts ordinance to replace Southwest Tigard Street bridge; wetlands protections to be removed with off-site mitigation

The Tigard City Council voted unanimously to adopt Ordinance 25-05, approving a comprehensive plan amendment, sensitive lands review and minor modification to enable replacement of the Southwest Tigard Street bridge and associated roadway improvements.

Associate Planner Jenny McGinnis presented the staff report, saying the project affects about 3.76 acres west of the Tigard Street and Tiedemann Avenue intersection and includes multiple zone districts and a portion of Dirkson Nature Park. The application requests removal of Goal 5 safe-harbor protection for approximately 0.59 acre of locally significant wetland and 0.14 acre of the Fanno Creek vegetated corridor from the city's wetland and stream corridor map so the bridge can be reconstructed.

McGinnis described the replacement as a 124-foot precast concrete slab bridge with a cast-in-place concrete deck, widened travel lanes (from 10 feet to 12 feet), paved shoulders and sidewalks on both sides (six-foot shoulders and 6.5-foot sidewalks on both sides were shown in the design graphics), and a finished…