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Keizer council staff outline next steps on Salem–Keizer urban growth boundary and plan town halls
Summary
City staff recapped two years of interjurisdictional talks about the Salem–Keizer urban growth boundary (UGB) and said the city will begin broader public engagement and town halls in early 2025 to discuss options including separation, land swaps and maintaining the current boundary.
Keizer work-session staff and council members on Dec. 9 reviewed two years of staff-level meetings with neighboring jurisdictions about the Salem–Keizer urban growth boundary and said the next step is public engagement, including town halls in early 2025.
City staff said prior meetings with the Department of Land Conservation and Development (DLCD) and staff from Polk County, Marion County and the City of Salem yielded differing perspectives about whether and how the UGB could be separated or adjusted. "If the four jurisdictions got together and agreed that they wanted to separate the urban growth boundary, then that's a way that could happen," staff recalled about an earlier DLCD opinion, but added DLCD approval would still be required.
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