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Oregon City homeowners plead for relief as complaint-driven sidewalk notices threaten McLaughlin Historic District
Summary
Homeowners in Oregon City’s McLaughlin Historic District told the City Commission on June 4 that a wave of complaint-driven sidewalk notices — many triggered by a single neighbor’s multiple reports — is forcing costly full-panel replacements that some say they cannot afford.
Homeowners in Oregon City’s McLaughlin Historic District urged the City Commission on June 4 for immediate relief after dozens of property owners received city notices requiring complete sidewalk panel replacement.
Residents said the notices follow an unusually large number of complaints submitted about sidewalks in the neighborhood and that the required full-panel replacements — not limited repairs or grinding — could force some longtime owners to sell. “Some people literally said this is going to bankrupt me if I do this,” resident Scott Dunphy told the commission.
The city manager, responding during the meeting’s public-comment segment, said Oregon City’s code places liability for sidewalks with property owners and that the city’s sidewalk program was designed to address lifted or cracked sidewalks, particularly those caused by street trees. The manager said staff would…
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