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Benton County planning commission launches countywide outreach, orders development-code cleanup
Summary
Benton County planning commissioners told Monroe residents they have begun a countywide outreach program, secured consultant contracts to update a dated development code and opened a voluntary periodic review of the county comprehensive plan, with DLCD funding for phase 1 and an early timeline of months to a year.
At a joint meeting in Monroe, Benton County planning commissioners outlined a new countywide outreach push and confirmed they have hired consultants to update the county's development code and begin a phased periodic review of the comprehensive plan.
The commission said the effort is intended to bring planning work out of Corvallis and into outlying communities and to solicit local feedback on housing, transportation, wildfire resilience, recreation, water and broadband.
Nick Fowler, chair of the Benton County planning commission, framed the effort as volunteer-driven and community-focused: "We're all volunteers and so we don't have unlimited time. We almost have unlimited goals." He said the planning commission aims to "listen to the community and get a better context for what the county is doing specifically around land use."
Petra, described in the meeting as a planning director…
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