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City of Grants Pass seeks county sign-off on targeted urban growth boundary exchange; county schedules workshop
Summary
City officials presented a targeted urban growth boundary (UGB) exchange to the Josephine County Board of Commissioners that would add and remove roughly 40–45 acres to better align land capacity and promote developable housing; commissioners asked for a follow-up workshop and a copy of the city–county intergovernmental agreement (IGA).
City of Grants Pass planning staff and their consultant presented a proposed, targeted exchange to the city’s urban growth boundary that would swap parcels in and out of the UGB with the intent of improving the efficiency of future housing development. County commissioners asked for more time, requested a copy of the intergovernmental agreement that governs city–county UGB actions, and scheduled a follow-up workshop.
Mark Trinidad, planning manager for the City of Grants Pass, told the board the exchange built on an adopted housing production strategy and a state-funded study. Trinidad said the study was intended to “identify and bring into the UGB properties that frankly are more feasible to develop, and to take some properties out that have some constraints or [are] harder…
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