Planning commission approves Clackamas Community College sidewalk plan with wetland mitigation

The Oregon City Planning Commission voted unanimously May 10 to recommend approval of water resource application WR04‑06, allowing Clackamas Community College to build a sidewalk and related improvements along its Beavercreek Road frontage that cross Newell Creek and adjacent wetlands.

Sean Cook, planning staff, told the commission the sidewalk was required by condition 15 of the college's 2002 conditional use permit and would run about 2,200 linear feet along Beavercreek Road. "The applicant is proposing mitigation, removal of the exotics from the site, planting of native species within the vegetated corridor, removal of some asphalt, an existing parking lot in the vegetated corridor, approximately a 36 foot long bridge to span the…