Oregon City planning commission approves 25-lot PUD at 19398 Leland Road with conditions

The Oregon City Planning Commission voted unanimously to approve a 25-lot planned unit development (PD03-02) at 19398 Leland Road, along with a water-resource permit (WR0308) and a variance to pedestrian lighting standards (VR03-17). The applications, submitted by developer Mike Fleury, will proceed subject to revised conditions the commission adopted and an added requirement for traffic calming and a pedestrian crossing determined by the public works director.

The commission’s approval covers a PUD on what staff described as roughly 5.31 acres (about 5.15 acres after a required lot-line adjustment). Planner Tony Conkle told the commission the proposal includes 25 dwelling units — 17 detached and 8 attached — access from two existing stub streets, an internal private street with parking on one side, and a seven-foot pedestrian bridge across a stream corridor that connects to Smoketree Drive. “The applicant is requesting a 25 lot, plan unit development located at 19398 Leland Road,” Conkle said during his presentation.

Why it matters: Staff and the applicant said the layout is designed to protect a mapped intermittent stream and a pond on the site by incorporating those resources into the PUD’s open space and by following a water-resource mitigation plan. The project requires a formal lot-line adjustment with the neighboring tax lot to consolidate a narrow flag connection to Leland Road and to include the adjacent water resource in the…