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Planning Commission recommends rezoning two Urban Renewal properties after tenant testimony about notice

Oregon City Planning Commission · November 25, 2025
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Summary

The Planning Commission recommended that the City Commission rezone two Urban Renewal Agency–owned homes at 214 Tumwater Drive and 313 South 2nd Street from institutional to R-3.5 to facilitate sale for affordable homeownership; a tenant testified she had not received notice and staff and the applicant pledged to follow up.

The Oregon City Planning Commission on Nov. 24 voted to recommend a comprehensive plan map amendment and zone change to the City Commission for two Urban Renewal Agency parcels at 214 South Tumwater Drive and 313 South 2nd Street.

Staff said the parcels were purchased in 2007 and rezoned to an institutional designation in 2008 for a public project that was never developed. The Urban Renewal Agency directed staff to prepare the properties for sale; staff explained rezoning to R-3.5 medium-density residential would restore the parcels’ prior zoning and make them marketable for homeownership, including…

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