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Legislative committee hears Sunrise Corridor vision plan emphasizing housing, freight and multimodal safety
Summary
A community‑driven Sunrise Corridor vision plan funded with a $4 million legislative grant outlines phased, fundable projects to support 17,000 homes and 14,000 jobs while balancing freight mobility, active transportation and environmental restoration.
The Joint Interim Committee on Transportation heard a presentation on the Sunrise Corridor Community Visioning Plan that county and city officials described as community driven and regionally backed. Clackamas County Commissioner Paul Savas said the Legislature’s $4,000,000 investment in HB 5006 produced a plan “accepted unanimously by the elected bodies of both Clackamas County and the city of Happy Valley.”
Jamie Stasney, Clackamas County’s transportation and land‑use policy manager and the project manager for the visioning effort, defined the corridor as the area east of I‑205, west of 172nd Avenue in Happy Valley and north of the Clackamas River. She said the plan is “not about a road. It’s about people,” and presented the plan’s measurable outcomes: capacity for more than 17,000 new homes, support for roughly 14,000 jobs, 32 acres of environmental restoration, 27 acres of open space and 16 acres set aside for development. On the transportation side, the plan identifies about seven miles of new sidewalks, five miles of bike lanes, three miles of multi‑use paths and 17 improved bus stops.
Metro Council member Juan Carlos Gonzalez told the committee Metro had allocated $12,500,000 in regional bond resources to move the project into its next phase and emphasized regional alignment. Tom Ellis, mayor of Happy Valley, said the plan creates a phased structure that allows smaller projects to move forward quickly and ties infrastructure investment to anticipated housing and job growth.
Committee members asked how development‑side infrastructure—water, sewer and other utilities—would be coordinated with transportation investments. Stasney said the planning process included participants from the relevant service providers and that Clackamas County and Happy Valley are collaborating with water and environmental services to plan upstream needs, while recognizing infrastructure costs will require continued coalition advocacy.
The project team and community coalition leaders emphasized implementation through a coalition leadership group that will continue monthly meetings to guide priorities and champion projects from the vision plan. Presenters asked the legislature and regional partners to use the plan to align funding and next steps for implementation.
The committee closed the Sunrise Corridor presentation and moved on to the next informational items.
