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Talent planning commission postpones recommendation on residential Buildable Lands Inventory after consultant briefing
Summary
After a consultant presented the final residential Buildable Lands Inventory prepared under a DLCD grant, the Talent Planning Commission voted 7-0 to postpone making a formal recommendation to City Council to allow commissioners more time to review the materials and interactive maps.
Nikki Hart Brinkley, a consultant with Greentop Planning, presented the city's final residential Buildable Lands Inventory (BLI) and described how the dataset was compiled, its constraints, and how post-fire rebuilding was treated.
Brinkley said the BLI uses zoning and the Oregon Administrative Rules (OARs) to identify residential parcels and applies environmental constraints (floodways, 1% annual chance flood hazard, wetlands, riparian setbacks and slopes of 25% or greater). She explained a quarter-acre "safe-harbor" assumption used in the analysis and said the inventory treats public school parcels as exempt. "Today, you can choose to adopt this residential buildable land inventory. It's not a…
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