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McMinnville directs staff to start Transportation System Plan; downtown master plan next
Summary
After a staff briefing, the council asked city management to begin the Transportation System Plan immediately (staff say $500,000 is budgeted), with the downtown master plan to follow in 2026; council and staff flagged state housing mandates and limited FTE capacity as constraints.
McMinnville city councilors directed staff on Tuesday to move forward with an update to the city's Transportation System Plan (TSP), after Community Development Director Heather Richards said the project is now required following the city's recent urban growth boundary amendment and a lapse of the 10-year update cycle. "We have $500,000 budgeted in this year's budget to support the work," Richards told the council.
The move comes as the planning department balances multiple state mandates and a backlog of master-planning work. Richards said the city's long-range work program was developed from a 2017 assessment and updated through an internal prioritization process…
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