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Residents urge Clackamas County to act on PGE Stafford transmission project; county counsel cautions limited options
Summary
Residents and advocates told the Board of Commissioners Feb. 12 they want the county to seek legal steps — including a voluntary remand — to stop Portland General Electric’s Stafford Road transmission project, saying it will replace smaller wooden poles with 100–130-foot steel towers and set a dangerous precedent. County counsel said a remand is unlikely to change the outcome and flagged faults in some citizen legal filings.
Residents and advocates urged the Clackamas County Board of Commissioners on Feb. 12 to take legal steps to block or delay Portland General Electric’s Stafford Road transmission project, saying the utility’s plans would replace smaller wooden poles with much larger steel towers along scenic rural roads.
"If you allow this to go through, I guarantee you, those lines that you see on Stafford Road, they will be over every home," Ed Wagner told the board during the public-comment period. Wagner and other speakers said the project would be precedent-setting and that the county should use "every legal tool" available, including asking the Land Use Board of Appeals (LUBA) for a voluntary remand so the county can…
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