Wilsonville council agrees to study limits on town center height waivers, asks for communications plan

Wilsonville's City Council on Feb. 19 directed staff to return a resolution seeking to refine the town center's building-height waiver language and approved a staff-led communications approach to explain the plan and potential urban-renewal financing to residents. The discussion centered on whether the existing waiver process, which staff said currently allows height adjustments in the Commercial Mixed Use (CMU) and Mixed Use (MU) subdistricts without an explicit maximum, should be amended to add limitations.

City Attorney Amanda Veil Hinman and Assistant City Manager Gina Trojheim told the council the town center plan and development-code provisions were adopted as part of Wilsonville Code Chapter 4 (town center rules are in section 4.132) and that the waiver language currently provides a mechanism for height adjustments in the CMU and MU subdistricts. Trojheim said the city's 2025 housing needs and capacity analysis (adopted by ordinance on…