Design review committee recommends approval of Clackamas County treatment and transitional housing project

The Clackamas County Design Review Committee voted March 31 to recommend approval of land use application Z0516-25, a two-building project for substance use treatment services and transitional housing, after staff said the proposal can meet design standards with conditions.

Planning staff member Mel Lord told the committee that staff believes "the project can meet the design standards, as proposed with conditions," and summarized changes the applicant made since a March 10 meeting, including widening an on-site walkway to five feet and moving a trash enclosure so haulers can circulate entirely on-site.

Sarah Vaz, project designer with Holst Architecture, described the site plan and program. She said Building 1 — near the south property line — is roughly a 30,000-square-foot, two-story structure with withdrawal-management beds and residential treatment rooms, and Building 2 includes an outpatient clinic and 36 transitional housing beds plus a small number of manager studios. Vaz said the…