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McMinnville staff and consultants preview preferred Southwest Area Plan; commissioners question density and southern-options
Summary
City staff and consultants presented a refined preferred concept for McMinnville's Southwest Area Plan that centers parks, greenways and two neighborhood activity centers. Commissioners pressed on concentrated high-density zones, greenway continuity across floodplains and two options for a fragmented southern subarea.
City staff and consulting teams presented a refined preferred concept for the Southwest Area Plan at a joint McMinnville City Council and Planning Commission work session, outlining a roughly one-square-mile study area with parks, greenways, two neighborhood activity centers (NACs), and a future school site.
Thuy Kao of HHPR summarized outreach from January's open house and a March Spanish-language focus group, saying nearly 200 people attended the in-person event and the team received 31 comment forms, 12 online responses and multiple written submissions. "Traffic and safety concerns, strong greenway connections and walkability consistently rose to the top," Kao said, and those priorities helped shape the draft preferred concept.
Walker Macy's Ken Perry described the preferred concept as organized around a new primary loop street that links Hill Road and Old Sheridan Road, connects the two NACs, and locates high-density…
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