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Planning commission recommends 30-foot vacation of First Street right-of-way to city council with conditions
Summary
The Planning Commission voted to recommend the city council approve vacating 30 feet of an 80-foot right-of-way on North/South First Street, conditioned on relocating the water line at developer expense, reserving public utility easements, maintaining 20 feet from a pump station, designing a vehicular turnaround, and completing improvements within three years.
The St. Helens Planning Commission voted to recommend that the city council approve a 30-foot vacation of a portion of the North/South First Street right-of-way, with a package of staff-recommended conditions intended to preserve public utilities and safety.
Staff framed the request as a correction to 19th-century platting: the corridor is an underdeveloped 80-foot right-of-way in parts of downtown that, because of topography and an existing pump station, will never function as a full through street. Staff explained statutory consent requirements for vacations (100% consent from abutting owners and two-thirds consent within the affected area) and said the applicant had met the affected-area consent thresholds required to bring the request forward for a council…
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