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Molalla to repeal-and-replace parts of efficiency measures ordinance after ODOT challenge; council hearing set
Summary
City staff said an ordinance adopted in March that included efficiency measures and several rezonings was challenged by ODOT under the Transportation Planning Rule; staff plans to repeal and replace the ordinance, removing contested commercial/industrial rezonings, and will take the replacement to City Council on June 25.
City staff told the Molalla Planning Commission on June 4 that an ordinance implementing efficiency measures (adopted at the end of March) will be repealed and replaced after a challenge from the Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT).
Dan Zinder, the city’s senior planner, said the ordinance included ADU provisions and a set of rezones. ODOT reviewed the ordinance under the Transportation Planning Rule and flagged the industrial-to-commercial rezones as producing transportation impacts that required additional analysis. Zinder said staff and ODOT performed follow-up analysis together; ODOT was satisfied with the residential and courtesy rezonings but required more robust findings for the contested commercial/industrial changes.
Rather than risk a remand from DLCD, the city plans to repeal the March ordinance and present a replacement ordinance to City Council on June 25 that will omit the commercial/industrial rezonings for now. Zinder said the replacement preserves residential efficiency measures and some downtown commercial changes; commercial/industrial rezonings may be pursued later with additional analysis.
What’s next: staff will present the replacement ordinance to City Council on June 25; the repeal-and-replace approach is intended to avoid DLCD remand while preserving portions of the efficiency package.
