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Planner outlines Vision 43 zoning changes, including targeted taller buildings and trail connections
Summary
City planner Darren Wise presented the Vision 43 corridor plan—proposed zoning updates, design standards, and bike/ped connections—with staff targeting summer planning-commission review and potential adoption by year-end; community feedback on taller buildings ran about 50/50, Wise said.
Darren Wise, principal planner with the City of West Linn, told the Parks & Recreation Advisory Board that the Vision 43 project aims to create a land-use vision for the Highway 43 corridor that focuses on zoning and public realm changes rather than the roadway itself. He said the project will produce a vision document, updated zoning maps and a draft code with targeted development- and design-standards.
"The purpose of the project was, 1, develop a new community vision for the Highway 43 Corridor focused on land use," Wise said. He described three commercial focus areas (Robinwood shopping center, the Bolton intersection area, and the Market of Choice area) and said the team is considering changes including permitted vs. conditional uses, maximum heights and building frontage requirements.
Wise noted the current general commercial height limit is 45 feet and staff are exploring allowing up to 55 or 60 feet in limited locations where parcels are deep enough to buffer adjacent residences. "It was, 50 50," he said of community support for the taller height option. He said designers are also considering visual-mitigation code standards to reduce perceived height where taller buildings are allowed.
The project timeline calls for a final code-amendment package and consultant vision document, additional feedback from working groups and neighborhood associations, planning commission work sessions with a recommendation expected by summer, and council hearings late summer into fall with a goal to have the zoning changes adopted by the end of the calendar year.
