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Canby planners endorse UGB expansion recommendation to add housing, parks and employment land
Summary
Planning staff told the Canby Planning Commission a proposed urban growth boundary expansion would include a mandatory 73.1 acres for housing and up to 541.7 acres of overall land need; staff recommended bringing most residential need into Subarea 1A and adding employment lands in several eastern subareas.
Planning staff presented a preliminary recommendation for a Canby urban growth boundary (UGB) expansion that would accommodate housing, parks, neighborhood-serving commercial and employment lands.
Steve Faust, who led the presentation, said the city’s housing needs analysis requires 73.1 acres of residential land and that "for residential, we say up to a 102.5 acres, and there's some reasons for that." Faust said the overall 20-year land need is about 541.7 acres and staff’s recommended expansion would bring in about 530 gross acres (approximately 492 acres free from constraints), with the bulk of the residential need concentrated in Subarea 1A.
Planning Director Don Hardy said the 73 acres are derived from the housing needs analysis and population projections supplied to the city and noted the process timeline: a community summit the next day, a planning commission hearing on Aug. 24, council work session Sept. 2 and council hearing Sept. 16, followed by county review in November/December. "So the 73 acres came from our housing needs analysis," Hardy said, tying the mandatory residential requirement to the technical forecast.
Staff recommended Subarea 1A (about 116 acres in the northwest) accommodate the required residential acreage, with options for some parkland and optional neighborhood-serving commercial. Faust said 1B and 1C are better suited for employment/industrial uses and recommended against including 1D, which contains a manufactured-home park and a cemetery, because of infrastructure and constraint concerns.
The commission spent most of the session asking clarifying questions about how much parkland to include, how neighborhood commercial might be defined, and whether the city needs to include all of the forecasted employment acreage. Staff emphasized that residential acreage is a "must" under state rules, while employment acreage is optional and limited by available and appropriate land.
The commission will review a formal hearing packet on Aug. 24 and is scheduled to take a recommendation to the city council later this fall.
