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AGENDA REPORT SUMMARY
MEETING DATE: May 8, 2001
SUBJECT: Waluga Neighborhood flan
RECOMMENDED MOTION:
No action is required. Council may provide staff direction in preparation for the public hearing,
which is scheduled for June 5, 2001.
EST. FISCAL ATTACHMENTS: PUBLISHED NOTICES
IMPACT: • Staff Report dated May (Date):
8, 2001
Staff Time • Planning Commission
STAFF COST: Findings
BUDGETED: • Proposed Waluga Ordinance No.
Neighborhood Plan
Y N • Neighborhood Survey,
6/98 Previous Council
FUNDING SOURCE: • WNA Newsletter 4/19/00 I consideration:
• WNA Gen. Mtg.
Bond Fund Summary 5/9/00
• WNA Gen. Mtg.
Summary 2/22/01
• Approved Planning
Commission Mtg.
Minutes 1/24/00
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CITY OF LAKE OSWEGO
COUNCIL REPORT
TO: Douglas J. Schmitz, City Manager
FROM: Sidaro Sin, Associate Planner"'
SUBJECT: Study Session on Planning Commission Recommendation of the Waluga
Neighborhood Plan
DATE: May 8, 2001
ACTION
No action is required at this time. The study session is in preparation for the public hearing on
this matter, which is scheduled for June 5, 2001. Council may provide staff direction in
preparation for the public hearing.
BACKGROUND
This is the first time the Waluga Neighborhood Association(WNA)has developed a
Neighborhood Plan specific to the area contained within its neighborhood boundaries
(Attachment 2, Figure 1). The Plan was developed over a period of two years by the eight
member Waluga Neighborhood Association Plan Steering Committee and involved substantial
research, review and discussions. The Waluga Neighborhood Plan(WNP) consists of eight goal
and policy chapters. There have been over 24 Neighborhood Steering Committee meetings and
2 General Neighborhood Association meetings over the course of the development of the Plan.
The most recent general meeting was on February 22, 2001, where the attendants endorsed the
Neighborhood Plan that was presented to the Planning Commission.
The Planning Commission held a public hearing on April 9, 2001 to review the Waluga
Neighborhood Plan(WNP). Members of the Waluga Neighborhood Association(WNA) spoke
in favor of adopting the Plan. There was no testimony in opposition of the Plan. There were
three major items of discussion. They are as follows:
1) Proposed policies that are regulatory in nature, or which may require future
implementation to be effective.
2) Proposed amendment to the Waluga Neighborhood Association Boundary.
3) Waluga Neighborhood Plan,proposed Goal 9, Policy 12.
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At the conclusion of the April 9 meeting, the Planning Commission agreed to continue the
hearing to April 23, 2001, in order to allow City staff and members of the WNA to resolve issues
relating to item #3 above(proposed Goal 9,Policy 12).
At the April 23 meeting, the Planning Commission recommended approval of the Plan to the
Council, as well as amendment of the Waluga/Lake Grove Neighborhood Boundary to the
centerline of Boones Ferry Road. The draft Planning Commission findings are found in
Attachment 1. Attachment 2 contains the draft plan and other background information from the
process.
SUMMARY OF MAJOR ISSUES
The eight goal and policy chapters of the WNP are numbered and structured to be consistent with
the City's Comprehensive Plan and Statewide Planning Goals. In general, the Plan strives to
help guide and maintain the quality of life in the Waluga Neighborhood. The primary issues
related to the Plan include:
1) Proposed policies that are regulatory in nature, or which may require future
implementation to be effective
The WNP includes proposed policies that are"supportive and complementary"to existing
Comprehensive Plan policies,which are not intended to create additional regulatory policies or
require actions by the City over and above compliance with existing Comprehensive Plan
policies.
However, there are some proposed policies that are either regulatory in nature, or which may
require future implementation to be effective. These items are highlighted in order to provide the
Commission and the Council an understanding and clarity of the level of commitment that the
WNP proposes.
The proposed policies below are identified in this report because they fall into one of the two
categories identified above:
1. Policies that require additional regulatory action in order to be effective.
2. Regulatory policies that are applicable to Comprehensive Plan amendment and zone
changes,upon adoption of the neighborhood plan.
Policies that require additional regulatory action in order to be effective
This means that these policies will not be effective upon adoption of the WNP. This will require
future implementation of the policy in the form of a Comprehensive System Plan, zoning code or
development code text amendment in order to be effective.
1. When minor or major development is proposed, require that the minimum threshold for
notification of proposed land use action be the closest fifty property owners when less
than fifty are contained with the required 300-foot notification boundary. (Goal 1, Citizen
Involvement, Policy 4)
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2, Ensure that required pre-application neighborhood meetings between the applicant and
the neighborhood are accurately communicated to decision-makers by requiring:
a. The applicant to agree with Neighborhood Association chair upon a mutually
convenient meeting date, time and place;
b. Special attention shall be given to ensure that attendees concerns and issues are
noted within the meeting rninutes and that they are clearly audio-taped. The
developer shall mail minutes to the attendees and the Neighborhood Association
Chair or designee. A reasonable time, of not less than seven days following
mailing, shall be provided for the chair or designee in consultation with the
attendees, to review, correct if necessary, and approve the minutes. Also, the
developer shall make copies of the tapes conveniently available for Neighborhood
Association review within one week after the meeting and prior to development
application to the City.
c. Meeting audiotapes and written minutes approved by the Neighborhood
Association chair or designee is provided to the City at the time of application
submittal.
(Goal 1, Citizen Involvement,Policy 6)
3. Do not allow new drive-in or drive-through food service windows in the Lake Grove
Business District. (Goal 9, Economic Development, Policy 4)
4. Ensure the design quality of future development in the Lake Grove Commercial District
by enacting land use and design regulations which enhance the district's existing built
environment and positive design qualities and which also provide the opportunity for a
variety of architectural design, and building types and sizes, including variations in
setbacks, height, bulk and scale, which are consistent with these characteristics. (Goal 9,
Land Use Planning, Policy 5)
5. Amend the Transportation System Plan to:
a. Delete the proposed multi purpose pathway on the eastside of Quarry Road.
b. Add a sidewalk along the south side of Douglas Way from Quarry Road to Boones
Ferry Road to ensure safe pedestrian movement.
(Goal 12, Transportation, Policy 11)
Staff also concludes that the WNP does not require ORS 227.186 notice (Ballot Measure 56)
notice. This statute requires individual property owner notice before the first public hearing of a
change in:
a. a comprehensive plan that will require property to be rezoned, or
b. a land use regulation that will change the base zone of the property; or
c. a land use regulation that limits or prohibits land uses in the property's zone.
Although there is proposed language within the WNP to potentially limit certain uses in the
commercial zone, policies under number 3 and 4 above,they will not be self-regulatory upon
implementation of the Plan. Rather, a separate implementation process will be required to make
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those policies effective. This separate implementation process will require a Ballot Measure 56
notice.
The policies found under number 1, 2 and 5 above are also not subject to Ballot Measure 56
notice because they do not rezone, change the base zone or prohibit land uses on any property.
Regulatory policies that are applicable to Comprehensive Plan amendment and zone
changes
This means that the following policies will be effective upon the WNP's approval and adoption.
These policies will be applicable in addition to the existing criteria for Comprehensive Plan
amendments and zone changes.
1. Applicants proposing a zone/plan density change to R-0, R-2, R-2.5, or R-3, shall
demonstrate that the proposal complies with the following criteria:
a. That the need for the zone/plan change is balanced with the need to ensure the
cohesiveness and design integrity of single-family residential neighborhoods by
requiring the subject parcel to abut a major arterial street and be within walking
distance (1/4 mile to bus lines or transit centers);
b. Demonstrate that the proposed density is appropriate for the location given
public facilities, natural resources and hazards, road or transit access and
proximity to commercial areas and employment concentrations; and
c. A proposed plan/zone density change shall have no negative effect on the City s
compliance with the Metropolitan Housing Rule(OAR 666-07-000).
(Goal 2, Land Use,Policy 1)
2. Do not allow deterioration and/or demolition of existing homes as a reason for Plan and
Zoning Map amendments to more intense land uses. (Goal 2, Land Use, Policy 6)
3. Comprehensive Plan Amendments and Zone Changes to commercial uses within the
Waluga Neighborhood Plan area shall be limited to areas currently zoned as commercial
at the time of this policy's adoption, unless an applicant demonstrates compliance with all
Lake Oswego Comprehensive Plan policies applicable to commercial plan/zone map
amendments including all policies included in the Comprehensive Plan Goal 9, Policy
(2)(c). In addition, an applicant for a plan and zoning map amendment to commercial use
shall demonstrate that a change in circumstances has occurred which causes a departure
from:
a) The Findings and Conclusion of "An Analysis of Commercial and Industrial land Use
and Employment in Lake Oswego Oregon'";
b) Findings for vacancy rates for rentable retail space cited in the "Market Analysis for the
Lake Oswego GAP Quick Response Grant2"; and
This is an August, 1988 Background Report prepared in fulfillment of Statewide Planning Goal 9 for the Periodic
Review of the Lake Oswego Comprehensive Plan.
2 This is a market analysis report prepared for a legislative Plan and Zoning Map Amendment PA 4-98/ZC 6-98/DA
1-98.
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c) Findings that there are not adequate employment opportunities such that the City cannot
meet Metro established job targets identified within the most recent Metro 2020 Regional
Forecast and Growth Allocation.
(Goal 2, Land Use, Policy 8)
2) Proposed amendment to the Waluga Neighborhood Association Boundary
In addition to requesting that the WNP be adopted, the application requests that the Waluga
Neighborhood Boundary be amended to reflect the shaded areas, as shown in Figure 1 of
Attachment 2. If granted, the east boundary of the Waluga Neighborhood Boundary along
Boones Ferry Road would be relocated to the centerline of Boones Ferry Road. The original
Waluga and Lake Grove Boundary was changed with the support and understanding of the Lake
Grove Neighborhood Association that the boundary would revert back to its original location
along Boones Ferry Road (centerline), after City adoption of the Waluga Plan. The
Neighborhood Associations entered into this agreement because there was concern that
development could occur on the west side of Boones Ferry Road(within the Waluga
Neighborhood Boundary)without the benefit of being subject to an adopted neighborhood plan.
This is consistent with the approved minutes of the January 24, 2000, Planning Commission
Meeting where neighborhood boundary amendments were discussed. Specifically, on page 2 --
Ms. Heisler related that the Waluga, Lake Grove and Rural Lake Grove neighborhood
organizations had agreed that the Lake Grove Neighborhood Association would include a one-lot
deep area along the west side of Boones Ferry Road until the Waluga Neighborhood Plan was in
place; whereupon the boundary between the neighborhoods would be shifted back to the
centerline of Boones Ferry Road.
3) Waluga Neighborhood Plan, proposed Goal 9,Policy 12
Proposed Policy 12 of Goal 9, Economic Development, strives to express an idea that is very
important to the neighborhood, which is to ensure balance and compatibility between
commercial and residential development. This idea is expressed through the establishment of a
boundary beyond which commercial development would not encroach into residential areas.
This boundary is the existing Lake Grove Business District Boundary(Figure 6 of Attachment
2),as applicable to the Waluga Neighborhood Boundary. Proposed Policy 12 reads as follows:
12. Commercial development is provided for in this plan in the area shown in Figure 6. The
Waluga Neighborhood Association will oppose attempts to rezone in any other areas of
the neighborhood from the residential zoning designations existing at the time of the
adoption of this plan based upon the policies herein which taken together as a whole
discourage rezoning of residential to commercial outside of those areas depicted in
Figure 6.
Staff understands the importance of the proposed policy,however,believes that the idea is better
suited as a statement in the Summary of Major Issues. This will ensure that the Neighborhood's
position is specifically expressed, recognizing the statement is a policy of the Waluga
Neighborhood Association and summary interpretation by the Waluga Neighborhood
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Association, rather than a policy or interpretation of policies by the City. For these reasons, Staff
did not concur with the Association that a statement of the Association's policy or the
Association's summary interpretation of comprehensive plan policies is appropriate as a City
policy itself or action measure.
At the conclusion of the public hearing on April 9,the Planning Commission directed staff to
meet with the Waluga Neighborhood Association to further discuss the issues related to the
proposed policy.
On April 16,members of the WNA(Jeff Novak and Ron Hall), Planning Commission(Ken
Sandblast) and City Staff(Sidaro Sin and Evan Boone) met to discuss the issue raised at the
public hearing.
Several alternatives were discussed, including the WNA preparing and adopting their
own specific policies, which would govern their land use review. In this way, the WNA
may develop internal positions on neighborhood land use matters to advise developers on
the expected reaction of the WNA to development proposals.
The group discussed including additional criteria under proposed Goal 2, Land Use,
Policy 8, which would add to the standards for a zone change. However, upon further
review,the WNA representatives acknowledged that the existing criteria found under the
Comprehensive Plan Goal 9,Policy(2)(c) and proposed policy under the WNP Goal 2,
policy 8, would be sufficient at this time to address the WNA's concerns as to the criteria
for zone change from residential to commercial.
At the conclusion of the meeting, all in attendance agreed to the following:
1) Proposed Policy 12 under the WNP's Goal 9 would be removed as a policy
and the language of that policy included in the Summary of Major Issues for
Goals 2 and 9.
2) Proposed Policy 8 of Goal 2 would be revised to:
a. Reference Figure 6,which illustrates the portions of the Lake Grove
Business District that are located within the Waluga Neighborhood
Boundary.
b. Clarify that when an applicant for a plan and zoning map amendment
demonstrates that there is a change in circumstances, that the change in
circumstances must be based on City-wide changes, and not just localized
in the Waluga neighborhood.
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ATTACHMENTS
1) Draft Planning Commission Findings,LU 00-0025 Waluga Neighborhood Plan
2) Proposed Waluga Neighborhood Plan—Planning Commission Recommended Draft
with background information
3) Neighborhood Survey, June 1998
4) Waluga Neighborhood Association Newsletter, April 19, 2000
5) Waluga Neighborhood Association General Meeting Summary, May 9, 2000
6) Waluga Neighborhood Association General Meeting Summary, February 22, 2001
7) Approved Planning Commission Meeting Minutes,January 24, 2000
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BEFORE THE PLANNING COMMISSION
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6 A REQUEST FOR A LEGISLATIVE TEXT ) LU 00-0025 -1414
7 AMENDMENT TO THE LAKE OSWEGO ) CITY OF LAKE OSWEGO &
8 COMPREHENSIVE PLAN TO INCLUDE ) WALUGA NEIGHBORHOOD ASSN.
9 THE WALUGA NEIGHBORHOOD PLAN ) FINDINGS,CONCLUSION &ORDER
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15 NATURE OF APPLICATION
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17 A legislative text amendment to the Lake Oswego Comprehensive Plan to include the Waluga
18 Neighborhood Plan.
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20 HEARINGS
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22 The Planning Commission held a public hearing to consider the proposal on April 9, 2001 at
23 which time it accepted oral and written public testimony. The public hearing was continued to
24 April 23, 2001 at which time the Planning Commission completed its deliberations on the
25 application.
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27 CRITERIA AND STANDARDS
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29 A. Applicable City of Lake Oswego Comprehensive Policies
30 Goal 1: Citizen Involvement, Goal and Policies 1, 2, 3 and 4
31 Goal 2: Land Use Planning
32 Section 1, Goal, Policies 3, 5(a), 5(b)(i), 8,18, 19 and 22
33 Section 2, Policies 1,4 and 5
34 Goal 5: Open Spaces, Scenic and Historic Resources and Natural Resources
35 Section 1, Fish and Wildlife Habitat, Goal, Policies 1, 3, 5 and 6 Section
36 2, Vegetation, Policies 1, 3, 4, 5, 10, 11, 12 and 14
37 Section 3, Wetlands, Goal and Policies 1, 4 and 5
38 Section 4, Stream Corridors, Goal and Policies 1, 7 and 12
39 Section 6, Open Space, Goal and Policies 1(g), 2 and 3(a)
40 Goal 8: Parks and Recreation, Goal and Policies 3,4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 10
41 Goal 9: Economic Development, Goal and Policies 1,3, 5, 6, 11, 13, 16 and 17
42 Goal 10: Housing, Goal and Policies 4, 7, 12 and 14
43 Goal 11: Public Facilities
44 Section 1, Public Safety, Policies 2 and 4
45 Section 2, Storm Water Management, Goal and Policies 1, 8 and 9
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1 Section 3, Water Treatment and Delivery, Goal and Policies 1 and 7(a)
2 Section 4, Wastewater Collection and Treatment, Goal (a)
3 Section 5: Administrative,Government Services, Energy,
4 Communications and Schools, Goal
5 Goal 12: Transportation
6 Section 1, Major Streets System, Policies 1 and 4
7 Section 3, Neighborhood Collectors and Local Residential Streets, Goal
8 and Policies 1, 2,4, 6 and 8
9 Section 5, Transportation Demand Management, Policy 3
10 Section 6, Walking, Goal and Policies 3, 4 and 5
11 Section 7, Bicycling, Goal and Policy 2
12 Section 8,Transit System, Goal and Policies 2 and 3
13 Goal 13: Energy Conservation, Policy 3
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15 B. Applicable Statewide Planning Goals:
16 Goal 1: Citizen Involvement
17 Goal 2: Land Use Planning
18 Goal 5: Open Spaces, Scenic and Historic Resources and Natural Resources
19 Goal 8: Parks and Recreation
20 Goal 9: Economic Development and Commercial Lands
21 Goal 10: Housing
22 Goal 11: Public Facilities
23 Goal 12: Transportation
24 Goal 13: Energy Conservation
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26 C. Metro Urban Growth Management Functional Plan
27 Title 1:Requirements for Housing and Employment Accommodation
28 Title 2:Regional Parking Policy
29 Title 3:Water Quality and Flood Management
30 Title 4: Retail in Employment and Industrial Areas
31 Title 5: Neighbor Cities and Rural Reserves
32 Title 6:Regional Accessibility
33 Title 7: Affordable Housing
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35 D. Transportation Planning Rule (Chapter 660, Division 12)
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37 E. City of Lake Oswego Development Code:
38 LOC 49.16.010 Purpose
39 LOC 49.60 Legislative Decisions
40 LOC 49.60.1500 Legislative Decisions Defined
41 LOC 49.60.1505 Criteria for a Legislative Decision
42 LOC 49.60.1510 Required Notice to DLCD
43 LOC 49.60.1520 City Council Review and Decision
44 LOC 49.60.1525 Effective Date of Legislative Decision
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I CONCLUSION
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3 The Planning Commission concludes that LU 00-0025 is in compliance with all applicable
4 criteria.
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6 FINDINGS AND REASONS
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8 The Planning Commission incorporates the staff report, dated March 23, 2001, on LU 00-0025
9 (with all exhibits attached thereto) and its supplemental Memorandum dated April 16, 2001 (with
10 all exhibits attached thereto) as support for its decision, supplemented by the further findings and
11 conclusions set forth herein. In the event of any inconsistency between the supplementary matter
12 herein and the staff report, the matter herein controls. To the extent they are consistent with the
13 approval granted herein,the Commission adopts by reference its oral deliberations on this matter.
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15 Following are the supplementary findings and conclusions of this Commission:
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17 I. The Planning Commission found many policies in the Waluga Neighborhood Plan
18 (WNP) are supportive and complimentary to existing policies contained in the Lake
19 Oswego Comprehensive Plan even though they are phrased in a manner applicable to the
20 Waluga Neighborhood's unique character and circumstances. However, the Planning
21 Commission also found that there are some policies that are either regulatory in nature or
22 which require future implementation to be effective.
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24 The following policies will require future implementation of the policy in the form of a
25 Comprehensive System Plan, zoning code or development code text amendment in order
26 to be effective: Goal 1, Citizen Involvement, Policy 4; Goal 1, Citizen Involvement,
27 Policy 6; Goal 9, Economic Development, Policy 4; Goal 9, Land Use Planning, Policy 5;
28 and Goal 12,Transportation, Policy 11.
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30 The following polices will be effective upon the Waluga Neighborhood Plan's adoption.
31 These policies will be applicable in addition to the existing criteria for Comprehensive
32 Plan amendments and zone changes: Goal 2, Land Use, Policy 1; Goal 2, Land Use,
33 Policy 6; and Goal 2, Land Use, Policy 8.
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35 2. The Planning Commission found that moving the shared neighborhood boundary line
36 between Waluga and Lake Grove back to the center line of Boones Ferry Road, as
37 illustrated in the shaded areas of Figure 1 of the neighborhood plan, is logical at this time,
38 and is consistent with the agreement reached between the two neighborhood associations
39 during the 2000 Council update of the neighborhood boundaries.
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41 3. The Planning Commission reviewed at length Policy 12 of Goal 9, Economic
42 Development, and found the policy to be potentially in conflict with the City
43 Comprehensive Plan in that it could unnecessarily bind the City's position regarding
44 future zones changes in the area.
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Upon further review, the neighborhood association representatives acknowledged
2 that the existing criteria found under the Comprehensive Plan Goal 9, Policy
3 (2)(c) and proposed policy under the WNP Goal 2,policy 8,would be sufficient at
4 this time to address their concerns as to the criteria for zone change from
5 residential to commercial.
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7 With support from the neighborhood association,it was concluded that the
8 following amendments would be made to the Plan:
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to 1) Proposed Policy 12 under the Waluga Neighborhood Plan's Goal 9 would be
1 removed as a policy and the language of that policy included in the Summary
12 of Major Issues for Goals 2 and 9.
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14 2) Proposed Policy 8 of Goal 2 would be amended to:
1 a. Reference Figure 6, which illustrates the portions of the Lake Grove
16 Business District that are located within the Waluga Neighborhood
17 Boundary,and
18 b. Clarify that when an applicant for a plan and zoning map amendment
19 demonstrates that there is a change in circumstances, that the change in
20 circumstances must be based on City-wide changes, and not just
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1 ORDER
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3 IT IS ORDERED BY THE PLANNING COMMISSION of the City of Lake Oswego that:
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5 1. The Planning Commission recommends that LU 00-0025 be approved by the City
6 Council.
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8 I CERTIFY THAT THIS ORDER was presented to and APPROVED by the Planning
9 Commission of the City of Lake Oswego.
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12 DATED this day of 2001.
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17 William Beebe, Chair
18 Planning Commission
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23 Iris Treinen
24 Senior Secretary
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31 PRELIMINARY DECISION - April 23, 2001
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33 AYES: Beebe, Edwards, Sandblast, Waring
34 NOES: None
35 RECUSED: None
36 ABSENT: Groznik,Johnson, Vizzini
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38 ADOPTION OF FINDINGS AND ORDER - May 14, 2001
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42 ABSTAIN:
43 ABSENT:
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Proposed Waluga Neighborhood Plan
Planning Commission Recommended Draft
From April 23, 2001 Public Hearing
Introduction
In 1993, the City Council adopted a Neighborhood Planning Program to provide
neighborhoods in Lake Oswego an opportunity to develop a vision and corresponding
customized guidance on matters of land use,building and site design and capital
expenditures. The Neighborhood Planning Program was designed to go beyond the
general guidance provided by the Comprehensive Plan Goals and policies, in order to
address more localized and specific neighborhood needs.
This is the first time the Waluga Neighborhood has developed a Neighborhood Plan
specific to the area contained within its neighborhood association boundaries (Figure 1).
The Plan was developed over a period of over two years by the Waluga Neighborhood
Association Plan Steering Committee and involved substantial research, review and
discussions. Upon adoption, the Neighborhood Plan will be incorporated into the City's
Comprehensive Plan by legislative amendment. It augments Citywide land use goals and
policies in regard to land use within the boundaries of the Waluga Neighborhood
Association.
Because the Neighborhood Plan is part of the Citywide Comprehensive Plan it is required
to be in conformance with Statewide Planning Goals and the Metro Regional Framework
Plan,which is also enabled by state statute. The Neighborhood Plan,prior to public
hearings for adoption,will be reviewed by both the City of Lake Oswego and the
Department of Land Conservation and Development as to whether it meets these tests.
Future changes are also evaluated as to consistency with the city, state and regional goals
and policies.
The Waluga Plan consists of eight goal and policy chapters as follows:
GOAL 1: Citizen Involvement
GOAL 2: Land Use
GOAL 5: Open Space, Scenic and Historic Resources and Natural Resources
GOAL 8: Parks and Recreation
GOAL 9: Economic Development
GOAL 10: Housing
GOAL 11: Public Facilities and Services
GOAL 12: Transportation
These chapters are numbers and structured to be consistent with the City's
Comprehensive Plan and Statewide Planning Goals. Also,terms and phrases marked
with an(*) asterisk are defined in the definition section at the end of the document.
It is important for both the Waluga Neighborhood Plan and the Lake Oswego
Comprehensive Plan to be responsive to changing conditions and circumstances.
Because the Neighborhood Plan is part of the Citywide Comprehensive Plan, its update is
Planning Commission Recommended Draft Page 1
April 23,2001 Public Hearing
ATTACHMENT
required as part of periodic review of the City's Comprehensive Plan to address changes
and unanticipated circumstances which occur over time.
In addition,because the Waluga Plan is intended to "comprehensively address" land use
policy issues in the neighborhood, and the neighborhood is part of the City as a whole,
there are no parts of either the City's Comprehensive Plan of the Waluga Neighborhood
Plan which can be considered separately from other parts. All Plan goals and policies are
intended to be supportive of one another. However, when using the Neighborhood Plan
to make decisions, if conflicts arise between goals and polices, the City has an obligation
to make findings,which indicate why the goal or policy being supported takes
precedence over those which are found to be in conflict. This involves a decision-making
process on the part of the City,which balances and weighs the applicability and merits of
both the Neighborhood Plan's and Comprehensive Plan's many goals and policies against
one another.
The City's Comprehensive Plan and its Neighborhood Plan elements occupy center stage
for directing Lake Oswego's future. However, other planning activities and documents
are also important. Other plans, such as the Park and Recreation Master Plan,
Transportation System Plan, the various public facility plans, and the Capital
Improvement Plan, are important to consider when making land use decisions. Any
portion of these plans and any related action dealing with land use must be consistent
with the policy direction of the Comprehensive plan and its Neighborhood Plan Chapters.
The Neighborhood Plan elements of the Comprehensive Plan and the Zoning and
Development Codes are intended to mutually support one another. The Plans do not
contain specific standards for development. Instead they provide the policy basis for
specific standards and procedures of the Zoning and Development Code, which are used
to review new development and modifications to existing development. However, the
Plans are applicable to legislative and some quasi-judicial decisions such as Plan and
Zone Map amendments and certain other land use actions,which must address applicable
regulatory Plan goals and policies. These include actions such as conditional uses and
text changes to the City's Zoning and Development Codes.
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NEIGHBORHOOD PLAN FORMAT
DEFINITIONS AND OBLIGATIONS OF GOALS, POLICIES AND
RECOMMENDED ACTION MEASURES
Goals, policies and recommended action measures identify the intent of the City to
accomplish certain results. The different types of plan statements vary in specificity.
Usually, goals are the most general, and policies and recommended action measures are
the most specific. The City's obligations under these statements vary according to the
type of statement.
The goals and policies are intended to relate to one another. The goals are followed by
supportive policies. The goals and policies in turn are supported by recommended action
measures. However, each plan statement can stand alone, either as a goal or policy which
are obligations the City wishes to assume, or as a recommended action measure which is
a recommendation to achieve a desired end,but does not signify an obligation.
The Comprehensive Plan and its Neighborhood Plan elements is the general guide for the
city in matters relating to land use. However, a number of other factors should be
recognized:
1. The Plan is not the only document,which established City policies and planning
activities. For example, the City must conform to the Municipal Code, state and
federal regulations, and intergovernmental agreements. To the extent possible,
these requirements are referenced in the Plan.
2. If a project or process is not addressed by the Plan,the City may still take
appropriate action to address it. However, if necessary,the Plan should be
amended in this circumstance.
3. Although the goals and policies do not specifically address disaster situations
(washed out roads, fire, broken utility lines, etc.)the City's responsibility in areas
f safety and public health may occasionally require emergency actions which
would otherwise require adherence to specific permit requirements and findings
of plan compliance.
I. GOAL
Definition:
A general statement indicating a desired end or the direction the City will follow to
achieve that end.
Obligation:
The City cannot take action,which violates a goal statement unless:
1. Action is being taken, which clearly supports another goal.
2. There are findings indicating the goal being supported takes precedence (in the
particular case) over another.
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II. POLICY
Definition:
A statement identifying Lake Oswego's position and a definitive course of action.
Policies are more specific than goals. They often identify the City's position in regard to
implementing goals. However, they are not the only actions the City can take to
accomplish goals.
Obligation:
The City must follow relevant policy statements when amending the Comprehensive
Plan, or developing other plans or ordinances which affect land use such as public facility
plans, and zoning and development standards or show cause why the Comprehensive
Plan should be amended consistent with the Statewide Land Use Goals. Such
amendments must take place following prescribed procedures prior to taking an action
that would otherwise appear to be in conflict a Plan policy. However, in the instance
where specific Plan policies appear to be conflicting,the City shall seek solutions which
maximize each applicable policy objective within the overall context of the
Comprehensive Plan and Statewide Goals. As part of this balancing and weighting
process, the City shall consider whether the policy contains mandatory language (e.g.
shall, require) or more discretionary language(e.g. may, encourage).
III. RECOMMENDED ACTION MEASURES
Definition:
A statement that outlines a specific City project or standard,which if executed,would
implement goals and policies. Recommend action measures also refer to specific
projects, standards, or courses of action the City desires other jurisdictions to take in
regard to specific issues. These statements also define the relationship the City desires to
have with other jurisdictions and agencies in implementing Comprehensive Plan goals
and policies.
Obligation:
Completion of projects, adoption of standards, or the creation of certain relationships or
agreements with other jurisdictions and agencies, will depend on a number of factors
such as citizen priorities, finances, staff availability,etc.
The City should periodically review recommended action measures to determine which
are a priority to be accomplished in view of current circumstances, community needs and
the City's goal and policy obligation.
These statements are suggestions to future City decision-makers as ways to implement
the goals and policies. The listing of recommended action measures in the plan does not
obligate the City to accomplish them. Neither do recommended action measures impose
obligation on applicants who request amendments or changes to the Comprehensive Plan
or its Neighborhood Plan Chapters.
The list of recommend action measures is not exclusive. It maybe added to or amended
as conditions warrant.
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NEIGHBORHOOD CHARACTER STATEMENT
The Waluga Neighborhood boundary represents a diversity of public facility,
commercial, office, single-family and multiple-family developments that desire to share a
"planned community"* which maximizes the quality of life. The Waluga Neighborhood
is striving to create a"small town"atmosphere which supports mass transit, maintains
the current balance of land uses and densities, and provides clear transitions from
different types of land uses.
We are an active partner and supporter of the Lake Grove Business Association, which
encourages business development and planning along the borders of our Neighborhood
Association. The neighborhood's commercial businesses are patronized by both the
neighborhood and the community. Commercial businesses on our east, west and north
borders,provide valuable jobs and revenue to our area and we would like to see these
businesses continue to thrive. However, efforts should be made to keep commercial
generated traffic on the arterial system and to discourage cut-through traffic* in
residential neighborhoods.
The Waluga Neighborhood Association believes that the single-family residential area is
slowly being encroached upon by multiple-family, commercial and office developments.
Balance of the existing land uses should be maintained to ensure the preservation of the
character and livability of the area is not jeopardized. We strive to improve and preserve
the existing balance of land uses to maintain accessibility to the school, park and
businesses and to encourage neighborhood interaction and a sense of community. We
would also like to encourage and accommodate bicycle and pedestrian connectivity
within the community in order to create a safe and friendly atmosphere.
Higher density multiple-family developments are located between commercial areas and
lower density residential development. This is an efficient and smart land use pattern that
should continue to be used, as long as it is not a detriment to existing single-family
residential development. With all considerations taken into account, new multi-family
and commercial development should be located near major arterials, mass transit and
businesses in order to take advantage of the potential for increased walking and decreased
auto use.
Waluga Park is a prized resource within the neighborhood association boundary and we
want to continue to expand, improve and protect it, without negatively impacting
neighborhood traffic and parking. We believe it greatly enhances the livability of our
neighborhood and provides a cornerstone for our neighborhood and focal point.
It is the goal of the Neighborhood Plan to ensure that new planning efforts and
development support the vision for our neighborhood and that all residents are provided
the opportunity to participate in the issues facing our neighborhood.
The Waluga Neighborhood can be characterized as a quiet neighborhood on the edge of a
vibrant and active commercial crossroad. The diversity of the land uses and destination
points in this neighborhood represent one of Lake Oswego's finest mixed use
neighborhood.
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The boundaries of the Waluga Neighborhood include approximately 208 acres of land
comprised of single-family residential, multiple-family residential, office, commercial
and park development. Of the 208 acres, there is approximately 28 acres of right-of-way
(13.5%), 68 acres of housing (32%), 19 acres of park(9%) and 66 acres of commercial
development(32%). The WN generally lies to the west of Boones Ferry Road, to the
south and east of Carman Drive, north of Firwood Road and generally east of Waluga
Drive.
The Waluga Neighborhood is located along the crossroads of two major arterials, Kruse
Way(which runs west-east connecting to I-5 and Boones Ferry Road) and Boones Ferry
Road(which runs north-south connecting to I-5 and Portland). Residents within the
neighborhood use these roadways to get to destination points within the Waluga
Neighborhood such as Waluga Park, Lake Grove Elementary School, the commercial
corridor located along Boones Ferry Road and the Kruse Way Office complexes located
on Kruse Way.
Waluga Park is approximately 53 acres, of which 19 active and tranquil acres are located
in WN. The park is the site of an old working quarry and inactive volcano. The
amenities the park offers include walking trails picnic areas, ball fields, wetlands, natural
vegetation and wildlife. Due to the size, quality and amenities, the park attracts people
from the abutting neighborhoods as well as Citywide.
Another highlight of the neighborhood is the Lake Grove Elementary School. Between
1924 and 1953,the school was part of the Lake Grove School District. It wasn't until
1954 that the school became part the Lake Oswego School District. In 1949 the school
burned down and had to be rebuilt. Today, the school site is approximately 7 acres in
size, 61,000 square foot of building and serves children from kindergarten through sixth
grade. As of January 2, 2001, there were 463 students attending the school.
The Waluga Neighborhood is located in the heart of the Lake Grove Business District*.
The area around the neighborhood was originally the center of a rural community, and
has since grown and expanded both north and south along Boones Ferry Road and west
along Kruse Way. Businesses in this area are primarily of a community or neighborhood
scale, although as one goes further west along Kruse Way,commercial office complexes
have developed in the recent past. This growth in commercial and office development
has ensured that the Lake Grove Business District* will continue to prosper and
contribute to the livelihood of the community.
In conclusion, the Waluga Neighborhood wishes to continue to see the neighborhood
flourish within its current diversity of natural resources, land uses and recreational
opportunities, and at the same time, protect the balance of low-density residential, multi-
family and commercial uses. The impact of over-development of multi-family or
commercial uses around the periphery of the neighborhood would result in negatively
impacting the quality of life that the neighborhood has come to enjoy. It is these
characteristics that contribute to the quality of life that the neighborhood would like to
preserve and enhance.
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GOAL 1: CITIZEN INVOLVEMENT
Summary of Major Issues:
This Chapter of the Waluga Neighborhood Plan recognizes that opportunities must be
provided for all residents to become involved in issues that affect them. It is especially
true for the Waluga Neighborhood. The association was the second city recognized
neighborhood association in Lake Oswego. Since then,neighborhood residents have
been actively involved in commenting on current land use applications and developing
transportation and land use plans for the neighborhood.
It is important for the Waluga Neighborhood that there be continued involvement and
cooperation in citywide as well a localized matter that relate to the neighborhood. Due to
the diversity of land uses within the Waluga Neighborhood the plan recognizes and
ensures that there be notification and the opportunity for comments on a variety of
current land use issues, to make certain that compatibility and the character of the
neighborhood is maintained.
Goals:
1. Create opportunities for every interested citizen to be involved in all phases of the
planning process to ensure that their concerns are heard.
2. Encourage broadly based public participation including all geographic areas and
diverse interests.
3. Ensure regular and ongoing two-way communication between citizens and City
elected and appointed officials.
4. Ensure that all residents and business owners in the neighborhood have the
opportunity to be involved in all phases of the land use planning process.
5. Ensure that communication within the neighborhood and to the City regarding
issues of both neighborhood and citywide significance reflects the diversity of
interest of those who live,work, and do business in the neighborhood.
Policies:
1. Assist the City in determining the priority needs for the Neighborhood and the
City, through neighborhood involvement in City Boards and Commissions.
2. Ensure that coordination occurs between the Neighborhood Association, other
neighborhoods and County Planning Organization (CPO)* in regard to land use,
public facility planning and construction, and other matters which have impacts
on neighborhood residents and business owners across neighborhood boundaries.
3. Provide timely information and notice so that both neighborhood residents and
business owners have the opportunity to participate in land use actions and the
development of public facilities.
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4. When minor or major development is proposed,require that the minimum
threshold for notification of proposed land use action be the closest fifty property
owners when less than fifty are contained within the required 300-foot
notification boundary.
5. Pursuant to LOC Chapter 49, ensure the neighborhood has adequate opportunity
to understand and develop effective comments and testimony on land use
applications by:
a. Notifying the recognized Neighborhood Association whose boundaries
include the site prior to making a final decision.
b. Providing the Neighborhood Association the opportunity to provide
comments prior to the final decision.
6. Ensure that required pre-application neighborhood meetings between the
applicant and the neighborhood accurately communicated to decision-makers by
requiring:
a. The applicant to agree with Neighborhood Association chair upon a
mutually convenient meeting date,time and place.
b. Special attention shall be given to ensure that attendees concerns and
issues are noted within the meeting minutes and that they are clearly
audio-taped. The developer shall mail minutes to the attendees and the
Neighborhood Association Chair or designee. A reasonable time, of not
less than seven days following mailing, shall be provided for the chair or
designee in consultation with the attendees, to review, correct if necessary,
and approve the minutes. Also, the developer shall make copies of the
tapes conveniently available for Neighborhood Association review within
one week after the meeting and prior to development application to the
City.
c. Meeting audiotapes and written minutes approved by the Neighborhood
Association chair or designee is provided to the City at the time of
application submittal.
Recommend Action Measures:
i. Support the Lake Oswego Neighborhood Action Coalition (LONAC)* through
actions such as participating in general meetings.
ii. Encourage elected and appointed City officials to periodically meet with the
Neighborhood Association to ensure its opinions and needs are communicated
directly to the City.
iii. Encourage the Lake Grove Business Association to develop and distribute
information to area residents about shopping,entertainment and service
opportunities provided by the Lake Grove Business District*.
iv. Work in partnership with the Neighborhood Association to assure public notice,
information and communication procedures are in place to prepare for possible
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public safety events such as fire and law enforcement incidents, inclement
weather and other emergencies and natural and man-made disasters.
v. Encourage neighborhood residents and business owners to make a personal
commitment to neighborhood safety and social quality by taking interest in the
well being of their neighbors.
vi. Encourage neighborhood residents and business owners to work together toward
betterment of their neighborhood.
vii. Make available to business owners and residents a copy of the adopted
Neighborhood Plan to ensure they have the opportunity to become knowledgeable
of the plan's content and applicability.
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GOAL 2: LAND USE PLANNING
Summary of Major Issues:
The Waluga Neighborhood is unique in that it has developed into an example of a mixed
use neighborhood. It has the distinction of having integrated low-density residential,
high-density residential, special-use housing, commercial, office, retail and recreational
uses, while also offering different modes of transportation for travel. It is this unique
balance of land uses that contributes to the character of the Waluga Neighborhood and it
is this character that the neighborhood would like to enhance and preserve.
Residents recognize that the character of a neighborhood is the result of good land use
planning goals,policies,regulations and standards. In this regard, it is essential that the
Neighborhood Plan, the City's land use regulations, Comprehensive Plan and other
planning efforts are consistent and support one another. It is especially important in
regards to issues such as compatibility of new development and maintaining the balance
of existing land uses.
The Waluga Neighborhood would like to ensure that new development,be it single-
family, multi-family, office or commercial, enhance and do not negatively impact the
character of the neighborhood. Among other things, "character"includes aesthetics, the
ability to walk and bike,natural resources, air quality and the sense of a friendly
easygoing atmosphere.
Maintaining the balance of land uses, especially for single-family dwellings is important.
The Waluga Neighborhood Association believes that single-family dwellings represent
an ever-shrinking island within the Waluga Neighborhood that needs to be preserved
because of the perception that the single-family residential areas is slowly being
encroached upon by multi-family, commercial and office developments. The balance of
the existing land uses should be maintained to ensure the preservation of the character
and livability of the area is not jeopardized. We strive to improve and preserve the
existing balance of land uses to maintain accessibility to the school, park and businesses
and to encourage neighborhood interaction and a sense of community.
The Waluga Neighborhood Association has indicated that it will oppose attempts to
rezone in any other areas of the neighborhood from the residential zoning designations
existing at the time of the adoption of this plan based upon the policies herein, which the
WNA believes that taken together as a whole discourage rezoning of residential to
commercial outside of those areas depicted in Figure 6.
Goals:
1. Ensure that the City's land use planning processes and policy framework serve as
a basis for all decisions and actions related to the use of land in the Waluga
Neighborhood Association.
2. Ensure that the City's land use regulations, actions and related plans are
consistent with and implement the Waluga Neighborhood Plan.
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Policies:
1. Applicants proposing a zone/plan density change to R-0, R-2, R-2.5, or R-3, shall
demonstrate that the proposal complies with the following criteria:
a. That the need for the plan/zone change is balanced with the need to ensure the
cohesiveness and design integrity of single-family residential neighborhoods by
requiring the subject parcel to abut a major arterial street and be within walking
distance(1/4 mile to bus lines or transit centers).
b. Demonstrate that the proposed density is appropriate for the location given
public facilities, natural resources and hazards,road or transit access and
proximity to commercial areas and employment concentrations.
e. A proposed plan/zone density change shall have no negative effect on the
City's compliance with the Metropolitan Housing Rule(OAR 666-07-000).
2. As applicable by City Code, ensure that the architectural, site design and landscape
character of new development and substantial remodel of structures within the
Waluga Neighborhood is compatible* with the character of the existing
neighborhood.
3. As applicable by City Code, ensure that the design and operation of group and
residential care facilities and institutional uses are compatible* with, the site and
neighborhood character.
4. Per City Code, require developers to bear the burden of proof to demonstrate how
proposed land use actions are consistent with the Comprehensive Plan, Waluga
Neighborhood Plan and applicable codes and land use regulations.
5. Endeavor to maintain and improve Waluga Neighborhood's existing detached,
single-family residential character.
6. Do not allow deterioration and/or demolition of existing homes as a reason for Plan
and Zoning Map amendments to more intense land uses.
7. Per City Code and where practicable*, single-family housing shall be preserved and
steps taken to ensure that if higher density housing, is developed adjacent to
existing single-family detached dwellings,that it will not adversely affect single
family developments.
8. Comprehensive Plan Map Amendments and Zone Map Changes to commercial uses
within the Waluga Neighborhood Plan area shall be limited to areas currently zoned
as commercial, including those commercial areas illustrated in Figure 6, at the time
of this policy's adoption, unless an applicant demonstrates compliance with all
Lake Oswego Comprehensive Plan policies applicable to commercial plan/zone
map amendments including all policies included in the Comprehensive Plan Goal 9,
Policy(2)(c). In addition, an applicant for a plan and zoning map amendment to
commercial use shall demonstrate through a City-wide analysis,that a change in
circumstances has occurred which causes a departure from:
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a. The Findings and Conclusion of"An Analysis of Commercial and Industrial
land Use and Employment in Lake Oswego Oregon";
b. Findings for vacancy rates for rentable retail space cited in the"Market
Analysis for the Lake Oswego GAP Quick Response Grant2"; and
c. Findings that there are not adequate employment opportunities such that the
City cannot meet Metro established job targets identified within the most
recent Metro 2020 Regional Forecast and Growth Allocation.
Recommended Action Measures:
Review and update the Waluga Neighborhood Plan concurrent with Periodic
Review of the City's Comprehensive Plan.
ii. Where possible encourage the conversion and change of zoning of commercial and
multi-family properties to single-family residential zoning.
iii. Investigate the feasibility of Comprehensive Plan and zone change amendments that
would result in actual utilization of properties zoned other than single-family
residential are actively used or developed to the appropriate underlying zone or
initiate a zone change to reflect the existing use. For example, the properties located
at 15820 and 15850 should be considered rezoned back to single-family residential
use.
iv. The Waluga Neighborhood Association shall encourage property owners and
builders not to develop properties to maximum density through discussions at the
required land use neighborhood meeting.
v. The Neighborhood Association will support, review and communicate Waluga
Neighborhood positions regarding development of Public Facilities Plans and the
implementation of Capital Improvement Programs.
vi. Explore the possibility of a Comprehensive Plan Text amendment that would apply
a certain time limit on a Comprehensive Plan and Zone Change amendment, in
which a property would be required to be used for what it was rezoned to, or the
property would revert back to its original zoning designation. The property would
automatically revert back to the previous zoning if no substantial progress has been
made towards developing the property for what is was rezoned to. Substantial
progress may include, but is not limited to, issuance of a building permit or the
City's acceptance of a completed land use application.
'This is an August, 1988 Background Report prepared in fulfillment of Statewide Planning Goal 9 for the
Periodic Review of the Lake Oswego Comprehensive Plan.
2 This is a market analysis report prepared for a legislative Plan and Zoning Map Amendment PA 4-98/ZC
6-98/DA 1-98.
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GOAL 5: OPEN SPACES, SCENIC AND HISTORIC AREAS,
AND NATURAL RESOURCES
Summary of Major Issues:
A defining characteristic of the Waluga Neighborhood is its natural resources.
Specifically, its mature tree canopy, the bountiful natural resources in Waluga Park and
wetlands and tree groves found throughout the neighborhood. This signature
characteristic should be preserved and enhanced.
Along many of the residential streets in the neighborhood mature trees loom high above
residential and commercial development, reflecting the fact that these trees have been
here for a long time. Among these old trees, you also find meandering paths, which add
to the sense of place and provides for safe and efficient pedestrian and bicyclist travel.
Waluga Park is a prized resource within the Waluga Neighborhood and it should continue
to be expanded, improved and protected,without negatively impacting the
neighborhood's quality of life. The Waluga Neighborhood Association believes it greatly
enhances the livability of the neighborhood and provides a cornerstone for the
community.
The Waluga Neighborhood contains a significant stream corridor*, wetlands* and tree
groves* (Figure 4). These significant natural resources have been inventoried and
identified in the Lake Oswego Sensitive Lands Inventory(ESEE Natural Resources
Inventory analysis)*. Development which would impact these resources is regulated by
LOC 48.17, Sensitive Lands Overlay District. These natural resources add to the
character of the neighborhood and are important in many ways, such as providing for
wildlife habitat, surface water quality and storm water conveyance, and adding to the
natural beauty and aesthetics of the neighborhood.
To preserve these natural resources, the Plan looks to emphasize many of the standards
and regulation already in existence within the City Code. Protection and mitigation is
sought through the vigilant application of the Sensitive Lands Ordinance. New
landscaping and compatibility of uses is achieved through the stringent application and
review of design standards.
Goal:
Preserve and protect Waluga Neighborhood's natural resources and wooded character.
Policies:
1. Pursuant to LOC 48.17, preserve stream corridors*, tree groves*,wetlands* as
designated by the City's Sensitive Lands Inventory(Figure 4),particularly within
Waluga Park.
2. Pursuant to City Regulations, require preservation and maintenance of open space
reserves* consistent with conditions of development approval including:
a. Preventing the removal of trees and non-invasive vegetation* except as
provided by the Lake Oswego Tree Code(LOC 55);
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b. Removing invasive vegetation* and replanting with native plant species
where appropriate;
c. Preventing the dumping of garbage and yard debris in open space areas
through enforcement of nuisance provisions Lake Oswego Code(LOC
34.08.490); and
d. Not allowing the encroachment of structures, yards, landscaping or other
private improvements.
3. Preserve and where possible, enhance the Waluga Neighborhood tree canopy* by
applying the City's tree cutting regulations to all parcels within the Neighborhood
Plan Boundary,per LOC 55.
4. Where practicable*, require landscaping and planting of trees which grow to a
significant size for all new development. Tree planting,including species selection
and location shall take into account solar access requirements (LOC Chapter 57).
5. As per LOC 48.17, emphasize protection of significant trees* and tree groves* over
tree and vegetation removal and subsequent mitigation through replanting.
6. Provide property owners the opportunity to preserve trees through participation in a
City adopted Heritage Tree Protection Program*.
7. Where practicable, protect and enhance significant trees within the public right-of-
way and on other public lands by:
a. Adopting standards and regulations to protect public trees;
b. Ensuring maintenance of adequate public right-of-way to plant trees that are
known to grow to a significant size; and
c. Ensuring no adverse effects from surrounding use impacts tree viability.
8. Pursuant to LOC 48.17 ensure public works projects in the Waluga Neighborhood
are designed, implemented and maintained to protect trees, stream corridor*,
wildlife habitats and other natural resources.
9. Pursuant to LOC 48.17, ensure development does not disturb or harm surrounding
or abutting natural resources and sensitive lands, either directly or indirectly, by
requiring resource protection measures as part of the development review process.
10. When trees are removed in the Waluga Neighborhood in violation of the Lake
Oswego Tree Code(LOC Chapter 55) ensure that tree planting, which is required
for mitigation occurs within the Waluga Neighborhood's boundaries.
11. Protect, preserve and restore where practicable the natural resource functions and
values of City inventoried stream corridors, wetlands and tree groves in the Waluga
Neighborhood, which are shown on the Sensitive Lands Map and Atlas* and
protected by the City's Zoning Code.
12. Pursuant to City standards,require storm drainage and water quality management
measures* and facilities for all new development within and outside the Waluga
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Neighborhood to ensure Waluga Neighborhood properties and natural resources are
protected from flooding, erosion and sedimentation and other effects of increased
water run-off.
13. Pursuant to LOC 48.17, allow property owners to conduct restoration activities
within stream corridors, wetlands and tree groves without the dedication of
conservation easements when these efforts are undertaken at their own expense.
Recommended Action Measures:
i. Actively support a Lake Oswego Community Forestry Program which:
a. Provides for an ongoing planting and maintenance program for trees and other
vegetation in public rights-of-way, natural areas, open spaces and parks.
b. Provides information regarding tree care to the general public.
ii. Encourage property owners and citizen groups to landscape with native plants along
stream corridors and adjacent to wetland buffer areas.
iii. Encourage the identification of historically significant buildings and features in the
Waluga Neighborhood.
iv. Encourage the dedication of conservation easements* to protect natural resources
and open space.
v. Develop and maintain landscaped entry features and focal points with the Waluga
Neighborhood at the following location:
a. At the intersection of Quarry Road and Boones Ferry Road.
vi. Monitor the condition of Waluga Neighborhood's tree canopy over time, including
the identification and progression of disease such as laminated root rot, through a
City maintained data collection and inventory system.
vii. Re-evaluate the labeling of the stream/wetland identified as W-17B (east side of
Daniel Way)on the Sensitive Lands Map as"insignificant".
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GOAL 8: Parks and Recreation
Summary of Major Issues:
Waluga Park is approximately 53 acres, of which 19 active and tranquil acres are located
in the Waluga Neighborhood. The park is the site of an old working quarry and inactive
volcano. The amenities the park offers include walking trails picnic areas,ball fields,
wetlands, natural vegetation and wildlife viewing. Due to the size, quality and amenities,
the park attracts people from the abutting neighborhoods as well as citywide.
The Waluga Neighborhood strongly identifies with the park because it provides the area a
unique identity and it sets the tone for the character of the rest of the neighborhood and
the surrounding community. The park is an amenity that should be preserved, maintained
and improved for all to enjoy.
Results of the neighborhood survey indicated that 72% of respondents were in favor of
the City purchasing private property to add to the existing park. In addition, 66%of
respondents supported the use of tax dollars to expand Waluga Park. Specifically, as
identified in RAM (i), the Waluga Neighborhood would like the City to consider
purchasing the property located at the corner of Quarry Road and Oakridge Road. The
acquisition of this heavily wooded property would be a significant addition to the
continued success of Waluga Park and serve as a potential pedestrian gateway to the park
from the south.
Goal:
To expand, improve and maintain Waluga Park for active and passive activities,
providing attractive, safe, functional and available access to all segments of the
neighborhood population.
Policies:
1. Identify and recommend improvements to Waluga Park that satisfies the recreation
needs of the neighborhood.
2. Identify and recommend acquisition of lands, contiguous with Waluga Park, when
they become available on the market.
3. Avoid the irrevocable loss of any parts of Waluga Park.
4. Per LOC Chapter 39, require developers to pay their equitable share for park
acquisition and development costs.
5. Provide accessibility to all park users,which meet or exceed applicable state and
federal laws.
6. According to community and neighborhood needs, add new facilities to Waluga
Park, which enhance the character of the park.
7. Pursuant to City Code, develop Waluga Park such that:
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a. Developments are compatible with adjacent land uses,by using setbacks and
effective buffering and screening to minimize impacts of intensive uses such
as traffic, parking,bright lights and noise.
b. Traffic generation does not exceed design capacity of adjacent streets at off
peak hours, local streets are not used to accommodate traffic generated by
intensive use, and adequate parking facilities are constructed to minimize and
discourage automobile parking outside of the park on residential streets.
c. Accessibility to the park is available from all sides for bicycles and
pedestrians, if not in conflict with natural resources.
Recommended Action Measures:
i. Actively pursue the acquisition of the currently available 4-5 acres of property at
the corner of Oakridge Road and Quarry Road.
ii. Actively work with the Lake Grove Christian Church on options for acquiring the
property and facilities upon which they are located through acquisition, trading of
other city property or a combination of both.
iii. Work with the community and developers to develop a continuous pedestrian and
bicycle pathway around the periphery of Waluga Park.
iv. Assure appropriate levels of handicapped accessibility to Waluga Park that is
reflective of such users in the Waluga Neighborhood.
v. Work with the community and developers to develop additional pedestrian and
bicycle pathways with the Kruse Way Open Space.
vi. Seek citizen input in park and recreation planning through surveys, meetings and
other appropriate methods.
vii. Work with Neighborhood Associations to develop and integrate the City-owned
water reservoir property on the north border of Waluga Park as part of Waluga
Park.
viii. Encourage reciprocating use of parking facilities between Lake Grove Elementary
School and Waluga Park.
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GOAL 9: ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
Summary of Major Issues:
A portion of the Lake Grove Business District* is located within the Waluga
Neighborhood Boundary. The area around the neighborhood was originally the center of
a rural community, and has since grown and expanded both north and south along
Boones Ferry Road and west along Kruse Way. Businesses in this area are primarily of a
community or neighborhood scale, although as one goes further west along Kruse Way,
commercial office complexes have developed in the recent past. This growth in
commercial and office development has ensured that the Lake Grove Business District*
will continue to prosper and contribute to the livelihood of the community.
Within the Waluga Neighborhood,there are several 2040 Growth Concept* designations
which may affect how development occurs. The Metro Functional Plan was adopted in
November, 1996, to implement the Regional Urban Growth Goals and Objectives
(RUGGO), including the 2040 Growth Concept. The overall principles embodied in the
Metro 2040 Growth Concept and the RUGGO include encouraging a compact urban form
in specific design type areas. The intent of focusing development in these design type
area is to enable established neighborhoods outside of these design type areas to develop
at existing Comprehensive Plan densities, rather than requiring higher densities. In this
way, the greater proportion of additional units that jurisdictions are required to provide to
meet targeted dwelling units for 2017 will be located in Design Type areas.
The"design type"that are found in the Waluga Neighborhood area, include Town
Centers*, Main Street*, Transit Corridors* and Employment Centers*.
The Waluga Neighborhood understands that having a commercial and office center in its
boundaries is an asset to the neighborhood. However, that asset must be balanced with
the needs and interests of the residents who live in the area. To ensure balance and
compatibility between commercial and residential development it was important to
establish a boundary beyond which commercial development would not encroach into
residential areas. This boundary is illustrated in Figure 6. The combination of this
boundary and other existing design standards, such as buffering and landscaping
requirements within the existing City Code will ensure that the existing amicable balance
between residential and commercial development is not disrupted.
The Waluga Neighborhood Association has indicated that it will oppose attempts to
rezone in any other areas of the neighborhood from the residential zoning designations
existing at the time of the adoption of this plan based upon the policies herein, which the
WNA believes that taken together as a whole discourage rezoning of residential to
commercial outside of those areas depicted in Figure 6.
Goal:
Promote policies and actions which support the viability of Lake Grove Business
District* and its ability to provide goods and services to area residents and businesses in
an innovative manner compatible with the character of surrounding residential
neighborhoods.
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Policies:
1. Ensure that future improvements to Boones Ferry Road maintain or improve safe
access to area businesses for the automobile, transit, pedestrians and bicyclists,
while maintaining the function and character of adjacent neighborhood collectors
and the local residential streets.
2. Minimize the number of driveway access points to Boones Ferry Road through use
of wide consolidated driveways of sufficient width to allow simultaneous ingress
and egress.
3. Provide opportunities for mixed-use development to occur in the Lake Grove
Business District* whereby multi-story buildings would accommodate businesses
on the ground floor and residential units above.
4. Do not allow new drive-in or drive-through food service windows in the Lake
Grove Business District*.
5. Ensure the design quality of future development in the Lake Grove Business
District* by enacting land use and design regulations which enhance the district's
existing built environment and positive design qualities and which also provide the
opportunity for a variety of architectural design, and building types and sizes,
including variations in setbacks, height,bulk and scale, which are consistent with
these characteristics.
6. New commercial development shall protect existing natural resources to the extent
possible through implementation of approved protection plans. Vegetation which is
removed, including trees, and especially mature Douglas Firs, shall be replaced
consistent with approved landscape plans. New trees shall be installed whenever
possible along streets, pedestrian ways,building setbacks and within public places.
7. New commercial and multi-family development shall provide landscape buffering
and screening between differing land uses to enhance aesthetic quality and mitigate
visual and operational impacts, per existing City codes and regulations.
8. Ensure that the design of new commercial development and required public
improvements contribute to the development of a safe and efficient transit and
pedestrian environment within the Lake Grove Business District*.
9. Ensure that land use regulations foster compatibility between new and existing
commercial and multi-family development and with surrounding residential
neighborhoods through measures such as:
a. Outdoor lighting controls;
b. Separating noise sources from adjacent noise sensitive uses;
c. Containment and screening of trash collection areas;
d. Utilizing setbacks, buffering and screening to mitigate the visual and
operational impacts of outdoor storage areas and other outdoor activities; and
e. Enforcement of prior conditions of development approval per LOC 48.02.055 —
48.02.075.
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10. Discourage and abate nuisance situations*, such as excess noise, unconfined
garbage and light spillover, through enforcement of the nuisance provisions of the
Lake Oswego Code (LOC 34.08.000—34.11.599).
11. Control and license home occupations* within the residential zones of the Waluga
Neighborhood to ensure they will not increase traffic and noise or disrupt in any
other way the livability and quality of life of the residential area.
Recommended Action Measures:
i. Work with the Lake Oswego West/Lake Grove Business Association and area
neighborhood associations to develop a plan for Boones Ferry Road, which will
address:
a. Safety and vehicular and pedestrian access to area businesses and adjacent
residential neighborhoods;
b. Future auto capacity needs of the roadway;
c. Enhancement of the pedestrian environment;
d. Transit; and
e. Streetscape character and aesthetics.
ii. Encourage intra-city transit connections between the Lake Grove Business District*
and other business districts and employment centers and with the City's residential
neighborhoods.
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GOAL 10: HOUSING
Summary of Maior Issues:
The Waluga Neighborhood is an island of single-family residences, surrounded by multi-
family, commercial and office campus uses. Currently, 17%of the total land area is
developed with single-family dwellings. The Waluga Neighborhood would like to
protect single-family residences from encroachment by multi-family and commercial
uses as this potentially impacts the balance of land uses and the quality of life.
There is little available land for development(approximately 6.4%is vacant), and what is
available to be developed will likely be targeted for higher density uses. It is important
to recognize that the mix of single-family and multi-family units within the Waluga
Neighborhood boundaries meet or exceed the Metropolitan Housing Rule and State
Goals3. Currently, 17%of the land within the WN is comprised of single-family
residential development (148 single-family dwelling units) and 10.4% is comprised of
multi-family residential development (308 multi-family dwelling units). The Waluga
Neighborhood Association would urge that new developments that add density consider
the lower density alternatives. In all cases, it is important that any new development be
compatible in height, bulk and scale to the surrounding properties and that extensive
buffering be required between step-downs from high-to-low density uses, especially
when related to a zone change or when adjacent properties are more than one zoning
level apart.
The Waluga Neighborhood Association would like to see that the existing housing stock
be preserved and low-density single-family uses be encouraged in the neighborhood.
Infill development and secondary housing units may be allowed, including flag lots*,
subject to specific design and development standards to ensure design compatibility.
Also of importance is that zoning standards be used to ensure that all new residential
development, including substantial remodeling,contributes to the positive design
character of the neighborhood.
Preservation of the character of existing local streets is important, including the non-grid
street pattern and preservation of trees within street right-of-way* and on adjacent
property, which provide tree canopy and shade.
Goals:
1. Preserve, maintain and enhance the livability and aesthetic character of Waluga's
residential neighborhoods.
2. Encourage improvement and maintenance of properties within the Waluga
Neighborhood boundary to increase aesthetics and uphold property values.
3. Maintain the low density, detached single-family residential character of the
Waluga Neighborhood.
3"Metropolitan Housing Rule"(OAR-660-7-000-060).This rule requires the City provide an opportunity
for a 50%/50%mix of single-family and multi-family or attached housing.
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Policies'
1. Encourage the preservation of the existing housing stock, and the development and
maintenance of single-family residences, in the Waluga Neighborhood.
2. Encourage the conversion of commercial and high-density residential uses to low-
density residential uses within the Waluga Neighborhood.
3. Allow the development of residential infill lots within the Waluga Neighborhood
subject to specific City of Lake Oswego design and development standards, which
ensure compatibility of resulting development with neighborhood design character.
4. To the maximum extent feasible, the existing single-family housing shall be
preserved and steps taken to preserve its amenities and value. In accordance with
City of Lake Oswego design and development standards, ensure that adjacent
higher density housing and commercial uses, if developed, will not adversely affect
single-family development. Particular attention should be given to the effects of
traffic,parking, noise, glare, air pollution and appearance of structures.
5. In accordance with LOC 48.26,do not allow the expansion or increase in non-
conformance of a non-conforming use.Non-conforming uses may affect the quality
of life in the Waluga Neighborhood through noise,traffic, glare and appearance of
structures that may be incompatible with abutting residential uses. Replacement of
non-conforming uses with permitted uses is strongly encouraged.
6. Pursuant to Standards for Secondary Dwelling Units and Lake Oswego Systems
Development Charges Code (LOC Chapter 39),secondary dwelling units shall:
a. Have one unit be occupied by the property owner.
b. Pay applicable systems development charges(SDC).
7. Preserve low density residential, open space and natural resource characteristics
along Waluga Neighborhood's boundaries by requiring:
a. The preservation and enhancement of the area's existing designated stream
corridors, tree groves, and drainage ways essential for water quality(LOC
48.17).
b. Installation and maintenance of buffering and screening measures such as trees
and other vegetation(Lake Oswego Development Code).
8. Ensure that the scale and character of neighborhood collectors and local streets,
which provide access to and within Waluga's residential neighborhoods are
appropriate to the area served and are designed in accordance with the Lake
Oswego Development Standards.
9. Ensure that undeveloped street right-of-way* remains available for street trees, on-
street parking and pedestrian use and is not prevented from being utilized for these
and other public uses by private encroachments such as landscape improvements
and storage of vehicles,boats and equipment.
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10. Pursuant to LOC 48.20, ensure home occupations* do not conduct business
activities that cause adverse impacts on residential neighborhoods such as outside
storage, excessive traffic, inappropriate hours of operation noise, etc.
11. Pursuant to the Lake Oswego Uniform Traffic Code(LOC Chapter 32), require
those who store boats, recreational vehicles, equipment and automobiles under
repair on the street right-of-way*, to remove them from the street right-of-way*.
Recommended Action Measures:
i. Develop design standards specific to Waluga Neighborhood to ensure all new
residential development, including secondary dwellings and homes being
substantially remodeled contribute to the neighborhood's positive design character
which address issues such as:
a. Height, bulk and lot coverage to ensure new residential development does not
conflict with the predominant scale and design characteristics of the
neighborhood;
b. Minimizing the impact of the automobile on the development site through
residential design and development standards, which prescribe measures such
as garage location, size of paved areas, driveway size and location, etc;
c. Appropriate setbacks,buffering and screening between existing and proposed
development; and
d. Preservation of existing mature canopy trees and other significant trees and
other landscape features to the extent practicable.
ii. Encourage the upgrading and remodeling of existing residential structures rather
than demolition and new construction.
iii. Encourage owners who store recreational vehicles, construction equipment and
non-operational automobiles in front yards to relocate them away from public
view.
iv. Promote public safety and a sense of visual and social connection throughout the
neighborhood by:
a. Discouraging the planting of hedges and other plant materials which
substantially screens residences from view.
b. Encouraging property owners to cutback overgrown vegetation.
v. Revise existing development standards for setbacks, lot coverage, house size,
compatibility, mass, bulk, scale and height, solar access, or other aspects of building
placement or massing, for the purposes of ensuring compatibility with existing,
surrounding neighborhood development.
vi. Investigate the feasibility of amending the Comprehensive PIan Map from GC/RO
to R-7.5 for the properties at 15820 and 15850 Quarry Road due to the existing
single-family character of the area.
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vii. Investigate the feasibility of amending the Comprehensive Plan Map from R-5 to
R-7.5 for the property located at the northwest corner of Oakridge Road and
Quarry Road due to the existing single-family character of the area.
viii. Pursue the feasibility of purchasing the property currently zoned R-5, located at
Oakridge Road and Quarry Road, and include it within Waluga Park, creating a
gateway into the park from the south and therefore creating the opportunity for
future pathways and facilities.
ix. Produce and distribute a brochure on city code and enforcement to distribute to
neighborhood residents and post on the City web site so that they can assist in
maintaining neighborhood aesthetics.
x. Encourage those who propose to construct homes larger than two-story to
meet with neighborhood residents (residing within at least 300 feet)prior to
obtaining building permits to promote:
a. Compatibility in building design and scale with the surrounding homes;
b. Tree preservation; and
c. Protection of neighbor's existing views.
xi. Maintain a non-grid street pattern in the Waluga Neighborhood to preserve the
peaceful and quiet feel of the neighborhood.
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GOAL 11: PUBLIC FACILITIES AND SERVICES
Summary of Major Issues:
The Neighborhood Plan recognizes that the City of Lake Oswego Comprehensive Plan
contains numerous policies which are applicable to the community as a whole. In view
that the Citywide Plan is generally sufficient,this element of the Neighborhood Plan was
developed to apply to the Waluga Neighborhood's specific conditions, character and
needs. They are intended to be supportive and complementary to the other
Comprehensive Plan polices which apply citywide.
The Plan Chapter addresses Police and Fire Protection, Storm Water and Surface
Management, Water Treatment and Delivery, and Private Utilities and Schools. The
common emphasis of the Goals and Policies is to ensure that the Waluga Neighborhood
is provided with high quality, responsive and environmentally sound public facilities and
services. However, issues of particular importance to the Waluga Neighborhood include:
the continuance of quality and reliable facilities and services;promoting coordination
with all service providers in order to receive the best level of service; and working with
the Lake Oswego School District to resolve any issues that may arise.
The Waluga Neighborhood is located to the northeast of an area of land that is currently
located in Clackamas County. In expectation that the unincorporated area will be
annexed into the City and be developed, the neighborhood would like to ensure that
adequate facilities and services are available for any future development. Equally as
important is that if services are extended, that existing services to the neighborhood are
not negatively affected or interrupted.
An important institution in the Waluga Neighborhood is the Lake Grove Elementary
School. A concern that the neighborhood has is the continued use of the bus barn at the
school. Specifically,the buses potentially negatively impact the surrounding neighbors
by producing noise in the early morning, affect the air quality and pose potential traffic
problems while navigating through the narrow neighborhood streets. The Waluga
Neighborhood Association would like to work with Lake Oswego School District to
address these issues.
Goal: Police and Fire Protection
Provide a high level* of police, fire protection and emergency preparedness services to
the Waluga Neighborhood.
Policies:
1. Ensure all,police and fire protection service levels are not diminished during
transitions with new developments and annexed areas.
2. Utilize law enforcement when necessary to:
a. Ensure safety in the Waluga Neighborhood,Kruse Way and Boones Ferry
Road.
b. Prevent illegal activities at Waluga Park.
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Recommended Action Measures:
i. Recognize the special public safety needs of Lake Oswego's elderly, young and
socially disadvantaged. Provide primary prevention services to these groups, such
as:
a. Traffic safety and drug education;
b. Home fire and crime proofing information;
c. Support for Neighborhood Watch and block programs; and
d. Personal safety education.
ii. Increase traffic safety through:
a. Review of planning and engineering proposals to ensure safe road design;
b. Active bicycle,pedestrian and safety belt enforcement; and
c. Maintenance of an active community traffic safety program.
iii. Support the Community Emergency Response Team(CERT)through public
education and support neighborhood volunteers.
iv. Raise issues with local agencies regarding particular situations relevant to the
Waluga neighborhood, including:
a. Waluga Park safety;
b. Pedestrian safety around Lake Grove Elementary School; and
c. Minimize non-emergency vehicle trips for school buses and fire engines on
residential and neighborhood collector streets.
Goal: Storm Water Management and Surface Water Management
In the Waluga Neighborhood, reduce, and where possible eliminate, flooding, soil
erosion, standing water in the public right-of-way*, and water pollution associated with
storm water runoff.
Policies:
I. Congruent with the Lake Oswego Comprehensive Plan, utilize natural systems and
non-structural methods to control storm water run-off at the source as a preference
to structural systems to the extent allowed by site characteristics
2. Pursuant to the Lake Oswego Comprehensive Plan, require all storm drainage
improvements on private property, and that required as a condition of new
development to:
a. Accommodate storm drainage flows of development at full build-out; and
b. Be compatible with the City's Storm Drainage Public Facility and Capital
Improvement Plans and Surface Water Management Program.
3. Per City requirements, consistent with local, state and federal regulations,
developers shall identify the use of any hazardous materials on the property and
procedures to be used to assure inadvertent leakage or run-off into the storm
drainage system does not occur.
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4. Implement any storm water improvements identified in the Lake Oswego Public
Facilities Plan necessary to improve the drainage system.
Recommended Action Measures:
i. Work with neighbors to identify and correct situations where hazardous chemicals
have the potential to leak into the storm drainage system.
Goal: Water Treatment and Delivery
Provide reliable and adequate supply of high quality water to meet the existing and
futures needs of the Waluga Neighborhood.
Policies:
1. Consistent with City requirements, require all developers to provide and make
available,plans and documentation to the City and Neighborhood Association, to
ensure that new developments will have adequate water service to meet domestic
needs, fire flow requirements and to extend(when necessary) adequately sized
water lines with sufficient water pressure to all new development.
2. Implement any improvements identified in the Lake Oswego Public Facilities Plan
and Capital Improvements Plan to ensure increased water storage capacity and
improved fire protection and domestic water service.
Recommended Action Measure:
i. Work with residents to resolve low water pressure issues, especially in the area
south of Douglas Way and east of Quarry Road.
Goal: Wastewater Collection and Treatment
Ensure Waluga residents receive environmentally safe and reliable sanitary sewer
service.
Policy:
1. Consistent with City Code, ensure that future construction of sanitary lines in the
Waluga Neighborhood minimizes impacts on developed properties and utilizes the
public right-of-way* or existing easements whenever possible.
Goal: Private Utilities and Schools
Ensure the availability of administrative and general government services and
coordination with others to provide schools, energy and communications services.
Policies:
1. Encourage the Lake Oswego School District to maintain and improve the Lake
Grove Elementary School.
2. Work with the Lake Oswego School District on alternative locations for the bus barn
and maintenance facility that would have fewer impacts on the neighborhood.
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Recommended Action Measures:
i. Encourage the Lake Oswego School District to develop a Facility Plan in relation to
the Waluga Neighborhood Plan.
ii. Work with the School District to address issues relating to the Waluga
Neighborhood, such as:
a. Minimizing traffic on residential and neighborhood collector streets, by finding
alternative routes to major collectors other than Quarry Road;
b. Solving unsafe traffic and pedestrian safety situations, particularly at the corner
of Douglas Way and Quarry Road where it is unsafe for buses making turns
when there is opposing traffic or pedestrians in the area;
c. Improving the sidewalks across the school property along Douglas Way to
create paths that do not share the parking facility; and
d. Minimizing the noise and disruption caused by the bus barn, by finding
alternative locations, such as the City's maintenance facility on Jean Road.
Waluga Neighborhood
Public Facility Projects and Capital Improvement Plan
The following public facility projects (Figure 7) are identified within the City's 20-year
Public Facility Plan* (PFP) and 5-year Capital Improvement Program* (CIP). It should
be noted that some projects are identified in one plan and not in the other. In addition,
the Waluga Plan has identified specific projects, which it desires to see addressed. The
funded CIP projects are priority projects, which are intended to be implemented over a 5-
year period. PFP projects,which have not been included in the CIP, are proposed to be
implemented over a longer time frame- up to 20 years. Neighborhoods have an ongoing
opportunity to influence the type and timing of public facility projects by participating in
the CIP and PFP updates. Update of the CIP corresponds to the budget process either at
one or two year intervals, and includes several opportunities for neighborhood
involvement at public meetings and at Planning Commission and City Council public
hearings.
The following projects are listed by their reference numbers in the City's Public Facility
Plan*. Those projects that do not have reference numbers are identified in the 5-year
Capital Improvement Plan and not in the PFP.
Public Facility Projects
PFP Project SW-27—Springbrook Creek from Boogies Ferry Road to Kruse Way
This project was to improve the pipes for the flow of storm water. The project is
scheduled to begin in 2002 at a cost of$279,000. However, the City is currently in the
process of updating the CIP and this project may not be included.
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PFP Project WA-22— Waluga Tank Repair
This is a relatively small project to repair some minor damage to the water tank. This
project is scheduled to begin in 2002. The estimated cost of the project is $3,000 and the
funding source is Water System Development Charges.
Capital Improvement Plan
CIF Project WA-9— Waluga Reservoir No. 2 Design
This project consists of a design of a 3.5 million gallon reservoir to augment an existing 4
million gallon reservoir. The proposed location will be north of the existing reservoir.
The new reservoir will increase water storage capacity, improve fire protection and
domestic water service to the Downtown, First Addition,
The project is tentatively scheduled in the CIP for 2003-2004 and is estimated to cost
$465,000. The funding source is Water Bonds.
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GOAL 12: TRANSPORTATION
Summary of Major Issues:
The boundaries of the Waluga Neighborhood include approximately 208 acres of land
comprised of single-family residential, multiple-family residential, office, commercial
and park development. Of the 208 acres, there are approximately 28 acres of right-of-
way(13.5%). The WN is located along the crossroads of two major arterials,Kruse way
(which runs east and west) and Boones Ferry Road(which runs north and south). Other
significant roadways include Carman Drive, a major collector connecting I-5 with Kruse
Way, located on the northwest boundary and Quarry Road, a neighborhood collector,
which allows local residents of the neighborhood to access Carman Drive and Boones
Ferry Road in such a manner to disperse traffic to the nearest collector or arterial. Many
people use these roadways to get to destination points within the neighborhood such as
Waluga Park, Lake Grove Elementary School, the commercial corridor located along
Boones Ferry Road and the Kruse Way Office complexes located on Kruse Way.
The Waluga Neighborhood Plan Transportation Goals and Policies are based on the
concerns developed through the neighborhood survey.
While 50% of the respondents indicated that school crossings ensure adequate safety for
children, only 39% of respondents indicated that generally pedestrians are safe when
walking in the area. The neighborhood would like to emphasize the continued safety for
children and also improve the quality and safety of pedestrian paths through the Waluga
Neighborhood by promoting and developing additional pathways that would add to the
existing character of the neighborhood pathway system and provide additional
opportunities to destination points in the Waluga Neighborhood.
Of major concern as reflected in the survey, 94%of the respondents indicated that cut-
through traffic* should be limited, especially traffic from the Kruse Way office complex
area and from southbound traffic on Carman Drive from the Westlake/Holly Orchards
area. In addition, the area has a lot of pedestrian activity due to the proximity of the
school,park and commercial developments in the area and traffic speeds should be
addressed through traffic calming measures.
Also of concern is that the character of the neighborhood's streets and pathways remain
in character and appropriate for the Waluga Neighborhood. Of particular concern is
Quarry Road. Quarry Road receives a lot of cut-through traffic* due to its locational
relationship to commercial developments on Boones Ferry Road and the office
complexes on Meadows Road. Commuters use this shortcut between Kruse Way and
Boones Ferry Road to avoid traffic and potentially save time. Traffic management needs
to be continually addressed on Quarry Road. Recent measures such as erecting stops
signs at problem locations have successfully addressed some of the traffic issues,
however as new commercial and office complexes are constructed on Meadows Road,
the more need there is to review further measures to address increased traffic.
In summary, the direction of this chapter is to: Manage traffic to reduce the amount of
cut-through traffic* and excessive vehicle speeds through the neighborhood; Improve and
provide for practical and safe pedestrian,bicycling and transit opportunities; Maintain the
quality and appropriateness of the transportation system.; and Emphasize safety for
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pedestrian and bicyclists. Also of importance is the management of traffic in the
neighborhood, especially relating to cut-through traffic* and speeding and maintaining
the functional nature of the transportation system with the character of the neighborhood.
Goal:
Ensure that the transportation system in the Waluga Neighborhood is safe and enhances
neighborhood character and quality by:
a. Improving safety of all transportation modes*;
b. Maintaining and enhancing the aesthetic quality, natural resources, privacy and
quiet of residential areas;
c. Providing for adequate traffic movement and access within residential and
business areas appropriate to the aesthetic character,transportation, and safety
needs of each area;
d. Providing practicable pedestrian, transit, parking and bicycling opportunities;
and
e. Ensuring accessibility for the handicapped.
Policies:
1. Maintain the character of the Waluga Neighborhood's street system by:
a. Utilizing flexible design standards and innovative surface water management
solutions in accordance with City Code to ensure pavement width and street
design is appropriate for the function of the street and needs of the area served.
b. Using permeable surfaces and roadside ditches and bio-filtration methods in
accordance with City Code to convey and treat surface water run-off.
2. Where practicable,preserve trees within the street right-of-way* and encourage
private property owners to preserve trees on their property, which provide tree
canopy and shade.
3. Where appropriate,utilize traffic management devices to prevent speeding and
discourage cut-through traffic* on local residential streets and neighborhood
collectors.
4. Future transportation improvements should address the need to balance automobile
access with the need to maintain the existing land use pattern and develop a
comfortable and safe pedestrian shopping environment.
5. Ensure the ability to walk and bike safely throughout the neighborhood by providing
bicycle and pedestrian facilities:
a. At a minimum, on one side of all neighborhood collectors and other selected local
streets;
b. On both sides of major streets (arterials and major collectors); and
c. Where practicable, sidewalks, pathways and bike lanes that provide contiguous
paths between major streets.
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6. Pursuant to the Neighborhood Traffic Management Program LOC Chapter 32.14,
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encourage the abilityto walk and bike safely throughout the neighborhood without
impacting the neighborhood's natural resources or character by utilizing traffic
management measures where necessary to maintain low speeds and traffic volumes.
7. Work with Tri-Met to encourage greater access to public transit service through
more frequent bus service on existing lines and safe and convenient pedestrian and
bicycle connections to transit.
8. Ensure that Waluga residents are integrally involved from start to finish in the
planning, design and implementation of transportation projects that could affect the
neighborhood.
9. Encourage acquisition or development of land for pathways that do not parallel
streets,when street connections are not feasible.
10. In accordance with the City Code and where practicable* require that new
development develop shared access to Boones Ferry Road through use of
consolidated driveways of sufficient width to allow simultaneous ingress and egress
and shared parking facilities.
h Transportation System Plan(TSP, Figure 9)to:
11. Amend the p y g
a. Delete the proposed multi-purpose pathway on the eastside of Quarry Road,
identified as [P-22] in the TSP.
b. Add a sidewalk along the south side of Douglas Way from Quarry Road to
Boones Ferry Road to ensure safe pedestrian movement.
12. Maintain the character of Quarry Road, through maintenance and address negative
impacts such as a decrease in safety and aesthetics, cut-through traffic* and
speeding by implementing traffic management measures.
13. Keep open and maintain all existing pathways within the neighborhood unless it can
be shown through factual documentation that the pathway is unsafe to abutting
property owners and that there is no longer a need for the pathway.
Recommended Action Measures:
i. Work with Tri-Met to provide neighborhood residents,business owners, employees
and customers greater access to transit service by:
a. Instituting flexible routes and providing local circulator service to residential
areas;
b. Providing frequent transit service to and from the Lake Grove Commercial
c. District, Downtown Lake Oswego and Kruse Way Employment Centers;
d. Increasing frequency of fixed bus routes along Boones Ferry Road; and
e. Improving the comfort and safety of transit waiting areas.
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ii. Support the development of a Transportation Management Association(TMA)
among Waluga area businesses to encourage measures to reduce single occupant
automobile use such as:
a. Subsidization of transit options such as local circulator buses;
b. Car and van-pools for employees; and
c. Incentives for employees and customers who utilize alternative transit options.
iii. Ensure discussion of transportation issues involves other Regional Centers, Town
Centers and Employment Centers that have direct transportation connections with
the Lake Grove Business District* such as Downtown Tualatin, Tigard, Washington
Square, Kruse Way and Downtown Lake Oswego.
iv. Preserve the character of Waluga Neighborhood's local residential streets by:
a. Traffic management;
b. Ensuring the capacity of major street systems to prevent dispersion of through
traffic onto local residential streets;
c. Truck ordinance routing;
d. Measures to enhance safety of walking and biking;
e. Reduced Vehicle Miles Traveled (VMT); and
f. Controlling the speed and volume of traffic through measures which calm the
flow of traffic, including speed bumps, "Neighborhood Residents Only" signs
and additional stop signs.
v. Develop site specific solutions to ensure safe and comfortable bike and pedestrian
use along Boones Ferry Road, including safe crossing opportunities.
vi. Work with area schools, churches, local businesses and city parks to minimize
parking impacts on neighborhood streets.
vii. The Waluga Neighborhood Association shall work with the City of Lake Oswego
to resolve traffic problems that are in the best interest of the City and the safety
and character of the neighborhood. Examples of coordination included
cooperation in the analysis and placement of traffic management devices, traffic
control devices,traffic counts, speed studies and public education.
viii. Increase and improve pedestrian crossing opportunities and safety across major
streets to shopping, transit and employment. Consider textured or raised
crosswalks, pedestrian signals, mid-block curb extensions to reduce crossing
distance, or improve sight distance and additional crosswalks where appropriate.
ix. Develop a parking strategy for the Lake Grove Business District*, Waluga Park
and Lake Grove Elementary School to:
a. Ensure safe access to area businesses,parks and schools.
b. Maximize the efficiency of lands available for parking.
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x. Identify potential traffic safety issues and take measures to promptly correct these
situations as they arise. In particular, special attention should be given to
Galewood Street at Quarry Road. These problems include poor street geometry,
sight-distance problems* and turning radius restrictions, which pose traffic hazards
and prevent safe access by emergency vehicles and school buses. Solutions may
include street realignment,vegetation removal,installation of convex mirrors, and
installation of stop bars.
xi. Work with the Waluga Neighborhood to determine the appropriateness of speed
bumps or other traffic management devices on neighborhood streets, including
Quarry Road,Douglas Way and Galewood Street.
xii. Design and place neighborhood identification signage at major neighborhood
intersections, including the entrance to the Waluga neighborhood at the
intersection of Quarry Road, Carman Drive and Meadows Road.
xiii. Actively enforce speed limits within the Waluga Neighborhood, especially along
Quarry Road and Douglas Way, as well as in other areas determined by City-
sponsored traffic studies to be above normal speeds.
xiv. Conduct traffic studies, as needed to review traffic patterns and actively work to
calm traffic on neighborhood streets.
xv. Encourage neighbors, businesses, Lake Oswego Parks Department and Clackamas
County to:
a. Apply no herbicides, pesticides or fertilizers in public rights-of-way* or utility
easements;
b. Continue the Parks Department Integrated Pest Management program for
Waluga Park;
c. Provide notice to adjacent property owners at least 15 days prior to any
applications; and
d. Post notice at such locations, where applications exceed minor spot applications,
clearly marking the boundaries of the application, for a period of not less than 15
days from the date of the application.
xvi. Support the construction of improvements on Boones Ferry Road,Kruse Way and
Carman Drive, which facilitate the flow of traffic and reduces non-local trips
throughout the neighborhood.
xvii. Study alternatives strategies to safely cross both Boones Ferry Road and Douglas
Way, in proximity to the Lake Grove Elementary School.
xviii. Support the Public Maintenance Department's policy to not allow the application of
herbicides, pesticides or fertilizers in public right-of-way* or easements by the City
of Lake Oswego Maintenance Services Department.
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Definitions:
Bio-filtration:
Bio-filtration refers to practices,natural features and specially constructed
facilities that use natural processes to remove sediments and other pollutants from
surface water. For example, natural features such as vegetated swales, wetlands,
stream corridors and permeable surfaces provide bio-filtration of surface water.
Capital Improvement Plan (CIP):
The City of Lake Oswego's Capital Improvement Plan (CIP) is a five year
planning, programming, and financing plan for protecting the City's investment in
its infrastructure and for constructing new facilities to meet increased service
demands. Each year, Lake Oswego's CIP is updated and presents a prioritized
schedule of major public improvements that will be implemented within a five
year period and their possible sources of funding.
Compatible:
For the purposes of the Waluga Neighborhood Plan, this term is described as
capable of existing, functioning, and performing in a harmonious, agreeable
combination with another or others in regards to and not limited to the following;
aesthetics,preservation of natural resources, transportation, etc...
Conservation Easement:
The granting of conservation easements is made possible by LOC Chapter 59,
which establishes a process to encourage the voluntary retention and protection of
the natural, scenic and open space values of the community by private property
owners through donation or dedication of easements to the City or other non-
profit or governmental organization whose purpose is to protect these resources.
County Planning Organization (CPO):
County Planning Organizations(CPOs) are comparable to the City of Lake
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Oswego Neighborhood Associations and are chartered by Clackamas County.
There are three CPOs in the Lake Oswego Urban Services Boundary and adjacent
to the Citylimits: Rosewood Action Group, Forest Highlands and, Lake Forest
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CPOs.
Cut-Through Traffic:
Cut-through traffic is through traffic or auto trips, which have neither trip end nor
beginning within the neighborhood association boundary. Pursuant to Lake
Oswego Comprehensive Plan, Goal 12, Sub-Goal 1, cut-through traffic is
discouraged on residential streets and neighborhood collectors.
Dangerous Building:
Buildings or structures that are regulated pursuant to the city of Lake Oswego
Building Code [LOC Chapter 45],which are structurally unsafe or not provided
with adequate egress, or which constitute a fire hazard or are otherwise dangerous
to human life. The Building Code pursuant to LOC 45.09.060 declares any use of
these structures,which constitute a hazard to safety, health, or public welfare by
reason of inadequate maintenance, dilapidation, obsolescence, fire hazard, disaster
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damage or abandonment as an unsafe use. Also declared unsafe are parapet walls,
cornices, spires, towers, tanks, statuary and other appendages or structural
members which are supported by, attached to,or part of a building and which are
in a deteriorated condition or otherwise unable to sustain design loads specified in
the Lake Oswego Building Code. Dangerous and Unsafe Buildings may be
adapted by the City of Lake Oswego, when located in the City or by Clackamas
County,when located in the incorporated area.
Employment Center:
An area containing various types of employment and some high density
residential,with limited commercial uses. There is one designated employment
area in Lake Oswego, which encompasses areas which are designated by the
Comprehensive Plan as Highway commercial, Campus Research and
Development, office Campus, R-0 and some R-3, within the Kruse Way Corridor.
ESEE Natural Resources Inventory:
The Economical, Social, Environmental and Energy Analysis(ESEE)required
under Statewide Planning Goal 5. The purpose of the ESEE is to inventory
natural resource sites and identify their relative resource value for the purpose of
determining an appropriate level of protection through land use regulations.
Flag Lot:
A Flag Lot is a lot located behind another lot that has normal street frontage and
where access is provided to the rear of the lot via a narrow "flag pole"(i.e.
driveway), or an easement. There are two distinct parts of a flag lot; the flag,
which comprises the actual building site, located behind another lot, and the pole,
which, provides access from the street to the flag. A flag lot results from the
division of a large lot with the required area and depth for two lots, but which has
insufficient width to locate both lots on the street frontage. The creation of flag
lots is subject to specific criteria within LOC 48.19 to enhance compatibility with
the surrounding residential neighborhood.
Heritage Tree Protection Program:
The Heritage Tree refers to the City Ordinance No. 2159,which is intended to
recognize, foster appreciation of and provide for the voluntary protection of
"Heritage Trees." A Heritage Tree(s) is a tree or stand of trees of landmark
importance due to age, size, species, horticultural quality or historic importance.
High Level of Police, Fire Protection and Emergency Preparedness Services:
For the purposes of the Waluga Plan, this term is described as:
a. The ability of the Lake Oswego Fire Department to reach the location of fire
alarms within the City, within eight minutes or less, and;
b. The ability of the Police Department to reach the location of emergency calls
for protection of life and property within a maximum time of five minutes.
Home Occupation:
A lawful occupation, profession, activity or use conducted in a dwelling unit that
is clearly incidental and secondary to the use and dwelling for dwelling purposes.
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Inner Neighborhood:
Inner Neighborhoods are accessible to jobs and neighborhood businesses and
typically average(citywide) six dwelling units per acre. All residential areas that
do not lie within another Design Type area in the Lake Oswego Urban Service
Boundary, are considered Inner Neighborhoods.
Invasive Vegetation:
Defined by the Lake Oswego Development code, LOC 48, as vegetation that
displaces or dominates native plant communities, such as Himalayan blackberry,
English ivy,Reed canary grass,Morning glory, Scotch broom.
Lake Grove Business District:
Generally located in the western portion of the City along Boones Ferry Road and
the easterly area of Kruse Way, nears the intersection of Boones Ferry Road
Lake Oswego Neighborhood Association Coalition (LONAC):
LONAC is an organization composed of representatives of the Lake Oswego's
Neighborhoods which serves as a forum to discuss and represent the common
interests of the community. LONAC is not chartered by the City.
Main Street:
Main Streets are business districts that contain areas of higher density land uses,
with concentrations of shopping, services and entertainment or restaurants. Multi-
family residential is often located around the Main Street district and may exist on
the second or third stories above retail or offices. Main Streets are to have high
quality transit service and a good pedestrian environment. In Lake Oswego there
are two mapped Main Street Areas, Lake Grove(Boones Ferry Road, between
Washington Court on the north side of Boones Ferry and the Southern Pacific
Railroad right-of-way on the south side of Boones Ferry, and Kruse Way); and
Lake Oswego ("A" Avenue between State Street and 6th Street, "B"Avenue
between State Street and 5th Street and 1st Street,between "C"Avenue and
Evergreen Road).
Metro 2040 Growth Concept:
This is an outgrowth of the principles outlined in Metro's Urban Growth
Management Functional Plan. The overall principles include encouraging a
compact urban from in specific Design Types areas including Town Centers,
Employment Centers, Main Streets, Regional Centers and Transit Corridors.
Through the Design Types,the Growth Concept provides for the bulk of
additional units that jurisdictions are required to provide to meet targeted dwelling
units goals for 2017. The resulting compact urban form is designed to
accommodate approximately 720,000 additional residents and 350,000 additional
jobs over 40 years region-wide. This compact form is to be served by multiple
modes of transportation, maintain a clear distinction between urban and rural
lands and reduce urban sprawl. The City of Lake Oswego has determined its
Design Type Boundary, which include Employment Centers, Inner
Neighborhoods, Main Streets, Town Centers and Transit Corridor.
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Metropolitan Housing Rule:
This rule sets a requirement for Lake Oswego and other Portland metropolitan
communities to provide for the opportunity for a minimum of 10 dwelling units
per acre on vacant,buildable land and the opportunity for 50%/50% mix of single
family and multifamily or attached housing.
Natural Drainage System:
Natural Drainage system refers to the open and vegetated drainage channels and
the surface water treatment facilities,which comprise the great majority of Lake
Oswego's storm water conveyance system.
Nuisance Situation:
Nuisances are broadly defined as anything that interferes with, annoys or disturbs
the free use of ones property or, which renders its ordinary use or physical
occupation uncomfortable. This definition extends to everything that endangers
life or health, gives offense to the senses, violates the laws of decency, or
obstructs the reasonable and comfortable use of property. Nuisances also refer to
wrongs arising from unreasonable or unlawful use of property to the discomfort,
annoyance, inconvenience or damage of another. This usually involves
continuous or recurrent acts.
A public nuisance is further defined by LOC 34.08.400 as:
a. Any condition or use of property, which causes or tends to cause detriment or
injury to the public health, safety, welfare;
b. Any condition specified in LOC 34.10.500 to 34.12.600; or
c. A condition defined as a nuisance by any Lake Oswego Code provision.
(Ord. No 1856, Sec. 1; 12-28-82.)
Open Space Reserve:
Open spaces are natural and developed areas that are largely vacant (free of
buildings and paved surfaces)with the potential of becoming a park or natural
area. Open space refers to the areas of public or privately owned land, which are
devoted to uses that provide relief from urban development. Open space includes
diverse elements such as natural landscape,wildlife preserves, bluffs, steep
slopes, beaches, playgrounds, wetlands, stream corridors, flood plains, lakes, farm
fields, tree groves, ball field gardens, formal landscaped areas, golf courses,
cemeteries, or even a landscape back yard.
Planned Community:
For the purposes of the Waluga Neighborhood Plan, this term means the
development of an area through the public involvement process, with
consideration given to, among other things, land use management, transportation,
parks and recreation development,preservation of natural resources, urban design,
housing, economic development and public facilities.
Public Facility Plan (PFP):
The City's PFP identifies the major facilities and capacity improvements to city
infrastructure that are necessary to support land uses allowed by the
Comprehensive Plan. These facilities include water, sanitary sewer, storm
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drainage and surface water management, and major transportation improvements.
The PFP is used in conjunction with the CIP as described above to coordinate,
program and phase public facility funding decisions.
Sensitive Lands Map and Atlas:
The bound volume of maps on file in the Planning Department showing the
boundaries of RP and RC Overlay districts on individual property maps at a scale
of 1:200. The SL Atlas is a component of the Comprehensive Plan and Zoning
Maps and is created and modified pursuant to the standards and criteria contained
in LOC Article 48.17 (Sensitive Lands). The districts shall also be shown on the
City-wide Comprehensive Plan and Zoning Maps for convenience, but the more
specific boundaries as shown in the Atlas shall control regulation pursuant to
LOC Article 48.17.
Site DIstance Problem(pertains to streets):
Sight distance problems occur when vegetation or other materials obstruct the
view of drivers, pedestrians or bicyclists at street intersections.
Significant Tree:
"Significant trees" in the Waluga Neighborhood are those trees covered under the
City's Tree Ordinance(LOC Chapter 55). This term is also used in the context of
significant historic trees. For the purposes of implementing the Waluga Plan,
historic trees are those that are fifty or more years old.
Stream Corridor:
A stream corridor is an area of land that includes a stream and a set of natural
features generally associated with the stream. These natural features include,
stream channels, flood plains,wetlands, riparian vegetation, associated
vegetation, steep slopes, and habit features. A stream corridor generally includes
the following:
a. Hydrological Characteristics. Physical features that affect stream flow
capacity, rates of channel erosion and patterns of sedimentation including but
not limited to stream alignment, cross section and profile, roughness of
channel and banks, and drainage patterns.
b. Plant Communities and Wildlife Habitat. The association of trees, shrubs,
ground cover, and aquatic plants that effect the hydrological characteristics of
a stream corridor, reduces runoff turbidity, provides shade which lessens
thermal pollution, filters out nutrients carried off by runoff, protects stream
corridors soils and slopes from erosion, and provides habitat for fish, wildlife
and aquatic organisms.
c. Soils and Potential for Severe Erosion. Soils within stream corridors tend to
be very erosion-prone by nature. This feature affects channel erosion rates,
patterns of sedimentation down-stream, and potential for hazards to property
within and adjacent to the stream corridor.
d. Ravines and Steep Slopes. Lake Oswego stream corridors frequently ravines
and steep slopes.
e. Associated Aquatic Elements. Floodplains and wetlands may be adjacent to
or associated with the stream.
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Street Right-of-Way:
A street right-of-way consists of publicly owned land on which there exists, or on
which it is intended to construct, a public street and other public transportation
improvements. Throughout the Neighborhood Plan the terms"street right-of-
way", "road right-of-way", and"public right-of-way"are used interchangeably
and have the same meaning. Within this context, the term underdeveloped right-
of-way means that portion of the right-of-way on which there are no public
improvements such as road surface, sidewalks, pathways and, drainage facilities.
System Development Charge(SDC):
An SDC is a reimbursement fee, an improvement fee, or a combination thereof,
assessed or collected at the time of increased usage of a capital improvement or
issuance of a development permit, building permit or a connection to the capital
improvement. System developments includes that portion of a sewer or water
connection charge that is greater than the amount necessary to reimburse the
government unit for its average cost of inspecting and installing connections with
water or sewer facilities. An"improvement fee"means a fee for costs associated
with capital improvements to be constructed. A"reimbursement fee"means a fee
for costs associated with capital improvements already constructed or under
construction.
Town Center:
Town Centers may serve a population base of tens of thousands of people.
Within these areas the City will encourage good transit services, a pedestrian
environment, shopping, services, entertainment and higher density housing so that
residents may have more transportation choices by locating near these uses and
services. There are two areas designated as Town Centers in Lake Oswego: Lake
Grove and Lake Oswego.
Traffic Management Devices:
Traffic Management devices are defined as apparatus installed or constructed to
regulate the flow of traffic not subject to the standards of the MUTCD, including
speed humps, curb extensions, traffic circles,traffic diverters and street closures
[LOC 32.02.10].
Transit Corridor:
Within these corridors, development may be continuous, such as along portions of
Boones Ferry Road in the Lake Grove area, or organized around major
intersections or transit stops with sections of residential development in between,
based o appropriate criteria. Transit corridors are to receive frequent, high-quality
transit service. There are four transit corridors designated in Lake Oswego: 1)
State Street 2) "A" Avenue 3) Boones Ferry Road,between Country Club and I-
5 and 4) Kruse Way. Those segments represent Transit Corridors, which contain
commercial, high density residential, employment intensive, or mixed use
development. The broken lines represent the portions of the Transit Corridor
which link the nodes of higher intensity uses described in town centers.
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Transportation Modes:
This term refers to the full range of ways that people are capable of traveling from
one place to another. "The options readily available to Waluga residents include,
walking, biking,bus and automotive."
Tree Canopy:
For the purposes of the Waluga Neighborhood Plan, the tree canopy is the three-
dimensional aesthetic quality imparted to the neighborhood by the existence of
numerous existing large trees whose crowns may or may not interweave. The tree
canopy may or may not have an associated understory.
Tree Grove:
A stand of three or more trees (of the same species or a mixture)which form a
visual and biological unit, including the area between the forest floor and the
canopy, including skyline trees, and including any understory vegetation existing
within the canopied area. He stand of trees must be at least 15' in height and must
have a contiguous crown width of at least 120' to qualify as a tree grove.
Water Quality Management Measures:
These are actions that are taken to improve water quality, such as restoration of
stream corridors, construction of water detention facilities and use of effective
erosion control measures.
Wetland:
An area that is inundated or saturated by surface water or ground water at a
frequency and duration sufficient to support,and that under normal circumstances
does support, a prevalence of vegetation typically adapted for life in saturated soil
conditions, commonly known as hydrophytic vegetation. Wetlands generally
include but are not limited to swamps, marshes,bogs and areas with similar
vegetation.
Where Practicable:
This term refers to a test of reasonableness and practicality when applying a
condition of development approval or seeking to implement a specific plan goal,
policy or recommended action measure. Factors to be considered include the cost
and effort required to accomplish the desired end in relationship to the scale of
development and whether the desired end is realistic in relationship to resources
available.
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Waluga Neighborhood Association: Neighbor Survey Results 6/98-- 109 Responses out of 426
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1. Are the present traffic patterns in the Waluga Neighborhood acceptable? 1. 35 63 11
2. Is Public transportation (buses, taxis) adequate? 2• 35 31 44
3. 97 3 9
3. Do you value protecting existing wildlife habitats in our neighborhood? 4 78 18 9
4. Are you in favor of the City purchasing private property to add to existing parks and open
spaces? 5. 40 59 10
5. Does noise present a problem where you live?
6. Would you favor a zone change allowing a 30-40 unit townhouse complex at Quarry and 6. 13 87 7
Oakridge?
7. Should cut-through traffic be limited? 7. 94 7 8
8. Is your neighborhood safe? 8. 86 19 12
9. Should Kruse Meadows office traffic be discouraged from neighborhood streets? 9. °O 4 10
10. Should truck traffic be allowed on residential streets? 10. 7 88 13
11. Does Quarry Road have too much traffic? 11. 75 17 16
12. Would you agree natural buffers between commercial and residential properties are necessary 12. 96 5 6
to maintain property values?
13. Should more pedestrian and bicycle pathways be encouraged? 13. 85 12 11
14. Should new developments commercial and residential-be required to protect large trees 14. 87 11 10
existing on their property?
15. Do you support using tax dollars to expand Waluga Park? 15. 72 24 13
16. Is a sense of community important to you? 16. 98 4 5
17. Are pedestrians safe when walking? 17. 39 56 1240
18. Does school bus parking and maintenance facilities create unwanted noise and traffic in your 18. 22 67 19
area?
19. Is truck traffic excessive on your street? 19. 32 61 15
20. Are school crossings assuring adequate safety for our children? 20. 50 26 33
21. Is water pressure to your home or apartment adequate? 21. 83 19 6
22. Should neighbors be allowed to approve/ reject zoning changes? 22. 92 11 6
23. Are traffic patterns in Waluga unacceptable? 23. 50 37 21
24. Should we encourage more commercial development in the neighborhood? 24. 7 96 5
25. Should parking be allowed on Quarry Road near Waluga Park? 25. 15 81 12
Numbers below represent the number of responses
Appearance I Streets Intersections Park Facilities
Do any of the following Do you feel there are Do you feel there are traffic What facilities do you want
concern you regarding the traffic problems on any problems at any of the following: added at Waluga Park?
appearance of your of the following:
neighborhood? 66 Meadows/ Carmen/ Quarry 18 Nothing
9 Detached Buildings 49 Carman 22 Quarry/Oakridge 44 Pathways/ Trails
14 Multi-family dwellings 27 Kruse Way 8 Waluga/Oakridge 10 BBQ Equipment
35 Abandoned vehicles 15 Douglas 18 Harvey/Quarry/Heritage 16 Swimming
26 RV/Boat storage 2 Beasley Way ' 15 Kruse Way/ Boones Ferry 6 Skateboard Facility
24 Signs/Advertising 12 Waluga Drive 29 Carman/Kruse Way 13 Playground Equipment
29 Lighting 64 Quarry ' 0 Other 22 Basketball
22 Parking 0 Maple 25 Tennis
28 Pathway/ Sidewalk 17 Oakridge 31 Lighting
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ATTACHMENT
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Waluga Neighborhood Association
NEWSLETTER
April 19, 2000
Thoughts from Ron Hal(, your -
Neighborhood Association -=. GENERAL MEETING
Chairman Tuesday, May 9, 2000
. 7:30 P.M.—9:00 P.M.
i." 'rl'. ; Lake Grove Elementary School
1 I would personally like to invite all residents fir....,•i=
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our Spring Meeting. It is a great way for you T,_.a „, _ :.. ,=, _ �., ,,.
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to meet one another, to find out what your ,. ,T ,,? _ ,
Neighborhood Association has been working � witke�f•ee—•Fe_ • :'�� *:,. Neighborhood Association
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on for you, as well as to find out what is �' ' �' :Or: 1
happening around your city. c:\_:r t1 . •�+/ To provide a forum for members of the
1 ,t<V . �, ' E .��.�•.'.. neighborhood to work together to improve
Canyou believen •_ •tr •: livability, to discuss matters that your Waluga - ,• . of common
G d 'Y'' ' concern and to represent the views of the
Neighborhood Association is the second 1r 6. I*:• .• •. : t: •
oldest neighborhood association in the City of '•A c' a••• �� fir' ' I , ; members before appropriate public bodies.
Lake Oswego? We were approved by the A--,- •. .;1;: • /' , (�• ;
City Council back in 1976, and that makes us v.3t -- • t ' '.'
23 years old. Perhaps we really need to '7' • • •; :�•1't�r'' .i New Zoning and Development
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tiink about planning an event to celebrate ;" ,, e Proposed at Kruse Way and
our 25'anniversary just two short years from Carman
now! Waluga Neighborhood Plan
Avamere Development is in the process of
Your Board, as well as your Neighborhood (WNP) Steering Committee requesting the rezoning of this property from
Plan Steering Committee, have been hard at R-10 to R-3 for the development of an
work during the past fall and winter months Sidaro Sin, Lake Oswego Planning Department, assisted living facility. This property currently
with meetings, discussions, drafts, vision assigned WNA Plan contains one of the largest sensitive land
statements and position papers. All this work areas (tree groves) in our neighborhood. If
is oriented towards developing a Waluga Sidaro (Sid) Sin, of the Lake Oswego Planning you are concerned about the impact of this
Neighborhood Plan that will be, once it has Department has been assigned to support the development, let us know! The City Council
been reviewed and accepted by the City neighborhood in completing their neighborhood will "voting on this request at their May 2 e•
Council, incorporated into the City's plan. Sid will attend all neighborhood meetings, meeting, at 6:00 P.M. Contact Ron Bunch,
Comprehensive Plan. It is our opportunity for coordinate with the City, provide research Long Range Planning Manager at 635-0290
us to determine for our neighborhood what is information and assist the neighborhood in for more information.
important to us. We will give you a progress identifying issues, developing goals, policies,
report on where we are, where we are recommended action measures and action charts.
headed, what our accomplishments have
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been and provide you with copies developed Hallmark Looking to Close
to date. This is your chance to not only find MORE INFORMATION ON THE BACK! Pathway?
out what's going on (such as Albertson's,
Hallmark Inns & Resorts, Waluga Park and It appears Hallmark Inns & Resorts is taking
adjacent property, the new proposed the first steps for closing the pathway through
convalescent facility), but for you to give us The WNP Steering Committee has formaily entered Collins Way. They are hosting an
your valuable input, for us to hear your into a Letter of Agreement with the City to commit informational meeting on April 2411. Since the
concerns, So please,plan on attending. both the neighborhood and City towards achieving meeting will have occurred by the time you
a Neighborhood Plan by January 2001. receive your newsletter, we will be sure to
have an update at our General Meeting,
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ATTACHMENT
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i Neighborhood Planning Process Neighborhood Planning Goals
QUESTIONS?
Every member of the Neighborhood
Do you want to... Association has a voice in the development of The following schedule reflects our timetat-
getinvolved? the Neighborhood Plan. It is the responsibility for reviewing each of the Comprehensive Pla..
assure your position addressed? of you, as members, to assure that you are goals in relation to our neighborhood. Please
have an impact? providing input. plan to attend our meeting or notify us of
special concerns or issues that you may have.
Contact your Board Members or Neighborhood As we develop the plan, we will be using
Planning Steering Committee phone,e-mail General Meetings, Surveys and Newsletters to
or letter. communicate our progress and our Goal# Description Meeting Date
conclusions. It is up to you to assure that any Goal 1, Citizen Involvement 4/5
Ron Hall, Chairman issues or concerns are raised during the Goal 5, Open Space/Nat Resources 4/5,4/19
15194 Quarry Road process. Goal 8, Recreational Needs 7/5,7/19
Phone 635-7632 Goal 9, Economic Develop, 8/2,8123
e-mail: pcpsi@teleporzcom Neighborhood Plan Status Goal 10, Housing 617,6/21
Goal 11, Public Facilities 9/6,9/20
Jeff Novak,Vice Chairman A Vision statement and draft of Goal 1, Citizen Goal 12, Transportation 5/3, 57
Chairman,WNP Steering Committee Involvement has been completed and reviewed
4322 Collins Way at our November 30, 1999 Meeting. We have The Neighborhood Plan Committee meets at
Phone 635-6664 included a copy for you with this newsletter. the home of Ron Hall, 15194 Quarry Road.
e-mail: jnovak@teleport.com Please feet free to join us at our meetings from
We have prioritized many issues based on the 7:00—8:30 P.M. Or call or write us with your
Cindy Maddox survey results from May 1998, which we have views on any particular goals!
Vice Chairman,WNP Steering Committee included with the newsletter. The Survey
4735 Heritage Lane results show the total number of votes for each An overview of the goals is attached for your
Phone 697-3625 question. We look for your input into additional review!
issues you may have! We received 109
Mark Hawkins,Secretary responses out of 426 surveys hand delivered to
15488 Quarry Road WNA members.
Phone 675-0287
e-mail: ailmhawk@aoI.com
Thank You
Cheryl Uchida
Bruce Goldson, Past Chairman Carol Anderson& Carolyn Crider
Harriet Bennett, Past Chairwoman
Did anyone NOT notice that the 1-5/217 The WNA Board and Steering Committee
Sid Sin interchange construction has begun? would like to thank you for your diligent work in
Lake Oswego Community Development, getting the WNA recognized by the city and
Planning Division,Associate Planner laying the groundwork for our Plan. We miss
you!
380 A Avenue
P.O. Box 369 Historical Sites in Waluga?
Lake Oswego,OR 97034
Phone 697-7421 Did you know that the City has special GENERAL MEETING
e-mail: ssin@ci.oswego.or.us designations for historic resources? None
have been identified within our boundaries...so Tuesday, May 9, 2000
if you think one exists,let us hear from you! 7:30 P.M.—9:00 P.M.
Let us know if we have the incorrect name
on your newsletters Lake Grove Elementary School
WNA Boundaries LUBA upholds City approval for Albertson's We will be asking the general membership
The state Land Use Board of Appeals upheld to vote for adoption of the Vision Statement
Portions of Lake Oswego bordered by Carman the City Council vote to approve rezoning for a and Goal 1.
Drive, Boones Ferry Road and the Westerly parking lot Albertson's plans to knock down Our next general meeting is scheduled for
City Limit from Firwood Road, North to two houses it owns and add 50 more parking October 4,2000 from 7:30—9:00 P.M.
Oakridge along the median of Waluga Drive to places to their current location
Carman Drive, all in Lake Oswego, Clackamas
County,Oregon
Waluga Neighborhood Association
General Meeting
Summary 5/9/00 (7:30-9)
NOTE: This is staffs summary of the meeting, not the official approved Neighborhood
Association minutes. In addition, the sign-in sheet has not been able to be located.
Meeting began at 7:40 PM
Attendance:
14 people total
Location: Lake Grove Elementary School
City: Sidaro Sin, Associate Planner
Ron Hall, Cindy Maddox, Jeff Novak, Mrs. Novak, Cheryl Uchida, Harriet Bennett, Mrs. ???
Bruce Goldson, Mrs. Goldson, Mark Hawkins, Cecil ??, Bill Alrich (Hallmark), Mr. ???
-Discussed Agenda:
1) Introductions (City Staff& Plan Steering Committee)
2) Review past projects
3) Bill Alrich from Hallmark talked about the application to eliminate the
passageway condition
4) Sid talked about the Plan. How it fits into the big picture of planning and the
City's role
5) Jeff Novak,talked about the Plan regarding process and issues
6) Vision Statement
7) Goal 1, Citizen Involvement
8) Goal 5, Natural Resources
9) Goal 12, Transportation
Handouts:
a) 4/19/00 news letter
b) Waluga Plan Vision Statement
c) Waluga Plan Survey
d) Goal 1, Citizen Involvement (final draft, ready for endorsement)
e) Goal 5, Natural Resources (final draft, ready for endorsement)
f) Goal 12, Transportation (draft for review)
g) Summary of Statewide Planning Goals that affect the Waluga Plan
Sid Given:
a) 1/24/00 Proposed Boundary Map of the Neighborhood Associations
b) 3/31/00 Work Program
c) Summary of Statewide Planning Goal
1. Introductions (City Staff& Plan Steering Committee) ATTACHMENT
No comments
Waluga General Meeting Summary Page 1
5/9/00 7:30-9
2. Review past projects
a. Avemere
b. Hallmark
c. Schnitzer property(corner of Quarry and Oakridge)
d. Chevron at corner of Boones & Oakridge
3. Bill Alrich from Hallmark talked about the application to eliminate the passageway
condition
-talked about the pedestrian easement vacation
-indicated that the application is in
4. Sid talked about the Plan. How it fits into the big picture of planning and the City's
role
-refer to notes
5. Jeff Novak, talked about the Plan regarding process and issues
-refer to minutes done by Mark
6. Vision Statement
-People in attendance voted, approved adoption of the visions statement, no issues.
7. Goal 1, Citizen Involvement
-Voted, approved as is with the exception of defining what CPO is. Community Planning
Organization or County Planning Organization?
8. Goal 5, Natural Resources
-Voted on, approved as is, with the exception of including a"B" under the RAM
(Recommended Action Measure) for item (V).
9. Goal 12, Transportation
-Jeff indicated that we will be reviewing transportation issues in the next coming weeks.
-Provided a draft of Goal 12.
Meeting ended at 9:15
Follow-up Questions for Sid:
1) Will the Chevron remodel on Boones & Oakridge have sidewalks on Oakridge?
2) How can the Waluga neighborhood get a "Local Traffic Only" sign?
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Waluga Neighborhood Association
Draft Neighborhood Plan
OPEN ROUSE
AGENDA
February 22, 2001
Welcome & Introductions Ron Hall
Neighborhood Plan Review Jeff Novak & Sid Sin
Questions and Comments All
Motion to Accept or Modify Draft Plan All
Notice of WNA Officers Election in May Ron Hall & Jeff Novak
(Term: June 1, 2001 to December 31, 2002)
ATTACHMENT
WALUGA NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION
OPEN HOUSE for the Draft Waluga Neighborhood Plan and GENERAL MEETING
February 22,2001
Lake Grove Elementary School
15777 Boones Ferry Road
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February 22, 2001
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15777 Boones Ferry Road
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Written and Phoned in Comments for
Waluga Draft Plan Newspaper Mailer
(received on or before 2/23/01)
1. Kristen Mann
4637 D Galewood Street
Lake Oswego, OR 97035
No comments for Goals 1, 2, 9 and 11
Goal 5: Open Spaces, Scenic and Historic and Natural Resources
Thank you for keeping our town beautiful! I Iove out trees and green spaces.
Goal 10: Housing
AIthough I live in a multi-family dweIIing it's small-32 units I believe- & has many trees
unlike some others that have been built. I very much value the "small town"
neighborhood feel & would like to keep it that way w/out more major office bldgs or
apartment complexes.
Goal 12: Transportation
Currently, as noted in this plan, traffic on Quarry (& Galewood) has increased as have
speeds w/cut through traffic. Why not explore speed bumps or traffic rounds?
2. Dick Benedetti
15533 Heritage Court
Lake Oswego, OR 97035
Goal 1: Citizen Involvement
This is great. Please encourage all to be involved.
Goal 2: Land Use Planning
More open space.
Goal 5: Open Spaces, Scenic and Historic and Natural Resources
We should save all remaining unbuilt property in Waluga for open space.
Goal 8: Parks and Recreation
Adequate
Goal 9: Economic Development/Commercial Lands
Commercial and multi-family housing in Waluga is over built already. We should
discourage future development.
Written/Phone Comments for 2/22 N.A. meetir - Page 1
February 26, 2001
Goal 10: Housing and Residential Land Use
See#9 above
Goal 11: Public Facilities and Services
They are adequate. Would like to see more police patrols and encouragement of Crime
Watch Neighborhoods. Quarry Road is over used. Excessive speeding and people not
stopping at stop signs is a problem. It is getting dangerous for children and some how we
need to reduce traffic.
Other Comments, Su,2estions and General Observations:
Glad to see Waluga taking a proactive stance to keep our neighborhood's character.
Thanks to all of you on the committee.
3. Bill Humes (Apartment Chairperson)
15938 SW Quarry Unit A-8
Lake Oswego, OR 97035
Mr. Humes called me to discuss the draft neighborhood plan on February 14, 2001. Mr.
Humes indicated that he was concerned with development occurring on the property
located in the northwest corner of Quarry Road and Oakridge Road. I indicated that the
draft Plan encouraged that property to be purchased by the City and made part of Waluga
Park.
Mr. Humes was also concerned about delivery truck traffic from Albertson's Market. He
indicated that since the City put in the pork chop at the intersection of Quarry Rd. and
Boones Ferry Rd., northbound trucks have not been able to make left hand turns up
Quarry Rd. to deliver products. As an alternative, these trucks go up to Oakridge Rd.
turn left there,then turn left on Quarry Rd to get to Albertson's. This round-about route
brings excessive truck traffic (3 to 4 times a day) into residential parts of the
neighborhood, which disrupts the neighborhood.
However, Mr. Humes further indicated that with Albertson's proposed remodeling,
including moving the loading bays to the other side of the building, this issue should be
resolved.
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February 26,2001
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Please fill out the attached comment form,give us some time to make changes based on your comments and come to the
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Sidaro Sin,Associate Planner RECEIVED
City of Lake Oswego,Community Planning Department P.O. Y
Box 369,Lake Oswego,OR 97045
or Fax to Sid's attention at 503-635-0269 F1=$ I S 2 01
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Commission and City Council public hearings regarding the Waluga Neighborhood Plan,please leave a voice
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Waluga Neighborhood Association
Open House on Draft of the Neighborhood Plan and General Meeting
Lake Grove Elementary School
7:00-9:00 P.M.
Meeting Summary
Agenda: Refer to attached agenda
Attendance: 18 signed in (19 total, 20 including staff)
Taken by: Sidaro Sin
(Please note that this is a summary of the meeting taken by City staff. This is not the
official approved minutes as taken by the neighborhood association)
Meeting began at 7:15 P.M.
Notes:
Ron Hall, Neighborhood Association Chair
• Introduction
Sidaro Sin, City of Lake Oswego Planning Department
• Introduction of Neighborhood Plan and Planning Process
• Context of neighborhood plan within the Statewide Planning Goals, Metro
Functional plan and Lake Oswego Comprehensive Plan
• Elements of the Neighborhood Plan (Goals, Policies, Recommended Action
Measures)
Jeff Novak, Neighborhood Plan Steering Committee Chair
• Review of major points of the neighborhood plan by goals
Goal 1- No Comments
Goal 2-
Bill Allred (owner of Hallmark): indicated that RAM VI, there should not be a time limit
perse because the property might be in the development review process. However, if it
can be shown that no progress has been made towards development, then the zone change
should be changed. Perhaps reword it to include a sentence that says, it should revert
back to the prior zoning unless it can be shown that there has been substantial progress
towards developing the property for what it rezoned to. Substantial progress may include
issuance of building permits or the City's acceptance of a completed land use application.
RAM vi. Explore the possibility of a Comprehensive Plan Text Amendment that
would apply a certain time limit on a Comprehensive Plan and Zone
Change Amendment, in which a property would be required to be used for
what it was rezoned to, or the property would revert back to its original
zoning designation. The property would automatically revert back to
the previous zoning if no substantial progress has been made towards
developing the property for what it was rezoned to. Substantial
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progress may include, but is not limited to, issuance of a building
permit or the City's acceptance of a completed land use application.
(Note: Words in bold are meant to identify new language)
Elizabeth Crosby: She was concerned about the general concept of RAM VI. Why
should we force someone to rezone their property back to what it was rezoned from if
they don't develop it to what it was rezoned for?
Members of the Steering Committee indicated that the intent of this RAM is to reclaim
parts of the residential neighborhood that were rezoned to commercial, but have never
been used as commercial. In particular the two single-family homes located at 15820 and
15880 Quarry Road.
Goal 5-
Bill Allred: For clarity, we should take out a portion of the last sentence of Policy 4, it
should read as follows:
Policy 4 Where practicable*, require landscaping and plantings of trees which grow
to a significant size for all new development. Tree planting, including,
including species selection and location shall take into account solar
access requirements (LOC Chapter 57) and each property owners'
particular solar access needs.
(Strike out indicates removing text)
The group was in agreement.
Goal 8- No Comments
Goal 9-
General comment: It was noted that an asterisk was omitted for"Lake Grove Business
District". The asterisk is to signify that the word is defined in the back of the Plan.
Goal 10-
Elizabeth Crosby: Indicated that she was concerned with the wording of RAM iv.
Specifically "iv(a) Discouraging the planning of hedges and other plant materials which
substantially screens residences from view." She opined that there should not be any
language that discouraged the planting of hedges and she did not want to see any
additional regulations that promoted this.
In response, Jeff Novak indicated that it was as a RAM and therefore is not regulatory in
nature. In addition, the intent was for public safety purposes as it notes in the beginning
of the RAM. The Steering Committee felt that if there were tall hedges in the front yard
it might cause vision problems for vehicles, especially for corner lots and also tall hedges
might be inviting for someone to hide behind. This is meant to only pertain to front
yards. Most of the attendees agreed with Jeff's response and were in favor of keeping it
in.
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February 22,2001
Elizabeth Crosby: Indicated that RAM x should be removed because she opined that this
potentially empowered a neighbor to stop of slow down a neighbors project if they ever
decided to build a home larger than two-stories.
In response, Jeff Novak indicated that again this is a RAM and not regulatory. The intent
of this RAM was to promote communication between neighbors.
It was generally agreed that it should be kept in.
General comment: It was noted that RAM vi included an incorrect address. The correct
address is 15850 and not 15880.
Goal 11- No Comments
Goal 12-
General comment: Policy #2 "street" should be placed in from of"right-of-way" because
it is a definition.
Bruce Goldson moved to accept the initial draft with edits. It was seconded.
Ayes=18
Nayes=0
Abstain=0
Concerns.'
Meeting adjourned at 9:15 P.M.
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January 24, 2000
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I. CALL TO ORDER
The Planning Commission meeting of Monday, January 10, 2000 was called to order by
Acting Chair William Beebe at 6:35 PM in the Council Chambers of City Hall, at 380
"A"Avenue, Lake Oswego.
II. ROLL CALL
Members present were Commissioners William Beebe, Ray Edwards, Chris Fowler*,
Daniel Vizzini and David Waring. Chair Kenneth Sandblast and Vice Chair James
Johnson were excused.
Staff present were Ron Bunch, Long Range Planning Manager; Jane Heisler, Project
Planner; Evan Boone, Deputy City Attorney and Iris Treinen, Senior Secretary.
III. CITIZEN COMMENT - Regarding Issues Not On the Agenda
None.
IV. APPROVAL OF MINUTES
None.
V. GENERAL PLANNING- WORK SESSION
Neighborhood Association Boundaries—Public Comment
Jane Heisler, Project Planner, presented the staff report. She advised that nine
neighborhood associations had indicated they agreed with the boundaries proposed in
the document: Bryant, Evergreen, Lakewood, First Addition, Forest Highlands, Oak
Creek, Old Town, McVey-South Shore and Westridge. She pointed out that the Bryant
Neighborhood boundary had been redrawn to exclude an area that was within the
Rosewood CPO. She then addressed outstanding neighborhood boundary issues.
Blue Heron/Palisades. Ms. Heisler noted the Blue Heron Neighborhood Association
had proposed a small dual interest area that included residential properties and an open
space area. She advised that the proposed definition of "dual interest area" did not
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include single family residential land use and she recommended that only areas with an
open space, commercial or mixed use character be so designated.
Glenmorrie. Ms. Heisler pointed out that Exhibit A-12 showed a Glenmorrie
Neighborhood boundary that reflected the neighborhood's desire to include all
properties that were within the Glenmorrie Water Cooperative. In addition, the
boundary was prepared to include the Glenmorrie Heights area.
Holly Orchard. Ms. Heisler recalled that a resident of the area had suggested that the
Holly Orchard association boundary be expanded to include an area of high density
residential and office uses currently in the Waluga Neighborhood Association. She
advised that although the neighborhood had not recently discussed the issue of their
boundary, in past years their association had indicated they did not desire the area to be
included in their neighborhood.
*Commissioner Fowler arrived at 6:41 PM.
Lake Grove/Waluga proposed dual interest area. Ms. Heisler noted that the two
associations proposed to designate the Town Center area as a dual interest area.
Lake Grove/Springbrook. She recalled that the Lake Grove Neighborhood
Association had proposed that an area on the east side of Twin Fir Road be designated
as a dual interest area (see Exhibit A-1 5), but the Springbrook Neighborhood
Association had not supported the proposal. She noted that the issues of proposed dual
interest areas in the Hunt Club and the Iron Mountain Natural Areas also remained to be
resolved.
Lake Grove/Waluga. The Commissioners noted that the Lake Grove map (Exhibit A-
15) and the Waluga map (Exhibit A-17) showed different common boundaries along
Kruse way in the area of Mercantile Village. Ms. Heisler clarified that Exhibit A-15
showed the correct proposed boundaries. She related that the Waluga, Lake Grove and
Rural Lake Grove neighborhood organizations had agreed that the Lake Grove
Neighborhood Association would include a one-block deep area along the west side of
Boones Ferry Road until the Waluga Neighborhood Plan was in place; whereupon the
boundary between the neighborhoods would be shifted back to the centerline of Boones
Ferry Road.
Rural Lake Grove/Waluga. Ms. Heisler pointed out a dashed line drawn within the
westerly portion of the Waluga Neighborhood (Exhibit A-17) showed where residents
had testified the boundary should be located between the Waluga and Rural Lake Grove
neighborhoods. She explained the Waluga Neighborhood desired to include the City's
reservoir sites within their neighborhood in case of future development of the sites and
they also desired to address traffic to and from the park. She explained the proposed
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