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I. CALL TO ORDER
City of Lake Oswego
Planning Commission and .
Commission t~~:z~n Involvemen~p~
February 11, 2008
Vice Chair Julia Glisson called the Planning Commission and Commission for Citizen
Involvement meeting of Monday, February 11, 2008 to order at approximately 6:00 p.m.
in the Council Chambers of City Hall, at 3 80 "A" A venue, Lake Oswego, Oregon.
II. ROLL CALL
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Members present besides Vice Chait Glisson were Commissioners· Adrianne Brockman,
Philip Stewart and Alison Webster. Chair Colin Cooper and Commissioners Mary Beth
Coffey and Scott Siegel were excused.
Staff present were Dennis Egner, Long Range Planning Manager; Sarah Selden,
Neighborhood Planner; Laura Weigel, Neighborhood Planner, Evan Boone, Deputy City
Attorney and Iris Treinen, Administrative Support .
CITIZEN COMMENT
None.
IV. MINUTES
Commissioner Webster moved to annrove the Minutes of January 14, 2008. Vice Chair
Glisson seconded the motion. Since a majority of Commissioners eligible to vote on the
minutes were not present, the Commissioners held an interim vote with the final vote to
occur at· the next Planning Commission meeting. The interim vote results were that
Commissioner Webster and Vice Chair Glisson voted to· approve the minutes a11d
Commissioners Brockman and Stewart recused.
V. COMMISSION FOR CITIZEN INVOLVEMENT
The Planning Commission met as the Commi.ssion for Citizen Involvement (CCI) to
discuss citizen involvement guidelines, neighborhood associations, comiriunication tools
and support.
Dennis Egner, Long Range Planning Manager; and Sarah Selc:len a.nd Laura
Weigel, Neighborhood Planners, presented the stiff report. They recommended
reducing the four cliltent classifications of neighborhood associations to two:
"Recognized Neighborhood;' and "Other Neighborhood." They reported that Skylands
Commwtity Planning Organization (CPO) was interested in. working toward City
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recognition. They reported that some members of the Palisades Neighborhood
Association wanted to split that association into two smaller associations. they indicated
that there was no established process for doing so. •
St~f reported that neighborhoods wanted to know if they were allowed to vote by proxy.
Staff said the Citizen Involvement Guidelines did not address that, ancl some people were
concerned that people voting by proxy would not be as informed as members who
participated in the meeting and voted. Mr. Boone advised that each neighborhood
association was a separate legal entity and how a neighborhood association governed
itself was not usually a City matter, except that the City did want assurance that e~ch
neighborhood solicited all members' opinions about land use applications. Staff
indicated that the City did ask each neighborhood association to establish some procedure
for elections.
Staff reported that some active associations wanted the City to support more than the two
mailings pet year the City provided for them. Staff cautioned that it would require more
staff time than was currently budgeted, so another alternative might be to give the
associations funds to use for that plirpose. They report~d that some associations did not
agree with the City's practice of reviewing each newsletter to ensure the information was
accwate. They asked if staff should simply mail each newsletter with a "disclaimer"
printed on it that specified the neighborhood was responsible for its content. Staff
proposed ways to improve service to neighborhood associations, including making the
City website more effective and easy for them to. use; offering quarterly outreach
Workshops for neighborhood associations; distributing a quarterly newsletter with tips •
from staff and updates on neighborhood planrting activities; and creating a "neighborhood
association" option on Listserv for distributing neighborhood plaililing news
electronically. ·
Mr. Egner advised the City had more and smaller neighborhood associations than
typically found in other jurisdictions. He cautioned that at some point an association
might become too small to be very effective. Mr. Boone stressed that· the City was
primarily concerned with ensuring that each association gathered opinions about
legislative and land use matters from all its members and reported both majority and
minority views. Staff clarified that the City required each association to adopt an official
procedure for. elections, but allowed each neighborhood to determine what that procedure
was to be.
During the questioning period, staff reported that the City had twentY . neighborhood
associations. They suggested that if the Commissioners agreed the City should allow a
neighborhood association to split, the sarile procedure and criteria could be used for that
as was used to form a new association. Commissioner Brockman observed that there
were 20 neighborhood associations but ortly 18 persons in the audience.
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Public Testimony
Sally Moncrieff, Chair of the Palisades Neighborhood Association, 2643 Riven dell
Road,. submitted a document. that· described bow the Association was organiz~d, what
they were working on, and how they were trying to involve all Palisades Neighborhood
Association (PNA) members.· She said the association's large size was a benefit because
it was well-organized, enjoyed a large pool of potential volunteers and bad 17 board
members and 12 atea managers who were working on their website, local projects, issues
and member involvement. She reported PNA meetings were typically well attended and
the association was doing a good job of reaching its members. Ms. Moncrieff said they
were currently working on an emergency response plan, sustainability, a local park, and
the neighborhood plan. She related that a vendor had offered to publish the PNA
newsletter because the association was big enough the publisher could anticipate
sufficient advertising revenue. She said ~e Association planned to focus on better
communication.
Mark. Easley, 1921 Woodland .Terrace, a Palisades Neighborhood Association Area
Representative, indicated he did not support splitting the PNA. He suggested the City
help the association with outreach by hosting and financially supporting a website that all
City neighborhoods could use. He predicted the result would be a higher level of
participation and it would facilitate "qUick surveys." He noted that people could choose
to ''opt in" to receiving communications via ernail, i_nstead of regular mail.
Jaliene Hollabaugh, 1685 Cloverleaf Road, Palisades neighborhood Area 9 resident,
indicated thaf she favored splitting the association in a manner that would give two or
three of the areas aroUn.d publicly owned land a stronger voice in what happened there.
She recalled they had been told yea,rs ago to· wait until their neighborhood plan was
completed before discussing a split. ·She explained that the plan currently divided the
PNA into "areas" and that would make it easier to facilitate a split. She noted Old Town
only included 100 homes. Sh~ asked why Palisades Neighborhood Association had been
originally made so large. During the questioning period, she explained that her area· did
not feel the association gave enough weight to their opinion, and even before the issue of
public land came up, they believed they had a communication problem with the rest of the
association. She stressed that it was time for the neighborhood to split.
David Feathers, 17721 Overlook Circle, Vice Chair of the Palisades Neighborhood
Association said "shrinking" the PNA would not be a good thing, and it would set a
dangerous precedent. He noted PNA size was the reason the newsletter vendor was able
to anticipate e11ough advertising revenue that they could offer the PNA that service at no
cost to the association. He atg\led that residents who lived farther away from the school
Were still interested in and impacted by its use. He indicated the solution to the perceived
conummication problem was to discuss member differences irt an open forum, and the
neW PNA board was doing that. He said meetings typically drew over 100 members. He
said after the last vote on a land use issue (the result was 90 in favor, and 15 against) the
board issued both a majority and a minority statement.
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Jay Woodworth, 2070 Ridge Pointe Drive, explained that a hill divided of the Palisades
Neighborhood Association into east and west. He said he resided on the "east" side
where residents were challenged by the prospect of incteasing traffic and safety' issues as ·
land arO\lnd them w~ developed. He said a split was justified because east side residents
(currently the "minority") should have a greater voice ip developments that would affect
the east, but not the west side. Mr. Woodworth said he had served on the "old" board,
and the "new" board was not fostering goodwill and friendship because they were
demanding and impractical. He said that membe.rs should have to attend meetings to
discuss issues and vote and proxy voting did not offer sufficient opportunity for that ·
Martin Heisler, 45 Morningview Circle, who represented the Mountain Park
Homeowners Association, relayed questions posed by their new general manager and
their board. He said he was President of the Summit at Moqnt~i._ Park, which was
one of a n\Ullber of smaller homeowner associations within the larger Mountain Park
Homeowners Association. He asked the City to clarify the status and relationship of the
large and small associations. Staff clarified that the legal and financial relationship of the
smaller and large associations and how they addressed local issues and semipublic
comnion areas was not a Corn:mission for Citizen Involvement matter, and the City's
interest was to ensure that all the neighborhoods and homeowners associations
sufficiently engaged their members before they took a pos~tion on land use matters being
considered by the Planning Department or by the Planning Commission. They advised
that Mountain Par~ had a unique status in the City system as a homeowners association -
not a neighborhood association -but there were steps outlined in the Citizen Involvement
Guidelines that Mountain Park could chose to follow if it decided to become an official
City neighborhood association too.
Becky Salsburg, 17986_ St. C~air Drive. who had served on the Palisades
Neighborhood Association, Neighborhood Plan Committee, reported that the
committee members had recognized that because the association was very hrrge and
divided by Cooks Butte, resid~nts who lived on the side of Cooks Butte that was -less
challenged. by new development, were less motivated by common interests and were less
likely to attend meetings. She recalled they had intended to recommend splitting the
PNA before the p.ew board was elected, but after that the suggestion was set aside. She
questioned whether an email survey proc~ss could be established that would ensure broad
enough outreach.
Cheryl Uchida, 15190 Quarrr Road,. Secretaryffreasurer of the· Waluga
Neighborhood Associatio~, wondered if a few neighborhoods -negotiating together -
could negotiate a lower printing cost for newsletters ·than the City reported cost She
stressed volunteers in the Waluga Neighborhood made an enonno\lS effort to keep the
mailing list updated, published two newsletters a year, and passed out informational
flyers. She added they were ''tired." She doubted an email .. based COI.lliilunication process
would work well in her neighborhood where many people either did not own a computer
or did not access their email regularly. She recalled there had been times when City staff
wanted the association to edit the content of a draft newsletter, but the association bad
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insisted on no change. She reported it took two trips to City Hall to put out a newsletter. •
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She reported the association currently had art updated mailing list with over 500
addresses, including addresses of business property tenants who did not live in the
neighborhood. She thanked Planning Department staff for helping Waluga with their
newsletter. She reported that a part of the Waluga neighborhood along Waluga Drive bad
previously split off and joined the Lake Forest Neighborhood after they differed with the
rest of the Waluga Neighborhood Association regarding traffic calming on Quarry Road
and Albertson's development. She recalled her neighborhood had icitiallych~lep.ged the
split, but subsequently decided to let them make the change. She said the Waluga
Neighborhood Association had learned over time that it was most effective to join
together with other adjacent associations to find common ground on issues before they
took a position on them, because there was strength in nu.mbers.
During the questioning period, Commissioner Brockman suggested adding a
neighborhood section to each monthly issue of Hello LO! to promote outreach and reduce
the cost to neighborhoods. Ms, Uchida said she wou1d discuss that with her bo~d, and
she suggested the City also ask Lake Oswego Neighborhood Action Coalition (LONAC).
When Commissioner Brockman asked if the CCI should be a separate body -not the
Planning Commission acting as CCI -Ms. Uchida, cotrlirrned that was her personal
. opinion. When Commissioner Brockman· asked why there were not more representatives
· from associations present at the CCI meeting, Ms. Uchida said it was likely not due to
apathy but because working people wanted to spend available time with their families and
felt they could rely oil their neighborhood representatives. Others present recalled that
one of the City's neighborhood associations had scheduled their own meeting that
evening, and some present speculated that Lake ·Grove and Lake Forest members might
be tired after spending so .much time at meetings on the Village Center Plan.
Mike Hall, 2080 Ridge Pointe Drive, Palisades Neighborhood Association Area 11
Representative, argued that no matter how small a neighborhood was, there would be
diversity of opinion, so that was not a sufficient reason to split the association. He said
the new board was more active. They had been Working hard since they had been elected
in July, and they just needed toe foster dialogue that wot~ld encourage the entire
neighborhood to trust each other and work together .. He said they all were impacted to
some extent by what happened at public facilities hi the neighborhood.
Discussion
Staff asked if the Commissioners wanted to recommend a process for splitting a
neighborhood association and incorporate it into the Commission for Citizen Inyolver:nent
guidelines. Commissioner Webster wanted to know the circlJII1stances under which the
Palisades Neighborhood Association boundary was originally established, and what had
changed since then. She suggested that if a neighborhood split were proposed, the
potential new neighborhood should first have to meet City criteria for forming a
neighborhood and then be supported by majority vote of the entire original association.
Commissioner Brockman agreed there shot~ld be a process and the criteria should be met
first -whether the group wanted to split, or modify boundaries. However, she suggested
the application then be reviewed and approved by a City he~ngs body, instead of by an
association vote, because some areas, like· her own, were so diverse that they might be
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able to agree to ask for recognition, but would likely not be able to agree on a specific
plan. Commissioner Stewart suggested the process should also address what was
necessary to merge part of a neighborhood with an adjacent neighborhood. Mr. Egner •
agreed to fashion criteria and a. related process for Planning Commission examination.
He anticipated it would consider factors such as whether the area was divided by a major
street or tQpography; whether there had been a change in circumstances; or if there was a
problem with representation. He advised the City Col.incil Would make the fmal
determination of whether or not to recognize the neighborhood. Vice Chair Glisson
sugge$ted considering wh~t common interest$ held the area together. Comn::tis$ioner
Webster suggested leaning toward keeping a neighborhood together unless there was a
good reason not too, because it might not be beneficial to allow a neighborhood to get too
small. Others recalled that a developer h~d fonned Mm,mtain Park and that several other
neighborhoods had formed to protect themselves from an adjacent business district.
They observed that Palisades would be tremendously impacted by Stafford area
development. They suggested every part ofthe Urban Growth Boundary (UGB) should
be in a neighborhood.
The Commissioners discussed other parts of the staff report. They generally favored the
simplified neighborhood classification system. They also indicated they felt that a
neighborhood that was inactive should be allowed to remain "dormant'' until an issue
developed that motivated the members to become more active again. They suggested that
some neighborhoods that had been especially active recently might want to give their
members a respite from frequent meetings. Commissioner Brockman recalled LONAC
had disctissed "continuity problems" after complete new boards were elected and the •
previous, experienced, board members were gone. She suggested allowing staggered,
two-year; terms might keep $Orne experienced board members on the board after an
election and might result in involving more members in their association. Vice Chair
Glisson agreed that would foster continuity, while mixing new and old opinions about
issues, Mr. ·Egner suggested allowing a mix: of one and two-year terms.
Mr. Boone said the City currently required aililual elections, but if was up to each
neighborhood to decide the terms of their board members. He advised that if the Planning
Commission decided the City should mandate staggered term$, the Commissioners
1 needed to provide the rationale showing Why that requirernent was likely to result in
better representa,tion. :He reiterated that the City's interest was ensuring that
neighborhood boards fulfilled their responsibility to ~~bmit all positions, including
minority positions, to the City during legislative and land use hearings. He observed that
some CCI Guidelines "encourage'' inl)tead of mandate. When asked, he clarified that a
neighborhood could exist outside of City recognition, but recognition gave them status to
testify as a neighborhood and incorporate their plan into the Comprehensive Plan.
Commissioner Brockman moved to _recommend that the City add a criterion for
neighborhood recognition that requited an association to have :tW()-year~minimum,
staggered terms for memb~rs of their board of directors. Commissioner Webster
seconded the motion and discussion followed. Vice Chair Glisson observed th~t would
not prevent a board member from vacating his/her position in mid-tetiil. Commissioner •
Brockn'lan clarified the change would set a minimum two-year term, but would allow
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three-yeat terms, if a neighborhood wanted that. Cortlrtlissioner Stewart suggested that
one-year terms might make it easier to convince people to commit to serve on a board,
and suggested allowing a board member to automatically exte11d hi_slher one-year tenn for
one more year. Mr. Egner suggested requiring that a specific percentage of board
positions carry ovet to the next year. Colilrtlissionet Brockman agreed that Would help
ensure continuity of gained knowledge and perhaps greater participation. Commissioner
Webster suggested requiring one-year terms but recommending that terms be staggered so
the entire board and its agenda did not change after an election. Vice Chair Glisson
suggested specifying that at least 50% of board positions were to be staggered.
Commissioner Brockman withdrew her motion.
Vice Chair Glisson moved to recommend to the City Council that CCI Guidelines be
changed to· recommend that neighborhood association boards establish a minimum of
two-yearterms_ofservice.ontheir board ofdirectors_and sche4u1~ ~lections so that at least
50% of board positions were staggered terr:ils. Cotntnissioner Brockman seconded the
motion and it passed 4:0.
The Commissioners then discussed the issue of proxy voting. Commissioner Brockman
did not favor allowi_ng proxy voting becau$e she worried that it would destabilize the
neighborhood planning process if some members wete allowed to vote against a plan the
· p_lanning committee had worked hard on and reached consensus mi. She said not
a1lowing proxy voting would mean that members would have to attend meetings and
learn the pros. and cons before they voted on issues. Commissioner Webster observed
that people led busy lives with schedules that might conflict with neighborhood meeting
schedules, and they were used to voting by mail in other elections. She said it Would be
fait to allow them to vote by alternative means if they could not attend a specific meeting.
Mr. Egner asked if the Commissioners wanted to differentiate between allowing proxy
voting in elections and votes regarding a land use position. Commissioner Webster was
not sure proxies should be counted in land use votes. Vice Chair Glisson also was not
sure. She agreed with testimony that email could be "abused," and perhaps should not be
used in voting, but she said it was a good method of communication~ She recalled that
neighborhood representatives on the committee that drafted the Lake Grove Village
Center Plan used email as one means of comrtnirticating with their constituents, but many
busy neighbors trusted their representative to be their voice ancl vote on the committee,
and represent them at land use and pre-application meetings. Cominissioiler Stewart
stressed the CCI should encourage people to attend neighborhood meetings if they wanted
to vote on the issues. Commissioner Brockman observed that if they could not ~ttend,
they could send a letter, or another representative to share their position, instead. Vice
Chair Glisson invited public comments regarding proxy voting.
Bob Barman, 14450ak Terrace, said he was like many others and had obligations that
sometimes conflicted with the neighborhood meeting schedule. He held they should not
be disenfranchised because they col!ld not attend a meeting. He reported that it was
typical for 80% of Lake Oswego Corporation member votes to be by prozy. He asked
why only the 20% present in a meeting room should be allowed to rnake the decision. He
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added that in a democracy, all were allowed to vote, no matter what their level of
knowledge, and it was the responsibility of the neighborhood association to try harder to
inform them. He said people trusted their more-informed friends to guide and represent •
them in good faith at Lake Oswego Corporation meetings. He acknowledged the proxy
system could potentially be abused, but he worried that not allowing proxy voting would
result in increased apathy, because people would wonder why they should bother to pay
attention.
Vice Chait Glisson agreed that a proxy voting system could be abused 1lllless there was
also a good communication system in place that kept members well infotmed and gave
them trust in their represent~tives. She suggested the Planning Commission could
recommend leaving the decision up to each neighborhood, or recommend conditions that
had to be in place before a neighborhood adopted a proxy System.
Ms. Moncrieff explained that even'th()Jlgh. I:>alisades Neighborhood Association bylaws
allowed proxy voting, the association had never conducted an election or made a land use
decision using proxy votes. All those decisions had been made by hal).d vote at m~etings.
She said the members understood that. She said they also used other means to inform
members, but they did not use electronic means to conduct surveys or ~ake decisions.
Other neighborhood representatives stressed that it was important for a neighborhood to
make strong efforts to inform and involve members in the planning process, but when
people could not attend meetings, they should still be able to participate in voting. One
stressed that he often voted by proxy in investment-entity-related decisions. The
representatives said electronic means was good for distributing information, but not for
surveys or voting, because some people could not use it. They added that proxy voters •
were not necessarily uninformed voters.
Commissioner Brockman said she could agree to not prohibit proxy voting if
neighborhoods wanted it. She suggested tracking how well it worked. ·Palisades
Neighborhood Association representatives clarified that they had never had to use proxy
votes to decide a vote because their meetings were typically very well attended and
counting proxy votes -even if they all voted the same way -would not have changed the
outcm:ne. They explained that they tried to inform all members; they documented every
action; and they had asked the City to assign neighborhood-planning staff to ensure that
everything was done fairly. Commissioner Brockman stressed that in Oregon's local and
national elections everyone was mailed a ballot, and a neighborhood should follow that
example.
Commissioner Webster suggested the Commissioners table the discussion, take no
3ctiop. to change Commission for Citizen Involvement Guidelines, and allow each
neighborhood to decide whether they wanted to allow proxy voting. Commissioner
Brockman suggested the City monitor how well proxy voting worked.
the Commissioners then discussed the newsletter issue. Commissioner Webster recalled
that a vendor had offered to publish the Palisades Neighborhood Association newsletter
because they had a large membership. She said such an arrangement might not be offered •
to smaller neighborhoods. Vice Chair Glisson recalled hearing that email communication
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wot1ld not work for some people. Commissioner Brockman asked if each neighborhood
could have a section in Hello LO! each month. Staff observed that publication was
generally used as the City Administrator's means of informing the public, but they
offered to talk with Public Affairs staff about adding a new section for neighborhood
announcements. Commissioner Webster suggested adding a disclaimer that each
neighborhood controlled the content of its section. Commissioner J3roc1anan suggested
the neighborhood section could refer readers to the neighborhood website, or some other
place to get more information. Commissioner Webster said if space were an· issue,
neighborhoods could be given Hello LO! space on a rotating basis that was coordinated
with their meeting schedule.
Commissioner Brockman suggested that staffask each neighborhood to fashion their own
communication strategy. The staff report described an option to simply give
neighborhood associations m.oney to spend on coll)IIlunication activities, and aliow them
to purchase what they needed themselves. However, staff recoiilinended against this
option because there was a cost savings to the neighborhoods in having the City provide
copying/mailing services, the City would be providing neighborhood mailing lists that
encompass the entire association, and staff would be infortned of neighborhood
association activities published in the newsletters. Staff clarified that the other option
was that each neighborhood a,ssociation would be given a specific budget and the City
would. continue assisting them with the printing and mailing. Commissioner Brockman
agreed the City should let neighborhoods determine the ways they wanted to
communicate and give them the money for it, as long as their process was designed to
teach all members. She recalled it was typical now for organizations to offer their
members the ability to opt to receive electronic col11Illunications instead of "snail mail."
Staff said they were developing training materials to use in neighborhood outreach
Workshops, and would suggest that.
Vice Chair Glisson advised that it was irnpottailt to identify the authors of newsletter
articles because the members should be able to see whose opinion it was. St~ confirmed
they were no longer requiring that newsletters be edited for content accuracy, but
provided suggested edits for the neighborhood's consideration and also required them to
include the editor's name and contact information. They said they could also require that
individual authors be identified.
The neighborhood representatives indicated that it was important to find a Wl:!.Y to protect
individual privacy when neighborhoods devdoped aJ1 email database, so someone would
not use it to spam members or for some other kind of abuse. They reported that a resident
who was a policeman had objected to the neighborhood keeping a databl:!.Se thl:!.t
connected his email address with his name and physical address. They wondered if it
would be better if the City maintained the email system and controlled email privacy.
Staff advised that emails from the City were public records, but there were ways to send
emails that hid all the other recipients' email addresses from each individual recipient,
and people now had the ability to use a ''throw-away" email address to receive mailings.
Commissioner Webster suggested giving each neighborhood association their own link
from the City website, and making website content "printable," so members who opted
out of"snail mail" could easily print a copy. ·
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Vice Chair Glisson said it made sertse for the Planning Department website to tell people
where they could go to get neighborhood information. She also liked the idea of outreach
workshops. Mr. Egner said they would ask the Information Technology (IT) staff what
would be involved in having the City host individual neighborhoods' websites. Ms.
Selden clarified that the City's n~ighborhood association website provided a link to
individual neighborhood associations and that they preferred not getting involved with
managing email lists. She said the City wanted the neighborhood associations to use the
web as a source· for information and a tool for reachii1g ou,t to their neighbors. They said
they already planned to send a staff email newsletter to all neighborhoods that contained
information ·and "tips." They pointed out that Commissioner Siegel had emailed a
suggestion to send out a supplemental survey to ~1 neighborhoods that would help
determine the effectiveness of the CCI program, and he had ilot specified what means
should be employed to do that.
One of the Palisades Neighborhood Association representatives said he had more in
common geographically, politically, and with regard to zoning and development
concerns, with lakefront owners, and he suggested a "lakefront" neighborhood association
should be formed to include properties located within two blocks of the lake. He recalled
that Country Club residents wanted a height restriction to prevent tall homes in their area,
but that limit did not work well ~ong North Shore slopes. He added that North Shore
owners were more comfortable with very small side yard setbacks, because they wanted
more spacious backyards. Vice Chair Glisson closed the CCI discussion. Staff was to .
propose changes and draft an update to the CCI Guidelines for future CCI consideration .
VI. PLANNING COMMISSION= WORK SESSION
Community Develo_pm~~~:t_Code (CDC) Amendments _(PP _08~0002)
Update on proposed text amendments to the Lake Oswego Code (LOC) Chapter 50
(Community Development Code) for clarifying, correcting and updating sections.
The Coii1Il1.issioners agreed to postpone this discussion to when they could schedule more
meeting time for it. Mr. Egner explained the update was so latge that staff had divided it
and would present it in three parts. The Commissioners planned to begin consideration of
the updates by determining which were "housekeeping" change$ ap.d which were
substantive changes that could have more impact and required more public vetting.
Commissioner Brockman suggested staff also present them to LONAC and alert the local
newspape_r. Vice Chair Glis~;on suggested they also alert the neighborhoods that the Code
updating process had begun. Staff invited each Commissioner to highlight items they
saw as potential issl!es for staff. They anticipated that some proposed CDC updates
might conflict with proposed Infill changes and it would be better to wait until the final
drafts of both proposals were ready before holding hearings.
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VII. ADJOURNMENT . . ,·-
There being no further btlsiness before the Pl~Iig Commission, Vice Chair Glisson
adjourned the meeting at approximately 8:50 p.m.
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Respectfully submitted,
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Iris Treinen
Administrative Support .
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