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The Lake Oswego City Council will hold its annual goal setting retreat on Saturday, February 21,2026 beginning at 9 a.m.
in Council Chambers at City Hall. In preparation,the City Council would like to hear from the community.
Please take a few minutes before 5 p.m.on February 12,2026 to share your input. Comments will be shared with the City
Council before their retreat.
Name anonymous
Neighborhood First Addition Neighbors/Forest Hill
What would you like to see the City Council consider in their 2026 goal setting session?*
Here are my comments on the 2026 City Council goals:
1. Please do not spend any more time promoting your idea of a new"Community Center".You just built one—it's
called the LORAC. Please give the LORAC some time to evolve and have residents learn how to use it. For
example,there is a toddler play time at the LORAC several days a week.We don't need to spend$100 million to
build a Community Center that would offer the same thing. Instead,you should be prioritizing vital public
services like the water treatment facility and the South Shore fire station.These are the services that city
government was elected to provide.There is no land and no money for a Community Center,so don't keep
promising something that you can't deliver and that the city doesn't need.
2. If you ever start construction on the North Anchor project, it will be very important to mitigate the traffic
impacts that will likely occur on D and E Avenues,since B will likely be restricted due to construction. D and E
are already very busy, particularly in the late afternoon,with drivers cutting through in both directions between
Country Club and 43. I see drivers blow through stop signs on both D and E all the time. Please add more stop
signs or speed bumps on D and E-whatever it takes to discourage cut-through traffic.
3. It's also time to do something about the 6-way intersection at Country Club and Iron Mountain. Most drivers
don't want to wait their turn,and many can't figure out which lane to turn left from. Have a city traffic person sit at
that intersection for an hour and report back with what they see. It will make you never want to drive again.
4. Don't spend any further time trying to find a place for public pickleball courts. It's a noisy sport,and you'd also
need bathrooms and parking to make it work.There isn't any good place in the city for this. Let the private
market deal with the demand—in fact,that's already happening,with the new Pickleball Palace in Tualatin,and
at the big church off 205 in West Linn. Plus, it rains here 9 months out of the year,so indoor facilities are much
more efficient for year-round play.There is no need for City Council to spend any more time or money on this.
Remember,there's no available land in LO and no money for it.
5. Finally, regarding money—the voters just passed a bond for the school district,and there will likely be an
upcoming one for the fire station. I think voters will start to draw a hard line and would not approve a library bond
at this time.You need to wait several years before even suggesting it. City residents don't have unlimited money
to keep adding to their property taxes.One of the reasons we chose LO was due to lower taxes in Clackamas
County vs. Multnomah.So please BACK OFF on requesting voters to keep shelling out more and more money.
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