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Your Community Planning Organization in Oak Grove

Welcome to the official website of the Oak Grove Community Council (OGCC), often called the "Oak Grove CPO".

The Community Council normally meets on the 4th Wednesday of each month in the Fellowship Hall at Rose Villa, 13505 SE River Road Portland, OR 97222 from 7 PM to 9 PM. Everyone is welcome to attend. Additional meetings are also scheduled from time to time.

We enthusiastically urge you to attend the meetings and join in the dialogue.

To learn about the Oak Grove Community Council, and about the role it plays in the Oak Grove community, click About Oak Grove.

OGCC Board Meetings

The Executive Board of the OGCC normally meets once a month to review the previous month's meeting, to discuss plans for the upcoming monthly meetings, and to discuss community events and issues. The meetings are normally held on the first Wednesday of each month from 10 - 12 am at the fire station at 2930 SE Oak Grove Blvd, Oak Grove. All meetings are open to the public.

Note: At the September 2011 meeting, the Community Council approved changing the name of the Oak Lodge Community Council (OLCC) to the Oak Grove Community Council (OGCC). You may see some older text that still refers to the CPO with the old name.

Current Events and Announcements

Good Roots Community Garden

At the March OGCC meeting, Tony Iannetta of the Good Roots Community Church presented details about the new community garden project they are starting at the Church on Courtney Avenue. There are already 14 beds, 12 feet by 4 feet, growing well with salad greens and other vegetables. The next phase is to expand to nearly a quarter acre of gardens, to be farmed by church members and local citizens. People who work the gardens will get some of the harvest and the rest will go to people being served by the food bank.

Tony Iannetta is soliciting support from the membership, both for needed supplies and for helping hands. He supplied a list of the things they needed most:

Got any of these things to donate? If you do, contact Tony Iannetta at 503-702-8837. The above list is dated March 12, so check with Tony for updates. Also, check out the Good Roots Community Facebook page (search for Good Roots Community).

Community Council Votes NO on Walmart

A special meeting of the OGCC was held at Rose Villa on March 12th to discuss the design of a proposed Walmart market, to be located in the old G. I. Joe's building on McLaughlin (between Concord and Risley). The meeting was well attended, filling the Rose Villa meeting room.

The OGCC Land Use Application Review Team (LUART) requested the meeting to solicit views of the proposed Walmart market from the Oak Grove community. The LUART will report the views expressed by the community to the County planning department.

The sentiment of the group was quite clear: a majority did not want the proposed Walmart grocery store. The vote by the membership was:

NO - 56%
YES - 32%
Abstain - 12%

The LUART asks that people who did not get a chance to express their views, or who wish to elaborate on their views, to send their comments to the Team so they can include them in their response to the County. The deadline is March 20th, but the Team urges you to get your letters in well before that date to insure that they are included. The Team also welcomes questions from the membership and will do their best to answer them. Send your comments or questions to luart@oakgrovecpo.org.

If you want to express your views directly to the County, send them to Linda Preisz, lindap@co.clackamas.or.us. You can also address comments to the Board of County Commissisoners at bcc@co.clackamas.or.us, or if you want to send email to a particular Commissioner, click HERE for a list of their names and email addresses.

When sending email on this matter to the LUART or County, include the following on the Subject line: Design Review, file number Z0081-12-D, PacLand Store Remodel.

Here are some informational links, pro and con, about Walmart effects on communities that you might want to check out:

TriMet Releases Conduct of Construction Draft

As you know, the TriMet's Orange line is heading for Park Avenue. The new line and new station reached the 90% design stage in December, and full federal funding is on track to arrive soon. Fred Nelligan, OGCC's representative on the Citizens Advisory Committee (CAC) reported that TriMet has published a preliminary draft of the Conduct of Construction, a richly detailed document describing the construction of the East Segment, which includes the Park Avenue and Milwaukie stations.You can read this document HERE (PDF). Please note that this is a preliminary draft, subject to change.

If you have any questions or concerns, contact Fred Nelligan at fnelligan@oakgrovecpo.org.

Member Packet Available

OGCC is growing and becoming more active. To help new members, we've put together a Member Packet. Under one cover, it collects the various key documents that help define our organization, things like the By-Laws (recently revised!), the Communication Agreements, a description of our LUART, and so forth. Members are urged to download the Packet and look through it to get a clear perspective about what the OGCC is and how it functions.

You can download a PDF version of the Member Packet HERE.

County Seeking Input for Transportation Plan

The Clackamas County Board of Commissioners is seeking your input to help identify transportation issues and solutions in your area and countywide. Please visit www.clackamascountytsp.com to use an interactive map to pin point specific issues and solutions and/or give general comments about the current transportation system. The map will be available for comment for at least the next month. Detailed project information is available on the website, but please feel free to contact Ellen Rogalin, Community Relations Specialist with Clackamas County, at 503-742-4274 or ellenrog@co.clackamas.or.us with any further questions.

Please take advantage of this opportunity to help plan for the future of transportation in Clackamas County!

Revised OGCC By-Laws Passed

At the January 25th meeting of the OGCC, the voting members of the OGCC voted to approve the revised OGCC By-Laws without an further changes. You can read the final draft version HERE.

Record Attendance at the January OGCC Monthly Meeting

The January 25th meeting filled our Rose Villa meeting room. There was a lot of important business to take care of, and, in particular, the community turned out to hear an informed discussion of impacts our new Park Avenue light rail station might have on community crime rates. A number of members had been expressing concerns about what might happen when the station opened.

Our Chair, Eleanore Hunter, assembled an expert panel of senior law enforcement officials to shine some light on the subject and to clear up any questions or misunderstandings we might have about how light rail affects communities. The panel consisted of:

The lively discussion was still going on when time ran out, and members who still had questions or concerns were invited to continue the dialog with the panel in the Rose Villa library. They continued until well past 9 pm.

The panel put to rest many of the fears that were expressed, explaining how Trimet had earned many lessons from previous errors and how they have corrected them. They pointed out that land use planning in the station area, including the architecture and design of the station itself, was the most important factor in preventing crime increases around light rail stations, and they shed light on some of the myths that have been circulating. They expressed appreciation that the OGCC community was taking such an active role in the development of the station area.

OGCC Membership Elects Baldwin van der Bijl as Director at Large

Leonard Waldemar recently tendered his resignation as Director at Large, leaving an opening on the Board of the Oak Grove Community Council.

At its regular January meeting, the OGCC Board nominated Baldwin van der Bijl to fill the unexpired term of office through Feb 2013, and the membership elected Baldwin at its January 25th meeting.

At the meeting, the OGCC expressed its thanks to Leonard for his great service over the years, especially for his work on the LUART, and welcomed Baldwin as its new Board member.

County Transportation System Plan Workshop

You are invited to help plan the future of transportation in unincorporated Clackamas County by attending one of three public workshops. The workshops are a key part of the County’s Transportation System Plan (TSP) update process. Each workshop will include the same general content, with a focus on the needs and issues of that region of the County. People are encouraged to attend the workshop in their region.

Northwest (urban, unincorporated areas, including Oak Grove) – Monday, Jan. 30, 6-8 pm; Milwaukie Elementary School, 11250 SE 27th Ave., Milwaukie
East – Wednesday, Feb. 1, 6-8 pm; Eagle Creek Elementary School, 30391 SE Highway 211, Eagle Creek
South – Thursday, Feb. 2, 6-8 pm; Molalla River Middle School, 318 Leroy St., Molalla

At the workshop you will have the chance to learn more about the two-year TSP update process, comment on proposed goals and objectives, and express your views on current system problems and help identify possible solutions.

If you would like to participate but can’t attend a workshop, an online workshop is available at www.clackamascountytsp.com through February 5.

Through the TSP update, the County is reviewing plans and policies for various forms of transportation – roads, transit, walking, bicycling, rail, air, freight, waterways and pipelines – in unincorporated Clackamas County. When complete in 2013, the TSP will specify priority transportation projects for the next 20 years and address how those projects, and maintenance of the current system, can be funded.

A Public Advisory Committee (PAC) of residents from throughout Clackamas County and a Technical Advisory Committee are integral parts of the review process. The next PAC meeting, which the public is welcome to attend, will be held from 6-9 p.m., Tuesday, Feb. 7, in Room 115 of the County’s Development Services Building, 150 Beavercreek Rd., Oregon City.

More information about the project, information on upcoming meetings and opportunities for input are available on the project website at www.clackamascountytsp.com.

Community Council Supports Sidewalks on McLoughlin Blvd.

The Oak Grove Community Council passed the following motion made by Fred Sawyer at the January 25, 2012 meeting:

I move that the Oak Grove Community Council request ODOT prepare and apply for grants to construct the missing section of sidewalks and the missing lighting at pedestrian crossing along McLoughlin Boulevard. I also move that the Oak Grove Community Council request Clackamas County prepare and apply for grants to improve pedestrian and bike connections to the Trolley Trail, schools, parks and other key community destinations.

The community has just finished the McLoughlin Area Plan. The construction of Bike and Pedestrian connections and completing the missing sections of sidewalks along McLoughlin was a major desire of the community identified by the plan.

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Revised OGCC By-Laws (Proposed)

By-Law Review Committee, chaired by Tom Foeller, reviewed the Oak Grove Community Council By-Laws and proposed changes to clarify a few paragraphs. They reported back to the membership, which voted unanimously to accept the changes. The document was then sent to Clackamas County for their approval. They approved it, and the document is now ready for final approval by the Community Council. The Council will vote on it at its next meeting on January 25, 2012. Members are encouraged to review the document to refresh their memory about the changes. You can read the revised By-Laws HERE.

Land Use Issues

Briggs Z0304-11-C. Recently, the OGCC has been discussing a land use permit request to site a church in an Oak Grove residential (R-10) zone. The pertinent documents, including the land use application and nearby resident letters to the County's Planning and Development Department are accessible on the County's website, and available here using the following links:

Note: You can retrieve county land-use documents from the Clackamas County website. Go to the County's Transportation and Development page (www.clackamas.us/transportation/planning) and click on the Document Retriever dog logo. To access the files you want to review, enter the "Z" number of the permit.

Signs of the Times

Last month, the OGCC voted to purchase signs to help attract the greater Oak Grove community members to its monthly meetings.

Thanks to the hard work of OGCC Board member Tom Foeller, the signs are in (at well under our budget - thank you Tom!), and will be placed in visible locations around the community prior to our monthly meetings.

The monthly meetings occur from 7 pm to 9 pm on the 4th Wednesday of each month at Fellowship Hall, Rose Villa, 13505 SE River Road, Oak Grove. All meetings are open to the public.

The 2011 Dee Wescott Community Organization Award

We're proud to announce that our own OGCC Chair, Eleanore Hunter, was chosen to receive the 2011 Dee Wescott Community Organization award.

The Dee Wescott Community Organization award was established by the Board of County Commissioners in September 2009 as a way to recognize and thank citizens of Clackamas County for exemplary dedication and leadership in making a difference in the community.

Background: Dee Wescott helped organize the rural community of Damascus into a city in 2004 and served as its first Mayor until 2007. He exemplified citizen involvement and volunteerism. The first recipient in 2010 was Warren Jones from the Hamlet of Mulino.

The Commissioners invite you to attend the April 14 Business Meeting to acknowledge Ms. Hunter's achievements and contributions. Please invite any family and friends you wish to share with the Board’s recognition of her accomplishments.

Here are the details:

Thursday, April 14, 2011
10:00 am Business Meeting
4th Floor Commission Room
2051 Kaen Road
Oregon City, OR

OGCC Park Avenue Forum and Monthly Meeting - March 23

We will hold a Park Ave Forum on Wednesday, March 23rd from 6:00 to 6:45 pm at Rose Villa's Fellowship Hall - immediately preceding our regular Oak Lodge Community Council monthly meeting that runs from 7 to 9 pm.

This will be a monthly series to provide community members with a consistent forum where we can more fully understand and participate in the variety of activities that are converging on Park Ave - Tri-met's Light Rail station, the MAP Committee, the TGM grant, the Trolley Trail, and the Nature in Neighborhoods grant.

Future meetings of the Park Ave Forum, all to be held from 6:00 to 6:45 pm at Rose Villa, will be April 27th, May 25th and June 22nd.

Please pass this notice on to neighbors and friends interested in these exciting revitalizations of our community.

Trolley Trail Groundbreaking Ceremony - Tuesday, March 22

North Clackamas Parks and Recreation District, Clackamas County, Metro and other partners are working together to build the future Trolley Trail. The Trolley Trail is an approximately six-mile bike and pedestrian trail that connects neighborhoods from downtown Milwaukie to the City of Gladstone and beyond.

The trail, beginning construction now, will follow the historic streetcar right of way that ran in the area from 1893 until 1968. Construction is expected to be completed by late fall.

You are invited to a ceremonial groundbreaking on Tuesday, March 22, at 11 a.m. at Stringfield Family Park, the main trailhead, 3614 SE Naef Road.

If you have questions, contact Pam Girtman (503-742-4353 or parks@co.clackamas.or.us). Check the website at www.hhpr.com/trolleytrail.

See you at the grand opening this fall!

Land Use Application Review Meeting - March 21

The Oak Lodge Community Council's Land Use Application Review Team (LUART) will meet next Monday, March 21, 2011 at 10 AM at the Oak Lodge Sanitary District office, 14611 SE River Road, Oak Grove, to consider two land use applications. Copies are available at web5.co.clackamas.or.us/landuse/index.jsp.

Z0068-11 - Staff Temp. for Care at 12501 SE 24th Ave. - temporary placement of travel trailer for health care assistance.

Z0079/80/81/82-11 - Floodplain Development Permit, etc. (see below) - Siting of manufactured home within floodplain at 15212 SE River Forest Drive.

If we have time, we'll also discuss the 6-5 vote at the Community Council on the shared dock application, where we had unanimously recommended approval.

Also, time permitting, we should discuss Mike McCallister's e-mail about the relationship of transit availability and applications to change zoning to higher density.

Land Use Application Review Meeting

On Monday, March 7, 10 AM, at the Oak Grove Firestation, the OLCC Land Use Application Review Team (LUART) will meet to review application Z0041-11, a Partition Plat for 14501 SE Laurie Avenue.

All members of the public are welcome to attend and participate in meetings of the Land Use Application Review Team. The Team will report its findings to the Oak Lodge Community Council at its monthly meeting, which is the fourth Wednesday of the month, at 7 PM, at Rose Villa Fellowship Hall, 13505 SE River Road in Oak Grove.

Application Z0041-11 is a re-application of a previously expired approval (Z0744-06-M) to divide/partition the subject property into two (2) parcels - a 26,897 sf parcel to contain an existing home and an 8,000 sf parcel for a new home site. Access for each parcel is proposed via individual driveways off SE Laurie Avenue.

The existing lot is 0.77 acres and is zoned R-10.

Documentation for the original Application Z0041-11 is available at Clackamas County's Document Retriever site http://web5.co.clackamas.or.us/landuse/index.jsp. A copy of this document, which is 82 pages long, will be available at the meeting.

Some quick notes from this document:

Light Rail Design Open House

This winter-spring, TriMet's light rail project staff will be seeking community input regarding designs of the Tacoma, downtown Milwaukie and Park Avenue stations, the Kellogg Creek light rail bridge, and project connections to the Trolley Trail. They will cover light rail station area and alignment design. They will give a brief presentation at the beginning of each open house.

On Monday, March 7th, TriMet will hold an open house to present its designs for the new Milwaukie light rail station.

The details:

Date: Monday, March 7
Time: 6:30-9 p.m.
Location: Milwaukie High School, 11300 SE 23rd Ave., Milwaukie

The public is invited to attend.

Watch for dates for other open houses that will focus on how the other station sites are progressing.

2011 OLCC Board Election Results

Per our by-laws, election of the OLCC Board of Directors was held at the February 23, 2011 meeting of the OLCC.

The following OLCC members were elected for two-year terms.

Chairperson - Eleanore Hunter
Vice-Chair - Ed Riddle (Edrid)
Secretary - Jim Martin
Treasurer - Chaunda Wild
Directors-at-Large - Tom Foeller, Fred Nelligan, Leonard Waldemar

OLCC Board Elections

Per our by-laws, election of the OLCC Board of Directors will be held at the February 23, 2011 meeting of the OLCC. All Board positions will be elected for a two-year term.

The slate of candidates for the election will be presented at the January 26th meeting. If you want to run for an OLCC office, be sure to be at the January meeting. (Candidates can also be nominated from the floor at the February election meeting.) To be a Board member, you must be a voting member of the OLCC. Each candidate must give their consent before being placed into nomination.

Invitation From the Oregon Department of Forestry

Greetings,

Please consider sharing the following message about Oregon’s forests with your organization. We are seeking ideas from Oregonians outside of the forestry community and would like to hear from interested members.

Thanks,

Rod Nichols, Oregon Dept. of Forestry, Salem, Oregon

503-945-7425

November 12, 2010

Forests are inseparably tied to our state’s identity and well-being. The Oregon Board of Forestry and the Department of Forestry invite you to take part in planning the future of our forests.

A public comment period is underway on the board’s strategic plan, the Forestry Program for Oregon, and will run through Dec. 31, 2010. The draft 2011 update aims to provide for sound management of our forestlands to ensure that the many benefits they produce – clean water, jobs, forest products, wildlife habitat and recreation opportunities – will continue into the future.

We encourage you to review the plan on the board’s website, www.oregonforestry.gov/ODF/BOARD/fpfo2011.shtml. There, you’ll also find reference materials as well as information on how to share your comments and ideas with us.

One of the references there is a set of indicators intended to help Oregonians monitor our progress toward sustainable management of our forests. The indicators provide a sense of the many challenges – but also of the great potential – that our forests hold.

If after reviewing the draft 2011 Forestry Program for Oregon you find you have questions, please don’t hesitate to contact David Morman, the Oregon Department of Forestry’s Forest Resources Planning Program Director, at 503-945-7413, or dmorman@odf.state.or.us.

Your views will enrich the process as we work toward forest sustainability. Please join us in charting the course.

Sincerely,

Oregon Department of Forestry

OLCC Members Will Meet To Review ZDO Sustainability Updates

OLCC members and other Oak Lodge residents are invited to participate in an in-depth review of the County's sustainability changes to the Zoning and Development Ordinances (ZDOs). These are recent changes the County has been making to implement their committment to sustainability as set out in their Sustainability Resolution.

The meeting will be held at 7 - 9 pm at the Oak Lodge Sanitary District (OLSD) offices at the corner of Oak Grove Blvd. and River Road.

Reinventing Corridors and Centers

At the September 22, 2010 meeting of the OLCC, Dave Leland, President of Leland Consulting, presented an overview of planning principles and key ideas associated with revitalizing transportation corridors like our own McLoughlin Blvd. Mr. Leland's presentation documents are available HERE.

Portland to Milwaukie Light Rail Changes (Preliminary)

Leah Robbins, TriMet Coordinator for the new Portland to Milwaukie Light Rail project, presented updated information to the OLCC at its September 22, 2010 meeting. The changes were motivated by a reduction in the amount of funding promised by the Federal Department of Transportation. Originally, the plans for the extension were based on a 60% - 40% funding formula (60% federal contribution), but it appears now that the DOT contribution will be just 50%, leaving a gap of about $137M. TriMet went back to the drawing board to reduce the scope of the project. Click the link to see what changes are being considered. Note that no final decisions for these changes have been made (as of Sept 22), but the listed changes are the likely ones. Note also that the rows marked with an asterisk (*) are items that can be added back into the project should more funding become available.

Summary of Light Rail Project Changes (PDF)

OLCC Urges ODOT to Complete Sidewalk Improvements On McLoughlin Blvd.

This is a letter from the OLCC to Ted Miller at the Oregon Department of Transportation:

Dear Mr. Miller,

Attached is a letter from the Oak Lodge Community Council encouraging ODOT to strengthen our beloved community by filling in dangerous gaps of the fragmented sidewalks on both sides of McLoughlin Blvd just south of Park Ave.

The voting members of the OLCC, the Citizen Planning Organization representing approximately 30,000 residents in the unincorporated area just south of the city of Milwaukie, were swift, enthusiastic and unanimous in their support of this action.

The citizens of Oak Lodge have been without safe, consistent, contiguous sidewalks along the 40 mph state highway that not only bisects our community, but serves as our Main Street, for far too long. Phase I of the McLoughlin Area Plan, a recent community visioning process, found that safe connectivity for pedestrians and bicycles is one of the area's top priorities.

Thank you so much for the consideration of our request, and for all that ODOT has done in ensure the well-being of our community.

Sincerely,

Eleanore Hunter
Chair, Oak Lodge Community Council

OLCC's Response to the Proposed Tree Ordinance

The Board of County Commissioners will be holding a hearing about the latest version of the tree protection ordinance produced by the Planning Department. At the last hearing, the BCC instructed the Planning Department to compose an ordinance with reduced scope, primarily codes to close the "loophole" which allowed developers to clear cut property before they applied for a building permit, thus evading all the codes that deal with tree management and preservation.

The meeting will be held at 10 AM, September 8, 2010 in in the Board Hearing Room on the 4th floor of the Public Services Building, 2051 Kaen Rd., Oregon City. This hearing is for deliberation and decision only, but the public is invited to attend.

There will be no public comment at this meeting. The BCC will take written testimony from the community until shortly before the meeting, so if you want to weigh in, send your letter or email prior to the meeting (the earlier, the better).

OLCC Letter to the BCC - under direction of the voting members of the OLCC, the OLCC board composed this letter for submission to the BCC. It was sent on September 7.

Proposed Comprehensive Plan Amendments - the County Comprehensive Plan amendments that were referenced in the OLCC letter.

The following are background documents for the hearing that were sent by the County to the OLCC and others on September 2, 2010.

BCC revised Ordinance of 8/19/2010

ZDO-219 BCC Summary

ZDO-219 Chapter 3 Draft

ZDO-219 Conforming Amendments

ZDO-219 Exhibitrs 182-185

ZDO-219 Section 1002_8-18-10

Foothill Planning Associates Study

3/19/2010 - Foothill Planning Associates is a group of six Portland State University students in the Master of Urban and Regional Planning program. Between January and June 2010 they are working with the Oak Lodge Community Council and Clackamas County Urban Green to create an Oak Grove Neighborhood Center Plan within unincorporated Oak Grove. Click this link for more information about the project.

OLCC Evaluation of the Proposed Tree Canopy Ordinance

As discussed at February 24th meeting, the Land Use Team and other interested members of our community have been hard at work crafting a response to the proposed Tree Canopy Ordinance to be submitted to the County Planning Commission on March 15th.

Hours upon hours have been poured into this complex and nuanced issue to arrive at the documents attached for your review

1 - Executive Summary
2 - Proposed Comprehensive Plan Amendment
3 - Proposed ZDO Amendment

If you have any questions or comments, please respond by March 10 at 6 pm. Apologies for the tight timing, the document revisions took longer than anticipated - open the files and you'll see why!

We will be having a Special Meeting of the OLCC immediately following the CIA meeting this Wednesday, March 10th, to start no earlier than 8:30 pm, to vote on sending this response to the Planning Commission.

Deep thanks and appreciation for all who are participating in this effort to preserve, maintain and restore our tree canopy.

Eleanore Hunter, OLCC Chair

New Tree Ordinance Documents

3/2/2010 - Here are the latest versions of the tree ordinance documents that have been created by the Planning Department and forwarded to the Planning Commission for review. The new documents include ZDOs (Zoning and Development Ordinances) and changes to the Comprehensive Plan.

Public Hearings Notice - details about the March 22 public hearing

Section 2010 - the tree ordinance

Amendments to the Comprehensive Plan - this is part of Chapter 3, dealing with trees

Conforming Amendments - a variety of amendments needed to stitch the tree ordinance into the existing ZDOs

Section 1001 - General provisions

Section 1002 - Protection of Natural Features

Section 1602 - Village residential districts

Tree Ordinance Documents

2/23/2010 - The Staff at Clackamas County Planning Department has submitted new draft ZDOs (zoning and development ordinances) and edits to the Comprehensive Plan to implement the tree conservation ordinance features proposed by Urban Green and the Tree Conservation Task Force. These new drafts were submitted to the Clackamas County Planning Commission for review and comment.

The new drafts are called ZDO-219 and consist of Section 1020, the tree ordinance, changes to the Comprehensive Plan, and a memo describing the documents. Click this link to review or download the documents (PDF).

OLCC Forms Three New Committees

The OLCC initiated three new committees at their January 27, 2010 meeting. The three committees are:

Outreach Committee - as its name implies, this committee seeks to attract new membership to the OLCC. It will do this by increasing visibility and understanding in the community about the OLCC through actions such as leafleting and canvassing neighborhoods and businesses, and making presentations to local organizations.

Sustainability Initiative Committee - this committee will formulate a plan for bringing the County's sustainability goals into the OLCCs land use decisions. It will monitor activities in our area and formulate responses that promote sustainable practices. It will provide information to educate our citizens about the values and methods of sustainability. See also Clackamas County Sustainability Resolution and Clackamas County Sustainability Action Plan.

OLCC Planning and Zoning - the new P&Z committee will develop a long range vision for our area for development methods, materials, architecture, and growth, and develop well-researched position papers about these important issues.

Membership in these committees is not limited to members of the OLCC or even residents of Oak Grove. Anyone can join and contribute to the communities goals for a better life in Oak Grove.

Planning Commission Proposes Changes to ZDOs

The Clackamas County Planning Commission has submitted changes to the ordinances that affect home occupations. The affected ZDOs are ZDO 806 and ZDO 822. You can review these changes by going to ZDO Proposed Amendments.

In the ZDO-221 Proposed Amendments Cover Letter, the Planning Commission invites interested citizens to attend a public meeting on Monday, February 8, 2010 at the Development Services Building in Oregon City to review and comment on the proposed changes. Further details about the meeting are covered in the cover letter.