Ord 1657COUNCIL BILL N0. 499
ORDINANCE N0. 1657
AN ORDINANCE ESTABLISHING A GROWTH MANAGEMENT PROGRAM FOR WOODBURN AND
PROVIDING FOR ITS IMPLEMENTATION.
THE PEOPLE OF THE CITY OF WOODBURN DO ORDAIN:
Section 1. Title. This ordinance shall be known as the
Woodburn Growth Management Ordinance and may be so cited and pleaded.
Section 2. Purpose and Intent. The purpose and intent of the
Growth Management Ordinance is to protect the city against unexpected
growth, protect the city against overtaxing its public facilities and
to allow for proper planning of public capital improvement programs.
Section 3. When ordinance called into effect.
(1) When the population of the city of Woodburn exceeds the
following amounts in July of the following years, as determined by the
best available data:
1979 - 1989
1979 - 11,719
1980 - 12,260
1981 - 12,808
1982 - 13,357
1983 - 13,905
1984 - 14,453
1985 - 15,002
1986 - 15,527
198? - 16,092
1988 - 16,578
1989 - 17,103
1990 --20Q0
1990 - 17,628
1991 - 18,165
1992 - 18,703
1993 - 19,240
1994 - 19,778
1995 - 20,315
1996 - 20,852
1997 - 21,389
1998 - 21,926
1999 - 22,463
2000 - 23,000
Upon the determination of the City's population, if it exceeds by
ten percent (10%) the population projected for that year, the City
shall publish notice that the Growth Management Ordinance is in effect
twice, over a period of 14 days, in a newspaper having; general circula-
tion in Woodburn.
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(2} The Council may also, after a public hearing, call the
Ordinance into effect when deficiencies are foreseen or are occurring
in providing necessary and essential public services, when continued
unmanaged growth would compound the deficiencies.
(3} The Council may also call the ordinance into effect,
after a public hearing, due to any other circumstances which endanger
the public peace, health, safety or general welfare, and which growth
management would ameloriate.
Section 4. Building Quota Set.
(1) The Council shall, upon recommendation of the Planning
Commission, and after a public hearing, establish a building quota to
bring the city's population to within the limit established by this
ordinance in Section 3 (1), or other limit as provided in Section 3
{2) or Section 3 (3} within three years time. The building quota shall
use as its criteria the amount of sewage produced by the proposed
development as measured in population equivalents. The City shall also
establish a quota for the separate types of construction as follows:
(a) Residential developments of less than 6 dwelling
units per acre.
(b) Residential developments of more than 6 dwelling
units per acre.
(c} Commercial, industrial and public use developments.
Section 5. Quality Point System.
(1} All projects including, but not limited to, new sub-
divisions and partitionings, new planned unit developments, new
apartment developments, new mobile home developments, new commercial,
industrial and public use developments, shall be rated using a quality
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point system. The quality point system shall contain, but shall not be
limited to, consideration of the following items:
(a) Impact, both positive and negative, on the sewage
treatment facility by capacity and sewage load.
(b) Impact, both positive and negative, on the sewer
lines.
(c) Impact, both positive and negative, on the city's
transportation system.
(d) Impact, both positive and negative, on the city's
drainage and storm sewage system.
(e) For residential developments, the amount of recre~.,
ational facilities provided.
(f) Conformance with the Woodburn Comprehensive Plan
Goals and Policies.
(g) If necessary, negative points for developing on an
overloaded or near capacity facility.
(2} A program coordinating committee shall be established,
appointed by the Mayor, and approved by the Common Council, and be
drawn from the City staff, Planning Commission, and general public.
The committee shall have seven (7) members.
(3) The Program Coordinating shall recommend to the Planning
Commission within thirty (30) days after the Growth Management Ordinance
is called into effect, a point scale for the quality point system. The
Program Coordinating Committee shall also include a rationale for the
point scale and what is hoped to be accomplished by it. The Planning
Commission shall review and may amend the point scale, The Planning
Commission shall recommend the scale to the Common Council and include
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a report on the rationale for the scale and what is hoped to be accomplished
by it, The Council may amend the recommended scale. The Council shall
adopt the point scale and report by a resolution.
(4) If the requests for permits are less than the quota
established by the Council, under Section 4, then all permits shall be
issued for that particular construction type (e.g., low density residen-
tial, high density residential, commercial, industrial and public use).
(5} If there are a greater amount of applicants than the
building quota would allow then the projects shall be rated in the
following manner.
(a) Persons desiring to build shall apply to the City for
permits on application~~forms provided by the City.
(b) The Program Coordinating Committee shall rate the
projects according to the point scale approved by the Council.
(c) The Program Coordinating Committee shall recommend
to the Planning Commission its ratings for the projects.
(d) The Planning Commission shall review the ratings and
may amend or modify them as it deems necessary, and may assign points
which are reserved to the Planning Commission only. Project applicants
may challenge the rating given by the Program Coordinating Committee at
this time. After reviewing the ratings, the Planning Commission shall
approve the projects which are allowed under the building quota.
(e) Projects shall then be prioritized according to the
final ratings, with projects having the highest rating being the highest
priority.
(6) Prior to issuance of any building permits the Common Council
shall review the actions of the Planning Commission. If the Council deems
it necessary they may call up and amend, modify, or reverse any decision
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of the Planning Commission or Program Coordinating Committee.
(7) If, after the first round of permits have been given out,
the Planning Commission finds that there is an overabundance in one of
the sectors of the building quota, the Commission may transfer, by motion,
the P.E.'s from one sector to another. The transfer will become effective
after review by the Common Council. The Council may amend, modify, or
deny the transfer if I.t deems f it .
Section 6. Projects time period.. If a project receives a
permit while the ordinance is in effect, the project has 120 days from
the notification of approval to begin construction. If, after 120 days,
it appears that substantial construction has not commenced, the Secretary
of the Planning Commission shall notify the project owner that the
Planning Commission shall hold a hearing to determine if construction
has been abandoned. If, after the hearing, the Planning Commission
determines that the construction has been abandoned, or that undue delays
are probable, the Planning Commission may remove that project's approval,
and give approval to the next lower points project on the priority list.
The Commission may also extend the time period for sixty (60) days at
a time if unavoidable delays have occurred in the project's construction.
Section 7. Phasing of Projects.
(1) The Planning Commission may phase projects, i,te., break
a project into developmental units for the purpose of granting one or
more phases for the current calendar year and to guarantee P.E.'s for
completion of said phases from the following two (2) calendar years
allocation of P.E's.
(2) The Planning Commission shall use the following criteria
in deciding when and how to phase projects requesting P.E.'s under the
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Growth Management Ordinance.
(a) To be eligible for phasing, the project must have
requested P.E.'s under the Growth Management Ordinance in the c~~endar
year for which it has applied.
(b) The phasing should constitute logical developmental
units with each phase providing the services necessary for the project
including, but not limited to, sewer, water, storm drainage, street
improvements, traffic circulation, recreational facilities and buffered
landscaped areas.
(c) The Commission may assign extraordinary benefit
points for phasing a project voluntarily by the developer, if the
Commission determines that phasing a project furthers the goals of the
Growth Management Ordinance, or otherwise benefits the city.
(d) The Planning Commission may establish minimum points
which a project must receive to qualify for phasing under the quality
point system.
Section 8. Low Impact Project Exceptions.
(1) The City, in its quality point system, shall establish a
low impact projects exception which will allow projects of insignificant
impact to build without competing in the quality point system.
(2} Existing lots on the date of passage of this ordinance may
be allowed to construct one (1) single family detached home per lot, as
long as all necessary city services are available at the lot's frontage
or within reasonable distance.
Section 9. variances. Procedure for variances to the Growth
Management Ordinance shall be the same as for variances from the Zoning
Code.
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Section 10. Amendments to the Text. The Planning Commission
may recommend to the Council amendments of the text of the Growth
Management Ordinance after having a public hearing and giving notice in t
the same fashion as amendments to the text of the Zoning Code. The
Council may also amend the text of the Growth Management Ordinance after
referring the matter to the Planning Commission and receiving a recommen-
dation from them within thirty (30) days. In this case the Council must
hold the public hearing as established above.
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APPROVED: .
E.~WALTER LAW ON, MAYOR
Passed by the Council
Submitted to the Mayor
Approved by the Mayor
Filed in the Office of the Recorder
February 26, 1979
_February 26, 1979
February 27, 1979
February 27, 1979
ATTEST.
Barney Burris, Recorder
City of Woodburn, Oregon
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I, BARNEY 0. BURRIS, Recorder of the City of Woodburn, do
hereby certify that I caused to be posted three copies of
Ordinance No. 1657, one of which said copies posted in
the City Hall on the bulletin board adjacent to the entrance
to the Recorder's Office, in full view of the traveling public;
a second one of said copies posted on the Woodburn Public
Library bulletin board at 280 Garfield St., in full view
of the traveling public; a third one of said copies posted
on the Community Center bulletin board at 491 N. Third St.,
in full view of the traveling public; that all of said
places are public places within the corporate limits of
the City of Woodburn and all of said copies were posted
on the 2nd day of
March 1979
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a ney 0 Bur 1 , Recorder
City of Woodburn, Oregon