Minutes - 10/31/2005
SPECIAL COUNCIL MEETING MINUTES
OCTOBER 31, 2005
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0001 DATE. COUNCIL CHAMBERS, CITY HALL, CITY OF WOODBURN,
COUNTY OF MARION, STATE OF OREGON, OCTOBER 31,2005.
CONVENED. The meeting convened at 7:00 p.m. with Mayor Figley presiding.
0025 ROLL CALL.
Mayor
Councilor
Councilor
Councilor
Councilor
Councilor
Councilor
Figley
Bjelland
Cox
Lonergan
McCallum
Nichols
Sifuentez
Present
Present
Present
Present
Present
Present
Present
Staff Present: City Administrator Brown, City Attorney Shields, Public Works Director
Tiwari, Assistant City Engineer Torgeson, Public Works Manager Rohman, City
Recorder Tennant
Consultant: Greg Winterowd, Winterbrook Planning
0052 COUNCIL BILL NO. 2596 - ORDINANCE TO COMPLETE PERIODIC REVIEW
WORK TASKS BY AMENDING THE WOODBURN COMPREHENSIVE PLAN:
ADOPTING A NEW URBAN GROWTH BOUNDARY: AMENDING THE
WOODBURN DEVELOPMENT ORDINANCE: REPEALING ORDINANCE
NO.1689: ADOPTING CERTAIN BACKGROUND DOCUMENTS: MAKING
LEGISLATIVE FINDINGS: AND SETTING AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
Councilor Sifuentez introduced Council Bill 2596. Recorder Tennant read the two
readings of the bill by title only since there were no objections from the Council.
Councilor Lonergan stated that he had spent a considerable amount of time reviewing the
documents and he will be voting in favor of the proposed ordinance. He still has some
concerns on traffic and on the cost of service for Area 2 versus Area 4 which he had
brought forth in previous meetings.
Councilor Cox stated that he has similar concerns as expressed by Councilor Lonergan.
He also stated that he had not read every single page of the document but he has been
involved on committees including the Planning Commission while work was being done
on this project over the last several years. He feels that he is aware of what has been
included in the document and trusts that staff has followed the Council's directions in
preparing this final document.
Councilor McCallum concurred with the comments made by Councilors Lonergan and
Cox. He expressed his appreciation to all staff members, groups that have worked on this
project, and the public for presenting their comments. He also encouraged Councilor
Bjelland to continue diligently working toward making the periodic review process
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shorter since this particular process took the City many years to get it to its final stage for
Council adoption.
Councilor Sifuentez stated that she supported the document before the Council.
Councilor Bjelland stated that he has read a majority of the document and felt that
Woodburn compares extremely well with the efforts other cities have gone through. He
has been attempting to present to LCDC and DLCD that there does not need to be as
much work as what has been done for periodic review since it is a 20-year plan. Any 20-
year plan is subject to a lot of uncertainty, therefore, less time and effort should be
devoted into trying to be very precise. He stated that he will continue to lobby at the State
level that the process has been too bogged down and should be simplified. He supported
this document and felt that it was time to forward it to the County for review and then
onto DLCD with final approval by LCDC.
Councilor Nichols agreed that this document is a lot more detail than when he had been
on the Council in the 1980's. He was also concern about the transportation issues but felt
that it could be addressed later on by the Council as the need arises.
Mayor Figley stated that she was very comfortable in the fact that the City is following
legal requirements and the document does provide for positive changes in the
transportation arena and economic development arena. She stated that she was disturbed
that there are some property owners that are put into a lose situation because of the nature
of state law and concern about some things in the document that are based on some one
size fits all philosophies. However, the document has more good than bad and should be
adopted by the Council. She also encouraged Councilor Bjelland to lobby for
simplification of the process since she felt that it should not take much more than 1 year
to complete.
0728 On roll call vote for final passage, the bill passed unanimously. Mayor Figley declared
Council Bill 2596 duly passed.
0733 ADJOURNMENT.
NICHOLSIMCCALL UM... meeting be adjourned.
The meeting adjourned at 7:15 p.m..
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Mary Te ant, Recorder
City of Woodburn, Oregon
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