MINUTES OF THE METRO COUNCIL

COMMUNITY PLANNING COMMITTEE REGULAR MEETING

Tuesday, May 21, 2002

Metro Council Chamber

Members Present:  Rod Park (Chair), Bill Atherton, David Bragdon, Rex Burkholder, Carl Hosticka, Susan McLain and Rod Monroe

Members Absent:  None.

Chair Park called the meeting to order at 2:02 p.m.

3.  RELATED COMMITTEE UPDATES.

•  JPACT – Councilor Monroe said JPACT last met May 9th and again reviewed the Oregon Transportation Investment Act (OTIA) II plans on the additional $100 million in available bond funds. There had been some discussion, he said, between Wilsonville Mayor Lehan, Oregon Transportation Commission (OTC) Chair Steve Corey, and JPACT, and that OTC would make the decision next month on the allocation of the additional money. This region would receive about $17 million and JPACT asked the OTC to use a portion of it to backfill the remainder of the Boeckman Road project. There had been some indication that they didn’t want to do that, but that had not yet been determined.

•  Transportation – Councilor Burkholder reported that the Transportation Committee held a public hearing May 16^th on the conformity of the Metropolitan Transportation Improvement Program (MTIP) process which included a discussion about the new projects brought in under the OTIA funding, including the Jackson Road interchange, as well as a presentation from Tri-Met on their five-year Transit Investment Plan. Chair Park asked when the final OTC decision would be and Councilor Burkholder said perhaps at the next OTC meeting in June, as Councilor Monroe had said. He added that the Transportation Committee had directed a letter be drafted, from the Metro Council, that stated Metro did not consider this backfill, and that if the full amount of funds had been available originally in this region those projects would have been fully funded, because they were still higher priority than other projects that were on the list in the region.

•  Natural Resources – Councilor McLain said the next meeting of this committee would be June 5^th when they would be working on a status report on the riparian inventory clean-up work, wildlife maps they’re hoping to present, and they would also discuss the issues list on the ESEE criteria.

•  WRPAC – Met May 20^th, Councilor McLain reported, and they looked at the riparian inventory clean up, had a presentation on GreenStreets and on the MTIP projects’ criteria, and whether or not GreenStreets should be part of that criteria to get funds.

2.  CONSIDERATION OF THE MINUTES OF THE MAY 7, 2002, COMMUNITY PLANNING COMMITTEE MEETING.

Chair Park acknowledged Councilor Jack Hoffman from the City of Lake Oswego in the audience, and thanked him for coming.

4.  ALTERNATIVES ANALYSIS CRITERIA. Ms. Mary Weber, Community Development Manager, Planning Department, apologized and told the committee that this item had not been completed in time to introduce at this meeting, but would be available at the next committee meeting. Chair Park said he hoped part of that discussion would be how to focus on Centers.

5.  URBAN GROWTH REPORT. Mr. Andy Cotugno, Planning Director, focused his briefing on the handouts, the first being the next interation of the Housing side of the Urban Growth Report (UBG) primer (a memo to Andy Cotugno and Mike Hoglund from Lydia Neill, of May 21, 2002) with the colored version of the capture rate information, and another memo from Ms. Neill of May 21, 2002, titled 2002 Urban Growth Report Dwelling Unit Calculations (both included as part of this record), and the first information provided on the Demand Side of Jobs.

On the Housing side, Mr. Cotugno said, Executive Officer Mike Burton had asked Mr. Cotugno to include information on a capture rate at three different possibilities within the range discussed to date. He said the topic was introduced about a month ago suggesting something between 65% and 75% as the basis for discussion. In this handout, all three levels of capture rate (65%, 70% and 75%) were included, and he reviewed these.

There was discussion on Clark County’s capture rate and growth assumptions, and the colored chart in the distributed memo titled Households – Share of Growth, 1980-2025. The committee asked for a better legend on the chart. Councilor Burkholder, saying that he didn’t see a major change in the strategies, expressed concern in the level of confidence in the numbers provided. Mr. Cotugno said he thought it important that MetroScope be used to learn about the pieces of information for each of the topics. More discussion followed on this.

On the Employment side of the equation, Mr. Cotugno walked through and explained the handout, Draft Preliminary Data Subject to Change Without Notice, included in this record, and Mr. Dennis Yee, Forecasting and Modeling Program Supervisor, Planning Department, spoke to the process of the calculations. (The columns in the tables were identified as: WD = Warehousing and Distribution; GI = General Industrial; and T/F = Tech/Flex.) Discussion focused on assumptions used when a firm relocates and the source of the information on the projections, the cost developing industrial land vs. developing green fields, and the source of information on how land is used. Councilor McLain asked for a one-page list of the assumptions for each of the fabrics created for the MetroScope model that she could use for a quick review. Otherwise, she said, it would be hard to explain the assumptions or the data. Mr. Cotugno said a later agenda item on MetroScope results would explain some of that, but that he wanted to present some of the broad conclusions today. As an aside, Chair Park asked if staff could use another word in lieu of “vintage.”

Additional discussion took place on commercial/industrial, Centers, Industrial Sanctuaries, and possible future Functional Plan changes to enhance/protect, and the Residential range of needs that would need to be accommodated. Chair Park asked the committee to think about these.

6.  METROSCOPE MODELING RESULTS. Mr. Cotugno spoke to Ms. Neill’s memo of May 21, 2002 (distributed and included as part of this record), MetroScope Modeling Results, and reviewed it for the committee, saying it gave a summary of some of the most fundamental input assumptions into the five case studies done so far, and then some top-line results and conclusions from that. He then went over the case studies as shown in the table on p. 2 of the memo, and said staff would continue to bring forward information and that more detail on the assumption documentation would be forthcoming.

Chair Park said density was coming anyway and how it was handled could be a very good thing. Councilor McLain said this meeting reinforced to her how dependent the region was on Vancouver’s decisions, and said she thought it important for Metro to work with its partners on this, including Vancouver. She asked that the Presiding Officer or the Community Planning Committee Chair, or both, consider putting together a work session or an informal meeting with the policy makers from the other side of the river before the decisions were made later this year. She also asked staff to provide some type of worksheet listing what decisions needed to be made and when. Mr. Cotugno suggested the technical staff get together first in order for the two policy bodies to have a more informed discussion. Councilor Monroe reminded the committee that the Bi-State Transportation Committee would be expanding to include land-use decisions that are affected by the anticipated transportation decisions, but Councilor McLain said that wouldn’t happen soon enough for this decision. She did agree, however, with Mr. Cotugno’s suggestion of having staff meet first in preparation for the policy makers’ meeting.

7.  COUNCILOR COMMUNICATIONS. Councilor Hosticka said Councilor Monroe had prepared a resolution regarding the Altamont property and that resolution would be included on the May 23^rd Council agenda. If any of the councilors were interested in more information, he invited them to speak to him or to Councilor Monroe.

Councilor Burkholder reminded the committee of the Budget and Finance Committee meeting scheduled for 1:30 p.m., May 22^nd, and said it was an important meeting. He asked the members of that committee to please be prompt.

Chair Park informed the committee that he needed to excuse himself from the May 23^rd Council meeting to attend a funeral.

There being no further business before the committee, the meeting adjourned at 3:29 p.m.

Respectfully submitted,

Rooney Barker

Council Assistant

ATTACHMENTS TO THE PUBLIC RECORD FOR THE MEETING OF MAY 21, 2002

The following have been included as part of the official public record:

TESTIMONY CARDS. None.