City Projects/Proposals
Comprehensive Plan Update
It’s time to review and update the City’s Comprehensive Plan.
How you can get involved:
Citizen Advisory Committee (CAC)
Our own Christopher Clee is one of the neighborhood representatives on the Citizen
Advisory Committee regarding the Comprehensive Plan. He will be updating us and
soliciting feedback at our committee meetings. CAC
meetings are open to the public, fourth Wednesday of the month, 4pm to 6pm in
Council Chambers; five-minute public comment period at the beginning and end of
every meeting.
Lake Oswego to Portland Transit Project
www.metro-region.org/lakeoswego
The Draft
Environmental Impact Statement and preliminary Section 4(f) assessment, with
preliminary findings of de minimis impacts to public parks, present information
about both the adverse and the beneficial potential impacts of the three alternatives:
no-build, enhanced bus and streetcar. The analysis includes the future effects
that each alternative would have on communities, traffic, travel options, parks
and the natural environment.
- Public comment was accepted during the 60-day comment period, Dec. 3, 2010,
to Jan. 31, 2011.
- On Feb. 28, 2011, the Lake Oswego to Portland Transit Project Steering Committee
made it’s recommendation for the streetcar as its preferred
alternative to proceed for further study.
- April 19 and 20, the cities of Lake Oswego and Portland affirmed the committee’s
recommendation.
Clean Streams Plan
The City of Lake Oswego manages about 130 miles of storm drainage pipes, several
thousand catch basins and various specialized facilities including detention/sedimentation
basins, and other water quality facilities. The City needs community guidance
to determine how much of our resources should go to managing surface water and
to identify our priorities within the surface water program. The current master
plan, which was the culmination of a similar process 17 years ago, is no longer
current: it does not reflect current science, technology or regulations and does
not reflect current community goals.
Infill Task Force
The City reactivated its Infill Task Force in 2005 to determine whether infill
design standards approved in 2003 were working or needed to be modified. After
three years of work by the Infill Task Force and over a year of review by the
Planning Commission, the City Council adopted the Infill recommendations with
the exception of the RID review, and acknowledged the need for further study of
steeply sloped lots. Recommendations of interest of FAN/Forest Hills residents
include allowing minor building height adjustments to homes constructed on slightly
sloped lots, changing the minimum side yard setback in the R-6 zone from 5 feet
to 7½ feet (the total of both side yard setbacks would still be 15 feet),
and requiring a side yard setback plane on corner lots.
See the City web site for more information:
Oswego Lake Interceptor Sewer
For news and updates on the Lake Oswego Interceptor Sewer (LOIS) visit: www.lakeinterceptor.com.
Contact Jeff Selby, Citizen Information Coordinator, City of Lake Oswego at
(503) 697-6514 or jselby@ci.oswego.or.us
for more information or to have him speak to your group about LOIS.
Second Look Task Force: Sensitive Lands
The Planning Department has established a nine-member Task Force to review
the Sensitive Lands chapter of the Community Development Code and provide recommendations
for changes.
West End Building (formerly Safeco)
The new City Council has as one of its goals to “make an informed, community-supported
decision about the West End Building." City staff did an assessment of city facilities
including the West End Building (WEB) and reported back to the Council in February
2009.
Strategy
for the West End Building and Other City Facilities - April 20, 2009
[ Last updated 9 October 2011 ]