The Beaverton City Council met on July 7, 2026, for a lengthy evening covering a range of fiscal, policy, and planning matters. Key actions included adoption of water and sewer/stormwater rate increases, creation of a new general services fee and a street maintenance fee, approval of a sanctuary city resolution, and work sessions on the Transportation System Plan (TSP) and the Urban Services Framework Project. The meeting also featured public comments on several topics.
Will the recorder please call the roll? I am here. Counselor Mayor Prig here. Counselor Hassan. Counselor Kimmy. Here. Counselor Teeter. Here. Counselor Tivdon. Here. Mayor Beatty. Here. And I am wearing a mask because I have a three-year-old in daycare, and I am very sick. But given the weight of tonight's agenda items, I wanted to be in person, so out of respect of my colleagues, I am going to wear a mask to protect them this evening. On tonight's agenda, we will begin with visitor comments and then move to presentations, and then we have a pretty robust consent for public hearings, one action item, and one first reading, two work sessions, and we'll wrap up with any council new business. We'll now move on to visitor comments. The city requires pre-registration for online in-person visitor comments at council meeting. Registration closed at noon today. All registration was conducted through the city recorder's office via email or phone in preparation for this meeting. There are seven people registered to comment at tonight's meeting. As a reminder, visitor comments provide the opportunity for the community to speak about matters, even if they are not on the agenda. Visitors state their comments and should visitors may state their comments and should not expect the council to engage in back and forth dialogue regarding the comments. While community members may disagree with each other or the city on issues and may give critical feedback, they are expected to do so respectively and without disruption. Disruptions interfere with the ability of other present in in-person or online to participate in this meeting. Council members do not interrupt community members during their public comment, and we expect community to offer the same courtesy to other speakers. Visitor comments are limited to three minutes. If follow-up is needed, our city manager and recorder are here to take notes. First, we'll hear from uh Peter Finley Fry and then Susan Rosenthal is up after that. Hi, my name is Peter Finley Fry. I'm a land use planner. I didn't expect to be at the beginning of your agenda of a very long evening. I was hoping to speak right before your workshop on the uh transportation plan. Uh we have a very small issue, but it's very important, and I'm here with Car Subaru and Brad Preppel wanted to speak, but we didn't get uh organized to your formalities, so here I am representing them as well as myself. So we are here and we have talked to staff, and staff has been uh agreeable to the suggestion, but we would like to do an area plan for the area around 115th Canyon Road, 114th, and 117th. And the reason we want to do that is because the current way you build right-a-ways does not work. Building a right-of-way in an urban setting and expanding a right away in an urban setting is a very, very difficult thing, and it has not been done very often or been done well. I use Millikan as an example, as you probably know, there's no sidewalk on Milliken on the north side between Hawken and Murray. There's no frontages on Milliken, the entire length of it. There are broken lots. Lots are legally conveyable to third parties, and the lots are actually broken in half by Milken. So basically, what you've done is you put us right away through uh urban fabric without addressing the consequences of those actions. And so we're asking you that prior to moving forward in the quasi-judicial or capital improvements, we're asking you to do an area plan for the area that we're in so that we can address things like the uh light rail line and the uh need for protection of the gates for the uh way the streets work and how big they are and how they would work. Um I oh thank you, there's my timer. Uh so uh that's the end of basically our presentation. What you do now, not just you but cities across the West Coast, does not work, and we're asking that you do it differently and establish a different method, which is to do a plan and figure out where the streets should go, how they should go, and how the uses should list exist around the streets. Uh I was gonna ask you if you wanted to ask questions, but I know you have a long evening. I'm pretty sure you don't. So thank you very much for your uh time, and I'll have uh Wally Preppel's letter in the record. Thank you. And we got it via email.