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I'm going to call to rear this work session of the Forest Grove City Council.

And the topic is on urban reserve.

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A lot of noise just for one second.

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Urban reserve planning area.

And I have staff, Daniel Reardon, senior planner and community development director Brian Pole.

Just a reminder to everyone that during work sessions, no public comment will be taken, and the council will take no formal action.

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Thank you, Mayor.

Members of City Council, Dan Merkin Senior Planner with the Planning Division.

We started the discussion at your last council meeting, but we'll just kind of recap what was presented at the last meeting and then transition into the new information.

We have a pretty big agenda.

So hopefully we can get to through this pretty quickly.

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So tonight's work session is really to provide an opportunity for city council to learn about and discuss the David Hill Urban Reserve Planning Area.

And staff would really like to hear council's thoughts about next steps and how to proceed with the David Hill Urban Reserve Area in terms of long range planning.

This particular topic touches on a couple of what's one city council goal objective and several vision statement action items.

Specifically, this work session deals with 2025 City Council Goal Objective 1.1 to initiate policy discussions on an urban reserve growth strategy.

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In terms of the Vision 2040 plan, uh this topic addresses the 2040 community growth goal statement regarding a well connected, safe environmentally sustainable community with diverse affordable housing, resilient green infrastructure, efficient mobility options, and strong public safety, creating a vibrant, accessible, and climate conscious community for all.

And this work session also deals with the 2040 outcome around affordable housing options.

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And then key action items that are addressed by this topic include updating the city's comprehensive plan, keeping all long-term infrastructure plans up to date, increasing industrial business development, and increasing the volume and diversity of commercial business development.

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So at the last uh city council meeting, we talked a little bit about what is an urban growth boundary and the Oregon Revised Statutes provided definition for an urban growth boundary.

But in plain language, an urban growth boundary is simply a line identified on a map that separates urban land from rural areas that could be urbanized.

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So this map shows the uh the city boundary in relation to the urban growth boundary.

The orange larger area is the urban growth boundary around the city's planning area, and the red line is the current city limit boundary.

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So what is an urban reserve, which is the topic of uh this work session this evening?

Um an urban reserve is established by state law and adopted for Metro for areas adjacent to the Portland Urban Growth Boundary.

And an urban reserve is essentially land outside an urban growth boundary intended for future expansion over a long-term period.

Uh urban growth boundaries are generally designed to accommodate land needs for a 20-year planning horizon.

Um so the idea is the 20-year land needs will be met within the urban growth boundary.

Um the urban reserve takes it the next step.

Um it's to identify urban development needs for a 20 to 50 year period, unless there's insufficient capacity in the urban growth boundary, and the urban growth boundary needs to be expanded.

If the urban growth boundary does need to be expanded, it would be expanded into one of the urban reserve areas around the Portland UGB.

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So the the city's urban reserve area, the David Hill urban reserve area is shown by the yellow boundary.

Um it's adjacent to the four scale heights neighborhood in northwest Forest Grove.

Um, this slide shows the urban reserve boundary, the urban growth boundary, and the city limit line.

So the urban reserve area is the yellow boundary, urban growth boundary is the orange line, and the city limit line as it currently is the red line on the map.

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So there's been a lot of work over the last 20 years or so related to long range planning in terms of how the city might grow over the 20 to 50 year time horizon.

It started back in 2006 with what was called the Great Communities Planning Process, and then there were several other initiatives.

The Washington County Urbanization Forum in 2009, which stipulated that future urban areas must be within the city.

It can't be unincorporated areas.

So no more Loas, no more Bethany.

That was really the result of the Washington County Urbanization Forum.

And then this slide shows some other initiatives that were completed, including the Westside Refinement Plan in 2017, which looked at how the area within the urban growth boundary that is yet to develop, how that should grow and develop, as well as look at the urban reserve.

And that was back in 2018.

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So this slide shows that the great communities land use concept.

And the reason why I wanted to show this is that it showed kind of an efficient land use pattern where the the city would both Forest Grove and Cornelius would grow northward across Council Creek.

It would allow for a variety of land uses, commercial shown on red on the map, higher density development in the orange and lower density development in the red, and employment and dust and industrial areas in the in the gray area on the map.