Good evening, everyone.

Today is November 4th, 2025, and this meeting of the Lake Oswego City Council is now called to order.

Ms.

Ono, will you please call the roll?

Mayor Buck.

Here.

Councillors Windland.

Burdick.

Here.

Corrigan.

Councillor Raf is excused.

Counselors Afgan.

Maboop.

Thank you very much.

Everyone, will you please stand and join us in the pledge?

I pledge allegiance to the play of the United States of America.

Thank you, everyone.

So no November is National Native American Heritage Month, which is a time to celebrate the cultures, languages, and histories of Native American, Alaskan Native, Native Hawaiian, and affiliated island communities.

The city of Lake Oswego honors the ancestral lands of the Clackamas, Chinook, Klowala, Towalaton, Wallala, Mulnoma, Silets, and Calapuya peoples.

These indigenous communities have stewarded this region for generations.

This proclamation acknowledges the federal trust responsibility and moral obligation of the United States to uphold commitments to tribal nations.

It also recognizes the enduring contributions of indigenous people to the nation's cultural fabric, environmental stewardship, and shared history.

The City of Lake Oswego reaffirms its commitment to honoring tribal sovereignty, fostering mutual respect and understanding and promoting a community where indigenous voices are recognized and celebrated.

We'll have a copy of our Native American Heritage Month proclamation on the city website.

Okay, next on our agenda is public comment.

If you are here to provide public comment and have not already done so, please just fill out one of the white forms on the on the back table, but have two folks signed up.

Sherry Dupuis, you are first.

Welcome.

Come on forward, and if you just restate your name for us before you begin, that'd be great.

I'm Sherry Dupuis.

History gives us ideas about how people in the past have dealt with similar circumstances, and seeing patterns helps the team make better decisions.

Then I was taken aback when I went to Portland and met two people who said they would never step foot in LO because of the discrimination they had received from the police here.

So I wanted to know more about my city and started going to these council meetings and to respond to racism.

Now, when I hear people disparage us outside of the city, I truthfully can say the things that we're doing and be proud.

Thank you.

Thank you, Mr.

Puile.

We appreciate those comments.

Good evening.

If you could also please restate your name before you.

So that's 234 kids in their families that have been impacted.

We've also had to cut our practice times by 33%.

My daughter used to have a 90-minute practice.

Now it's 60, so we can get our kids all in the pool at Lewis and Clark.

Sometimes there's more than eight kids per lane, which is not as effective when you're training and kids are trying to avoid each other swimming down the lane.

And our young kids are sometimes not finishing with practice until 7:30 or 8 o'clock at night.

Parents having to get them home and showered and fed and to bed for school the next day.

In addition, there's other families that have been impacted.

We haven't been able to take any new swimmers on the club this year.

So we've had people that have moved to the area with kids who swam elsewhere, wanted to join the club.

We haven't been able to accept them.

We also have kids that have completed the swim lesson program at Low Rack and have wanted to continue swimming, and we haven't been able to add those kids.

We have over 60 kids on the wait list right now who would like to join the club and swim and compete for LO.

In the afternoons when we have been at Low Rack, there's very low usage of the six community lanes for lap swimming.

So, you know, it really would make a significant positive impact to these 234 kids and families, plus potentially some we could take from the wait list if we could expand pool time or even just lane usage during those times that like us we go swim club already has pool time there.

So that's what I'm here to ask the council to evaluate the usage and potentially expand that so we can make it fair for all of our kids and like us we go.

Thank you, Ms.

Rollins.

Appreciate your comments.

Would anyone else like to provide public comment?

No.

Okay.

Then we are going to move on to the uh consent agenda.

We just have one item on the consent agenda this evening.

That's the approval of meeting minutes from September 2nd and 16th.

Is there a motion to adopt the consent agenda?

Move.

Approved the console agenda.

Thank you, Councilor.

Motion made by Councillor Bootman, seconded by Councillor Corgan.

All those in favor say aye.

Aye.

Any opposed?

Okay, motion passes 60.

All right, moving on to council business.

Our first item uh this evening, item 8.1 is consideration of resolution 25-45.

I'll invite our sustainability program manager, Mamanda Watson, to come forward.

We're going to be looking at the 2026 solid waste and recycling rates.

And you'll remember we had a study session on this at the last meeting.

Hi, Ms.

Watson.

Good evening.

Thank you.

Good evening, Mayor and Counselors.

My name is Amanda Watson, the sustainability program manager.

Um, I do have just a very quick update for you on this item.

Um, so we last spoke on October 7th and discussed the um staff recommendations and council direction for the rate adjustment.

So, as a reminder, and we're not making an overall rate um increase or adjustment this year for um republic services, garbage and recycling collection rates, just a few targeted updates.

One of those targeted updates was changing the structure of our bulky waste rates.

Um there was a draft rate sheet that that illustrated the bulky waste recommended bulky waste rates in the um packet for your study session.

That draft sheet did not include an hourly handling fee.

And after additional discussion with Republic Services after the study session, um, we are we do need to include the hourly handling fee that was on our previous rate sheet.

So I'm here just to flag that for you all.

Um, the um the resolution before you includes um the 2026 rates, and it does have that hourly handling fee and a description of when that would be used.

So it's a little bit more specific than it was on our current 2025 rate sheet, but it's the same.

Um, it's 114 an hour and to charge you know, based on 15 minute increments for um sort of uh particular actions that aren't otherwise covered by our rates.

So I just really wanted to provide that quick update for you and for the public, you know, that that uh uses these services from public services.

So happy to answer any questions you may have.

All right.

Uh, thank you very much.

Does anyone have any questions for someone like to make a motion to adopt resolution 25-45?

I moved to adopt a resolution 2545.

Second that.

Right.

The motion's been made by Councillor Winland and seconded by Councillor Afghan.

Is there any further discussion?

All right, let's take the vote.

All those in favor say aye.

Aye.

Any opposed?

All right, post motion passes six zero.

I did see, you know, Republic could talk to us about these electric garbage trucks a while back, and I saw one today.

Oh very close up because it almost ran me over, but it was really moving.

But I believe it was like because it was very quiet.

It was very cold.

I'm surprised they didn't.

Oh, oh, you're here.

Is that electric truck?

It was running, yeah.

It's running real fast, but it was but it's good to see.

It's good to see.

No, thank you.

Thank you.

Thanks, Amanda.

It's great to hear.

Okay.

All right.

Next item of business is consideration of ordinance 2972.

This is uh adopting the community health and resiliency advisory board charge statement.

We have our two co-chairs of oh, is yes, Betty here.

One co-chair.

Okay, one co-chair tonight.

You only have to Linda Round Tree.

Okay, Linda Roundtree.

Great to have you here.

Thank you.

Your solo performance.

Okay.

Well, good evening, Mr.

Mir and members of the council.

Thank you for having me here this evening.

Um I'm the co-chair of the new community health and resilience advisory board, QAB, as some people call it.

Um I have a short presentation to talk about adopting our new charge statement.

As you guys know, this is a new advisory board.

It was formed from the 50 plus and kind of converted into a little broader mission of overall community health and resilience, which includes emergency preparedness.

Um the committee began meeting in July, and we took the draft statement from the mayor and the city council about what this new committee is going to do.

And so we've been working on that in September.

We worked together, we had several very productive meetings and came up with a charge statement that we have put forward to you, hoping you will accept.

Once we have that, then we'll get to work with seeing what's gonna come next.

Uh so you should have a copy of the charge statement, but for the record and make sure you've read it.

I'm gonna read through it quickly.

There's only four things, right?

So A advise the city council on strategies to strengthen the community's ability to prepare for, withstand, and recover from emergencies.

B provide recommendations to the city council on ways to foster community health and well-being through policies, programs, and partnerships that respect individual choices, while providing support for social connectedness and equitable access to community resources.

That took us a long time.

C, advise the city council on effective approaches to inform and engage residents about emergency management and community health resources, and finally to provide recommendations for city events policies and programs that strengthen community resiliency and health, such as preparedness fairs, wellness initiatives, and opportunities that build neighborhood connections.

So I'm hoping that uh the council will approve our charge statement.

And so, unless you have any questions, hope you'll adopt it and uh thank you very much.

It's a big mission, yeah.

Yes, uh, you and the advisory board did a great job working through this.

Uh, Councilor Afgan is the ladies of the board.

I'll ask if he has any comments to make.

I think the uh group, the new group did an awesome job in looking at what does the city need as opposed to just what we gave them and they would follow it.

So there were a lot of good discussions about let's unpack this, tie it back to the city council goals, and make sure that we're doing what we're supposed to do.

There are if you read the uh those four bullets, it's constantly says we're advising the city council.

So the decision still comes here for implementation, but these are the advisory board roles and responsibility.

I have one question for uh the co-chair.

Who is your absolutely awesome uh city council or representative on your team right now?

Oh, I wonder who that could be.

Counselor Afghanistan.

How often does he appear to be able to do that?

He he contributed, you contributed a lot to our discussions.

Thank you very much.

So thank you, Mr.

Mayor.

Thank you.

Counselor Willand.

I have a question.

Is he good enough to ask him back for next year?

No, I just came um uh I just wanted to um on the liaison for the chamber, and just in your thoughts and uh planning.

Uh the chamber uh is working on health fairs uh or a health fair, and I think there's could be some great collaboration between the city and the chamber on uh on those going forward um to try to bring um health and the whole uh I love your statements and I think you guys went through and improved what we we said, which is always the best part of the public process is making things better.

Um I think that could be a good connection.

And the great thing is our assistant city manager Mulan is uh on the chamber board, and she's a great connection to that.

So make sure you use her as a resource when you uh get into the whole um health preparedness because I know that's a big part of our community.

So yeah, she she's already helped us a lot.

So I know she has.

She's always wonderful.

We um uh the you and and Betty are doing a great job as the co-chairs and the good the the board as a whole is very impressive and well-rounded uh with respect to the charge, you know, of this of this board.

And of course, this is a brand new advisory board this year.

I want to you know thank Ms.

Phelan and uh Ms.

Bigelow for their help in putting it together and now the board for taking that initial work and amplifying it further, and we want to ensure the the good success.

This is an incredibly important topic, but a very a very wide topic.

And um, I know we want to uh the city council wants to be working close with you to ensure that uh this group is uh productive and is um able to uh advance uh the the issues it sees as most pressing in the in the community.

So thank you very much and and good work to the board.

Well um would someone like to make a motion to enact uh ordinance 2972?

Move to enact ordinance 2972.

Second.

All right, thank you.

Um a motion was made by counselor Afghan and seconded by Councillor Corrigan.

Any further discussion?

All right, all those in favor say aye.

Aye.

Aye.

Any opposed?

Okay, the motion passes 630.

Mr.

Andrew, thank you very much.

Good work.

All right, we're next gonna now move into a public hearing.

Uh we have Mr.

Olsen, long-range planning manager.

This is a consideration of ordinance two nine six seven.

This is a fair housing policy and education, LU25-0001.

Before you arrive, Mr.

Olson and your boss, director and monolou, Mr.

Puy had very nice comments to uh to to make about the good work you're doing with respect to this particular topic.

So you'll have to watch that back.

Yes, thank you.

I actually was viewing from my desk.

So I very appreciate those comments.

It's always good to know that your work is impacting people in a positive way, although I could in no way take sole credit for uh the housing work that the city is doing.

Um yeah, so I guess with that said yes.

Oh, oh, I'm sorry, yes, it's a public hearing.

I'm so sorry.

Oh no, no, that's fine.

I'll I'll just very quickly since we have already had someone publicly testify.

So this is a little bit for you, ma'am, but also for members of the public.

Uh now is the time set for our hearing, our public hearing on ordinance 2967, as the mayor said.

This is a legislative decision.

It's generally a policy decision that is uh within your sound discretion.

We're gonna start with a presentation by staff.

Testimony will then be received from the public if you wish to testify again.

Um, it's subject to the time limits that are set forth in the agenda.

Uh and now I'll ask as I do in every legislative matter and pause briefly for the answer if there are any financial conflicts of interest for counselors, please say so now.

Hearing none, uh, we're ready for the staff report.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Uh so we are here to consider a proposal to amend the comprehensive plan um that's being put forth by the city um to establish affirmatively furthering fair housing as city policy.

So, of course, we've had a few uh study sessions here at the city council related to this, um, at least one um relatively recently.

Um we provided you with an overview of fair housing and affirmatively furthering fair housing.

Actually, um you heard an overview from a representative from the Fair Housing Council of Oregon.

Um so this is just a little bit of a summary of what was presented to you at that study session.

Uh reminder that the Fair Housing Act has been around since 1968.

Um it was passed during the civil rights era.

Um it was intended to protect uh individuals in protected classes from housing discrimination.

Um specifically, those include the protected classes you see on the slide.

I'll just say them really quickly because I know um you know it's kind of it's helpful to at least say them out loud once, but you know, I don't expect that you to just absorb this, but these are really important classes for us to have in our heads, of course.

Um race, color, national origin, religion, disability, sexual orientation, sex, and that includes pregnancy, gender identity, age, and marital status are all protected from um those classes.

I should say are protected from housing discrimination.

So affirmatively furthering fair housing is as you might assume, um, a more proactive approach to fair housing.

That was also included in the original 1968 Fair Housing Act.

Um essentially, this prohibits land use regulations, restrictive covenants or other sort of special permits or conditional use permits that would limit housing choice based on protected class status.

So really it establishes this idea of disparate impact that um land use decisions and practices may not result in a disparate impact on a group of persons or create uh increase, reinforce, or perpetuate segregation and housing based on that class status.

So really not just looking at the intent of a law, but also looking at the actual outcomes and how those impact these different classes is kind of the idea here with disparate impact.

It also means that we should really think about where housing is located when we consider land use actions here at the city.

The idea is to really try to look at patterns of segregation and think about how our work as a city could work to break up those patterns and really unearth new ways of developing and new patterns of development that would sort of negate that previous uh development.

Negate the segregation rather.

In terms of uh how this policy is applied or how the affirmatively fair housing is specifically applied in Oregon, um, in addition to the federal provisions, there are also a number of state laws that implement affirmatively furthering fair housing here in Oregon, and they go further than the federal provisions.

Of course, we have statewide planning goal 10, which is just a general statewide planning rule that we've had since you know the 70s or 80s that require producing adequate quantities and types of housing that meet the actual needs of current and future residents.

Um it requires us to make sure that that is central to Edinburgh aid land use decision that a jurisdiction makes.

So, really um, this has been around for quite a while.

Obviously, we're familiar with more recent legislative progress at the state level from the past five years or so, um, specifically House Bill 2001 and 2003, where we were uh required to complete a housing needs analysis and develop a housing production strategy.

Um, really, this is a central component of how the state is implementing affirmatively furthering fair housing within the state.

So, not only do we have a housing production strategy and an HA that are intended to meet fair and equitable housing outcomes as required by the state, but uh we do have a strategy within the HPS that we adopted that also kind of considers this fair and equitable housing outcome criterion and how we can amend our comprehensive plan to sort of have a policy specifically as a city that would be consistent with and parallel to the policy at the state level.

So, as you can see here, and as I know you're all familiar with, we included this as one of the strategies in the housing production strategy that was adopted at the end of last year.

This is strategy number 13.

Um, as you can see, there are two components to this poll or to this strategy.

Um, one would relate to policy, which is what we're here to discuss today.

Um, the other would relate to education, which is something we envision to be more of an ongoing effort that would be completed by the end of 2028.

The policy initiative, though, um the adoption specifically of a comprehensive plan amendment to enact affirmatively fair housing, affirmatively furthering fair housing as a city policy was envisioned to be completed in the short term by 2026.

So, you know, this is one of the relatively uh light, I suppose, uh workload-related strategies within the housing production strategy.

So we're wanting to try to address this in 2025 a little bit early so that we can dedicate a little bit more of our time to other strategies as we move forward.

So just a few notes.

You know, we will eventually be required to conduct a larger study to um really it's called an analysis of impediments to fair housing.

That's something that we'd identified as something we could be uh taking on as part of the educational component for this strategy.

We have since learned that it will actually be required as a part of the housing needs analysis, specifically the contextualized housing needs assessment the next time we do our housing needs analysis in 2029.

So there's really no need for us to take that on proactively unless we really want to do it before then, we will be required to do that eventually.

Uh so on the educational side of things, um, other things we could do and were considered in the HPS include conducting fair housing trainings, providing access to fair housing information to those that are involved with real estate transactions, and really educating the city staff about how to identify potential violations with respect to fair housing and make referrals accordingly.

Just a little bit more from the housing production strategy here.

The idea is that this will formalize and demonstrate the city's commitment to fair housing goals and help to facilitate really a better understanding of fair housing issues in the community.

We don't really anticipate any burdens on priority populations with this action.

However, we do anticipate will have a relatively low magnitude of impact.

But it does establish a policy that we will be weighing all of our future actions against that will help us to assess the ability of that particular action to advance equitable housing outcomes.

So it's something that we will continue to come back to and look at and judge ourselves against as we continue to implement the housing production strategy.

So we understand that this is going to potentially have a limited impact in the short term, but we do expect that in the longer term the fair housing impact will be greater.

And particularly in sort of spreading awareness.

So on this slide, you can see really this is we're talking about a single sentence addition to the comprehensive plan.

It's fairly uh low uh impact approach here to the comprehensive plan amendment.

We're adding uh or proposing to add a policy to the housing choice and affordability section of the complete neighborhoods and housing chapter of the comprehensive plan.

Um you can see that would be a policy B5, and that is to employ strategies to affirmatively further fair housing by fostering inclusive communities, overcoming disparities in access to community amenities and enhancing housing choice for populations, including, but not limited to people and classes protected under state and federal fair housing regulations.

So that's the specific language we're proposing to add to the comprehensive plan.

That's really you know the the long and short of it.

I don't have too much else to talk about with you all today, other than um what the next steps would be.

Of course, those educational efforts are something we envisioned continuing through 2028 and likely beyond.

So that's you know something that will not um cease if these comprehensive plan amendments are adopted.

And ideally, if if things are approved, we would then consider findings at the next council meeting on November 18th.

And that concludes my presentation.

Thank you, Mr.

Olson.

Does anyone have any questions?

Councilor Winwood.

Thank you for lobbying up the easy one.

Um I'm fully supportive of implementing this, but I do we have any examples of land use changes in LO that we would make to uh conform to this policy.

You know, this isn't necessarily looking at you know um spurring actions in and of itself.

I think it's more just something that we would need to consider with any any land use action that the city or a private applicant is proposing.

So we're not necessarily saying this this policy will lead to us doing XX and X in the future, although that could that could come to pass, I guess.

Um the idea is really more okay, we're we're um looking at potentially a new zoning district and potentially a neighborhood of the city located over by the river.

Um, you know, when we're analyzing that in a staff report and looking at the sort of pros and cons and whether it complies with applicable policies, we will also um have an opportunity to assess um really the ability of that action to further fair housing.

So it you know, in a in a broad sense.

So it's really a lens that we will be using for proposed actions in the future.

Um, one of many, obviously, policies in the comprehensive plan that we have to comply with.

Okay.

I mean, I I guess it's um well, that one sentence we're changing, which is about 40 words or whatever, um, has almost 200 pages of documents in here in our packet.

Uh my concern is uh while I absolutely 100% agree that we have to have um fair housing.

I find as going through this few concrete examples that I can understand.

If the average person was reading through this, I'm not sure they would understand what we're trying to accomplish with this.

And I know that's not necessarily you.

I know that's the state of Oregon, but I just um you put in uh lots of language in here that um first of all, I thought we were already doing it because I because of the Fair Housing Act and the way that we've been conducting business in like us we go.

Um I think it's an additional uh frame of reference that we can refer to.

Um but I guess if I was trying to explain to somebody what this is going to do for the population like us we go, I would have a hard time explaining it.

Um I would just say, hey, I hope that we have fair housing policies.

I think we do.

Um I have not seen anything in the last seven years I've been on council um anything that was glaring.

And if it was, I would have been the first person to say that would be but a council goal to solve.

So I guess I'm I'm fully in support of this, but I just um um there's just a lot of words that I can't exactly explain what we're going to be doing differently.

And and um and I and I don't know if that's that's not necessarily your your bailout, you're putting the policy together and you have to do this, and this is state conforming and everything.

Um I just think it's um one of those things where if you said that we should have X or we should have Y, it would be easier to understand.

This is just a little bit like um make sure that you're fair in your housing policies.

The other question I had um you said that you want to have through this equitable housing outcomes, and I guess I'd like that, if you can explain what that means.

Yeah, I guess you know, equitable housing outcomes are those that would provide opportunities to housing for folks that don't have the ability to access it currently.

Um so that is something that I think you know has been city policy for a long time.

I think you've accurately point out that we are already kind of doing this.

We um are looking for ways to increase um sort of uh inclusive communities to really to you know use the language here to foster inclusive communities.

We can do that by looking at where certain types of housing is located.

One way of doing that is locating affordable housing in a city like Lake Oswego, where it's generally higher income.

That's one way to show that you're fostering an inclusive community.

Um so those are the types of equitable outcomes we would be addressing here.

Um and sort of really what we're doing is um including this as a policy in our comprehensive plan, so we can start to take more credit for the work that the city is already doing to um actually sit and say, hey, you know, we're not just approving this affordable housing development, but you know, we're approving this for these reasons, and this is you know uh policy that we have as a city that we are complying with through the application uh or through you know the approval of this application.

So, you know, if you look at all of the um comprehensive plan policies, it's difficult to say exactly you know what they have resulted in in the city.

We have you know a bunch of different zoning districts and land use regulations and you know um citing and design standards that are meant to be compliant with the policies in our comprehensive plan.

So it's really hard to say, well, we have policy B4 here says that we have to preserve and enhance the habitability of existing housing through code inspection and enforcement and with housing safety programs.

So we'd say we have a code enforcement, you know, um staff that helps us do that, but you know, in terms of you know, it seems like a lot of language until you actually see how it's implemented on the ground um and you see how it sort of um it doesn't have that direct impact, but it sets the stage for other very impactful actions that the city could take within that realm.

Um so again, this isn't like a new initiative, this isn't something that we're not already doing.

We are already doing it.

We're required by the state and the federal government to do it.

This helps sort of show that to the state and any folks that are reading our staff reports where we go through the comprehensive plan policies and talk about whether a proposed action complies so it's selling it a little bit better, I suppose, to the the broader community.

Okay.

Thank you.

Thank you, Councilman.

Thank you, Mr.

Yeah, I think that I mean, when I think about what what we have done as uh council these past years to uh affirmatively further fair housing.

I think of you know, legalizing middle housing, reforming the parking mandates, allowing the smaller, you know, through the middle housing less expensive homes.

Um we have rezoned two properties to allow for affordable housing.

We have put public funds into support um public housing.

I mean, there's a slew of things that we could say point to as a city, but I think Council Wend's point is really well taken because we don't do anything as a city to talk about that or put out and say, here's what we are doing to affirmatively further fair housing.

And we know how all this comes about, the fair housing act, and the government said, well, the fair housing act, you know, to actually well, we need you to actually do things, you know, cities, and so we're gonna have these these uh affirmatively furthering fair housing policies, and we need states and cities to implement.

But we know what happened, no one did anything, right?

It just we went from actual segregation to economic segregation.

And nothing really until the Obama era where they actually passed some type of thing to say, hey, we're gonna actually make you do this, but then you know that got repealed and then put back in place, and nothing has happened with it.

So the federal government has really done nothing with regards to uh uh affirmatively furthering fair housing.

So it's just come down to now the state and the local level.

And so it's not and the federal government still continues to it's basically unenforceable.

You know, there is really no, there's no private, you know, right of action in regards to firming for it.

So that's fine, because we do have state you know level laws that that exist.

So um, but it's most important is we're doing this for our own, you know, community.

And um I what I'm hoping comes out of this is that communication piece.

Because that is where we see, like, I mean, as a council, it's been great, but we have had a lot of, we have had resistance to all the rezonings that we have done.

You know, we have there is good education that needs to be done.

I don't want to take up all the time right now, but I think it's a it's a really good because people say, well, what does this mean?

It's like, well, we can we should explain what it means, you know.

We should um and and there are things I think we can continue to do um on on a very easy educational front to um you know to uh to further this.

But I think that helps lay like the groundwork of why we're here, you know, because yeah, we have these federal laws, but they're not doing anything, you know.

Okay, uh counselor Corden.

Yeah.

Um great conversation.

So it's just such an important conversation.

So I'm reading B5, understanding the importance of it more now that you've said, hey, we are taking credit for what we're already doing, and that's a really good thing.

And further, it sets the stage for other actions.

So I'm hoping that you can provide trying to look around the corner to what we might need to do to be compliant with what we want to do.

So would for instance, um, affirmatively furthering fair housing be, for instance, placing a park near an area that doesn't already have uh access that maybe the rest of the city does.

Would that be an example of how this would be used or how it could be interpreted?

Yeah, you know, if if you were to look at the if this were an applicable policy, which I I'm not sure it would be, but if we were to apply this to a new park, um we could then say um you know this helps to overcome disparities in access to community amenities.

A park is a community amenity, and you're providing a park in a location where there's not sufficient park access currently.

And so this policy provides an avenue for us to take credit for that when we're talking about that proposal.

That's a that's a great example.

Is there anything else like that you can think of that we would perhaps be wanting to do in order to make this work?

You know, I I think I um I would just say that the housing production strategy more broadly is that roadmap to what we need to do to arrive at you know, really affirmatively furthering fair housing, you know, as as I was saying, that's really the way that the state goes above and beyond.

I mean, there are multiple ways actually that the state goes above and beyond what the federal government requires, but that's very unique to Oregon, the development of a housing needs analysis and a housing production strategy that specifically is intended to result in equitable housing outcomes.

That's a specific sort of explicit charge from the state for that program.

So you know, I think if you're just looking at one of those um programs in isolation, you could say um, you know, let's say a new tax um abatement program for an affordable housing development, whether it be um, you know, I guess we're considering um one that would apply to uh low-income rental housing.

Um so you know, you could say, well, we're considering adopting this um tax exemption for these types of developments in part because we want to help foster inclusive communities and enhance housing choice for folks again.

You know, we're kind of wanting to open this up not just to folks that are protected under the you know, quote unquote protected classes um that were included in the Fair Housing Act, because there are a lot of other populations that we might want to consider for this analysis.

You know, you're considering like maybe the the population of um folks that work in Lake Oswego that can't afford to live here.

How does this impact them?

How does this help overcome disparities to accessing housing and providing additional housing opportunities for that population?

So we're really trying to think pretty broad, um, pretty pretty big picture about how we implement this.

But um, you know, it's really again I would think of it more as a lens, less of like a new program or something different.

Um it's something that can really help us refine what we're already doing and make sure that we're achieving the goals that we want to be achieving with the work that we're doing.

Great, thank you very much.

Thank you, Councilor Corgan.

Counselor Boop.

Yeah, to uh part of my question you answered.

But I just wanted to say that honestly, Mr.

Orson.

You are for me, you you constitute a pride for our city.

Honestly, what you work, the lady who just came on public comment said that, but it's uh it's amazing.

I like to read what you when I was reading it, I just learned so much, which means you put so much energy, so much research.

These are things like no one can read this and try to mick mark, those are clear.

And what it shows is our city is has some problematic things when it comes to to access to equity to the words that people don't like, and they have reason not to like it.

DEI.

There's a there's a when more than half of renters are rent burdened, it's a problem.

If it's not a problem for people, I don't understand what they want.

Like half of the renters are putting more than 30% of their income.

So who can live here?

And then we are having even the schools we are building, the bond we are working for, we are building it for who?

When only one-third of the housing have children.

Who are we building the schools for?

So we need to be, I mean, a better city.

It means that a city that is more welcoming too.

And the the debate on affordability is a debate that's weaponized.

It's like everything in America is weaponized.

When you talk immigration, weaponization, and we talk the same thing.

People are not bringing you.

I read some comments, some shameful comments of I don't want to live next to the some people because I made my money.

But the teachers who teach our children, most of them cannot afford to live here.

Are you ashamed to live next to your teachers?

Most of our police officers, they cannot afford to live here.

Most of our fire marshal, most of our city workers, most even someday, some counselors won't be able to live here.

So it's a problematic.

Who are we building this city for?

And that's those are the questions that we have to ask ourselves.

It's not that because you have a house, oh, that's enough.

We cannot build any housing here, any duplexes, any some like, and they're the same people who say, I want diversity, I want equity, but they're nimbies when it comes to, oh, we are building a diplex on like first addition.

Everybody in there on their high horses.

No, we're not doing this, keeping the character of our neighborhood.

The characters of our neighborhood has some history or stories that we don't want to keep.

That's uh the thing, you know, and we have to there are times when I couldn't be even be here, me myself.

I couldn't be here to talk.

At five o'clock, I'm out.

I would be working in a house to clean it or something, but not here.

We made progress.

And that's we we should be proud of that, that Lake Oswego is moving forward.

We no longer that city that those people say the police, our police is one of the most progressive city police in Oregon.

We are transparent, we show everything we are doing, all the arrests, all the pullover we do, they are public.

We're not hiding anything.

But we don't say that.

But at the same time, we still have some people who think that they're the only one that should live in Lake Oswego.

No, Lake Hosio should be a diverse city where the restaurant I go to eat, the person who worked there should be able to live in here.

That's how we measure progress.

And by reading this, we have a roadmap.

A big time roadmap.

The 209 pages that we have here are sufficient for us to move forward and to fix disparities that are in these cities.

We are in a in we are the I always say we are the best city in Oregon because we are moving forward every single time.

Some people didn't know that we built 100 affordable housing.

Last year we went for the inauguration.

People are living there.

And it's in Lake Oswego, 100 units.

We are building 55 units soon, 28.

So we are moving forward, but we need more.

We need to do more.

And the only way we can do it, we know that it's not by keeping the character of our neighborhood.

It won't happen.

Let's face it.

You know, and it's not gonna lower your housing.

Oh my house is gonna how is this that doubled in less in a decade from 2022 to it's in your analysis?

So why people are afraid that when people come my houses is gonna go down.

It you know, thank you for your work.

It's wonderful.

Thank you.

Thank you, Councillor Group.

Let's uh move on to the let's open the public hearing.

And uh we do have one uh and thank you, Mr.

Olson.

Don't go too far.

Um Cynthia Johnson is joining us on Zoom, and I'll ask uh Ms.

Hawkins to pull Ms.

Johnson up.

Can you hear me?

Hi, Ms.

Johnson.

Yes, we can hear you.

Hi, thank you.

I enjoyed the discussion.

I also would like to thank Eric Eric for his good work.

I've I really appreciate all our staff does for us, as well as all the community members that have been involved on this issue for years, decades, some of them.

So I feel like this is uh an important move in in a direction that we we need to be going, but also, you know, I I as a reminder served on the middle um housing advisory committee prior to the group that recommended this.

And I just want to say that I I really counselor Wenland, if I was gonna explain what this really means.

Um I did provide a brief written testimony, but I think it helps the city of Lake Oswego residents, um, and you know, our neighbors basically stay in our community.

You know, fair housing, um, as you all know, I'm disabled, and so sometimes you don't really know where the barriers are until you become part of that group.

And it is a group that anybody can join.

So I just wanted to say I do support this.

I did watch the presentations to the planning commission, you know, one of them on fair housing.

I apply I fail like the planning commission thoughtfully recommended to you, you know, a slight wording change.

Um, so I think uh, you know, because we all evolve into different groups.

Um, I am now a senior.

I don't know where the time went, huh?

So, but I also was very active in our schools, uh as you you know, counselor Wenlin has been as well.

And I think this fair housing policy is really important to a variety of of um uh uh a larger part of our community than we realize, you know, age, our graduates, eventually fair housing.

It's a protection, I think, of as well.

But I I just think it's it's a really important the education and uh something I something I don't often say say, except probably to Eric is my father was a developer, you know, in Southern California.

I mean, he's been gone for years, he died in 2004.

But um, but I think this is good, it is it it good policy is good for the city and it attracts good developers.

And I saw my father work on communities like Westlake Village when it was built in Southern California, and it had very diverse housing um for the time.

Um, and so I I think that you know it's just it's good for the city, it's good for our residents, it's good for people like me, and I think it's an important part of the policy that people have been working on here for decades, and you guys included, as you've all mentioned, you've been working on housing um in your tenure.

So I definitely support this amendment.

Um, and um, you know, thank you for your time on this, and I just think it's an important step, and I encourage you all to support it.

Thank you so much.

Thank you, Ms.

Johnson.

Do you have any questions for me or my time is probably up?

No, you're you're great.

No, thank you so much for participating.

We appreciate your involvement.

Okay.

Thank you.

Thanks.

Is there anyone else here who'd like to testify?

Thanks.

Okay.

And we'll go ahead and close the public hearing and entertain a motion on ordinance 2967.

Move to enact ordinance 2967.

Okay.

Motion been made by Councillor Afgan and seconded by Councillor Winland.

Discussion.

Have any further discussion?

I just wanted to mention um, you know, I think given like our the kind of complex uh the complex history of exclusionary practices, both explicit, you know, and and and and less explicit here in NLO, but also these recent kind of vast policy changes that then and actions that have demonstrated meaningful progress.

Um the the role of communication here is really important.

And so I don't know when we're going to get into the is it a kind of down the road, this communications plan.

We're gonna I think some ideas could be um I would love to see a required training on fair housing for the neighborhood, so the recognized neighborhood associations and the unrecognized neighborhood associations.

Um that would because that's where we're getting a lot of the input from.

Um I mean, I think it's good for the council, I think it's good for planning commission and and and stuff as well, but they seem to be already a little more um in the loop.

I also think having just more general education and visibility on what the city is doing around fair housing, what it means, like as Councillor Mboop said, he confronted a president the other day who wasn't even aware of some of the um uh housing developments that we've had.

And I know it's well, you know, we don't for whatever reason we do not we we've had we had a ribbon of groundbreaking at Hacienda that appeared nowhere on any city anything.

Um we're not publicizing you know these these facts.

And I think that continues like a certain a certain narrative.

And I don't know if that's intentional or unintentional, but it's it's it this got me thinking about it.

I thought, oh, that is kind of odd.

Um, and even on our city website, just having more clear access to services of people um who may be having trouble, you know, with their uh cost of living or their housing costs.

I mean, it's difficult to find those services and things like that just help as uh Ms.

Johnson was saying, helping people stay in the community by providing some of those resources and um is is is is part of that education, I think, as well, and just information sharing.

So help counselor wind.

Of course, um like uswiga was pretty ahead of the curve.

And I think it was in 1968, um Mountain Park started.

Yeah, and that is one of the most diverse um housing communities uh really on anywhere um at the time, and that had all kinds of different housing for all kinds of different needs, and um I think it's it's about 30 percent of like us we go lives in Mountain Park.

So um we were trendsetters a long time ago, anyway.

Thanks to uh Mr.

Hoberson and others that uh helped start uh Mountain Park, but uh it was bare land up there and they had a vision.

And um uh and so we have um we're ahead of the curve.

That's right.

So we just have to stay on the curve.

That's the same.

The stay in the curve.

And it's good.

I think uh, you know, the the North Anchor development is a great example, like new development, where then we encouraged um some of the workforce housing to be a part of that, where um we can have developers, especially for larger developments, you know, one option, you know, of like kind of putting this into practice.

I agree, we just don't want words on the paper.

I mean, it's and you know, what a waste of time, um, is having larger developments come in and explain how their project is further, you know, affirming fair fair housing.

Uh, I think the city I found the city of Boston kind of be to be the first city who was really put, and that's of course a much larger city, different you know, dynamics and everything, but they did uh roll this into their um zoning process and land use decision making in a more you know affirmative way so they could be there's probably pieces of that to pick out that would apply here.

Um counselor Afghan.

Thank you, Mr.

Mayor.

The way I look at this is that we're codifying and documenting our intent and our vision and our mission in the uh comprehensive plan.

We have been doing it now going forward.

Our planning department, our city uh employees are gonna use that lens to make sure we continue doing it and we stay ahead of the curve.

So that's that's my conclusion.

Thank you, Councilor Afkin, and thank you, everyone, for the good discussion.

Thank you, Ms.

Rolson, for the the good work and the planning commission for going through this as well.

Um it's been a good process.

And it's it the the report's only that long because we got the whole housing production strategy in there.

Mr.

Olson loves to include the housing production strategy and everything he gives us.

You're gonna remind us that we have that that plan.

All right.

Are you all ready to take a vote?

All right, all those in favor say aye.

Aye.

Any opposed?

Okay, that motion passes 6-0.

Thank you.

Okay, information from council.

Any information to share?

Core counselor.

No, no one.

I wanted to ask um you all, you know, we're admits um a potential, you know, catastrophic shortage in in in food you know, benefits for folks, either losing them or having them, you know, cut in half.

And I had talked to uh Ms.

Phelan earlier this week about um and Miss Bigelow, who was here uh earlier from the ACC about what we could do as a city to help support these residents.

And Ms.

Phelan had proposed if if you all are amenable to this, some ways we might be able to locate some resources to help um support um food security in the town.

I'm also um we're talking with uh Meals on Wheels uh organization separately, as well as Clackmas County, who has set aside some funds as well.

Um but if you're interested in hearing um uh the uh options uh Ms.

Phelan and the team could bring back at our next meeting.

Would you all be on board with that?

Things we could consider doing.

Okay.

Okay, thank you for doing that.

Appreciate it.

Do you have any updates for us?

Okay, nothing from right.

Um at this time we uh we're gonna conclude the broadcast portion of the meeting and we're going to move into executive uh session.

I'll ask Ms.

Osnack to please read the parameters for us as before we do that.6602D and F, and that's also in the agenda.

Um those subsections allow uh the city council to meet privately with designated persons to conduct deliberations uh with the person that's designated by the body to carry on labor negotiations and to consider information or records that are exempt by law from public inspection.

This is one of those executive sessions where uh no media are allowed to be present, but designated staff are.

All of the all other members of the audience um uh are not allowed to attend.

No decision may be made in executive session, and at the end, as the mayor said, we will adjourn.

Okay, thank you, Ms.

Osenak.

Uh so this will conclude the broadcast portion of the meeting.

We are going to uh take a recess and we'll reconvene in the side room.

You want to stay you want to stay in here?