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The Milwaukie City Council held a work session on October 20, 2026, to receive the final quarterly update on economic development goals and discuss potential changes to the city's middle housing code in response to state law requirements and recent development trends.
Yes. But not with me. They're at the shop. But I kept them safe. Okay, we are on the air for our October 20th work session, and we have two agenda items. The first one being a update on our economic development goals presented by our assistant city manager Joseph Brillo and the economic development coordinator Sierra Fox. And we've been here before, so you know what's coming. We have a look council. This is our last quarterly update with this ground goal to Council of Institute of these goals. So we want to try and squeeze the most out of it today, talk about some burning initiatives and uh take a peek into the 2027 with you all. Um so we're gonna dive into marketing and tourism. That's kind of where we want to focus uh most of the uh time today is updating you on some ongoing initiatives um as well as some planned initiatives um before diving into uh what's uh around the corner and what's on deck for twenty twenty-seven. So first up is bringing up to speed on oh, is that the same thing? Oh it's it working it's it's possible screen. Okay. Um I'm sharing my screen, so it's eat on my butt um so I haven't participated since May, since we went to some tourism conferences, Counselor Stafford and I on a lower Willamette community collaborative. Welcome. And this is an in-portal passports between communities of Oregon City, Lucky, Bucky, and Milwaukee, um, where we have the shared goals in development promote uh shared access and itineraries, activities and events along the lamb. And the river as a unified regional tourism and recreation outfit other than five is cleanable waterfronts. So part of that work um being right now, we most recently met with River Water Trail, which is in that image on the top left. That's their main page on their website. Uh they focus on the entire river, whereas the kind of collaborative that I'm a part of is really wanting to advertise Clackmas County municipality their access to the river and their unique itineraries. So the water trail, they are actually working on an app. And so they are wanting to coordinate this task force to be able to incorporate our itineraries. We can be at the table and say what businesses we want highlighted on the map on the app of places that people can go when they dock and get off the river. And so that's gonna be an ongoing initiative with a statewide um coordination meeting coming up in November to continue that work. And then the other one, that bottom left photo is a screenshot from Mount Hood Territories, which is our regional destination management organization. Um their website they have in itinerary, which is very simple, as you can maybe not be very volunteer. Um it's got basically three lines of text um about what to do when you get off the water in Milwaukee. So I'm working on updating that on this next quarter and making it a bit more of a robust itinerary and more up-to-day itinerary of what they can do because the main collector's call sort of one of the dining list on there. Yeah.