Okay.

Now I will welcome you all to the Planning Commission meeting for the city of West Lynn for Wednesday, October 15th, 2025.

And let's go ahead and call the role.

Commissioner Jones.

Here.

Commissioner Evans.

Commissioner Watt.

Vice Chair.

And Chair Metlin.

Here.

All right.

Let's move on to our next item, which is public comment related to land use items not on the agenda.

Do we have any comments tonight?

No comments tonight.

Great.

Thank you.

That moves us to our main item for tonight, which is a public hearing.

PLN dash 25-03.

Our recommendation to city council on adoption of the Bolton and Willamette Town Center Boundary Maps.

So good evening.

A proposal for text amendments to the Westland Comprehensive Plan Goal 2 Land Use Planning to adopt the Bolton and Willamette Town Center Boundary Maps is called to order.

The proposal will bring the city into compliance with Oregon Administrative Rules 660-012-00124D and the Metro Urban Growth Management Functional Plan Title 6.

The planning commission role in the legislative process is to make a recommendation to City Council.

The testimony and arguments we hear will be used by the Commission to make a recommendation.

Tonight's hearing will proceed as follows.

After the preliminary legal matters, staff will make a presentation.

And the commission will discuss the proposal and make a recommendation.

If you have signed up to speak during the public comment portion of this hearing, please wait to be recognized by the commission before speaking.

When it is your turn, please state your name and city of residence for the record.

So the information can be entered into the minutes.

Speakers will have be limited to five minutes.

I will now ask the city attorney to cover the preliminary legal matters.

Thank you.

First, we'll start with the applicable standards and appeal rights.

The commission's decision must be based on consideration of the statewide planning goals and administrative rules adopted under ORS Chapter 197, the applicable federal or state statutes and rules, applicable plans and rules adopted by Metro, and on the city's comprehensive plan and development code.

The commission may consider any relevant testimony that it receives.

Any party with standing may appeal the decision of the city council to the state land use board of appeals according to the rules adopted by that board.

Persons with standing include those who submit written comments or present oral arguments.

Next I'll go to conflicts of interest.

Do any of the members of the commission wish to declare a potential or actual conflict of interest today?

Okay.

Seeing none, I'll note for the record that no potential or actual conflicts have been declared.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Let's go ahead and proceed to the staff presentation.

All right, thank you, Chair Metlin.

So this is going to be a little unique tonight.

Um we're having technology technological difficulties, so I've given you a copy of the presentation, and I'll just walk through the uh presentation and then follow along with your uh paper paper printout.

Uh so again, we're here tonight to uh get a recommendation from the planning commission on the Metro Town Center boundary adoption.

Uh the planning commission held a work session on this back in August.

Uh had a couple of clarifying questions, but uh indicated that the commission was ready to bring this forward into the legislative hearing process.

So uh in your packet for tonight, there was a staff report with some background information on the reason the city is uh going through this process.

Uh there were no public comments provided, uh written comments, uh the findings for the for the uh applicable criteria that the city attorney just went through, uh, and then a recommendation from staff uh to recommend approval or adoption of the ordinance to uh city council.

Uh there's a few exhibits attached to the staff report.

Uh the first exhibit exhibit being uh the actual ordinance one seven six five and the two maps that would be adopted into uh the Westland Comprehensive Plan uh Chapter 2 land use planning.

Uh there's the uh Metro memo and ordinance uh that uh adopted uh uh the requirements into title six that the the cities in the metro metro uh planning area uh adopt uh adopt the town center boundaries by the end of 2025.

Uh there's a draft planning commission transmittal memo, which you're uh accustomed seeing and cut accustomed to seeing in these legislative uh processes, uh and then affidavit and notice packet showing that we noticed the uh hearing appropriately.

So, what is a town center?

So uh the Metro 2040 uh growth concept map, which was adopted uh by Metro back in the mid-90s in in conjunction with all the cities in the Metro region.

Uh it established uh a bunch of different uh categories uh for uh redevelopment of areas in the metro region.