The West Linn City Council met in a hybrid format on Tuesday, September 8, 2026, at 6:00 p.m. The meeting included public comments, mayor and council reports, a consent agenda, business items, and updates on the I-205 Abernethy Bridge construction noise issues. Key decisions included the adoption of a proclamation supporting affected residents and the approval of a 10-year Comcast franchise renewal.
Um minutos should have some paper. Scripteners there. Yeah. Okay. Thank you. And then uh ordinance 1774 is on the business meeting. That's uh Comcast franchise renewal. And uh haven't heard from the Comcast or telephone at this point. So I assume they're supportive because they're pretty vocal to that. Yeah, that's that was a standard process. I wasn't as involved in Mac negotiates that for many jurisdictions as a whole. Um, but I did review, I was surprised to find that in our code it does say that those franchises have to be adopted by ordinance, which I thought was strange like a law of general applicability. Usually you would think a resolution, but that's how it is in our quote, it's how it's always been done. So that's how I draft help traffic up the ordinance. I don't know what the argument against a simple repeal of the noise audience a lot. Um I can speak to that now, or we we can discuss it more at the meeting, but um basically removing ODOT express exemption altogether um makes it so any relatively minor ODOT project, like the example provided that they're gonna come and do about a four-day taping project that's really beneficial and critical for a resident. They would no longer have an exemption to do that work, they would have to apply for a waiver and go through that whole process to kind of a straightforward maintenance type project. Um and also although other jurors maybe a little function is good or right. Yeah, although um other jurisdictions don't necessarily have that express language, they all have a variance process. So when ODOT is doing major projects like this, you know, the seismic retrofitting, they're always granted some type of variance out of normal working hours. And so I think the the I think we would want to negotiate that rather than just for that. Yeah, there is negotiation included, but I think the the thought was um and and also after talking to Chief and his ability to enforce that that really the more beneficial path would be working with Fidel and Ryan and our representatives and Doug has been charged to have um required changes that they are gonna do, and basically holding ODA to those rather than trying to really change our local code in a way that may not have the best long-term consequences for other projects, and also the fact that you know citing them with a small fine versus um QIT, you know, is having liquidated damages of almost 75,000 a day. It really has little you know deterrence. I think the symbolic effect is certainly a statement, yeah. But I think it's it's it's not as simple as it looks. It's not as simple. Um I think looking at it, we need to look for what's the outcome gonna be. And I don't think we'll get the outcome that we want. If we just change the ordinary, yeah. I think we're gonna negotiate that everybody without having to do this. Yeah, that she's gonna be able to do that. Yeah, and then they want has been happening all week. It is, yeah, yeah. So we're gonna get them hopefully the relief that they want at the time they want it and some other provisions that we've asked in writing for them to respond to. Then that's fine. We're trying to we're trying to we're trying to get relief for our neighbors and also keep the project going that it can be completed. That was another discussion with uh removing that language and then having to pivot to the variance approach, and most likely would it end up extending the project while we work through that process. So trying to figure out what's the most efficient and um you know direct way of addressing the problem. I am open to noise ordinance reform overall. I hate our current noise or the language in there is terrible, it doesn't have decimal levels. Yeah, yeah. And that's something that we can do, it's just not gonna solve this problem. Yeah, have a worse situation as they end up with the noise ordinance or appeal. Think that's actually helpful, but they're still missable all night the next year and a half. Anything else on that topic or no, I don't understand the ordinance. Would you go to the order? Seeing none, uh we'll adjourn and we'll vote six. Eight minutes, seven minutes. Thank you, everybody. Okay, call this meeting to order.