Planning Commission - Regular Meeting

Greetings. Now is the time and place for a meeting of the Beaverton Planning Commission. For the record, I will do a roll call to verify which commission members are participating this evening. Commissioner Holmes, Commissioner Makavoy, present. Commissioner Metler present. Commissioner Spec present. Commissioner Winter not here.

Commissioner Winter is not here. Let the record not show that he is present today. However, let the record show that Commissioner McCann is excused and absent from the meeting tonight. We are now at commission communications. Commission, any communications? Looks like no communications. We are now at staff communications. staff. Any communications? Good evening, Chair Jana Fox, current planning manager. No communications this evening.

Great. Thank you. The first item on the agenda is a public hearing on the application for LU32025-00674 Hawaiian Brothers Extended Hours of Operation Case File number CUN 3205-00256. This item was continued from the December 17, 2025 and January 21st, 2026 planning commission agendas. Before we move to the substance of the hearing, I will ask the city attorney to cover the prehering matters.

Good evening, chair and commissioners. Robin McIntyre, assistant city attorney. The applicant has the burden of proving that that the applications are consistent with the Beaverton development code comprehensive plan and any applicable Beaverton code provision. The criteria that must be addressed in the hearing are development code sections 40.03.1 facilities review 40.15.15.4 for C condition new conditional use. Testimony, arguments, and evidence must be directed toward these approval criteria or other criteria in the comprehensive plan or development code that the speaker believes apply to the application. Failure to raise an issue accompanied by statements or evidence sufficient to allow the planning commission and other interested parties an opportunity to respond may preclude an appeal to the land use board of appeals based on that issue. Anyone who submits written comments or gives oral testimony has standing to appeal this decision. Failure of the applicant to raise constitutional or other issues relating to proposed conditions of approval with sufficient specificity to allow the city to respond may preclude an action for damages in circuit court. State and local law require commissioners to make certain disclosures. To these ends, the following questions will be asked. Does any commissioner have a potential or actual conflict of interest, exparte contacts, or site visits to declare? Chair Adams,

no to all three. Commissioner Holmes, no to all. Commissioner Makavoy, no to all. Commissioner Metler, no to all three. Commissioner Spec, no to all three. And Commissioner Winter,

no to all three. Does any member of the audience wish to question a commissioner about exparte contacts or site visits or challenge the right of any commissioner to part participate in this hearing? Okay. Let the record show no response. The order of the public hearing will be as follows. City staff will give a presentation followed by commissioner's questions of staff. The applicant will be given 20 minutes for its presentation followed by commissioner's questions of the applicant. Members of the public in support of the application may speak for up to five minutes each. Then members of the public opposed to the application will have an opportunity to speak for up to five minutes each. Members of the public who are neither in support nor opposed will then have five minutes to speak. The applicant will have five minutes for rebuttal and then the planning commission will then hear final comments from staff. Chair, that concludes the prehering statement. You can proceed with the hearing. We will now begin with a staff presentation. Thought I checked. There we go. Green light. Fantastic. Uh good evening uh commissioners. My name is Steve Ragnner, senior planner with the city of Beverins's planning division. And the application before you tonight is LU3202500674 W brothers extended hours. Do we want to get this up on the screen? Okay. I just want to make sure I'm not getting ahead of myself. Fantastic. Thank you. The application before you is a request for a new conditional use uh applying to a drive-through restaurant requesting to operate between the hours of 11:00 a.m. and 12:00 a.m. midnight daily with employees on site until as late as 1:00

a.m. uh for cleanup activities. the proximity of the site to residentially zoned properties require conditional use approval for any operations after 10 p.m. So really the request tonight is really focused on that 10 p.m. to 1:00 a.m. activities. The application um is Cedar Hills Crossing 2 um which is 18 and 3/4 acres in size. Um, but the area we're looking at tonight is the northwest corner of Seals Crossing. Um, it is a broad mix of retail and restaurant and service uses. Uh, the northwest corner of the site shown here outlined in green recently received land use approval um for additional commercial development um including the Hawaiian Brothers Drive-Through Restaurant shown in red in the upper left. Uh, these buildings have not yet been constructed. Currently, the site functions essentially as overflow parking for the rest of the development. It used to hold a um or contain a bowling alley and now kind of functions as overflow parking. Uh the subject site is zone community service um and is in commercial in use. Uh the same can be said for properties to the north, east, and south. Uh and properties to the west are residentially zoned and residentially developed either uh city RMC or Washington County R5. Uh here is a closeup of the subject site. Uh the building itself will be about 2600 square ft. Uh the area in green is a small outdoor seating area and the two yellow stars are the speaker boxes uh for the drive-thru ordering. Um there are a couple of mitigating factors uh for this property and its adjacency to residential uh development. Uh the first being is that the actual area of activity is more than 100 ft

from any property line. Um and the two speaker boxes um are pointed away from the residential development to the east to mitigate any noise impacts um to those residential properties. Additionally, there is a significant landscape buffering proposed here. Um the landscape buffer on the far west side is about 36 feet in width uh well beyond what our landscape buffers require in our code today. Um so that will also help mitigates mitigate both noise um and visual impacts for the development. Uh the city did receive some public comment on this proposal. Uh four comments in total from three neighbors. Uh generally they spoke to concerns about livability impacts, noises from the proposal um but also existing noise impacts from the shopping center. Um the applicant provided um response to this noting that distance from the property line, landscaping and the speaker box orientation will help minimize uh noise impacts from the actual proposes tonight. Um but acknowledge that there has been um existing noise concerns. Uh generally nuisance behavior um and generally the area um in the northwest attracts that kind of behavior because they're just isn't a developed area there and believes that once the site is developed a lot of that nuisance behavior um will decrease. Um, additionally they've cited that they've increased security patrols to minimize current behavior as well as even closed the upper floor parking structure at night uh to make sure that you know people hanging out playing their music really loud in the middle of the night is something that that is very limited. So um staff sees the applicant as being responsive to neighbors concerns both existing um as well as future concerns. Um, based on this reasoning and the facts and findings of the staff report dated December 10th, staff is recommending approval uh for LU320500674 Hawaiian Brothers extended hours of operation subject to conditions in the staff report. That concludes staff's presentation and we're happy to answer any questions the commission may have.

Thank you. Commissioners, do you have any questions for the staff? Commissioner Holmes. Um, one question I was wondering is can you do you know what the hours of the bowling alley were when it was there? You know, I don't remember and I don't know the existing hours of the current bowling alley, but I bet the applicant knows that off the top of their head. So, I would I would defer to them. Okay. Thank you. Yes. Any other questions? I have one question. Uh it looks like the drive from Walker, the road from Walker is on the west side of the proposed building. Is that correct?

So, are you referring to the uh the drive-thru driveway or the access drive? Oh, you said walk. Yes, it is. Yes, it is between um the restaurant and the residential properties. That is correct. Okay, great. Thank you. Any other questions? Looks like that's it. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Put this up for them.

The applicant will now have 20 minutes to present. Please begin by introducing yourselves and stating your names and addresses for the record. There we go.

Uh, I'm Seth Gare with CE John Company. Uh we're the applicant, the developer. Uh 1701 Southeast Columbia River Drive in Vancouver. And my name is Matt Robinson. I'm a ladies planner with DAL, where the uh consulting lanes planner and civil engineer for the project. Uh address is uh 307 Southwest 6th Avenue uh number 700, Portland, Oregon. Right. enough. Yeah, if you want to give the the brief over.

Sure. So, uh, we have a presentation here obviously, but um, Steve's presentation was almost identical to what we had in here. And so, I don't think we really need to go over that again unless Seth, is there anything you want to cover? Yeah, I think um, maybe just go down to this the overall site plan. Oh, this one.

Yeah. So, so this uh building is part of the larger Cedar Hills Crossing 2 development which includes Kingpins and McMinammens and Dave Hot Chicken. Um so we have a num number of tenants that already have extended hour conditional uses. Kingpins is open until I believe 1:00 a.m. um on the weekends and and midnight during the week. McMinman's has similar hours to that. And really what we've seen, you know, we and you know, the the the comments we received from our neighbors are all neighbors that I've actually sat down with and met with a number of times. Um, and we're very um I guess in tune to what the the issues that have been out there. And what we've found is, you know, that the shopping center is busy late at night, you know, with the the existing uses that are open. And the the nuisance behavior tends to only occur in this northwest section. Um because there's nobody there, right? It's it's the empty parking lot. There's no businesses that are open. Um, so we really see this as something that's going to take care of itself largely um with the the proposed development that we're looking to, you know, get into construction in the next few months. Um and and we do think the extent having a business open you know in these hours is going to help because now you have eyes and ears and you know employees and the public there to kind of help help us enforce behaviors and you know call the police call our security and and I will say you know the the back and forth with

the neighbors over the last I'd say year has actually improved things. We've added a number of speed bumps which has helped with um avoiding people doing the kind of car racing um in the parking structure or around the parking structure. So, I've heard from a number of of neighbors, you know, kind of thanking us for doing those things and and I know there's more we can do and and we look forward to getting that done. Um and we see this as the next kind of logical step in doing that. Um, yeah, I think we're happy to take questions and um go from there. Thank you. Commissioners, any questions for the applicant regarding the proposed application? Commissioner Metler.

Yes. Is the the overflow parking lot uh currently is that uh is there any lighting there at night? Yeah, I believe there's two two lights. Okay. I mean, it's not probably to city current city code, so I think, you know, with the lighting that will be added now, um you know, that'll be a big improvement. Great. Thank you.

Any other questions? Commissioner Mackabo. Um yeah, I was just wondering if you have an estimate of um about how many visits Hawaiian Brothers would expect during those extended hours, whether it's by weekday or weekend. Just like some some ballpark of how much traffic we're talking about.

Yeah, I don't I don't have that off hand. No, but I I mean I do, you know, if you're looking at the the businesses that have extended hours throughout the shopping center, I mean, this is probably one of the the smaller, you know, businesses when you look at it. Um, you know, other than maybe Salt and Straw, but we know the volumes, you know, they're doing even late at night. So, yeah.

Um, yeah, I I wouldn't I wouldn't be able to say. Okay. Um, and then, uh, in your conversations with with any of those neighbors, did any of them ask questions or or raise any concerns about, um, about light issues? Because I, when I look at the layout of this, uh, and the chair sort of, I think, was getting at this maybe, the way it's oriented, when folks come out of that drive-thru, you know, and we're talking about extended hours, so we're talking about nighttime traffic, those those high beams are going to flash across across those residences. Is that a concern for any of the neighbors or or something that you've mitigated somehow? Well, I mean, I do think the landscaping is right there. Um, that that wasn't something that came up. I mean, actually, C. John Company owns the property immediately west, the residential house immediately west of this building anyway. So, um, we know we'll be okay with it. But I I do think the, you know, the hedges and landscape and and in meeting with the neighbors and and really trying to have a design that addressed their needs, you know, that was part of doing the the wider buffer, you know, almost twice or maybe three times more than is actually required in the code. And then we worked with our landscape architect to try to do something where it was like a layered approach. So, we didn't just plant a row of trees, but there's nothing in the the understory. So, there's, you know, low lower stuff, medium stuff, and taller stuff is is really to try to um prevent both headlights. And um a lot of it is even though the the sight lighting won't cross the property line, that's not allowed by code. It'll be shielded. it's to avoid them being able to see the light, you know, from their house because, you know, that's what you're

trying to avoid. So, I I think actually we've by doing these like preemptive steps, we I I think we actually have a pretty thoughtful design for this. Great. Thanks. Any other questions?

All right. Looks like no further questions. We are now at the public testimony portion of this agenda item. We will call for testimony in groups, starting with those in favor of the application, then those in opposition to the application, then those neither in favor nor in opposition. We will take testimony from those attending in f in person first, followed by those attending via Zoom webinar. As a reminder, testimony is limited to the criteria that apply to the application. Now is the time for testimony in favor of the application. Do we have any yellow cards? No yellow cards. Okay. Thank you. We have no one in test testifying in person. So we'll move to Zoom webinar. Via Zoom webinar. For those viewing via Zoom webinar, please communicate by using the raise hand feature in the Zoom menu bar. If calling in, press star 9 to alert the chair that you would like to speak. Are there any Zoom? None. Great. Staff has stated that we do not have any public testimony in favor via web. Now is the time for testimony in opposition to the application in person. Do we have any? No, we do not. Do we have any one testifying via Zoom webinar? Okay, great. Thank you. staff has stated that we do not have any public testimony in opposition via the web. Now is the time for testimony neither in favor nor opposed to the application. Do we have any yellow cards? Neither in favor nor we do not. We have no one testifying in person. We'll move to the Zoom webinar. Via Zoom webinar. For those viewing via Zoom webinar, please communicate using the raise hand feature in your Zoom menu bar. If calling in, press star 9 to

alert the chair that you would like to speak. Do we have anyone testifying? Neither in favor nor oppose. None. Great. Staff has indicated that we do not have any public testimony, neither in favor nor opposed via the web. So, there's no need for rebuttal. So, now is the time. Let's see where we're going to go. There. Not there. Does staff have any final comments that they'd like to make?

Thank you, chair. Just one thing. Uh Steve Rner, uh city of Beaverton. Um there were questions about the landscape along the western side and questions of, you know, how above and beyond it was. Just to clarify, the required buffer is 20 ft and they provided 36. So it is well above and beyond what is required by code.

Excellent. Thank you. With final comments completed, I will close the public hearing. Now is the time for deliberation. Do any commissioners have any further discussion on the proposal. Looks like no further questions. Is there a motion? Chair. Based on the record and findings and conclusions in the staff report, I move to approve the application for LU32025-0000674, Hawaiian Bros. Extended hours of operation, case file number CU32025-0000256, subject to the conditions as presented in the staff report.

Is there a second? Second. Commissioner Metler seconds. Is there any discussion on the motion? No discussion. I will vote. A vote will be taken by roll call. When your name is called, please say yay if in favor or nay if opposed. Commissioner Holmes, yay. Commissioner Mackoy, yay. Commissioner Metler, yay. Commissioner Spec, yay. Commissioner Winter, I.

Chair is a yay as well. The motion passes unanimously. The the planning commission's decision will be memorialized in land use orders provided to all parties who testified. Appeals must be filed in accordance with the Beaverton Development Code and the LUBA rules. The second item on the agenda is a presentation on the Southwest Allen Boulevard Street plan update. We will now begin with the presentation. Hi, thank you, Commissioner. Uh, can you hear me? This is Dan Turk. Are you able to hear me? Yes, we can hear you. Can you see my screen? No.

Okay, that is a problem. This was just working. Hold on. Okay. Oh, there we go. Okay. Sorry about that. Uh, let me share my screen now. Great. We can see it.

Okay. Thank you very much. Uh again, my name is Dan Turk. I work in CDD and transportation planning. Uh thanks for the opportunity to talk to you all. I really appreciate your time. Uh I don't think I've been at planning commission for a while. It probably was maybe Milicanin project when that first started a couple years ago or the loop project. Uh so uh you know this is this is just meant to beformational about an upcoming planning project that we have. Uh so let me begin. Uh this is about the Southwest Allen Boulevard street plan. Uh the city is going to be developing this street plan uh over the next year or so. We're prioritizing community engagement to better understand uh neighborhood concerns, ideas, and level of support. And it's very important to us that the engage the activities that we have for engagement uh work for the people that are impacted and want to participate so that we can give information to them and most importantly hear from them. Little bit of project background. Uh you see the the project area here in this picture. It's basically Allen Boulevard from Murray uh Boulevard uh almost all the way to 217 to King Street. Uh this is following up on a a district plan that was done for Allen Boulevard uh which was adopted by council December 2019. Uh the city really did a an intensive uh community engagement process uh asking uh a lot of different people in the neighborhood, you know, what what could the city do? how could the city be how could the neighborhood be improved? Uh transportation safety was cited uh was one of the pillars of the comments that people gave in terms of things that could be improved. Uh and so this street plan is following up on uh following up on the need to to move

forward with uh with that a little uh blow up with respect to the project area. Uh just wanted to point out uh to you that are to you that are not very familiar with Allen. Uh I wasn't necessarily I I live up in Tannisborn myself, but I've driven through it. Uh I was just surprised how many people live uh and have businesses along Allen and this two-mile stretch. Uh the apartments you see in gray here. And uh there's upwards of 8 to 10,000 people that live just a couple of blocks from Allen Boulevard. And that's about a tenth of our population. There's a good amount of businesses, uh, Latino owned businesses. And then, as you can see, there's a good number of churches and schools around here as well. So, there's a lot of lot of community life. And not to mention the relatively new appearance of the public safety center at uh, in blue here at at Hall and U Hall and Allen. A little general description of the project. The goal is to really come up with a strategy for what the city would like to do uh along this corridor in the next 5 to 10 years. Uh this work will be done in coordination with the ongoing transportation system plan update that my colleague Jessica Engelman is leading. I sit right next to Jessica. Uh so the coordination shouldn't be much of a problem. As part of that work, they're going to be looking at a couple important corridors uh within the city to see ways that they could be improved and made safer for all modes of transport. Uh this will be a fifth corridor uh that will do that in a little more uh depth since we have a a little more budget to to work with. Uh and then the idea of all this work is to put a street plan in front of city council for consideration for adoption at the end of the planning work. Goals like I said reflecting the varied

neighbor community needs and perspectives enhancing the safety and comfort for people walking, biking, and taking transit. Uh contributing to a vibrant and livable neighborhood and then broadening access for all. uh the safety and the comfort for people walking and biking were especially things highlighted uh through the community engagement uh for the district plan. Here are some of the actions that will be considered. Now this planning process like all planning processes is really to identify alternatives, look at these alternatives and then tell the decision makers who are ultimately going to be city council but also the community if we would do this alternative what would be entailed. uh and then you know kind of talk through if that's something that we want cons want to be as part of the implementation strategy. So, be looking at things from street lighting, curb extensions, things that can be done along the corridor, but also at the intersections, uh, street trees, uh, wayfinding signage, speed limits and enforcement, turning restrictions, signal timing changes, striping changes, refuge islands. So, these are some of the specific actions that we'll be looking at as alternatives. Uh and then overall in terms of I would say more packages of alternatives uh we will be looking at ways of reper repurposing the street right ofway uh basically using the street right ofway that we have in different ways. Right now for example we have a certain amount of it that's dedicated to through lanes for vehicles. So we would look at maybe using some of those uh lanes for something else. Again this would be among many many different alternatives. And then as part of that or even separate than that, we would be looking for solutions that are called kind of quick build solutions that could

be deployed quickly uh using temporary materials and just seeing if if things would work. So an example of that would be bulbing out uh the uh uh the corners at some of the key intersections. And the nice thing about quick build is a it's something that the city could do quickly. Uh, two, it's something that doesn't necessarily cost a lot. Uh, and then three, which I think is is the biggest, is you can try something and see if it works. And if it doesn't work, it can be changed or you could go back to the way things were. Uh, so among all of the other things that we would be looking at, we'd be looking at at some of these things. We will not very likely not be looking at things that would be acquiring new rightway. uh those would just not be feasible from a cost and a neighborhood uh point of view. Uh very quickly uh the project schedule uh this is tentative. We are still in the first project step of preparing. Uh we are in the process of selecting our consultant. Uh we hope that the consultant will be on board in February so that we can begin this work in March. And here you see a little bit uh the first column or the first row is the different steps of the planning process from looking at goals, existing conditions, identifying investment options and then evaluating those options for inclusion in the in the implementation strategy. Community engagement would occur at the end of each of these steps of the planning process and what we hear from the community would inform how we would begin uh the next of those steps. uh overall uh not just looking at planning. The planning would be uh likely from uh that should say m March 2026 to April 2027. Tentatively, we'd go to council to consider the implementation plan uh next

May. And then if it's adopted, uh if pieces of it are adopted, we would begin executing them sometime in 2018. Uh we'd have to go out and be getting funding sources for these. there's no funding source uh available right now or that we've looked for. Uh and some of the things that maybe are less costly we could begin uh looking at or begin implementing even before 2018 2028. A little bit about uh project engagement. I said that that's really one of our priorities. Community members will have multiple opportunities to share their perspectives and concerns at each of the planning steps. Ultimately, of course, uh the final decisions are made by city council. Our job as staff is to uh communicate what we've heard from the community uh to city council, but also to back right back at the community uh so that get they can hear and learn from each other. Uh we plan on providing uh different various options for people to participate uh group and individual sessions verb uh visual verbal experiences inerson virtual different types of events. But as we are looking for the consult or as we are selecting the consultant we are also fine-tuning our public engagement plan. uh and an important piece of that is actually going out to the community before all this starts and getting a sense from people about how they would like to participate. Uh so uh this presentation is part of uh just letting you all know that this is a project that's on the horizon for the city but also uh giving you an opportunity yourselves directly or to pass this on to other people to go online uh fill out a brief survey uh or they can you can contact me directly to let me know how what your preferences would be. We're really looking for people to let us know how they'd like to participate, how

they'd like to receive information from us and most importantly how they would like to provide their feedback uh and feel more com most comfortable doing that. So please uh uh wait sorry uh take a look at our survey. There's a QR link here. I think you've also received a copy of this presentation. Takes a couple minutes to fill out. Uh this is all confidential information just used for this project. Feel free to contact me as well. Uh and please uh please pass along uh this information. We have our website up and running as well uh to anybody that you think uh would be interested. And with that uh just want to thank you for your time and I'm I'm happy to answer any questions if you all would like.

Great. Thank you. Commissioners, any questions? Commissioner Metler. Yeah, I more have a it's more of a comment, but I want to say that um uh I travel on Allen quite a bit and there is not only is there a lot of pedestrians, but it's also a pretty hightraic area from uh a uh car and commuter traffic uh perspective and very excited that um you're going to involve the community in that way and embark on this project.

Thank you, counselor. You know, one of the challenges we'll have here is again, our job is to objectively put in front of people, you know, the the council, hey, if you do this, this is what it would mean for people walking along Allen. This is what it would mean for people uh traveling along Allen. It would be great to have a cohort of people that commute along Allen because unlike uh unlike you know you can catch people where they live and where they do business uh and where they walk but you know gone are the days where you can stop traffic to ask people how they feel about going on Allen. So uh that's an important part of the community that we'd like to be able to reach. Great. Any more questions?

Commissioner Spec more of a comment. I I hope that um you guys bring some uh some leading topics to that conversation and not just collecting information because I think um being familiar with that street. I think the street cross street crosssection is going to be an important part of that conversation in terms of supporting the type of activities the community would want there. It is a pretty autocentric environment. It's a tough pedestrian realm that's there. And I mean, just off the top of my head, just take you you have a limited amount of um rideaway that's there. And a center planed median would go a long way. A protected bike lane would go a long way. So maybe you're looking at two-lane road, one way each direction type of deal to really

Yeah. I mean, that would be something that we'd like to look at. Certainly, if you look at the TSP and the the broader objectives that the city has uh for neighborhood streets, which which this really is, uh I think it warrants looking at and then looking at what the tradeoffs involved are. Uh you know, it could be a trade-off along the lines of maybe it takes people a few more minutes to get through Allen during peak hours, maybe a little bit more than that, and you know, what what would it do for the business community or the neighborhood feel? Allen Boulevard certainly is a it's a divider. You know, a lot of people cross Allen uh and maybe don't cross because it's kind of difficult to do. Yes.

Thank you. Any other questions? Yes, Commissioner Mack.

Yeah, just a quick observation. Um I appreciate the the focus on public engagement. Um I might suggest that in particular for in that slide where you showed the very rough timeline there that uh you consider adding adding public engagement at the beginning of the goal setting period um if nothing else I think it communicates an earnestness and a real like uh desire to actually engage with the public in that process. um uh right now is sort of currently shown it it feels a little bit like uh an internal team of experts might come up with the goals for this this community and this project and then deliver those to the public which I don't think is your intention based on your comments but um it for that particular section of the project it might be good to engage with the community and to make it clear that you're engaging with the community in multiple ways at multiple steps.

Thank you. You're not the first person who's made that comment and I actually had not made that change. Uh you're absolutely right from the beginning and one of the interesting things about this process is I alluded to the district plan and they they they got a hold of hundreds of people maybe five five six hundred people and have a lot of detailed comments. So that's a wealth of information. We also don't want to lose as we begin with the with the project goals. And uh you know like you know the project goals are very important because as you go to the alternatives that's kind of what you're looking at the alternatives with right how do they meet the project goals? Uh so that's an important step and an important step for for example city council to hear from the community and then tell us what they think they should be right. Thank you.

Great. Any other questions? Commissioner Holmes.

Um I was just curious, you mentioned that you have a funding process, but have you identified what where those fundings might come from? Is this like grants that could be applied for or is this like taxpayer money that would be funding the project or is there development planned along the road that other people developing would be paying? Yeah, normally it's a little bit of both. We we do not have any specific plans at this moment. Uh I would say the bulk of it is likely to be grants. Uh and having a a well- definfined plan uh that the neighborhood and city council support would go a long way in in being able to get those grants. Uh I think the funding uh the funding through development would always be part of the implementation plan as it is for example for our uh for the loop concept plan that was adopted downtown. Some of the things you you know are longer period and they would be happening only when certain uh lots near the street would redevelop. Uh but the piece that the piece that would be from you know let's say the street fund and that would be the only uh th that would be you know those would be maybe part of the traffic calming program which already exists or very very uh small level investments at this point. But yeah, so the goal is really to come up with a plan that the neighborhood supports and you know has a very coherent plan and and uh you know aligns with some important goals for example that we have at a regional or state level and so that make it attractive project to get some funding from from those grant uh sources.

Thank you. Any other questions? I have a question of sorts. Um, you mentioned, I believe, expanding the sidewalks on Allen and I was wondering how you're going to do that or is it taking up more road space because when I go down Allen, which you know, any of us that live in the Beaverton area, it's pretty narrow. It feels like a narrow road when you're traveling down it. And I was just wondering how you're going to expand those sidewalks.

Well, again, that might be one of the alternatives that we look at. uh we wouldn't we wouldn't really be looking at more rightway. Uh although maybe in some sections it'd be possible to acquire another foot or two. Uh so it would likely it would likely be at the expense of other elements of the street uh at the street. So maybe looking at you know a different lane configuration for example. Uh and this this could vary at different places along Allen. Uh you know the interesting thing about Allen is uh you know on the west side it it it is a quite constrained road in terms of the lanes but it that does not do much in terms of making people drive slower. Uh so I think some of the things that we would be looking at would be ways of just you know getting people to drive a little slower to make it safer for for people there.

Okay. Thank you. Yeah. Uh, I do want to say before I lose the opportunity, uh, I apologize that I wasn't able to be there in person, uh, as many people these days. I'm slightly ill and, uh, I haven't been working I've been working from home all week. So, otherwise, I would have loved to have been there with you all.

Thank you very much. We appreciate the information. The third and final item on the agenda is the adoption of the January 7th, 2026 planning commission meeting minutes. Do any commissioners have any discussion on the minutes? Looks like no discussion. Is there a motion? I motion to approve the minutes from January 7th, 2026 planning commission meeting. Thank you, Commissioner Metler. Is there a second? Second.

Thank you, Commissioner Makavoy. Is there discussion on the motion? Looks like no discussion. A vote will be taken by roll call. When your name is called, please say yay if in favor or nay if opposed. Commissioner Holmes, yay. Commissioner Mackoy, yay. Commissioner Metler, yay. Commissioner Spec. Commissioner Winter. I. And chair is also a yay. The the motion passes unanimously. We are now adjourned at 7:10. Thank you everybody.

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