Planning Commission - Regular Meeting

Today is June 18th at six o'clock. Let's start with the flag salute. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Good evening, everyone. So I'm Dan Burke. I'm the current commission chair. I'll allow the commissioners to introduce themselves starting on my far right. Andrew Owens. Doreen Aguito. Brent Atkinson. And his staff can introduce themselves.

Katie Meade. Tony Costales.

Josh Gibson. Jeff Leerbach. There's sign-in sheets in the back, agendas in the back. If you'd like to speak, please make sure you sign into those. Approvement, I guess the first item on is the approve the minutes from our published two sets. The May 21st was the legislative workshop, and then we also have our meeting notes.

21st as well. I'll make a motion to approve them. Second.

Okay, any other discussion? All in favor say aye. Aye. Okay, and it's approved. Okay, so we have a quasi-judicial hearing. Planning department file number 26-018. I'm not even going to try to pronounce that. Does anyone want to help me how you pronounce that?

Pachamama. Pachamama.

Pachamama Farm LLC. Say it three times real fast. So it's a request for a comprehensive plan amendment on 0.61 acres of unit of land from commercial CO to committed residential dash two acre RC2. Together was a zone change from CRC rural community commercial to RR rural residential 0.2 again planning department file number 26-018. Any commissioners have any conflict of interest or ex parte contacts or any site visits? I do not believe we have a qualified party list for this. Is there anyone in the audience that would like to testify? At this point, I'd be asking for the staff report.

Good evening, Chair Burke and fellow commissioners. I am submitting into the record 13 items. um the staff report you received in the mail or email listed 12 So the applicant, Pachamama LLC, is requesting a comprehensive plan amendment from commercial CO to committed residential 2-acre RC2 of a 0.61-acre lot of record together with a zone change from CRC rural community commercial to RR rural residential 2. The property lies within the Days Creek rural community, located on the west side of Tiller Trail Highway at its intersection with Days Creek Road. The property currently contains two pre-existing commercial structures, which previously served as a market and shop, along with two miscellaneous sheds. The purpose of this quasi-judicial application is to allow for the conversion of the existing family dwellings, accessory structures, limited farm uses, and other various uses. If approved, the applicant will convert the old vacant commercial building and garage into a rural residential use. The subject property is located within the Days Creek rural community. located on the west side of tiller trail highway and the intersection of days creek road where there is a mix of zoning and land use activities properties lying to the north are either developed with single-family residences and or Properties to the east, west, and south are designated rural community commercial, but are developed with single-family dwellings, with the only exceptions being the store market on the subject property and the U.S. post office across the street. These properties are zoned CRC, rural community commercial. The zoning surrounding this cluster of commercial zoning is predominantly RR, rural residential, with some FCs. use cropland to the north, and public reserve Days Creek Charter School to the south. Notice that the proposed amendment was provided to the Oregon Department of Land Conservation and Development, DLCD, on May 13th, 2026, which was at least 35 days prior to this hearing. Property owners within 250 feet affected public districts and agencies and the South County Planning Advisory Committee were notified of this request by mail. Notice was published in a newspaper of general circulation and as of this writing and as of today, no comments have been received. So the recommendation, based upon the findings outlined above, planning staff recommends approval of the requested comprehensive plan amendment from commercial CO to committed residential two acre RC2 and zone change from CRC rural community commercial to RR rural residential two of a 0.61 acre meets the criteria of Chapter 6, Section 6.500, and Chapter 3, Article 38 of the Douglas County Land Use and Development Ordinance. That concludes my summary.

Thank you very much. So at this time, is the applicant or applicant's representative for testimony?

Chair Burke, Commissioners, Mark Garrett, my address is 12975 Tiller Trail Highway, Bates Creek, Oregon. And first of all, I want to thank you for coming in for this rather short hearing. We appreciate that. The staff report is reflective of our desires as far as the rezoning of the property. And once that is completed, the applicant will work with planning and with the building department to make sure that those buildings are brought into residential compliance. They're largely there now. just a couple of interior adjustments that need to be made as far as bathroom access and some electrical work. But essentially, it's ready to go currently. So we ask that you approve it. It's recommended by your staff.

No one in favor, no one opposed. No rebuttal. So at this point, I'm going to close the public portion. Pretty straightforward.

I make a motion to approve the...

I do have one question. I wanted to know it's an LLC which means it's essentially a business. Why is it going from commercial to residential?

The public portion is closed but we can ask you questions.

The property is under the ownership of the LLC, but it's functioned largely as a residential use. The building that is there was the old mercantile. There was actually one also across the street years and years ago. But over the years, those have kind of fallen away. The county ended up with a property across the street, and it's now vacant. They tore the old building down. So even though it's under an LLC, it's functioning as a residential use. It's an old market.

It was the old Days Creek Market. I don't spend much time there.

But I just wanted to know. It's an LLC, so why would a business want it to be residential?

I think the store's been closed for a number of years. The store, the mercantile, the grocery store, whatever, it's been closed for a number of years.

Yeah, it's been closed for some time.

I remember going in as a kid, wanted to go play at Days Creek.

We'd all walk up there and go there. The Stones that originally owned it, you know, they passed away. Well, she passed away first. She was kind of the hub of Days Creek and the distributor of information to everyone. And then the husband kind of held things together. And then when she passed, he continued to run it for a while.

I make a motion to approve the staff's report as is.

Second. I'll second. I was waiting on you.

Any other discussion? All in favor, say aye.

Aye.

All right. Okay, so we also have the finding of facts for... Yep, okay, that's the conference. I just want to glance those over real quick.

Now, I'll make a motion to approve the finding of facts

All right, so we'll get this prepared then with any plan of his own change

to formally it doesn't require a hearing because it's not a change to resource land but we still have to formal step of getting it before the Board of Commissioners so that'll be the next step and once that's done we'll coordinate with the applicant and the rest of the planning process like mr. Garrett mentioned so at this point do we have any business from the audience

Business from the Planning Commission. And then lastly, business from the Planning Department. What do we got coming, Joel?

We will have July off because there wasn't anything, but correct me if I'm wrong, Josh, two plan amendments? One?

for sure, for August. Okay. So far, they might tweak in a second one.

One plan of zone change, same developer might have another one in the works, but that might be tight with the timeline and the notice requirements we have to get in August. But that might mean, actually it could be better one in August than one in September, potentially.

Like that, summer will be over.

Yep. Indian summer maybe through October. I always like that myself.

Okay. If we've got nothing else, we'll go ahead and adjourn the meeting. Get everyone home.

Meeting adjourned.