City Council - Regular Meeting

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All right, good evening everyone. Welcome to the study session of Tiger City Council. We'll have two topics this evening for our study session. First is Tiger Home Project Update and the second one is Downtown Reimagined Project Update. We'll start with the Tiger Home Project Update and we'll have Associate Planner Gomez to present the subject. Great.

Thanks. Hi everyone. I'm Amber Gomez, Associate Planner. I've got some handouts here. If you want to pass those around just to follow along with what I'm talking about today. So on July 7th, I will be at the City Council business meeting to present an update on Tigard Home and give a summary on phase two of the engagement, as well as our recommended policy approaches based on that engagement. So today I wanted to come to the study session to kind of go over what those recommended policy approaches that I'll be presenting at that meeting will be so that I can get any initial comments or questions that you all have either addressed today or look into and address at the meeting on the 7th. So to start out with, I'm going to talk about the recommended business types framework that we've put together. So this is, As we've been working through as staff trying to think about how to implement Tigard Home and these potential new shocks and services in neighborhoods, we wanted to take a holistic approach with how we are also regulating home occupations currently to make sure that the level of review, the standards align with the different impacts of these different types of businesses that could be occurring in neighborhoods. We'll walk through these three different types The first is what we propose to call home occupations. We're recommending that these would be allowed by right and not require a land use application. The home occupations, these are examples are like bookkeeping, offsite services, online sales. So in a lot of cases, neighbors might not even know that there's a business occurring in that home. So they have very little impacts to surrounding properties. And because of that, we would be proposing minimal standards for those types of businesses. The second level of business type is what we are proposing to call home business. This would require or we're recommending a take one review because they do have slightly more impacts to surrounding properties. They would allow some customers to come to the property, but they would be restricted in the total number. So some examples are a person tutoring therapy or a barber. And this level of business type would have more standards than the home obligation because of those additional impacts. And then finally, the third, which we're currently calling neighborhood scale commercial, are these potential new shops and services that are open to the public that would be in tighter neighborhoods. So potentially something like a corner market or a small restaurant, we are recommending a type review for this type of business, which would require notice to the neighboring properties. We're proposing that level of review because since these are open to the public, they would have the most impacts to surrounding properties and we wanted to make sure to mitigate those impacts with the most standards. Those are the three different business types. Then we have a recommended standards framework to go with those businesses and kind of outline the different types of standards that would apply to the different business types. So starting with home occupations, again, that's the potentially allowed by right. No employees or customers are coming to the home. Outdoor activity would be very minimal. Operating hours potentially unrestricted because it might just be someone working on a laptop. Doesn't really matter what time that is necessarily. There were proposing no building or site design standards because these would be allowed in basically any residence in Tigard. So no restriction on location either. And it says none for the science here, but that should actually be not allowed. Moving on to the home businesses. These would allow employees and customers, but a restricted number or they might have to come by appointment, that sort of thing. Outdoor activity and operating hours would also be restricted. There would be minimal building incentives and standards. Again, this is a type of business that would potentially be allowed in any Tigard home. No location restrictions and signs would be allowed, but restricted in like the type and size and that sort of thing. And then finally, for the neighborhood scale commercial, the incoming customers would be unlimited. outdoor activity and operating hours would be restricted. This type of business would have the most building and site design standards because you might potentially have a new type of building coming in and you want to make sure that you're matching with what needs to go in the neighborhood. We are proposing the location of these types of businesses to be restricted and design standards. There would also be some restrictions as well. I'm going to go into a little bit more depth on the building standards and location restrictions specifically to the neighborhood scale. So for the building design standards, based on the feedback that we got through community engagement, we haven't really heard a clear favorite for building forms or really a clear, I guess, thing that people don't like. We've heard support for all different types of building forms. So our recommendation is to develop standards to allow for neighborhood scale commercial to take place in a variety of different building forms. So some different examples are adaptive reuse, which is like an existing house that's been converted for a business. More traditional mixed use buildings where you have commercial on bottom floor and residential above. Accessory commercial units, which is sort of like an ADU, but for a small commercial business instead of a toiling unit, as well as standalone commercial businesses. And then finally, for our business location restrictions, we do propose to allow neighborhood scale commercial businesses on main roads in Tiger neighborhoods. Now, what exactly main roads means is still to be determined. because that means different things to different people. So we're planning to talk about that more in our final phase of engagement. But one thing, you know, it could be based off of the classification of the roads. That's something we'll be going into more. But really, this gets at it helps businesses because it's more visible. And it also alleviates some concerns that we heard about commercial activity on more local streets, like the end of a pullback or something like that. So those are our recommended policy approaches so far. We will be presenting these to the public in our final phase of engagement. So it's possible that some of these could potentially change when we get to our very final recommendations for the Tiger Foam project. But this is what we want to present to you all so far. And I'm happy to answer any questions that you have, comments, concerns. You're welcome.

Thank you. Thank you so much for the update. Really appreciate it. On the questions regarding home business, you had to give an example. So tutoring therapy barber, would also a gym be included in that? Like a home gym where you could have? And if so, is there a limit of how many folks can come to that home gym?

Yeah, I suppose you could have something like a personal trainer who maybe sees like a person at a time. But yeah, all the uses in the home business category would have some sort of limit on the number of people, whether that's like the number of people at one time or the number of people in a day. or if that would be by appointment. That exact type of standard we're still getting at, but there would be some limits to the number of people.

Great, thank you. One follow-up question. Are you going to use current standards? Because I know in a few different neighborhoods there are some home gyms where they have three to four people going. Are you going to be using that metrics as opposed to developing new metrics?

We will be looking at if those are still working well or if there are any changes that we want to make. We're kind of taking a full look at what we currently have for home occupations to see what still makes sense to keep, what doesn't make as much sense with the introduction of the neighborhood scale commercial.

Great, thank you.

Thank you.

If I remember right, It's been several months, but when Tiffany presented and we talked about what businesses would not like to see in neighborhoods, and I remember getting a public comment about that as a follow-up to say, moving forward, you don't want certain establishments and try to prohibit that, but what about existing spaces where they are? And so, I don't know if my question makes sense, I guess, is there a follow-up to that on What we're allowed to prohibit is that just moving forward versus any businesses that currently exist that neighbors aren't fond of, I guess, if that makes sense.

Yeah, as far as if it was something we wouldn't want to keep moving forward, then the existing ones would likely be considered nonconforming. So we wouldn't have more businesses that are those types, but they'd still be able to exist. Gotcha.

Would there be any additional costs or fees to businesses that would be going through the CERT approval process?

Yeah, that's a great question. I don't know if we're 100% there yet in determining that. There would definitely be a cost with the Type 2 review and the Type 1 review for sure. For that, for the home occupations business type, it could potentially be less of a cost because right now. Businesses under that category would require a type one review, so there is a cost associated with that, and if we're not requiring that anymore, then maybe less fees for them, but that's to be determined, I think so.

It would be like a separate line item from like business license and all the other things. Right, yeah, yeah, these fees are separate from business licenses. question regarding the definition of main roads and once this all goes into place, does this one require any zoning changes or anything that would be more like a GIS tool or something that clarifies like this is the type of, you know, here's Tigard and here's the areas where you can have these sorts of businesses if there aren't zoning changes.

Yeah, absolutely. The approach that we're leaning towards right now is not to do a rezoning. It's more of allowing new uses in the existing zones and putting standards with those uses. We definitely could have a map like in the zoning code and also in GIS that does show like these are, this is where it applies.

Yeah, that could help with some questions or trying to find what main road is rather than giving a definition or saying like it's all boulevard. All the uniformly that way. Just an idea.

So following up on Counselor Shaw's question, I would just request that you have a clear reason for separating home business and neighborhood-scale commercial when it comes to number of clients, right? So people understand why three people at a time is home business, but five is a neighborhood-scale commercial.

So we want people to understand the clear reasoning behind the distinction. So that's all I ask. Absolutely. Any other comments or questions? Alright, thank you so much.

Alright, so next we'll have a presentation downtown management project update and see the plan.

Nice to be here and have this opportunity to discuss.

The purpose is to prepare for the June 7th regular session where I'm going to be presented during the regular business meeting where we will seek counsel's direction on going forward with preparing called final proposal, which is still, there's still lots to do. It's not just turning this into a final proposal or taking this and it becoming the final proposal. There's going to be a whole draft for the final proposal based on this. So this is just a draft proposal. You've seen the cleanings of the P4, but now these are the nice, clean fancy maps. I'm just going to walk through with you to see what it what you want to understand more about, or what doesn't make sense, or if you want to understand why you print it. Before I move on from there, I just also want to say we recently got more information from the Chamber of their concern. They raised their concern about that they don't feel that downtown businesses have been engaged enough to date. I wish they reached out to us but they didn't um and so rather than addressing that now because we want to i want to spend the time with you to answer your questions and talk about your concerns and we'll be bringing kind of a folder um document that describes all the public engagement that was done before this phase of the project as well as what has been found during this phase so rest assured that we are always happy to mention the legislative process to kind of show what kind of feedback we've gotten. And of course, when we move into the legislative part of the process, if we're not there yet, that anybody's comments on the project will be part of the land use record and they will be brought to all the public hearings. So with that said, have the packet of what we're calling the draft proposal it's just attachments one and two from the um the staff report that was submitted for the study session i didn't print out attachments three and four because they were more informational and we're addressing some previous questions that council have asked and more information about um but i'm happy that if you had questions on those other attachments i'm happy to go into more detail about that um But this is the main, this is the substance of the proposal. It takes a look at not only the boundary of where under planned district regulations would apply when you're doing development in the downtown Tigard, but then it goes into kind of the land use aspect of the proposal, which involves rezoning the Tigard 1 project. And then it looks at the transportation network. I hope you had a chance to look at Attachment 4, which is the one I didn't print, that goes into great detail, comparing and contrasting our current adopted transportation network for downtown, which has many more streets than what we're proposing, and even many more streets than the 2024, which is ongoing, the preliminary proposal. So if you hadn't had a chance to look at that document, it is in today's packet and goes into you know, a lot of detail. There's still even more detail you can do. And hopefully, was that actually clear in terms of what kind of area by area, so you highlighted the area in blue? So that was, it was, yeah.

Oh, your printer is so much nicer than ours.

It actually prints the blue out. So yeah, so if you had questions about that, which is part of like the why and how we got to the proposal. So with that,

and we'd like to open it to you all. Or you can go ahead and do a loop.

Two questions related to the short few pages. So just taking a look at what it looks like we're looped. So I was curious at the planning commission meeting why we were cutting off some portions of the area, but looking at the second map, it seems like we're just aligning with the existing zoning for some of them, like that panhandle. Correct. heritage trails, and best trails.

Yeah. And the reason why we're kind of refining the edge of the current plan district boundary, primarily where it's just like little bits and pieces, bits and bobs, that kind of thing, is to align with current zoning and also to remove it where the zoning development standards are sufficient to regulate it. So like there's one property, for example, I would say south west on Pacific Highway. It's a single property that is more like its neighbors outside of downtown. It is like downtown. And the idea is that the mixed-use commercial zone that it's in, those standards are sufficient to regulate it appropriately. It doesn't need to be in the planned district where additional slash different standards apply. And that's also kind of true for I always just thought this was Little clip up here was like why is this little bit of tired heritage trail? Not the rest of it, just this little bit, not the part. Anyway, it was. It was just a boundary that was drawn at some point in time. I'm sure there was a reason. Maybe it's about the grant funding we got. If you got grant funding for that portion of the trail, but we don't need to regulate the trail with building development standards. So it's like just why include it? Those are the reasons for removing some of them, like a couple of parcels. And then the reason for adding the big giant section, partly it's to include the Tigard Library and the Senior Center, which is just a big part of the civic services that we provide. Even though it's across the street, we feel like it should be part of downtown. And then the other area above that, which is currently zoned mixed-use employment, and that was rezoned with the Tiger Bay project. And this actually being added to the downtown plan district is to put us in a better situation if and when light rail comes back as a project. Its previous zoning didn't help us, which is not to say that the current zoning It's not the end-all and be-all, but it might give us better leverage if that project came back to apply some design standards, whereas before we kind of had none.

And then sort of a request, I guess, is I'd love to just get a map that overlays these boundaries when we take district boundaries, just because that was a point of comparison that came to mind. So I can sort of understand that overall.

Sure.

That's all.

Totally can provide you with that.

Anybody else? Any questions?

So last time, I remember when we talked about this, there was some concern about the building. So can you just briefly describe what has changed and what has been addressed?

Yeah, absolutely. So two years ago, when we wrapped up what I'm now going to call the second phase of the project, just for clarification, so And this was attachment 3 in the new package. What you can call phase one of this project was the downstream visioning that happened back in 2020. Phase two was what we're calling the policy updates, which updated our company's plan. And now we're calling phase three the development code updates or the policy. And for the phase two for 2024, and this is somewhat simplistic, but it was still close enough to the light rail project. And there was the expectation that light rail would happen. And so there would be three, four new stations, still on the wall. Choose a five-new station. In Tigard, two, like one was at the Pacific Highway, like right above the Tigard Triangle. One was in the Triangle Triangle, and one was downtown Tigard, southeast of Hall Boulevard. And the idea at the time was that that light rail station and the transit-oriented development that was envisioned around it that we spent a lot of time working on would necessitate even more density there. And so the original, the preliminary proposal from 2024 had the building heights there. And honestly, now I can't remember, I think it was 12 stories there. And it also had a similar approach to the Hall Boulevard and Pacific Highway intersection, because it's such a commercial, I mean, Pacific Highway is so commercial to begin with, that it felt like that would actually kind of tiger really growing up if like this area is going to go, it's kind of like also making it a gateway into downtown, because there's still a thing about not many people claim like, where is downtown and Highway drove through at one point, and Main Street is lower than Pacific Highway. But in re-looking at that, you know, now a couple of years later, where light rail is on hold, that certainly the higher buildings, the trans-oriented development, there was a vision around the station area, just doesn't seem like the approach to take. And similarly, just along Pacific Highway, without something like that to really trigger the market investment in this area, we just don't see it. And I'm just going to add one other thing. And just looking at the triangle, what we have seen that has worked there. And which is not to say that six is the absolute max, even in the triangle, I think if they have one building that went up to seven, there would be an adjustment process for that. So it's not like that is inflexible. Affordable housing could get automatic adjustments to go higher, but six seems like a really good place for the market. because when you start going seven and higher, you actually get into different building or construction types and it changes the whole financial project. It makes projects more expensive when they have to go to steel and not just concrete.

Thank you. Any other questions or comments?

Talking about the transportation. I'm sorry. I'm glad you, it looks like you looked at it.

Oh, I did. I mean, Susan, I would just to follow up and address, you know, whatever the chamber concerns are and have that conversation that doesn't have to happen tonight. But for me, just to walk through, because transportation is in my world, I just appreciated this is where we work, here's the adjustments. So from my lens, it made sense and I appreciated all the detail co-workers did for you. Great. So, yeah.

Great. I'm glad that it helped a lot. The hardest part was figuring out how to present the information without a heat-up conversation. It's going to be so competitive.

Yeah. The color printer was my friend.

Yes. It was very helpful. Well, I discovered this new program called Street Mix where I can make my own cross-sections. There you go. Watch out.

I am curious from a public comment perspective. Again, Roger Potthoff was quite vocal, right, during our budget process about just interest. That was more tax increment financing, but I feel like this all flows into that. I didn't know if there's any comments there from him, but hopefully he's paying attention.

Yeah, I think he is, and I think he was actually at what we call our online information session for the business community, and we haven't gotten any specific... like comments from him and I don't know if he raised any questions after online session and just so you know that online session of 19 non staff attended and and we like just in a half hour presentation and then we had an hour of Q&A that we picked up and we asked those questions and there was two really good follow-up suggestions and one of them where the day that like yesterday when Megan DeSilva wrote in, we were like just about to do one of the follow-up suggestions, which is to do a survey to the business community specifically. So yeah, we thought it was a really great session in terms of the questions. And a lot of them were really informational, trying to understand like, what does this mean for my business? Because even business owners who are really savvy in the business world, they don't necessarily know when they look at a, a use classification list, where they fall within that. They're like, why would you ban outdoor sales and services, that cute little cafe with the outdoor tables? We want that. I'm like, oh, no, that's not outdoor sales and service. That is something completely different. So a lot of it is translating some of the use categories information for folks, helping them understand what it means to be nonconforming, which many of them are already. We're not doing something. drastic changes it is refinements but um some were making it easier to be on a path towards conformance as a use and others like actually i think just one or two were saying actually no we think this shouldn't be allowed in downtown it's not an appropriate use for downtown um but so it might be making their use non-conforming but they might have conforming development, or a lot of them, because they're older buildings, don't necessarily conform to our existing standards. As you might imagine, we really want this walkable downtown. We have a lot of auto-oriented businesses, even like auto shops, car washes, and those aren't even what we currently have in the code today. So a lot of businesses, their buildings themselves are already non-conforming, and we're not making that worse. say so. Anyway, so it's a lot of and we've gotten three specific emails about like what about my business or wanting to know more information and a lot of it has to do with their use, their business, stuff like that. So happy to share all of the information we have about that, aren't you Seb?

Yeah, I mean zoning is a blunt tool, right? It's part of the big big puzzle. So and our new economic development strategy plan mentioned business outreach and education, focus on that. So that's another piece of the puzzle that we can focus on and also attracting private development.

So, yeah. Yeah, and helping people understand what is possible because a lot is possible.

All right, so.

Anything else? All right, thank you.

Thank you, Susan.

Thank you so much. All right, all right.

Thank you, you too. All right, so we're in recess until the company is here at 6.30.

Thank you.

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I'm allergy.

I'm sticking with that story.

That's my story.

I'm sticking with it. That's hard too.

EVERYONE, SO GOOD EVENING. I WILL CALL THIS TIGER CITY COUNCIL AND LOCAL CONTRACT REVIEW BOARD MEETING TO ORDER. CITY RECORDER CRAIGER, WOULD YOU PLEASE CONDUCT A ROLL CALL?

COUNCILOR ROBINSON. COUNCILOR SCHLACK.

HERE.

COUNCILOR SHAW. HERE. COUNCIL PRESIDENT WOLF.

HERE.

COUNCILOR ANDERSON.

HERE.

Councillor Guddusi.

Present.

Youth Councillor Helig. Here. Mayor Hu.

Here. Thank you. Will everybody please stand and join me in the Pledge of Allegiance. All right, city team and council member, do you have any non-agenda items? All right, seeing none, let's move on to the next item, which is proclamation and recognition, and this evening, we will have a resolution, recognize youth councilor Helix for his service, and I'm going to read the resolution, and then I will entertain a motion afterwards. Whereas Asher Hellock's terms of service will end June 30th, 2026, completing one year of exceptional service to the city of Tiger, Oregon as our youth city councilor. And whereas youth councilor Hellock has earned admiration of his fellow council members and city team members who have shared the following, quote one, Asher has represented the Tigers youth with sincerity and professionalism, and have appreciated his willingness to serve, participate in council meetings, and be part of the city's decision making process. His service has helped ensure that youth voices are included in our civic conversations, and I'm grateful for the time and energy he has given to the council and the community, and that's for me. And Councilor Shah, do you have access to the resolution in front of you?

Mayor, I do not have access.

Okay, I will read it. That's fine. I will read it for you.

I appreciate it.

Thank you.

Youth Councilor Halleck, I truly appreciate your attendance and commitment to showing up each and every week, showing up matters, and you did that consistently as you grow into your next opportunity. Remember Yoda's wisdom. Do or do not. There's no try. You've taken this first step by being there. Now the next chapter is yours to own fully. You have so much potential. Lean to it. And that was from Councillor Shah. And Councillor Preston-Wolf, do you want to read your quote?

I'd be happy to. Council has been fortunate to have Asher as our 2526 youth counselor. Asher comes to our meetings prepared and always asks thoughtful questions and I would say passionate questions as well. I appreciated the perspective that Asher brings to our conversations.

Yeah, and I don't see Alex here, so I'll read on her behalf. Asher has been a consistent, involved, and passionate council liaison to Tiger Youth Advisory Council, TIAC, for the last year. His commitment to equity, youth voice, and the democratic process is evident, as is his authentic connection to community building. His contributions to the city as youth councilor will be missed, but he will no doubt continue to play an active role as a conscientious and engaged member of the wider community. Whereas during his term, Youth Council HELOC actively participated in numerous council meetings, workshops, and community events, demonstrating a strong commitment to civic engagement and public service. And whereas Youth Council HELOC has been a steadfast advocate for youth perspectives, contributed thoughtful input on issues impacting the community, and collaborated with peers and city leaders to advance initiatives that promote inclusivity, innovation, and positive change. And now there'll be a result by the city council that the Tiger City Council and city team may hereby commend Asher Halleck for his valuable contribution to the city at Tiger Youth Councilor. This resolution is effective immediately upon passage. So do we have a motion?

I move to approve resolution number 2623, a resolution thanking Asher Halleck for his service as Tigards Youth Counselor 2025 through 26.

I'll second the motion.

Thank you. Is there any further discussion? All right. Those in favor say aye. Aye. Those opposed say nay. Resolution 26-23 is adopted by a unanimous vote of the council present. Congratulations. All right, so we have some flowers and gifts for you, so let's have a group photo just to commemorate this occasion.

Okay, here we go.

All right, let's move on to public comments. Public comment period provides an opportunity for members of the public to address the city council. While it's not a dialogue, either I or staff will follow up to address the issues brought forth in these comments. The calling number is 503-966-4101, and those wishing to comment should call now to get into the queue. Anyone present wanting to comment should sign up on the public comment form at the front of the room. All right, first item is written comment. Seven comments were received regarding the library budget, social services coordinator position and library concern relate to homeless activities near Garden Park Place, group home requirements and resident interaction, Juneteenth and the Downtown Reimagine project and public engagement. All right, so let's move on to in person. We have no one sign up, so let's move on to phone or video. Mr. Wold, are there any callers in the queue for phone or video testimony?

Mayor, there are no callers in the queue, no requests for video comment.

All right, thank you, Mr. Wold. And let's move on to city manager report. Acting city manager Rager will provide a brief report. Good evening.

Good evening, Mr. Mayor and Council. The one big fourth celebrations this year co-hosted by the cities of Tigard and King City. It's set to deliver a spectacular full day of family-friendly events on July 4th. We invite our entire community to join the festivities. The celebration kicks off with the Walk and Roll Parade and Festival in King City from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. And following that will be the very popular Middle of Mill and Drive Parade at 4 p.m. And this all leads up to the main event at Tigard High School from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. And during that time, there will be live music, local food trucks, and other vendors. And then, of course, the return of what should be a fantastic fireworks display at approximately 10 p.m. As we look forward to this day of celebration, we also remind the community to help our local police and fire departments by respecting Tigard's strict fire safety rules. All personal fireworks, including legal Oregon consumer fireworks and anything that flies, explodes, or travels more than six feet on the ground are strictly prohibited within the city. We hope to see you all at one big fourth. It's just a great opportunity for neighbors to connect and celebrate safely together. Thank you.

Thank you. Acting City Manager Rager, any question or comments?

And of course, this weekend's the Balloon Festival, and I look forward to participating in a couple of events, including the 5K Fun Run, so I'm looking forward to that. All right, so let's move on to the next item on agenda, which is Chief Tiger Police Department Report, and we will have our Chief of Police, McDonald, to present the report. Good evening, Chief.

Good evening, Mayor and members of council, Jamie McDonald, your police chief. So tonight will be my last city council meeting. And if it's okay, I'd like to depart from our normal report. There isn't really anything remarkable in this month's dashboard. You should have all gotten the statistics. The one thing I do want to note is that our calls for service continue to pace above last year, which, as a reminder, was our busiest year on record, and we're about 10% ahead of last year at this point for dispatch calls for service. What I wanted to do is first talk about the great department that you have. So the picture that you see up there is from our 2024 open house. I like that one because pretty much everybody has a smile on their face and everybody's excited to be seeing our community when we welcome them into our home. So I wanna talk about Tigard over the last 25 years. So next slide, please. Yep. That one on the left there is my original hire photo when I got hired here. I was surprised at how much more hair I had. And it was brown, something that most of the people I work with now do not remember or never knew. So over the last 25 years, much has changed. I can tell you one thing that hasn't changed is my passion for serving the community of Tigard. When I was thinking about tonight, I looked back and the census data from Portland State University for July of 2001 showed the population of Tiger to be about 43,040 people. The current estimate from census.gov shows it to be about 58,434, about a 30% increase in population. So a significant change. I was told in my chief's interview in the same chief's conference room that I think all of you have been in at one point or another, that we had a new PD on the five-year plan. Now I've been careful not to say that during my time as chief, although we have come the closest that we ever had with the most recent bond effort. And I'm confident that we'll continue to work towards that. September 11th happened while I was at the police academy. That changed our country forever and it changed policing at that moment for the entirety of my career. Some things good, some things probably not so good. The types of calls that we service, the complexities of those calls have continued to evolve. They've become more challenging, more time intensive. Things that maybe law enforcement wasn't expected to do 25 years ago, we now are expected to do. 21st century policing, COVID, George Floyd, police reform, All of these things have changed, transformed, and made better the profession of policing. During my time, I've been able to serve as a school resource officer, commercial crimes unit supervisor, as a founding member of the Tiger Police Honor Guard, which incidentally was formed in 2003 by our Chief Dickinson at the time, to serve at the funeral of former Mayor Jim Griffith, who passed away while in office. We've also had an opportunity to serve in many different leadership roles in the organization. I'm the first chief to have been promoted all the way through the ranks, to start as an officer and to come through and finally finish as chief. If there's one thing I've learned during this career, it's we never know when we're making an impact. Last night I presented at the school board talking about the school resource officer program. And one of the SROs from Tualatin brought in a picture, a painting that had been done by one of the graduating seniors. And it depicted what she felt was one of the biggest impacts that she had had during her time at Tualatin High School. That was the instruction for the assignment. And so he was given a painting from her.

And I want to give a story of the impact when you never really know what the difference is you're making.

So when I was at SRO, and I'll leave the student's name out of this, I had a young man at the high school who was constantly getting in trouble. His cards were stacked against him, there's no doubt about it. The environment that he lived in, the people that he spent time with, it added up to a lot of really negative things. But true to what our SROs are, they spend time with all the students and give as much effort to all of them as they would to any student. A few years ago, this was before I was the chief, I happened to be in the office. It was a weeknight evening. I don't remember why I was here, but our records staff called and said, hey, Commander, there's somebody here in the lobby that would like to talk to you. I'm like, all right. I go out to the lobby and I see this young man. I recognized him immediately. I knew who he was. Saw him, gave him a big hug. And he said to me, I wanted you to meet my family. He was there with his beautiful wife, his two lovely little girls. And his wife asked if she could give me a hug. And when she did, she whispered in my ear, thank you. I had no idea. He was like every other student. But the impact that I had, apparently unknowingly, was enough that he had come several times to the office looking for me, wanting to introduce me to his family. His mom still lives here in town. They live in Salem. He works for a construction company and sounds like he's doing very well. But you never really know when you're making a difference. So almost 25 years ago to the day I started my career here at the police department, I never would have imagined where it would lead me. Certainly not to be your chief. Although an academy classmate reminded me not that long ago that apparently I was voted most likely to become chief out of my police academy class, clearly others saw things I didn't see. As I move to the next chapter in my life, the department is in great hands. We are developing leaders internally, we're investing in their professional development, and we're hiring the best of the best. I am humbled to have been trusted to run this police department, and it's been an honor to serve here as a police officer in this community. I want to say thank you. Thank you for supporting the police department, for believing in me, for trusting the safety of your community to the men and women of the Tiger Police Department. And although I will retire next week, you can be sure that this department will continue to be the best department around and serve this community with pride, grit, empathy, and compassion. Thank you.

Thank you, Chief. And please stay there because we have a resolution for you. So next up is resolution honoring and commending Police Chief McDonald and his retirement from the Tiger Police Department.

And I will read the resolution.

Whereas James, Jamie McDonald joined the Tiger Police Department in 2001 as a patrol officer, answering a calling to service his community after several years in private businesses. And over the course of 25 years of dedicated service, demonstrated an unwavering commitment to the safety and well-being of the residents of Tiger. And whereas Chief McDonald steadily rose through every level of the department, A distinction that makes him the first officer in the history of the Tiger Police Department to advance from patrol officer to chief of police, earning promotion to sergeant in 2010, lieutenant in 2014, and commander in 2016 before being named interim chief of police in January 2024 and appointed chief of police in June 2024. And whereas throughout his career, Chief McDonnell served the department in a remarkable breadth of roles, including as school resource officer, field training officer, firearms instructor, patrol sergeant, commercial crime unit supervisor, patrol lieutenant, and division commander, for both the operations and services divisions, and was a founding member of the Tiger Police Honor Guard. And whereas, Chief McDonald earned a Bachelor of Science in Geography and Regional Planning from Eastern Oregon University, holds an executive certification from the Department of Public Safety Standards and Training, and is a graduate of the 266th session of the FBI National Academy. serving as a past president of the Oregon chapter of the FBI National Academy Associates. And whereas Chief McDonald has been an active leader in both the Oregon Association of Chiefs of Police and the International Association of Chiefs of Police, elevating the Tiger Police Department's standing and relationship across the law enforcement community. And whereas Chief McDonald led the Tiger Police Department with the value of transparency, community engagement, and professionalism, and is widely regarded as a leader who genuinely cares about the man and woman he serves alongside, earning deep respect and affection from staff, partners, and the broader community, Tiger community. And whereas Chief McDonald is known not only for his professional excellence, but for his warmth as a person, a gifted storyteller, a devoted family man, and a proud companion to his many golden retrievers, whose presence made the Tiger Police Department a better, more human place. And whereas the city of Tiger has been privileged to benefit from Chief McDonald's leadership, integrity, and 25 years of selfless service to the community. In recognition of his service, these words were offered. Would you like to?

I do not have it in front of me. Okay, that's fine. I can read it for you. All right.

It has been an honor to know Chief McDonnell and to have served with him over the years at the City of Tiger. I have appreciated his genuine friendliness, integrity, and commitment to the city. I wish him all the best as he enters his next phase of life in a beautiful part of the state. And that was from our Acting City Manager, Brian Rager. and this is for me. I have deeply appreciated Chief McDonald's leadership and his genuine care for the people of Tiger Police Department. His advocacy for officer wellness, including both physical and mental health, reflected a leader who understood that taking care of those who serve is essential to serving the community well. Jamie's impact on Tiger will be felt for years to come. Now there have been results that the Tiger City Council hereby expresses its deepest gratitude to the Chief of Police James, Jamie McDonnell, for his 25 years of distinguished service to the City of Tiger and the Tiger Police Department. and commend Chief McDonnell for his exemplary leadership, his commitment to values of transparency, integrity, and community service, and his role as mentor and model to all those who serve alongside him. And be it further resolved that the City Council extend its warmest wishes to Chief McDonnell, his family, and his Golden Retrievers as he begins his well-earned next chapter and declare that Jamie McDonnell's legacy of service will long be remembered and honored in the City of Tiger. All right, now entertain a motion.

Mayor, I move to approve resolution number 26-24, a resolution honoring and commending Chief of Police James McDonald on his retirement from the Tigard Police Department. I second the motion.

I'll second the motion.

Wow, lots of seconds. Is there any further discussion? Go ahead, Council President Wolf.

Chief, I just wanted to say thank you as well. And at a time, I just think that your leadership here in the city and in our schools and just throughout the department will just sustain, I think, future leaders. And I just wanted to share at a time, at the time I was school board chair and SROs were a big conversation in districts and whether that was the right the smart thing to do for students and while Tigard-Tualatin had a lengthy community-based conversation that purpose and the value was clear and it is because of leaders like you, and then you walked your talk years before, that makes an indelible mark on all students. So just from the bottom of my heart, thank you.

Yeah, I mean, when I talk with you once, I was just surprised that police chief will worry about over policing of the community. That's just something that just blew my mind. It's just, that just show the person you are. So thank you so much.

All right.

All right. Uh, I was, I will start with the youth counselor for advisory vote.

Yes.

All right. Thank you. Those in favor say aye. Aye. Those opposed say nay. Resolution number 26-24 is adopted by a unanimous vote of the council. So congratulations.

All right, let's take a group photo. What's that?

Go ahead, Council President Wolf.

Not at the library. Not at the library. Okay, any questions or comments from the library? So it's fair to say that you recommend approval, not because the... Yeah, I'll jump in here, Zach, and then you can fill in any gaps.

So the agreement with Washington County when they kicked off the project probably about 10 years ago now was... On the consent agenda.

All right.

Full entitlement. The city could become a full entitlement grantee and leave the county consortium. If Tigard elects to become a full entitlement city, Tigard wants status. Next slide, please. We can further evaluate the impacts of full entitlement status. Next slide, please. Next, I'd like to give a preliminary review of the current...

But until we get the design team and the project team assembled, we don't have that for you. So what we do know now, Mayor, is that we cannot open the splash pad until we get the corrective work done. We're hoping that by end of summer, we'll have some recommendations to bring back to you. and then get your direction on how you'd like to proceed going forward once we have that knowledge. So right now the companies are looking at our work and hopefully in the next few weeks we'll be able to hear back with some possible solutions. Director Kirkman, do you have anything to add?

and our intent to, again, come back to council with not only options, but the timeline in which we can assure that all the necessary modifications are made.

Thank you. Any questions from council member? Councillor Robbins, please go ahead.

Thank you, thank you both of you for your time and information. I realize this was first built quite a few years ago now. From what I understand from my historical education about this, the person who was in charge of the project at the time is no longer with the city. But this is a big mistake to have had happened. And it sounds like somebody was in charge of the project maybe shouldn't have been or maybe should have had some additional guidance for it. I understand that it sounds like the splash pad was totally safe, which is great. You know, I know just... And I'm just reiterating that because I know some parents might be worried about having had their kids splashing around in the water, but it was perfectly safe. This is more kind of semantics and filling out the right papers at the right time. But I would like to know... what have we learned and what are we going to do to prevent something like this happening again, not with this splash pad, right, but with projects going forward because it sounds like, you know, I wasn't there, somebody who had certain ideas about how certain things and just kind of had a different personality about doing it. So I'd like to see efforts for some sort of protocol or program to be put in place to make sure that the right people are in charge of projects and if they don't have the appropriate background that they get those people to help them. It's okay for somebody to run a project who doesn't have all of that knowledge but we need to make sure we're doing the right thing because I have a feeling that not only is this delaying summer SPLASH TIME FOR OUR RESIDENTS, BUT THIS IS GOING TO BE A COSTLY MISTAKE. I WANT TO MAKE SURE THIS DOESN'T HAPPEN AGAIN. I WILL SAY, WITHOUT DOING THE WORK THAT YOU GUYS DO, AND I DON'T KNOW, I KNOW THAT YOU GUYS ARE SUPER BUSY, BUT I'M GOING TO SAY THIS SO I CAN SAY IT FOR THE RESIDENTS. IT'S A LITTLE DISAPPOINTING THAT WE FOUND OUT ABOUT THIS LAST YEAR, SO AT LEAST SIX MONTHS AGO, AND WE STILL DON'T HAVE A PROJECT TEAM IN PLACE. That's just me saying that without knowing, but I think that's what our residents will say. So I would love to hear just an explanation of what the timeline is, because I'm certain that there was a lot of steps you guys have gone through to get to where we are now.

Yeah, so I'll answer the part about the timeline. So we, in discovering this, we submitted, I believe, in the fall, winter. There is a lengthy period, you know, from submitting plan review to receiving information back to getting scheduled. It took some time also for the Grand Health Authority to get back to us. So if you think about our own land use process, you know, some of that does take a fair amount of time. So once we received the notification of where things stood, which was, you know, probably about six weeks ago, we've been rolling ever since. So, you know, hopefully you understand that. As soon as we were able to get in front of Oregon Health Authority, find out what information they needed from us, the application process took some time, fairly detailed application process. All the specs had to be put on the paper, so it took a little bit of effort. since you know we're just the operators of the system we were not the designers engineers so we were able to put together a very successful and complete application submittal and then it took a little bit of time they came out and again a little bit of time to get the response back so i think we're we've been moving ever since And I understand the frustration about the timeline, Councillor Robbins.

Yeah, I appreciate that. I just wanted to get that out there so that we could hear that it took a while to submit it. And then once we submitted it, we had to wait what sounds like a couple months for a response. Is that accurate? And okay, thank you.

thank you and and just follow up on council robbins um you know you say this was done in 2022 you know before i came on council and since then this splash pad is just like a gift keeps on giving right the first year i was here i i took several pictures of the moving paver and sent it to the former city manager and i was assured that those pavers were fixed And then the following year, it was down again. And I summoned the former community development director. I said, you have to come back to council every week until it's fixed. And then it was finally fixed. So it's been very frustrating. I understand that the people responsible for this are no longer with the city. But this is still city's responsibility. So we need to... you know, take responsibility and move forward, you know, and learn, as Councillor Robbins said, what lesson did we learn? And one thing I heard is that we really need to address the silo effect of the city, right? It's like people who who are in charge of maintaining the park should be involved from the very beginning in the design. And my understanding is that that didn't happen, and that was a huge mistake. So going forward, we need to learn that when we design something, people who maintain the structure need to be involved in the design because they are the people who are in the best position to understand how to maintain infrastructure. I really thank you both for being here. I know it's not your fault personally, but it is the city's collective fault, so we need to take responsibility and move forward.

I'd like to add my appreciation for our parks team because as a project that started with community development, which is why I'm here tonight with Ms. Gruen, is that we acknowledge that as a unique project, there are definitely learning lessons that we have.

Yeah.

And what I think we're moving forward with as we look at the modifications and improvement is working as a more collective unit and collaborative unit to find the solutions that are there. So I want to rest assured that that has been kind of the direction that both community development and our public works folks have worked towards is to find a better solution or process in which we look at projects as we move forward, understanding both the time and financial implications. Part of what we are doing here today is to kind of update you all with more clarity as we can. Our intent is to ensure not only is a splash pad available and it's safe, but also to understand the current use of Universal Plaza, which includes not only the splash pad itself, but we have a farmer's market there. So understanding timing is important and utilizing both our partners as well as our different departments is kind of an important aspect and what we'd like to bring back to you all once we get further along.

Thank you. Councillor Shaw?

Yeah, thank you. I did also, recognizing there's been mistakes, but I also want to provide kudos to community development and to the Parks and Rec, because this was within the, and I was on council at the time, and still am, but this was within the top five requests of our community, and they wanted to have a splash pad, and we wanted to be unique along with Universal Plaza, and so recognizing that there have been some issues, We did hear the community. It was built. I'm sure within a timely manner it will be working again. But I just, to all the staff that worked on this, I just want to say thank you. And we're going to get there.

Yeah. Thank you. Thank you. Yeah. Okay. Any other comments or questions? Councillor Schlack?

Yeah, I agree with my colleagues, and I recognize there are a lot of families that enjoy the splash pad. I look forward to getting it online as soon as we can, and I look forward to determining appropriate steps forward with the city team over the next coming months. Thank you.

Yeah, thank you. Thank you. Thank you so much. All right. So let's move on to the next item on the agenda, which is a River Tash 2.0 timing update and Assistant Community Development Director Warren will give the staff report. Good evening again.

Good evening, Mayor Hu and Council. My name is Skyler Warren. I'm the Assistant Director of Community Development. I'm joined tonight by Community Development Director Sambo Kirkman. Next slide. Our item tonight follows up on a council request for a short briefing on the River Terrace 2.0 planning process that summarizes the policy decisions made to date. We'll also give a window into the code drafting work that is currently underway and provide a roadmap for the coming year. There are no specific asks of the council tonight, but we're happy to answer any questions you may have. Next slide. So I'll start with a review of the project progress to date. Next slide. So this work really got underway in 2019 when the council at that time directed staff to begin concept planning for the city's two remaining urban reserves. The following year, after securing a 2040 grant from Metro, we kicked off the concept planning process. The vision statement presented here was one that was developed early in that process through the community engagement work that we did. Next slide. And I want to provide a little bit of a summary of what that engagement looked like. So we spent a lot of time working with the community to help develop that vision for how this area would develop. Some of the engagement was citywide in nature, like the survey and the public open houses. Some of it was targeted, like the advisory committees and the focus groups. Next slide. We also did quite a lot of promotion of the project and of those engagement opportunities you saw on the last slide, including a full-color printed insert in Tigard Life, as well as a video with the mayor at that time. Next slide. So there were a number of approved policies in the final concept plan, and those were used as part of the city's application to Metro for an expansion of the urban growth boundary. I'm not gonna read off all of these, but I'll highlight some that provide some insight into where we are today. First, the housing policies looked to address the region's critical shortage of housing by setting a target density of 20 units per net acre across the neighborhood and by ensuring a mix of housing types and choices to meet the community's needs. Next slide. In the transportation realm, the policies focused on ensuring that all modes were served equitably and safely. Next slide. The policies for parks and open spaces and natural resources work together to ensure that residents were served with a variety of parks and trails while protecting natural resources and maintaining habitat connectivity. Next slide. And then finally the policies related to commercial development were focused on ensuring that there was both economic opportunity and an ability to meet the residents daily needs without long travel. Next slide. So that group of policies were all part of the concept plan that in the city used in October, 2021 to apply to Metro for what was called a mid-cycle urban growth boundary expansion. And then at Metro's option, the Metro Council decided to instead of proceeding with an expansion, to instead go forward with having their staff do an analysis that would allow for a land swap. And that was the first land swap in the region. AND THAT HAD THE EFFECT OF REMOVING LAND THAT WAS UNLIKELY TO DEVELOP FROM THE URBAN GROWTH BOUNDARY AT A ROUGHLY EQUIVALENT ACREAGE TO THAT THAT WAS IN THE CITY'S PROPOSED ADDITION. SO THAT PROCESS WITH METRO ENDED UP TAKING ABOUT A YEAR AND A HALF AND IN FEBRUARY 2023 THE METRO COUNCIL VOTED TO APPROVE THE LAND SWAP. FOLLOWING THAT THE CITY NEGOTIATED WITH METRO TO RECEIVE SOME GRANT FUNDS TO SUPPORT THE NEXT PHASE OF WORK. AND WE PREPARED A REQUEST FOR A PROPOSAL TO GET BIDS FROM CONSULTANTS WHO COULD HELP US WITH THAT WORK AND IN APRIL 2024 WE WERE HAPPY TO BE ABLE TO FINALLY KICK OFF THE NEXT PHASE OF THE PROJECT. NEXT SLIDE. So that work, the community plan that we kicked off in 2024, like the concept plan includes a robust community engagement effort. And over the past two years, we have met with standing committees made of community members, agency partners, and developers and real estate professionals. We've also held public open houses, conducted focus groups and hosted surveys. Next slide. And of course, we have been engaging with you as the council throughout this project to ensure that we are aligned on where we're headed. The next few slides will provide a recap of how we have further refined the policies from the concept plan as they are applied to specific plan issues. So many of these final decisions came in a workshop with council on January 29th of this year. So I'm gonna start again with housing. And at that January meeting, the council voted to reduce the overall target density from 20 units per net acre to 18 units per net acre, an overall reduction of about 400 homes. The council also voted to require that developments include undersupplied housing units that the city is responsible for delivering as part of the Oregon Housing Needs Analysis. These requirements for diversity in housing will be implemented through flexible standards, and I'll talk a little bit more about that in a bit. In the transportation realm, last July, after a comprehensive analysis based on several metrics, the Council voted unanimously to move forward with a preferred street network that did not include an extension of Tile Flat Road. And at the January meeting, the council voted to move forward with an approach that would maximize on-street parking. That decision was then factored into the street designs that were approved by the council partially on March 24th and then on May 26th for the remaining designs. Next slide. In the parks policy arena back in November, the Council supported citywide updates to the parks and recreation fee rather than a supplemental fee for River Terrace 2.0. And in January, the Council approved the parks level of service standard that sets the number of parks and total acreage, including a decision to include one community park. In that same January meeting, the Council decided to move forward with the staff-recommended approach to meeting Metro's Title 13 requirements for natural resource protection. Next slide. So that... Oh, and... We also have our finance updates. So a couple more. We have our tiered SDC approach. That was one that garnered council support for a tiered citywide and supplemental River Terrace 2.0 parks and transportation SDCs in March 24th of this year. And then the council direction in that May 24th meeting was also to minimize city budgetary impacts for River Terrace 2.0 maintenance through fee updates. Next slide. So that summarizes the major policy decisions made to date. I'm next gonna move into an update on what the team is working on right now to keep the project moving forward following these decisions. Of course, we're finalizing the transportation system plan amendments and progressing our finance strategy work. But a major part of the work program right now is drafting development code to operationalize these policies. Next slide. So we're not far enough along in the code work right now to provide you any kind of a preview of that, but I wanna share with you the approach that we are taking to doing that work. So in nearly eight years of administering middle housing code, One thing that we've learned is that the approach that we've taken, which is the same one taken by the state and cities across the state for that matter, introduces unnecessary confusion and complexity into housing development. As part of our work to make River Terrace 2.0 a success, we are working to simplify our code in every way that we can. A key way that we are doing that is to get away from regulation by housing types and instead transitioning to a form-based code. This type of code has been successful in a number of communities around the country and it will offer a greatly simplified path to understanding and applying development standards for both staff and developers. We are also working to provide maximum flexibility so that developers have a choice of pathways to meeting the standards in the code. One example of this is in our Title 13 approach, which was based on developer feedback and will allow developers to either meet the baseline preservation requirements or instead opt for preservation of higher quality habitat in exchange for being allowed to impact more low quality habitat. Another example of flexibility is in the undersupplied housing options requirements. which are points-based and allow developers to choose from a menu of options to meet the standards. This is similar to the design standards approach that was used in River Terrace 1, which allowed developers to choose which standards to meet from a menu of options. And then, of course, we will be utilizing our existing code wherever possible to make things as efficient for everyone as we can. Next slide. So on that note, a question that we sometimes get is why can't we just use the same code from River Terrace One? There are several reasons that we really needed to start fresh with this project. Aside from the need for greater simplicity, as I noted before, in the intervening 20 years, really since the River Terrace One project got underway, there have been major changes in state law Additionally, the city is now responsible for delivering housing to meet its Oregon Housing Needs Analysis targets, which require us to find ways to require or incentivize more workforce housing units, This is also in line with the community feedback that we've received over the nearly seven years that this work has been underway. With our residents overwhelmingly telling us that they want more housing and more importantly, more accessible housing for the working members of our community who have been unable to find and purchase homes at a price point that meets their needs. This has also been a consistent message from council along with other changes that don't translate well from River Terrace One. An example of that is our right of way, which is generally narrower in River Terrace 2.0 than it was in River Terrace 1, and is simultaneously delivering more multi-use paths throughout the neighborhood to meet community requests. We also have a need for a modernized commercial standards that encourage more standalone commercial development than was anticipated in River Terrace 1, which was mainly focused on mixed use development. And then finally, River Terrace 1 was not subject to the Title 13 requirements imposed by Metro, and therefore did not require any regulations to comply with that part of Metro's Urban Growth Management Functional Plan. Next slide. So to wrap things up, I'm gonna provide a roadmap of the coming months for the project. Next slide. So as noted here, we have two more developer forums that are coming up where we will be seeking feedback on the project from those important stakeholders who will help us deliver this housing and commercial development. We will also be checking in regularly with both the council and the planning commission, as well as the community. We anticipate that if all goes according to plan, we will be delivering a draft version of the development code for public review sometime in December. This will allow us a few months to hear from the community and incorporate any feedback or needed fixes to address unforeseen issues. And then by late February, we plan to have the community plan complete. including those development code changes but also including the comprehensive plan policies the infrastructure system plan amendments the finance strategy fee updates and any needed changes in the municipal code next slide and that ends our update thank you for your time and we're happy to answer any questions that the council may have

Thank you, Skyler, for the update. The reason I request this item is to be hearing from developers and even council member as to not clear on why there's a five-month delay. So I think, thank you for the updates. It really clarified a lot of things. So, Councillor Schlag?

Thank you, Mayor, and I want to echo that sentiment. You know, we've had a lot of discussions over a long period of time and given a lot of directions on a lot of policy areas, so I appreciate you all summarizing those decisions and having those reference dates back to when you received that direction, just for my own benefit as well as our community's benefit of how we got to this point. And I also appreciate the explanation around why we can't use the River Terrace 1.0 approach because so much has changed since River Terrace 1.0 was developed. And then finally, just thinking about where we are with River Terrace 2.0 and thinking about our recent budget process, I'd still, I'd like to reiterate or re-express my interest in better understanding at some point how this River Terrace 2.0 development will impact our city's budget and impact You know city service levels to support that area I recognize that's not an overnight answer that would be a long complicated thing to better understand But it's something I'd like to put out there again since the council briefly touched on that concept in January But there was not a consensus to proceed with with better understanding those budgetary impacts.

Thank you Any other comments or questions Hearing none. Thank you so much for the update. I really appreciate it Oh, Councilor Shah. No.

Thank you, Mayor. I was just going to add, I appreciate the summary. And I think having this comprehensive background report would benefit all projects as we move forward. So it ensures the Council, the community, and our partners are all on the same page. So really appreciate the time to put those slides together. Thank you.

Yeah, I echo that. We don't eat and breathe this project like you do. So it's helpful sometimes to give us a reminder of where we have been and where we're headed. So thank you so much.

Thank you. All right.

So let's move on to the next item on the agenda, which is urban services framework update. And we'll have our community development director, Kirkman, and she'll be joined by consultant Tom Reinhardt to give this update. Good evening.

Good evening, Mayor and Councillors. We are here today to present project findings on the Urban Services Framework Project. Tonight we have Tom Reinhart with Reinhart Strategies to present the findings as well as other project members here to support any of the questions you may have as well.

Thanks, Sambo. Good evening, Mayor and Council Members. My name is Tom Reinhart. I run a leadership and management consulting company called Reinhart Strategies, and I'm proud to be a part of the team that ECHO Northwest assembled for this important project. ECHO Northwest led the technical analysis and the project management for this very complicated subject. And since I had the privilege of serving in various leadership roles in Oregon's public sector for almost 15 years, the team asked me to share the findings of this report and facilitate any discussion tonight. I'm pleased to do that, and I am very excited to be in front of Tigard City Council for the first time in 24 years in Oregon. So thanks for having me tonight. The Urban Services Framework Project, funded by Federal American Rescue Plan Act dollars, is intended to provide a common understanding of service provision in Washington County's urban unincorporated areas. I will be referring to them tonight as UUA's, which I'm sure you have heard before. As you also probably know, these areas have grown in population to over 215,000 residents, by far the largest of its kind in our state. This study is a technical exercise to explore the financial and practical considerations of providing services in these areas both now and in the future, including how urban services are currently funded and delivered, the factors contributing to long-term fiscal pressures, how revenues and service responsibilities could shift, I want to emphasize could shift under alternative arrangements, and the implications for people and businesses. The purpose of this project is to provide foundational information to bodies like yours, partners, to lay the groundwork for future discussions about providing these services and ensuring their continuity. Next slide, please. We organized tonight with the following approach. First, we will give context to the project, how we got here, how services are currently delivered, and why this project was undertaken. After that, we will review the findings with you, what we learned, and relay some key questions that we identified. You'll probably have others. But what we identified from the study that we believe need further exploration and discussion. Finally, we will take questions and answer them to the best of our ability and have discussion. Next slide, please. Here are a couple of proposed questions the project team thought would be helpful for you to have in mind tonight. And we're happy to answer any others that you have as you generate them, even at the end of a long meeting. Next slide, please. Before we review the findings, let's ground ourselves in an overview of the project and some foundational information and history. Next slide. The Urban Services Framework Project, as I've said, is a technical study focused on the challenge of providing services in unincorporated areas. The goal is to lay a common foundation for discussion, and as you can see on this slide, the team did some case studies that we'll be talking about a little bit later. Next slide, please. As you know, these are complicated. These services are complicated, both in funding mechanisms and the fact that multiple service providers operate within the same jurisdiction. While we believe this project can be helpful to you and your partners, we are not trying to convey all the complexity in this presentation, which I'm sure you might be grateful for. Next slide, please. As I mentioned in the introduction, approximately 215,000 people live in the UUA's over a third of Washington County's population. Next slide. We could do an entire presentation on the UUAs. I happen to find it fascinating, but that's not the purpose of the presentation tonight. For the purpose of tonight, we just want to remind you on this slide that these areas have been in existence since the 1940s, with a significant change, of course, in the 1970s when Oregon's land use law went into effect, creating urban growth boundaries and changing how the UUAs are managed. Next slide, please. A few months ago, the consulting team had the chance to observe a meeting at the Washington County Conference Center along with staff from both cities like Beaverton and Tigard in the county. There were also staff from special districts there. One of the providers, the West Slope Water District, stated during our time together that their services date back to the 1920s. It reminded all of us of the complex web of services and funding that has evolved over 100 years as the county transformed from a rural area to a mix of urban and rural areas and the epicenter of Oregon's economic growth. We wanted to just provide you a graphic snapshot of what we all know intellectually but need to be reminded of from time to time. Leaders like you built these models over several decades, responding to the growth pressures in the community and the financial constraints of their own times and circumstances. And I'm looking at a body that recently went through a budget exercise, so I don't need to explain that to you. I believe it is inarguable that the system has mostly worked over the years since Washington County has grown tremendously and people have, as they say, voted with their feet. And the quality of life is high in the urban unincorporated areas. But leaders like you have raised questions for a long time, over decades, about how to improve the system. In the 1980s, Washington County leaders thought that there might be a mismatch between how much revenue is produced and expenditures are received in its unincorporated cities, the UUAs, and the rural areas. The county commissioned a study by Portland State University. It was called the Washington County Urban Service Study, and it compared the difference between revenues and expenditures across the geographies. Following this study, more studies were done. As part of a strategic plan entitled County 2000, the county established two separate special funding districts in 1987 to support public safety and road maintenance in the UUAs. These funds, the Enhanced Sheriff's Patrol District and the Urban Road Maintenance District enabled the county to continue providing services in the UUAs beyond those in rural areas. Another study in 2006 reexamined the geographic distribution of revenues and expenditures and confirmed that these two special districts were successful in reducing imbalance between geographies. Finally, and I'm sorry I'm racing through it a bit, but I do want us to have discussion. Just last year, Washington County commissioned a countywide service level inventory that helped broaden the understanding of public services. So we wanted you to understand this is part of a chain of work that's been done. Next slide, please. This graphic attempts to show the current partnerships providing services in the UUA's and the difference with service provision in the incorporated cities like Tigard. Next slide, please. I probably don't remind you, but we want us to give you a quick graphic of the collection of organizations that are providing these services in the UUAs. I referred to them earlier, but this shows the network of all of them, and they deserve a lot of credit for collectively serving the UUAs over many decades. But as we will emphasize again and again in the findings, costs are growing faster than revenues with the obvious implications for the future. Next slide, please. As you also know well, it is getting harder to fund the services that all residents expect, no matter where they live. So before we get into the specific findings of the study, I do think it's crucial to recognize the growing structural challenges facing the public sector across the entire state due to measures five and 50 since they impact the findings tonight. The collection of service providers today, including the City of Tigard, simply cannot keep pace with expenses due to the property tax caps imposed by these measures. Just a quick review, these measures cap the annual growth in residential property taxes at 3% of the property's assessed value. I'm guessing this comes up from time to time in front of the Tigard City Council. Next slide, please. So why now? The context that we've attempted to summarize and do succinctly tonight shows why the study we are going to review with you today is timely. The team responsible for the study worked very hard to answer what it actually costs today to deliver these services, how they are funded through the current system of multiple providers, and the team also did some sample case studies to understand hypothetical scenarios, and I want to emphasize hypothetical, to further the public sector's understanding of your options in the future. To be clear, as those of us who have been through public sector budgeting all learn, balancing an annual budget always requires difficult choices and often does not reflect the full cost of services and infrastructure needs due to revenue fluctuations and the ever-present reality of what at least was called in my career deferred infrastructure maintenance. The study uses the term cost to reference projected obligations and needs, and we'll come back to that. Next slide, please. I want to very quickly cover what the study is and what it isn't before we dive in. This is a research project, and like all research projects, it naturally taps into people's assumptions about any discussions that are thought to have a chance at leading to change, regardless of the intent. So I want to emphasize this is a current snapshot of the services in the UUAs. And of course, like I've said, the cost of providing them, and with sample case studies to enhance our understanding. It is not a recommendation or an action proposal. So while we use some specifics and some hypotheticals, we don't want people to think that we are proposing any direct action. Next slide, please. So with the foundation laid, which we hope was helpful for very busy people like you with lots of information coming at you each day, and I've only been here for 35 minutes. There's a lot coming at you. Let's get to it. Next slide. What we studied, the project evaluated specific urban services that are required under Oregon state law and under the county's control, under Washington County's control. Roads, sanitary sewer and stormwater, parks, Metzger Park only, law enforcement, and planning and development. The areas you see on the screen identified by the diagonal lines and guessing the ones in red towards the bottom will be most interesting to this body were chosen because there are locations where the services differ from rural areas. And finally, show examples of where the service provider could change in the event of an agreed upon boundary change. Next slide, please. Here's a breakdown of the services reviewed in the study and what was not included for the reasons I just mentioned. Give you a chance just to take that in there. Okay, next slide please. To summarize the overall findings before I go into the specific differences for Washington County and the partner cities, Beaverton and Tigard, since the spirit of the study is how the county can ensure continuity of services to residents in the UUAs, we thought it was important to give an overall summary first, and then give you nuances for the different jurisdictions. So as you will no doubt not be surprised about, this is complex and has multiple funding sources. It's very hard to track and so the study provides a really good snapshot of that. Current funding generally is adequate but will likely not keep pace. The boundary shift study produced a mix of projected results, different for the county and for the cities. And the Metzger area, you won't be surprised probably also to learn it's an outlier and will require more discussion and analysis. Next slide please. Key findings for the county as a whole. UUA is funded mostly through dedicated revenues, again built up with a patchwork of initiatives and providers over many decades, but not the general fund. So a little bit surprising to some of the team members, the impact on the general fund was not as significant as expected. The system is working pretty well, but long-term revenue and expense mismatch poses a severe and significant risk. A boundary change would shift responsibilities and funding any boundary change, but no big changes to the county's general fund. Many unknowns still remain, particularly in terms of potential transitions, operation management differences, distinct approaches to asset management, which I'm guessing this body is aware of, and finance and how people think about that in the different jurisdictions. And what shifting law enforcement service boundaries would truly mean for services is an unknown. And we can talk more about that in discussion. Next slide, please. Last slide in terms of what we learned about the county as a whole. This just illustrates the difference between obligations or costs outpacing revenue projections in law enforcement and road maintenance. These are numbers used from the government partners directly, and we thought it was important for you to see again the mismatch in revenues and costs in the study areas alone. This isn't for the county as a whole, just the study areas. And the 0.3% that detailed people will notice above the 3.3% on the screen there was added because of infill and development projections in the study area. So it's a little bit higher because of projected growth. Next slide, please. So for the cities, the study areas, the findings tell a different story for the cities. For the areas where Washington County has an urban planning area agreement with the city of Beaverton, The key point for you to know is that economies of scale matter. They have a huge impact. And anybody who studied economics in school will probably be thinking all about economies of scale here in this section. In the hypothetical that a boundary change was agreed upon with Beaverton, new revenues generated for the city would exceed projected costs, at least using the numbers from the partners shared with the project. This can mostly be attributed to Beaverton's tax rate and economies of scale in government service infrastructure, what already exists in the city operations. Give me another minute to take that in. We can come back to slides too if people want to come back and discuss.

Because we're on the slide, and I know the answer, but I think for the public record, it's a really poignant thing to say. Would you share what our, I know what our rate is. Our rate is $2.51 and $0.31. I think Beaverton's is $4.34? Does anyone know?

CAN WE COME BACK TO THAT AT THE END?

IT'S A PIECE AND IT'S VOLUME AND IT'S MARKET ASSESSED VALUE AND ALL THOSE THINGS AND JUST WANTED TO DO MY 550 ONE MORE TIME. THANK YOU.

THANKS, COUNCILOR. OR SHOULD I ADDRESS YOU AS COUNCIL PRESIDENT? I'M SORRY. COUNCIL PRESIDENT. SO FOR BEAVERTON. LET'S GO TO TIGERS. NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. So for the City of Tigard, as you can see, with your specific tax rate, and Council will be used to this, and smaller government, does not have the same ratio of revenues to costs, with revenue and costs more closely matching in the Bull Mountain area and mismatched for Metzger. It's a different story for the City of Tigard for the reasons that I mentioned. So it's pretty clear from the study. Next slide, please. Another important element in terms of the findings in the cities, the team believes it's important to point out that there's a difference in terms of what cities provide, incorporated cities, and then what the county can provide in a much more limited manner in the UUAs or is not providing at all. And this is often not recognized, so we think it should be, and we'll talk more about a resource that was developed during part of this project at the very end that we think will be really helpful.

Next slide, please.

This is one of my favorite things to think about, and I like to go deep into this, so hopefully you'll have some questions about that. The findings raise questions and create opportunities for expanding partnerships through the existing agreements that cities like Tigard have with the county, and roads jump out as an area for better understanding about how any change could improve services. And so there's lots of things to be thought through here that came up with the study team and your staffs. Legally, in the hypothetical of a boundary change or annexation, Of course, this needs to be recognized. Any change of this nature is governed by state statute, which clearly outlines what entity can initiate this process and how that could occur. That is very clearly spelled out. And so we just wanted to put out there that as ideas are percolating, when the final report is issued and you're talking about your staffs, these things are things that should be considered and recognized. Next slide, please. So what does all this mean? We're going to talk more about that, hopefully, in the Q&A and discussion. But like many challenges before you each day, the findings don't point towards a single solution. There aren't easy paths here. We believe the study and its findings should be interpreted, again, as like I said in the intro, as a valuable current state assessment, clarifying the financial pressures and discovering that changing service providers does not necessarily equate to cost savings, since there are differences in each area. To ensure continuity of services, if current revenue trends continue, this study points towards a need for much tighter coordination and decision-making between you and your partners about the path to take. There's lots of trade-offs to be discussed. Next slide, please. The team also identified issues for further evaluation that came up. While the study has been extensive, things did come up that we believe require more work if you and Beaverton and the county wanted to move forward in any way. So most of them fall into the public safety and infrastructure subject areas. It's very complicated. But we also believe potential impacts on special districts of any potential change or shift requires more evaluation with them as well. So as you continue discussion with partners, we also found that the urban service agreements that you have would need updates to pursue changes that you desire. I hope I didn't miss anything that Sambo's not writing down and needs me to do. Next steps before we go into discussion. Next slide, please. So as someone that served in the public sector for a long time, I was very impressed that the team came up with what is being called an urban services 101 lookbook. And it lays out all the different services in a very graphically and much more attractive way than I used to use. So kudos to the entire team, particularly Kimmy Sloop from Washington County back here and Sambo and others that put that together. We believe that it should be used extensively with staffs and partners. to continue to enhance understanding about how this entire system works so we we believe that is a strong next step for the project obviously once the final report is issued staff will be going through that with you and and digging into any further questions that that raises with you and your team next slide please So back to what we presented at the outset, we proposed a couple of framing questions and hoping that you will have others, but we would love to hear what you think and any follow-up questions that you have for the team, thank you.

We did get a follow-up answer from Kimme. Beaverton's tax rate is 4.618. 4.618, yes.

they have a park district on top of that they have a park district on top of that they have a park district and there are no local options currently yeah okay counselors any questions go ahead counselor schlack thank you mayor and thank you for the presentation tonight the first time i heard about the urban service area project i was really fascinated by it so i i find this really interesting i look forward to seeing how this progresses just from my own intellectual curiosity but also because I think this is a glimpse into the future that we may have as a county and as a local government and I just want to say that you know from my perspective about sort of the information I would need to know as a council member considering these options moving forward IT'S NOT JUST HOW THIS WOULD IMPACT THE CITY AND BENEFIT THE CITY BUT HOW THIS WOULD ACTUALLY BENEFIT THE RESIDENTS IN THOSE UUA'S AND I'LL JUST BE TOTALLY CANDID MY FAMILY LIVED IN THAT IN THE BULL MOUNTAIN AREA. I GREW UP IN THE BULL MOUNTAIN AREA. I KNOW PLENTY OF PEOPLE WHO WERE AROUND DURING THE PREVIOUS ANNEXATION ATTEMPTS AND BASICALLY IT COMES DOWN TO FOR A LOT OF THOSE RESIDENTS INCLUDING MY OWN DAD WHY WOULD I PAY CITY TAXES IF IT'S NOT GOING TO MATERIALLY CHANGE MY SORT OF LIVING EXPERIENCE THERE. And that's kind of really important for me to consider if this would involve, you know, local ballot measures for those residents to consider annexing into the city. So just want to put that out there up front.

Thank you.

Council President Wolf.

Yeah, I'll be brief, I agree. Thank you, Councillor Schlatt, because that's what I was thinking, how that will play out certainly with our residents and our voters in the area. And then for me, it is the financial struggle, right? How does this, we just went through a very difficult and emotional budget process. We're certainly not just through it. So that's always weighing heavily in my thoughts

how does this pencil out for us to do the services we need to provide thank you mayor thank you for me wow i appreciate council president from council slack thinking about other committee members but for me i i really focused on tiger right because thank you for flagging that you know boundary change and potential boundary changing massacre we need to approach it carefully from Tiger's perspective. So I really appreciate that. So yeah, so I appreciate further guidance. I think that's my main concern is the MedScare area. So. Oh, Councilor Robbins, do you have something?

Yeah, just really quick. I appreciate this a lot. It's interesting. It would be nice, you know, some of what you looked at, like, law enforcement and streets and roads and parks, it would be great to have people who use those services also be paying for the maintenance of them, but that might be hard to convince the residents of that. The presentation I don't want to say misleading, but it feels a little in that it looks like we would be better off if we, as Tigard as a whole monetarily, if we were able to annex the rest of Bull Mountain. But everything that we kind of learned in the most recent budget was more houses means less money for general fund, right? And that houses costs the city a lot of money and maybe because they're already developed. So could you speak a little bit to that? Because in the executive summary, it says something about... the annexation would help the general fund for the county. And I would like a comment or two about how annexation would help Tigard's general fund or hurt or affect in whatever way.

I think I'd point out that part of the study wasn't to garner a recommendation one way or the other. It was really a matter of taking all the different revenue options. And so if we go back to the slide, a few more. Which one are you looking for? I'm looking for the Tigard slide. Actually, starting with the Beaverton slide. 21. Perfect, right there, right there. So I think what the takeaway here was to kind of understand that, yes, there is revenue associated. We also understand that there are other implications that we weren't studying in the project itself. But I think it was being able to examine what does it look like for Tigard versus Beaverton? And the answer isn't straight up, Bull Mountain is going to be providing adequate funding to address the issues of the general fund for the city. It's more along the lines of if you look at Beaverton's and understanding what obligations there would be in relation to revenues, there's a significant delta to that. Now going to the next slide. The important part is there isn't much here. So that is something for any council at the time of reviewing an annexation to consider. That if there may be new obligations that we have, there is some additional revenues, but we haven't factored all obligations. We are taking basically a snapshot in time because things like actual infrastructure conditions itself may have a larger impact on what the obligations may be. We tried our best to factor in CONSIDERATIONS OF WHAT THE CONDITIONS ARE NOW AND SO THERE'S MORE TO THE DISCUSSION BUT I THINK WHAT THE STUDY ALLOWS US TO SEE IS THAT IN NEWER AREAS THERE IS A SLIGHT UPTICK IN REVENUE AS OPPOSED TO THE OBLIGATIONS BUT AGAIN WITH LOOKING AT METSCHER HERE IT JUST ALLOWS US TO UNDERSTAND THAT THERE'S MORE TO A CONVERSATION THAN JUST YOU KNOW Is it something that the proprietors are interested in? Is it something that will, you know, is it one for one in usage of our parks? There's large elements to it. And so I would like to express that it is an indication, it was intended to be an opportunity for us to see what information we can provide the councils that at least will give you a sense. And may it be for this council or another body in years to come, the lookbook was an opportunity to unpack what layers there are when it comes to services that are provided.

I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT I GIVE YOU A LITTLE BIT OF BACKGROUND ON HOW MUCH DISCUSSION THERE WAS AMONG THE TEAM ABOUT THIS PRESENTATION BECAUSE WE IN NO WAY WANTED TO MISLEAD OR MAKE THESE THINGS SEEM EASY AND THAT'S WHY I TRIED TO POINT OUT AND APOLOGIES IF I DIDN'T ARTICULATE IT WELL. Different jurisdictions view asset condition and what obligations are very differently. And as someone that used to manage public sector, including large cities, you go to city to city and there's a much different view of what taking care of the roads in terms of asset management means. So we put up in terms of the study areas the best we could with the data given to us by the cities, but that doesn't mean in a jurisdiction to jurisdiction conversation that your team might feel very differently about what that bar graph is for the next 20 years. So that's what we were trying to say around this is a snapshot. If people did want to move forward on any discussions, You'd have to dig into that because any discussion of a transfer requires folks to be very clear about what's being measured. I just want to make sure you understood we did take that very seriously and in no way wanted to mislead. But we wanted to give you some indication of with the numbers that we have, here's how the snapshot came out.

I APPRECIATE THAT AND I DO UNDERSTAND THE COMPLEXITY AND JUST IMAGINING LIKE CHANGES IN STAFFING TO THE POLICE DEPARTMENT AND THEN THE SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT COMES DOWN BUT MORE SO I WONDER SOMETIMES IF WE YOU KNOW BECAUSE THIS THIS PRESENTATION IS GOING TO BE ON OUR CITY WEBSITE AND ANYONE CAN PULL IT UP WHICH IS EXCELLENT BUT I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT THOSE PEOPLE ALSO KNOW THAT RIGHT IT'S MUCH MORE COMPLEX.

THANK YOU. CONGRESSWOMAN SHAW.

THANK YOU MAYOR I JUST WANT TO say thank you for highlighting Metzger, and that is a potential discussion down the road that needs further investigation and a deeper dive into the information, and appreciate my colleagues' comments on this and the staff's work. Thank you.

Thank you. Well, thank you, Tom, and thank you again, Sambo, for the presentation. We really appreciate it. Looking forward to more updates on this.

All right. Thank you.

Okay, so next item, final item, I promise. I also requested, along with two others, because over the past several months, data center have become an increasingly important topic in Oregon and across Washington County. So my understanding is that Tiger's current development code does not treat data center as a distinct land use. Instead, they are classified under a broader utility category and maybe allowing a variety of zones through the condition use process. Personally, I'm not convinced our current code was written with modern large-scale data centers in mind. which is one reason i believe this conversation is timely so tonight i just think that it's important we know that we're not making decisions just opportunity for council member to determine what information we want staff to bring back regarding data center and there's any interest in exploring potential code update in the future so assistant development director warren will present the item and request direction from the council good evening again

Thank you again, Mayor Hu and members of the council, Skylar Warren, Assistant Director of Community Development. So this item, as the mayor said, is a conversation around data centers as a use that is regulated within the city's development code. So we put together, we didn't put together a presentation on this item, so really I'll just give you kind of a quick rundown on what we, how we currently treat data centers. So I will say that data centers were a use that was considered as part of the Tigard and Maid project that was adopted back in 2024. A LOT HAS CHANGED IN DATA CENTERS EVEN SINCE 2024. SO WE HAD SEEN SOME PRELIMINARY INTEREST IN SOME SITES IN OREGON FOR THE LOCATION OF SOME SMALLER SCALE DATA CENTERS INCLUDING ONE THAT WOULD BE OFF OF HUNZICKER ROAD NEAR WHERE THE CITY'S POLICE AND PUBLIC WORKS FACILITY WOULD BE LOCATED. And as a result of that interest, the decision was made at that time to regulate those as something more akin to a utility usage, so an above ground utility. And the thinking at that time was that those data centers are really providing a utility type service, but they're just not really employees on the site. Again, that was 2024. Data centers at that time were really kind of, at least for us, kind of a novel concept in terms of a land use. And it was really focused more around network connectivity and that kind of thing. The new data centers, the heavy usage of resources to actually do a lot of data processing is something that is relatively new, at least for us in the land use realm. There's a lot of sessions this year, as you can imagine, at the National APA Conference on Data Centers and AI. And so I will say that the staff is looking at, you know, how do we move forward with regulation of this use and so this conversation is timely this is something that we've already been considering over the last couple of months so welcome any council conversation and feedback that you have that could help us as we you know look at this use so council member any interest in moving forward the council slack

Thank you, Mayor.

And looking to the AIS, I would support staff bringing a data center only update to council on an earlier date just to separate that out from the bigger, the broader update that is being proposed later this summer. I just think that will be cleaner in making sure that we're addressing concerns that community members may have to separate it out. So it's mainly from a communications and how to structure that conversation with our community. because obviously data centers have become very controversial and I want to make sure that we maintain the community's trust in how we're handling this aspect of our code.

MAY ASK FOR CLARIFICATION THERE. IN TERMS OF COMING BACK WITH A CONVERSATION ON THAT, ARE YOU REQUESTING THAT WE COME BACK WITH A PROPOSAL FOR A USE CATEGORY FOR THOSE AND EVEN A PRELIMINARY APPROACH TO REGULATING THAT USE OR JUST MORE INFORMATION?

BOTH, I SUPPOSE.

COUNCIL PRESIDENT WOLFE. SIMILAR TO COUNCILOR SCHLACK I WAS THINKING THAT SAME THING. I DON'T KNOW IF THERE IS A BEST PRACTICE FOR COUNCILS OR CITIES TO WORK THROUGH THAT COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT PROCESS AND FULLY UNDERSTAND WHAT ARE THE STEPS WE SHOULD BE THINKING OF. AND THEN LIKE YOU SAID USE CATEGORY. WHAT WOULD THAT LOOK LIKE IN TIGERED AND WHAT MIGHT BE SOME THOUGHTS AROUND WHAT SHOULD BE MODIFIED OR CHANGED. I REALLY APPRECIATE IT. SO I APPRECIATE YOU, MAYOR HU, FOR BRINGING IT FORWARD AS A CONVERSATION.

THANK YOU. COUNCILOR SHAW.

THANK YOU, MAYOR. I'M VERY CONCERNED. TONIGHT WE HAD MULTIPLE DISCUSSIONS ABOUT HOW STAFF IS SHORT STAFFED, HAS SO MANY PRIORITIES. WE HEARD THERE'S A FIVE-MONTH DELAY WITH RIVER TERRACE 2.0. I'M CONCERNED THAT WE ADD ONE MORE THING. onto the plate of staff that this is going to impact them could be impacting our current projects. So I would say more info would be appreciated. I'm also concerned and I understand we have community development, but to staff Skyler include our economic development team where they included in this discussion. And they believe that was my last question.

So. I'll take a moment to discuss part of the work that we're doing right now is scoping some code updates that are needed. So with aforementioned longer target date for the end of River Terrace 2.0, There are some state mandated updates to our development code that we will be out of compliance if we do not adopt before the end of the year. So one of the things that we've been discussing is to pull that piece out of River Terrace 2.0 or Tigard Home, whichever project it was gonna land in, and to actually bring it back to the council as a individual smaller compliance focused project. AND WE HAVE HEARD FOR THE COUNCIL'S REQUEST WHEN WE ADOPTED THE TIGERED MAID CODE TO CONTINUALLY GET UPDATES FROM THE BOTH ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND FROM THE BUSINESS OWNERS HERE ABOUT HOW THE TIGER MADE CODE IS WORKING. I WOULD SAY ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE'RE FINDING IS THAT OUR USE CATEGORIES ARE NOT QUITE FUNCTIONING AS INTENDED AS COUNCIL KNOWS WHEN WE DID THE TIGER MADE CODE UPDATES WE CONSOLIDATED A LOT OF OUR USE CATEGORIES WHICH IS WHY data centers did not end up in their own use category. They just got put into an existing use category. What we're finding is that in some cases that consolidation of use categories is actually proving to be a little bit of a hindrance for businesses being able to locate here. And so what we discussed was we know that River Terrace 2.0 Tigard Home and Downtown Reimagined all are relying on use categories that are reasonably solid in order to be able to make their own policy recommendations and code updates in those projects. And so one of the things that we've also been considering is bringing a smaller use category update that would be included with that compliance project. So this is in the very early stages of formation. I want to emphasize that it's not necessarily a new project. It's more a partitioning, if you will, of an existing effort that would be taken up in one of the other code projects that you've been updated on. And instead of going with one of those code projects, it would go as a standalone project. Like I said, we're in the early stages. We have had conversations with our economic development staff. As we get closer to any kind of concrete proposal, we definitely will be coordinating with our colleagues there as well as in other departments to just make sure that we're capturing anything that they've seen or any opportunities that we may have to increase our economic development opportunities.

you scott i appreciate that i just want to make sure the teams are all working together and i was concerned about staff's time but it sounds like you and your fellow staff have enough time to have this on the docket along with all of the projects so unless i've misread that that's what i've heard we we uh well uh we are definitely uh short-staffed for all of the long-range projects that we have but like i said this is one that is

really peeling out work that is already being done in those other projects and just running it through a separate legislative process. And to take the burden off of our other staff who definitely do not have time to run this project, I would be taking this one on on the legislative side.

Thank you. Councillor Galussi.

Thank you, Mayor, and thank you for bringing this forward overall. I mean, based on everything that I know today, I wanna make sure that we're not creating that perception of wanting to attract or accommodate big data centers here. I am mindful of the concerns of our community and our staff, things that are being raised around here, specifically about things like consumption, the fact that if we do have that, it's not necessarily going to increase employment and things like that here within our city. Overall, I wouldn't necessarily support dedicating additional staff time to standalone data center discussion. If the staff's already planning to address the use classification as part of upcoming compliance-focused code projects and things like that, that's different, but you have a certain amount of time, and I would be disinclined to encourage land use that I'm not supportive overall. If it's a part of everything else in the other land use that you're wanting to put together, that's one discussion versus dedicating time and trying to encourage the use here for just data centers. So are you for or against? I don't understand what you're saying. I don't want a dedicated discussion for data centers. If it's a part of an overall rehaul or changing the way that we're going to be talking about land use, then that's fine, but I don't want staff time to be spent on something that I don't want.

All right, so it's a no. Okay, Councillor Robbins.

Thank you. Thank you for this information. It is very high profile right now and I appreciate you and your staff taking the time to proactively look into this. I think that two months into late summer, early fall, two to three months is not too long to wait. With the other staffing restrictions that we have, we made a commitment last year to staff that whenever we asked for something new, we would be mindful that something else might have to be taken away. And so with the, you know, we just had an update on River Terrace and why is this taking so long and all the complex stuff we're working on, I would be willing to wait until it was brought up more thoroughly in a comprehensive co-compliance at the end of the summer. But I do appreciate it. I do think it's important. If you were to come back and say, well, actually, we did get an application for somebody that wants to develop a data center, then certainly we would either want to put that on hold or have the discussion earlier. But if we don't have anybody right now saying, hey, I want to build a data center, I think we can wait for the comprehensive report.

Okay. Youth counselor, you have anything to say?

I would just tend to agree that I don't think it's necessary right now, but I think when it comes up at a more convenient time, it should be had. Just right now, that energy and time should be spent on more important things like River Terrace 2.0.

Okay. Councillor Anderson.

Well, I don't think Tigard has any real large swaths of land besides the one you mentioned, maybe a few others. So I don't think that's really low hanging fruit for them. So I think we might buy some time that way. But I think as technology improves, there could be data centers on a floor of a vacant building. And so that might be a, a category or something that we look at. And, of course, we have to know water usage and electric rates, right? So that's what we would be concerned about. But, again, in five years it could be totally different. So smaller units per building or per business. I would say, I would say unless it's something that you get an application coming in, I would say you could wait a little bit.

Okay. So is Councillor Schell, is that what you agree as well?

Correct.

Okay. So the majority will be willing to wait. So I guess we have to follow the wish of the majority so we can wait a little bit at this time.

Thank you. We will bring that back with other use category changes for the council to provide feedback on.

All right. Thank you so much. All right. So let's see. I think that was the last item on the agenda. So there being no additional item, this meeting is adjourned. Good night, Tiger.