Remarks by Kathryn Harrington
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Board of County Commissioners · Sep 1, 2026
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“So all six of these, seven, are in, I'm only seeing one through seven, are in urban unincorporated Washington County and have the zoning of industrial or special industrial overlay districts.”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 1, 2026
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“And the prior slide also goes on to say that few of these properties are suitable for development of large-scale standalone data centers. So not all eight are applicable. Earlier she said only three of them, but she's going through each of the enumerated areas on the next few slides.”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 1, 2026
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“As she said, there are only two types of land that she's going over, those that are zoned industrial or special industrial overlay district, period. So any further discussion will hold till later in the presentation. We're only focusing on these eight parcel, these eight areas as designated on slide seven that have those two zoning designations.”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 1, 2026
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“And wouldn't they have to use, if I captured this correctly, I thought I heard you say that there is a definition of data centers in the ORSs. And so I assume they would have to use that definition.”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 1, 2026
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“And they do that it's substantially similar to other allowed uses in those two different overlay, those two different industrial district or special industrial overlay district.”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 1, 2026
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Board of County Commissioners · Sep 1, 2026
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“When you say these days, on the previous slide, side 12, Are those calendar days or business days?”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 1, 2026
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“The best I could answer that, we have always approved the LUT work plan by resolution and order, even while you've been on this board. So that's why if we want to have staff put time and energy into a different topic, we have to take an action by resolution and order. It is our job.”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 1, 2026
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“And that is $100. That is a commitment to endeavor to do this work within 120 days.”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 1, 2026
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“I want to come back to the city of Beaverton because I talked to the mayor of Beaverton about this topic a couple of different times. And so I agree with you 100%. They don't feel that large-scale standalone data centers are allowed uses in the city of Beaverton. And so therefore, they don't need to have a moratorium or do anything further than the resolution that they, that you spoke about.”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 1, 2026
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“I have a question about this slide. You said earlier that our current work plan has directed that you follow through on those changes that are state directed, as well as two discretionary ones. And I wrote down what they were. So if we were to follow this hypothetical timeline, would that only impact the two discretionary, the workload for the two discretionary projects, or would that put even the state required ones at risk?”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 1, 2026
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“And you also talked about potentially needing some additional consultant resources as well.”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 1, 2026
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“So hypothetically, you'd impact those two, need some additional financial resources that are already constrained. So it hypothetically would, in my opinion, as I understand it, likely require that further extension as well. Okay. Yes, very likely. Okay. But thank you for helping ground me in a potential timeline.”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 1, 2026
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“Their findings, quote, their own community development code, which is a different development code than ours. So it isn't applicable.”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 1, 2026
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“Do we have any more questions on this slide?”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 1, 2026
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“Each of the four of you have had an opportunity to answer these questions, so I'll go through mine and then attempt to summarize. It's been interesting listening to each of you. In addition to what we've been exposed to from public comment in our own forums, as well as hearing about or reading about public comment to other local jurisdictions. What I, as one, continue to have a need to understand is, as, for example, Commissioner Fai was summarizing different categories drinking water, wastewater, energy, land use, and legal authorities. I'm pretty clear on what our legal authority is and our…”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 1, 2026
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“To me, that that feels like too performative yeah it also feels like what we're seeing a lot of platitudes without a plan yeah uh it's leading people along yeah that's why i don't prefer it but i it's one of those things that i could live with but i wouldn't i wouldn't love it would you clarify what your what what is the it the it would be”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 1, 2026
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“It is something we could consider. It goes against what we've seen in terms of documentation, making it more easy to use. implementable and also reducing barriers to housing.”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 1, 2026
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“I think we've established a record here of our intent.”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 1, 2026
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“So we could do something like that. Yeah, but I don't want to put the county at any risk of somebody saying, well, you have a definition, therefore. Yeah, we'll leave that to the future.”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 1, 2026
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“So I'll summarize. We don't have, if we could go to the last slide, the one with the questions. Whoever's driving the slides. Sorry. We're going back to questions. The last slide. This thing has delay. Okay. So in summary, staff has heard and noted for themselves the additional information that we want we do not we have a board majority to not move forward with the letter of potential intent for a moratorium or any other action towards that move right now we do wish to move forward with the alternative action that we have talked about here of the resolution and order noting community concern…”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 1, 2026
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“Nope. But it is, as noted earlier, in our public record of prior meetings that are perfectly available on our meeting portal. Great. All right. Oh, boy. I did not do a good job of making sure we followed our 45 minutes. We had a great discussion.”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 1, 2026
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“Okay, so we're going to take a less than 10 minute break here at 2.30 so that the room can clear out and then I'll ask for the appropriate motion for an executive session and we'll start that at 2.30. Thank you. 2.30. I told you.”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 1, 2026
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“Okay. Okay. We are back from break. Hello. We are back from break. Hello. We are back from break. And at this juncture, I would like to ask for a motion to adjourn to executive session pursuant to ORS 192.660 sub 2 sub D for the purposes of Discussing labor negotiations. Second. We have a motion and a second. All those in favor, please vote by raising your hand. Thank you. Commissioners, any opposed? The motion carries unanimously five to zero. We are hereby in executive session.”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 1, 2026