Remarks by Kit Johnston
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“And hopefully there's no definition changes. Okay. So with that.”
“Okay. Um, with that we're set and we are going to move on to. Okay. Announcements.”
“Thank you for that. Tuesday, I had a working conference, the work in conference that was hosted by Willamette Workforce Partnership, and it was an all day conference. I'm just going to touch on it super quick. Main key thing coming out of a lot of the different breakout sessions from presenters, the biggest one that stuck out was from Angela Wilhelm with Oregon Business and Industry. One slide sticks out. It's three steps. This is a message to the state. I think we all know it doesn't matter what side of the alley on or politics, but it's the one message that acknowledge the problem that…”
“All right. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to our formal session on September 3rd at 10am. I'm going to open it up at 10.05. Okay. And I'm going to ask Ken to lead us in the flight salute. which is sans, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you for that. C is our calendar session. Is there any changes?”
“All right. D is public comment. I see we had one emailed in. Is there anybody in the audience that would like to give public comment? Seeing none, if you're online, raise your virtual hand. Looks like we have one from Clay. Is that gonna be on an agenda item, Clay? Yes, that would be for agenda item H2. H2, okay. We'll call on you when we get to there. Thank you. Seeing none others, we're gonna move on to department updates. There's none. Work session, there's none. consent agenda we have some minutes i would move approval is there any further discussion none none none all those in favor…”
“None. All those in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. Aye. Motion passes unanimously. Thank you. That brings us to H2 is consideration of a drafted ordinance amending the Yamhill County zoning ordinance to allow roads, highways, and transportation facilities in exception areas of Yamhill County. This was continued from July 9th. We have a public comment from Clay Downing.”
“Thank you. Appreciate it, Clay. Thank you, Clay. Thank you. Okay. Any, you got any input? Go ahead.”
“But in the waste management case that's already existing, it's just an expansion, right?”
“Okay, so I do agree with the going back to the planning commission with this. I feel like we're in a way different spot than we were originally when we sent it back to the planning commission. When, even when I originated on the point of 2022 back as hey, just do them as conditional uses. So I feel like it is different. It would be nice to get their input. Last time we talked here back on the ninth, we had no other applications in the hopper. So I felt like we had time. Do you feel like this application is going to be an issue or do we still have time to do this?”
“If I'm understanding, we had this question last time we discussed this, you can do that already.”
“But not friends. In a commercial setting, I advertise that I am open to the public in charge of, let's say, charge a fee to traipse from my property to the neighbor's property if I had an agreement with the neighbor. That would be where you're going to have to go through a conditional use.”
“But it does, and there's a fine balance to it of making sure that everybody has their property rights covered, unfortunately.”
“Well, it's the way of 10. I think, I mean, you'd have to go through that process, right? So if you're building the trail down the middle of your property and you have the correct buffers to not impact the farming community around, let's say it's EFU and you're, let's talk about what's our, the, yeah, what's our trail? I mean, it literally- That's a public trail. Right, but you literally, so your example was private, and then we discussed commercial, and you said you disagree with that also having two properties connect commercially where you're going to advertise and charge, and this is all…”
“That's what I'm talking about right there. Right. And now what protects your neighbor when you built that trail right on the edge of your property? What's the neighbor's rights now to say, wait a second, you're impacting because now you're bringing public onto your property. How am I not protected?”
“but but don't you think that that farm impact study protects it really protects both of you it protects you from putting a trail right next to the neighbor who now you're impacting their farming abilities where it may be a bit uh is a process that the neighbor gets to try and be like hey uh could you just move that over 120 feet so that it doesn't impact my farming practices that i've been doing for the last 100 years on my property it's that process that that neighbor that it borders that they get to go through and protects them along with still allows you to have your trail if you go…”
“There's more than drift too. I agree. Drift cannot leave, but there's exclusionary zones with EPA labels and whatever certain chemicals that you spray that drift or no drift, people cannot be within a certain timeframe of being applied.”
“So I do... Agree that if we're all in consensus to actually send this back to the language, because it has been long enough to where we probably should run it through the public input process again, and then they'll have Yeah, sure.”
“Right. And which really the only thing that's changing from originally, because originally it was, well, I think it was three permitted uses and like VLDR 2.5.”
“yep um side note you bring up the waste management that seems to be a concern of all of ours safety wise on making sure that we get that done so keep us up to date on what's going on there thank you again and i just want to throw in that that the planning commission can also add specifics when they send it back to us for consideration so this is not the the the uh end of the story”
“Okay. So do you want me to make a motion to that effect, Ken, that we're going to send it to the Planning Commission or just no action?”
“Thank you. It looks like we have one more online. I don't see a hand up next to a name. Are we losing? Morgan?”
“Oh, yeah. There you go. Name and address, please.”
“Okay, appreciate it. The good news is it'll be going to the Planning Commission for lots of public input.”
“Thank you. Yeah, you bet. I see no others. There's no other in the audience. So can you restate what you want to hear, Jody, for a motion?”
“Right. Did you not hear me? You were... Oh, right to farm in Oregon. There's been one other case when marijuana actually was legalized back in 2016 where a vineyard was suing a new marijuana facility. So it'd be interesting to look at that court case, but you have a right to farm. Okay. Up to your property. Yep.”