Planning Commission - Regular Meeting

Just gotta wait for that queue. Alrighty. I'll go ahead and call this February 11 planning commission meeting to order at 06:01PM. Can I get a roll call, please?

Nicole Hendrix. Here. Andrew Carr. Matt Constantine. Here. Rob Candrian.

Here.

Jana Seminova? Here. Tabby Trauber? Here. And Jeff Sundal? Here. Thank you.

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I do not have any attendees on Zoom.

Okay. Thank you. We'll go ahead and move on to the consideration of the minutes. And I I might have a on the agenda, I don't think it's listed.

I think you're in the public hearing next on the agenda.

Oh, okay. I'm rusty. It's been we haven't met in two months. My bad. I'm eager. Okay. Great. Good to know. Okay. So we are gonna move on to the public hearing then.

So with that, I'll go ahead and call to order the public hearing regarding resolution number LP26Dash0001, for the, citywide economic opportunities analysis and accompanying economic development strategy. Have all oh, and I'll go ahead and call that to order at 603 Have all commissioners familiarized themselves with the application? Seeing yeses. At this time, I'll go ahead and call for city staff to present the staff report, including the proposed recommendations along with the applicable review and approval criteria. Will the city staff please present the report and recommendation?

Good evening. Thank you. Chair Hendrix, commissioners. Appreciate your time tonight. My name is Chris Myers. I'm a Senior Planner here with the City of Wilsonville. Am joining And me tonight is Nicole Underwood from Eco Northwest and actually Beth Goodman, also from Eco Northwest is online joining us. And of course, Matt Lorenzen, our Economic Development Manager. So Nicole has led much of the work on the economic opportunities analysis we're going to talk about tonight. She is going to be walking us through the presentation this evening.

But before we begin, we're going to go back and do a little overview of the broader, larger project that the economic opportunities analysis is attached to and how it fits into that project. So the Wilsonville yeah, we can leave it there for now. Thank you. The Wilsonville Industrial Land Readiness Project. It's essentially a coordinated citywide effort focused on preparing key employment lands for future development and with particular emphasis on the Basalt Creek planning area, which is the Northwest corner of Wilsonville, just North of Coffee Creek.

Essentially, it's preparing industrial and employment lands for development readiness. It also positions Wilsonville for long term economic growth and for investment. So there's a couple of phases to the project, right? Phase one was really focused on the analysis of the Basalt Creek planning area. Phase two is this comprehensive citywide evaluation of industrial land readiness, right?

It's kind of where we're at right now. And this is where the economic opportunities analysis fits in as well as the economic development strategy, which is part of it. And we'll talk about Nicole is going to talk a little bit about that. But together, these phases really inform and set us up for long range implementation of the Basalt Creek master plan, which will be coming your way in the future, coming this summer actually ish, spring summer ish, fall. So there are some key project components.

We have the economic opportunities analysis here tonight. Again, as part of that is the economic development strategy. We also have a site suitability analysis and infrastructure funding analysis as well as a buildable lands inventory. We'll just see a couple of those things tonight, but we won't get too deep on that. That is can you go to the next slide, please? So that's just a really brief overview of where we're at and what we're going to be working on. As far as the process goes tonight, Nicole is going to walk us through the presentation. I think that's probably about twenty minutes. I think we're slated for an hour of total time. So there's going to be ample opportunity for anyone in the audience or online to ask questions of us after the presentation.

They'll have that opportunity. Planning Commission will certainly have that opportunity to ask us questions. Certainly feel free at any point to ask a question, have us pause and we can cover questions as they come up, if you like, or save them for the end. It's really what you're comfortable with. And then Nicole will present.

And after the presentation, of us and then deliberation or time for the commission to discuss issues at hand and discuss the economic opportunities analysis. And then we'll be asking for an action tonight. And we are asking for the commission to adopt resolution LP26-one, which is a recommendation to City Council to adopt the citywide economic opportunities analysis. So that is our action that we're asking for tonight. And we'll cover that again at the very end. So with that, I'm actually going to pass it over to Nicole. She's going to walk us through the presentation, and we'll go from there.

Awesome. Well, thank you, and hello, commissioners. Glad to be here. I know I've presented on this to some of you before, but I know some of you are new. And as Chris said, I'm happy to take questions as we go along.

And I will pause at specific points as well just to give you a chance so that I don't just power through. So to start, what is an EOA and why do one? An EOA or an economic opportunity analysis is an analysis that meets certain legal requirements in Oregon's statewide land use planning system under goal nine, which is economy. So goal nine mandates cities to periodically review and update their local vision for strengthening the local economy and to ensure they have enough suitable land for employment growth over a twenty year period. It plays a specific role in the comprehensive plan, so if the city adopts the EOA, it becomes a part of the plan's factual foundation.

Then when the city considers future plan or map amendments that require findings, the EOA is one of the documents you rely on to support those findings. There are other reasons to do an EOA as well. The EOA documents existing conditions and forecasts, future needs. That information feeds directly into the economic development strategy, which we'll talk about in a little bit. And it helps the city coordinate land use policy, infrastructure planning, and other actions that support economic development.

And so this slide just shows you that kind of broader industrial land readiness project that Chris has already gone over, so I'm gonna move forward. And then what you can see here is our overall schedule. We are at the end of this process. We've had two city council work sessions and two planning commission work sessions previously, and so now we're at the hearings. And we expect to have a hearing with city council in March. I think it's the second.

Yes.

So before I move on to the buildable lands inventory, does anybody have any questions about what it is we're doing and why? Great. Seeing none, I'm going to move on. So an important part of understanding Wilsonville's economic opportunity is knowing how much land is available to support that job growth. And so we conduct a buildable lands inventory.

We start by identifying all land in Wilsonville that is designated for employment uses. This includes land in the comprehensive plan designations of commercial, industrial, town center, and undesignated land. That's that purple land. That undesignated category specifically refers to the land in Basalt Creek or more specifically that West Railroad area. This land is being planned for industrial but does not yet have a specific designation in the city's comp plan, And so all this land together forms the base starting point for understanding land available for future future employment development.

So next, we removed land with constraints that limit development potential. This includes things like floodways and flood plains, Wilsonville's significant resource overlay zone, areas with slopes greater than 15%, Title 3 stream and flood plain protection areas, habitat conservation areas, and so on. And so by removing these constraints, we're left with a more accurate picture of what land can realistically develop for employment uses. And then we also classify that land based on development status, so vacant, partially vacant, and developed. Partially vacant land typically refers to large lots that have some existing development but also have room for additional development.

And then what you see on this slide here is a summary of the vacant employment land by comprehensive plan designation after constraints have been removed. And so in total, Wilsonville has about 366 acres of unconstrained buildable employment land. Most of it, or about 96%, is in industrial designation, so that's all the dark blue you see up there. And then in in contrast, there are only about 13 acres of vacant commercial land citywide. However, Wilsonville does have opportunities to meet its commercial land needs through redevelopment, and so you can see Town Center is a key area for redevelopment.

The city also has a number of large vacant buildings like the former Albertsons, Regal Cinemas, Rite Aid that could help meet commercial needs in the future. I'm gonna pause again on the buildable lands inventory is there any questions about that

I have one question on the redevelopment stuff how does that get factored in since there are a lot of vacant properties at the moment, like large vacant properties?

We did a we did do a kind of high level redevelopment analysis looking at some of the the areas that we knew were opportunities for redevelopment, namely some of the the three that I named, and there's a few others. And we found I think the number was something like 53 acres of more immediate availability for redevelopment. So we we did look at that. There's also a lot of potential within the town center plan. There's a lot of planning, like, you know, availability there. We didn't calculate everything, but our kind of our assumptions and our our basis is that you can meet your commercial needs through a lot of that redevelopment.

Any other questions? Alrighty. We're good to keep going.

Okay. So we've got the land inventory in place. The next question is really about demand. What level of employment growth should Wilsonville be planning for, and what types of land does that growth typically require? So to ground this, we start with current employment in Wilsonville.

So in 2023, Wilsonville had about 22,800 jobs or covered jobs, and this means jobs that are covered by unemployment insurance. This chart highlights the six largest employment sectors in Wilsonville. The orange line represents the average city wage, and that kind of gray line is the, regional average wage. They're pretty close together. Three of the largest sectors, manufacturing, wholesale, trade, and construction, are considered industrial sectors and together account for about 40% of employment in Wilsonville, and all three pay above average city wages.

Professional and technical services also pays above the average city wage, and then sectors like retail trade and administrative services employ many workers but tend to pay a little bit less. Commuting patterns are also an important part of Wilsonville's employment landscape. Commuting is common in Wilsonville since the city is part of the much broader metropolitan region. Only about 8% of people who work in Wilsonville also live in Wilsonville. This is not unusual for a metro area job center.

Most workers commute in from across the Portland Region and Mid Valley, including places like Salem. Wilsonville's location at that Southern Metro and along I-five really position it as a natural midpoint between those labor markets. At the same time, about 15% of Wilsonville residents work in the city. Others commute to nearby cities like Portland, Tualatin, and Tigard. So between 2,007 and 2023, Wilsonville added about 2,900 covered jobs.

This was an increase of about 15%, very similar to the regional, change of about 16% over the same period. The fastest growing sectors were construction, wholesale trade, and professional services, and construction and wholesale trade in particular outpaced regional trends. Meanwhile, sectors like management of companies, transportation and warehousing, manufacturing saw declines in Wilsonville even as some of these did grow regionally. So that gives us a sense of how Wilsonville's economy has changed over time. Now we're gonna look at the city's position as it kind of moves forward and looking at what makes the area attractive to businesses, what are its advantages.

And so the city's location in the Southwest Metro Area with access to I 5, I 205, and Highways 217 is definitely an advantage. It matters. The city has also has an established base of industry and manufacturing, and in proximity to growing industrial areas in some of your neighboring, cities. You're also approximate to the Portland International Airport. You have access to a skilled and educated workforce both in the kind of Portland area and in that Mid Valley region.

And and then the city has a number of tools like urban renewal and the wind program, which are attractive to businesses. Town Center also represents a redevelopment opportunity, and then there's, of course, quality of life factors that make Wilsonville attractive to different businesses and and and workforce, including things like your parks and your great schools and that kind of thing. But of course, there are at the same time, there are real challenges that may limit how Wilsonville can grow and where it can grow. A big one is the limited supply of development ready industrial land. You have a lot of industrial land, but much of it is constrained by the lack of urban level infrastructure, such as in Basalt Creek.

Some of your land in in Basalt Creek and in Coffee Creek are also limited by small lot sizes and fragmented ownerships. There's existing contractor establishments that complicate the urban level development as well. And then, know, it's a benefit to be near I 5 and I 205, and still you have the congestion and traffic that comes along with that as well. And this is more of a broader regional challenge, which is the housing affordability challenges. Not specific to just Wilsonville, but it definite is challenge.

So Wilsonville's advantages and challenges and some of these broader trends do shape how we think about future employment growth. For the forecast, the city is using the Oregon employment department's regional growth rate, which we brought to planning commission and city council, and those were supported in earlier work sessions. Under this forecast, Wilsonville is expected to add about 6,100 jobs by 2046. That translates to a need for roughly 320 acres of industrial land and about a 110 acres of commercial land. So given that projected growth, we've got the conclusions of the EOA listed here, and they really answer the question of, does Wilsonville have enough land to support future employment growth?

So for industrial, the city does is is expected to have enough land overall, but near term readiness remains a challenge. Many sites are small and and fragmented and lack urban level infrastructure. That really underscores the importance of the need for site assembly and infrastructure investment. And then for commercial, vacant land is limited, but the city does have a significant redevelopment potential, especially in town center. And so like I said before, there are a number of large vacant buildings that create near near term opportunities for productive reuse. So that's what I have on the economic opportunity analysis. Before I move on to the economic development strategy, there any questions about this?

I have a question.

Go for it.

I've noticed that in both of our strategic advantages and constraints or challenges we list I 5 And 205 in proximity to highways. As I was reading the materials before, one of the things that struck me, I didn't I wasn't able to even speculate on an answer. We have a railroad that comes through our town. Is that a strategic or why why isn't that listed among, a potential opportunity or a strategic advantage?

It's a good call out. Was it not listed as a strategic advantage in in the report?

Or maybe it was more in when it comes to, like, maybe jumping ahead with with the development strategy. Like, why isn't it something that we focus on more as an opportunity?

Yes, go ahead.

Maybe I just missed stuff too, don't

know. What was that?

I'd be happy to talk to this point, if that's okay.

Yes, By all means.

So railroads can be an advantage, but they often aren't much of an advantage. You use railroads for shipping freight that is often bulky and doesn't need to get there quickly. And so while your railroad connections are an advantage, they're not an advantage the same way that, say, two zero five and I-five are. They're a more minor advantage. So there's a subset of types of industries that want railroads, but there's a lot of railroads in a lot of different cities. And so it's only so much of an advantage.

I will just piggyback on that a little as well. I think in the site selection landscape, and that's a term that's used within the economic development world, and it is just what it sounds like where a company uses a consulting firm or brokerage company to identify their next home or their next expansion site. If they do have a rail requirement, they're most likely gonna need a site that's much larger than anything Wilsonville can conceivably offer. If we had flat 250 acre sites with a railroad coming by, that would be a huge advantage. There's an opportunity to create a siding or a spur and serve that site.

With the land that we have available, the feasibility of serving it with rail just isn't there. So I think that's just an adding on to what Beth said as well. Is that helpful?

Yeah. That's that that clarifies it. Thank you.

Okay. Mhmm.

Have a related question. I know the city doesn't necessarily love the airport and it falls outside, but there are there has been there have been talks about airport expansion, which could also fuel potential economic growth. But I don't think I saw that mentioned in there as a possible advantage were the airport to expand.

Matt, do you have any thoughts on this? I remember it coming up in the advisory committee, but I can't remember specifically what was said.

I'll go first, and then I'll let Matt, piggyback. But, thank you for the great question, commissioner. The city has adopted an area of special concern pertaining to the airport and geography land surrounding it. That area of special concern is within our comprehensive plan. And then within that document, we essentially outline specific elements of that area that would present essentially issues or concerns or areas of interest for the city in relationship to the airport and the potential development of lands around it.

Generally, because it's outside of the city and it would never be within our control, It's not land that we would look to as part of, like, our economic opportunities analysis or buildable lands because it's not a part of and not contiguous to the city of Wilsonville. However, it is very close to parts of the city of Wilsonville, which is why we've identified it as an area of special concern. A lot of that area is also identified as EFU land or rural reserve, meaning that it wouldn't be developable within a certain time frame, based on the urban and rural reserves for the metro urban growth boundary, which is what we're a part of. So part of a lot of that land is in Marion County and not really a part of expansion potential for the city. So that's a lot of that would be the reasons why it's not included within our economic opportunities analysis.

Okay. I guess my question was wasn't so much the land around it as, like you know, because we're talking about potential future job growth and, you know, not that I want the airport to expand per se, but looks like it probably will. And so that could drive I mean, like, that could almost swing your estimate higher as per jobs needed if there were things that were servicing the airport. So that was more my question is, like maybe a better question would have been, like, how much did do we factor in outside neighboring areas and their growth and how that might drive what we need in Wilsonville since that could be something that could expand. If it expanded, that could overlap and create, you know, more jobs here.

Or if, like, Max extended down eventually or, you know, maybe because there's talks of at least getting to Bridgeport, which is, like Mhmm. Sort of here. You know? Like, there's there's a lot of, like, you know, a lot of regional things going on. And I know that this is focused on our town, but, like, did those how do those play a role in the estimates of, like, how many jobs we're gonna need and how much land that will So

I can answer a little bit of that, and I know that Beth has got her hand up as well. We did look at a number of different forecast rates and consider a different different potential future. So what we ended up using was the Oregon employment department's regional forecast rates, how much they expect the region to expand over the next ten years. We considered the urban regrowth report from Metro as well, which grew at it was projecting much slower growth. And then we considered the historical growth rate for Wilsonville as well.

And so what we ended up landing on was kind of a middle growth rate for the city of Wilsonville and that was informed by both some of these broader trends which is slowing employment growth kind of at the state and national levels. The fact that a lot of Wilsonville's industrial land where a lot of your opportunity is, is constrained and so near term there's not as much potential there's going to need to be a lot of investment to be able to get some of that land ready and then but we also wanted to recognize that Wilson Wilsonville does have all this land and it is a regional employment center and so we ended up going with this this kind of more mid range employment growth scenario and Beth you had your hand up did you want to add something to that

I'll just observe that historical growth as was at a really similar rate between 2007 and 2023 as the forecast that we used. It was essentially the same rate. And so you ask a lot of what if questions, and those are good questions to ask. And to a certain degree, an EOA can give you answers that that that don't necessarily get to that at this point. It give give you some answers of what if you grew some similar to the past?

Would you have enough land? And the answer is yes. You'd have enough land, technically speaking, if your land for industrial became development ready. Well, what if these things happen that are exogenous to the city, that aren't in the planning right now? So so what if we became a big center for the next big thing?

Well, I would advise the city to do a new economic opportunities analysis at that point. It's intended to help plan for twenty years. And what this one tells you is that without getting your land, your industrial land development ready, you're going to go slower than you did over the last couple of decades. And so you should adjust to this and look again in the five- to seven year range or the seven- to nine year range and say, okay, let's have another look at that point. So a lot of things can happen, but we also know that a lot of this growth tends to be a little slow, and it's slowing down further than it has historically.

So this is a case of advice of monitor what's going on, and if something changes substantially, review your plans and perhaps repeat an ELA.

Do the commissioners have other questions?

I have one more question and it has to do with how have we seen the relative like proportion of covered to non covered jobs in Wilsonville stay steady or has there been has that rate changed at all as far as we know? And if it again coming to a what if, but if it's trending upward or downward does that change kind of how we anticipate our land use needs?

So you're asking about the cover to total employment and how that might have changed over time. Beth I'm going to kick this one over to you.

That's a fair question. We know the composition of people who are not covered by unemployment insurance hasn't changed has changed substantially with your gig jobs, so things like Uber and that kind of thing. Having done this for twenty years, I haven't seen the proportions. We didn't look at it specifically for Wilsonville. We were looking at it at the county level because that's what level the data has changed.

I haven't seen the proportions change substantially over the last twenty years. They've hovered at about the same proportions as they currently are. And so we were using an overall assumption that 70% of employment in Wilsonville is covered by unemployment insurance, and thus another 30% is not covered, and we adjusted for that in our forecast. That's a pretty typical percentage that you see for a lot of more urban cities, urban counties in Western Oregon. So no, we didn't look at that specifically, but I haven't seen that change a lot.

Other questions for staff? Alright. I think maybe we can move forward with the economic development strategy.

Yes. Okay.

Okay. So the economic development strategy is really about taking the findings from the EOA and and the engagement that we did and and developing a set of actions to support the city to support economic development in the future. So we started the economic development strategy process by identifying six desired outcomes that define long term economic success for Wilsonville over the next ten years, and I'm just going to go through these we're all on the same page. Basalt Creek and Coffee Creek show considerable momentum building out with high quality, high value development and are home to employers that provide higher than average wage job opportunities. Town Center is redeveloping with active retail housing and civic spaces.

Zoning and infrastructure balance the needs of residents and target industries supporting both community livability and economic growth. Retail and restaurant offerings are expanded, including more locally owned and experience oriented businesses. Employment opportunities with higher than average wages have expanded, providing more career options for Wilsonville residents. And then Wilsonville is recognized regionally for its advanced industrial employment, quality of life, and high caliber customer service. So these are the desired outcomes we're looking to achieve with the actions that we put into the economic development strategy.

So as a part of this process, conducted we engagement. This included a technical advisory committee made up of regional economic development partners along with interviews with local businesses and developers and property owners. And across those conversations, we heard some themes. Employers are struggling to find workers with the right skills, and there is a growing need for upskilling. Businesses also face tight space and land constraints.

High rents and tenant improvement costs create barriers for small companies. We also heard that residents are leaving Wilsonville for services that they can't find locally. And then finally, we heard from businesses and developers expressing a desire for more proactive partnership with the city, particularly around navigating regulations, accessing resources, and really finding that path to yes. So from that engagement and technical work, we identified six key focus areas. Each represents a point of leverage where the city can make progress through investment, policy, and partnership.

The strategy is built around these focus areas with 16 actions total. It is a city led strategy, meaning the action focuses the I'm sorry. The actions focus on what the city can realistically do, but many will require partnerships with regional and state organizations and and the private sector. Actions were also split into near term items that fit within current capacity and longer term items that depend on new funding or additional city resources. So the six focus areas along with their associated actions are listed here and on the next slide.

Focus area one really covers, industrial readiness and has five supporting actions. A lot of that's focused in your Basalt Creek and Coffee Creek areas. Focus area two focuses on addressing the funding gap that exists outside of the Coffee Creek urban renewal area for economic development. There's no so the action here is to explore a dedicated funding source to support commercial and mixed use redevelopment. Focus area three addresses the limited supply of commercial land by focusing on a lot of reuse and redevelopment.

Focus area four is about enhancing Wilsonville's unique retail and dining options, which was a common theme in our engagement. I will say many of the actions under this particular focus area as well come from or support the existing town center plan and tourism development strategy to really ensure that these plans are working together. Focus focus area five is about workforce. Key action here is for the city to take a a more active role in in shaping regional workforce efforts. And then focus area six is about supporting small business, and this includes actions about strengthening city communication and potentially providing small business grants for upgrades.

So there are a lot of details about these these actions in the economic development strategy, but that's what I've listed out here for today. And with that, I'm gonna close it up and open up questions for this part and hand it back to Chris if there aren't any.

Alright. Questions on the economic development strategy? Go for it.

Sorry. And I'll apologize since I probably would have had some of these questions answered. I mean, I tried to watch the other four presentations, but I can't say I made it through all of them. Is there a reason why the EDS only covers ten years, but the EOA covers twenty?

We were focused actionable plan. And so for the implementation planning, we wanted to keep it to something that felt more tangible. You'll want to redo your economic development strategy again. And you'll likely want to do your EOA again. But we wanted to keep it on things that were more short near term.

I just was trying to, like, figure out why one was, like, ten years longer than the other if there was, like, a specific reason. And I know I think the EOA is also, like, mandated by the state. Right? And I didn't know if they I couldn't find a good answer if they mandated a twenty year EOA or if that was just

The twenty year EOA is part of the state requirement. The economic development strategy is not required. And so we undertook that as a kind of yeah, as not part of that requirement. I will say with the economic development strategy, also why you'd want to keep it a bit shorter is, ideally, as you are accomplishing some of these things, you will have you will want to be able to update where you're focusing. If you get your industrial lands ready, you're going to want to be able to pivot and switch where you're focusing. And ideally, you're getting additional financial resources to be able to support some of this this work.

I think I'd also just add that even though the EOA has a twenty year horizon doesn't mean that we won't do it again in for another twenty years. It's just the the time horizon that we look out what for. I don't know if that helps or

Yeah. Thank you, Matt. Commissioner Kandrian, I would just add that part of the reason for that twenty year period is that is the twenty year period that's mandated by state law. So for every housing needs analysis or every economic opportunities analysis that we do, it's based on the requirement that we have to be planning for a twenty year land supply to meet housing and job growth needs. And so the EOA is always going to be twenty years because that's what's mandated in terms of that planning horizon.

Economic development strategy was more of an undertaking by the city to say we want a document that shows what are our strategic actions to help us to maximize that supply and prepare us for future supply if needed in order of promoting the economic development that we wanna see as a city. And so, again, that was chosen as ten years because we typically undertake these analyses about approximately every ten years. They used to be tied to periodic review. This is more information than you probably wanna know at the state level. But

I asked, so I guess I

have to right.

But that is not mandated really anymore. And so, but we will more than likely be undertaking it probably approximately every ten years. Last one we did was adopted in 2012. And so we're a little bit behind on that one because of a lot of that additional housing work we've had to do from the state. But our housing needs analysis, we were doing every ten years already, which will now be every six years based on state law. So anyway

Thank you.

Long winded answer.

Other questions?

Yeah. I do. And I will also apologize in order to cancel

apologize for

asking questions. There's there's so much material to go through, and so I shared the the sentiment that I tried to go through a lot as much as I could. I feel like I made through a lot, but there was a lot to ingest. Forgive me if I missed this and it was in the report, but is do we have like, a sense for what proportion of our industrial developed land today is currently occupied occupied by commercial? Is there like a threshold that we look for that's like that's starting to be too much? Or let's how do we discourage that? Or how do we encourage more if we're short on commercial?

Beth, can I tag you on?

I believe we looked at that. There's not a proportion that you should be ideally planning for. What you want to do is you want to make sure that your industrial land that's uniquely suited for industrial uses is preserved for that. And for the other industrial land, especially where it's adjacent to housing or adjacent to commercial or otherwise a little less suited, that's some of cases where you might consider adjusting your zoning and allowing more commercial. Typically speaking, industrial zoning has been very successful at preserving industrial land for industrial uses, and I seem to remember we looked at that in Wilsonville, and that was the case where there wasn't a lot of commercial uses in industrial areas.

Commercial areas tend to be a much bigger mix of uses, of course. So there's no there's no ideal for you. And this is why we're suggesting you explore this and look at it in selected areas. I certainly would never recommend to just rezone all your industrial and commercial. That's that's not a good policy. Or just allow all industrial lands develop with whatever commercial. That's not a good policy either. So be selective about it.

So, yeah, a 100% what Beth said. I I would also just add that in Oregon, economic development is a little bit unique in that, especially for cities. Cities general fund is supported by primarily property tax. City has other revenue sources, but we see no portion of income tax. So job creation is a virtuous endeavor, but there's no direct benefit to a city.

So if you go to another state that has sales tax, for example, part of their economic development strategy would be much more focused on increasing retail sales within the city. Something like a car dealership suddenly becomes very valuable. In Wilsonville, in Oregon, not the case. And so we really wanna think about maximizing the utility of our lands from a property tax value per acre perspective. And manufacturing industrial uses hit the mark.

Commercial is important for livability. It's important for attracting workforce, but it doesn't have the same ROI in Oregon as it does in other places. So it's an important part of the puzzle, but it's peripheral to what we're really trying to do with economic development, which is maximize property tax.

Yeah. Thank you. And and just to make sure I understood too, the the reason this was included as one of the strategies is because we have a surplus of available industrial land. Is that right?

The so you're referencing the explorer expansion of allowable non retail commercial uses in select industrial areas is, I think, what you're referencing.

That's right. This is

It wasn't so much that you have an, an access of of industrial land. It was you have a limited amount of commercial land, and some uses you may not want in town center. So, I think just an easy kind of one to pull out is is recreational gym gyms, like a gymnastic center or something like that. You may not want that use in your town center. It may be well suited for a particular area in an industrial area that is maybe abutting something, or, you certainly would wanna be careful where you play where you would allow these types of uses, but, there there may be times when that's appropriate.

Other questions? I had one. I was thinking back to our last work session on this in November, and I remember a conversation, I think around I think it was around focus area four just about retaining, like, retention of businesses because we know

Mhmm.

We hear from community. You know? We're sad when we see businesses leave, and so how do we kinda incorporate that into the document? And so I was kinda looking for that in the in the draft that we have in in the packet, and I was wondering if there was any more kind of implementing that idea that we talked about last time.

It's it's a good question. Yes. It was implemented into the action sheets. Okay. I I I can't remember exactly where, but I do know one of them specifically. We call out some retention strategies, I believe, from the Town Center Plan, too. So there is actions in there. And we've specifically mentioned look there, tie this all together. And there was a few other places where we really did try to make it clear that this was about existing businesses as well, not just bringing in new.

Awesome. Thank you. Yeah. Go for it.

This is not a question.

Sorry. I was just adding

on really quick for chair Hendrix's. I think if you look for it, you'll find it in the action sheets, which are an appendix to the EDS, which is an appendix to the EOA. Okay. So this is probably why you didn't find it

right away. In the main. So, yes, thank you for directing me to this. You're very welcome.

There's a bit of a recurring theme with some of these, not all of them, but, you know, there's a caveat with many and that is requires additional resources. Maybe you saw that Yeah. Verbiage in there. And so our ability to offer things like grants or a revolving loan fund or tenant improvement support to retain businesses or help a business to grow in place, that falls cleanly into the category of requires additional resources. So I'll make a soft plug right now for urban renewal and town center.

Our ability to retain and support businesses already here as town center redevelops requires funding, and urban renewal is really one of the most reliable sources of funds for something like that. There are things like business improvement districts that can be set up, but that becomes a new expense to businesses. It shows up on the property owner's tax bill or the business owner's tax bill, and it helps create something like a fund to support business, but at the expense of businesses. Urban renewal is a division of tax and creates a fund by reallocating existing resources. So all that to say, if we wanna achieve that goal, something like urban renewal would be required.

Noted. Thank you. Commissioner Slendon?

Thank you. The the this is less of a question and more of a not like an observation that on action, I think it was four dot two. The it's it seems very narrowly scoped to a to, like, one pop up sort of event for, like, food trucks. Is there a reason that was so narrowly scoped and not maybe framed more as, like, a a model that we could try to employ maybe pilot once and then employ elsewhere?

4.2. So explore the creation of a food cart incubation program in Town Center. That is actually intended to be a program, not just a one time event. So I I think the answer is that is what we're trying to what we're trying to communicate with that one.

To clarify it, what I meant was not so much like I understand it's meant to be like a program where we do pop up food trucks sort of incubators in town center. What I'm curious about is, is that a model that we could employ elsewhere in the city for other kinds of pop like pop ups or incubators besides just food trucks and besides just town center?

Matt, might jump in here for a second, which would be to clarify that the reason that is pointing specifically to that is that that is an implementation action in the town center plan. And so there's already an adopted policy at the city saying, this is something we want, and this is and we want it in this location. So if this was something that was successful and then we had other direction from either a policy or adopt a plan that came through planning commission city council or if city council gave us direction to explore this concept in other locations in the city, by all means, we could that is something we could explore. But it's showing up here specifically specific because it's relying upon already adopted implementation actions at the city.

Thank you.

Yeah. And I and the the point about exploring the the next one, affordable commercial space models and partnerships, That might get a little bit at what you're talking about as well. Not thinking so narrowly as food carts and not thinking so narrowly as town center. What else can be done? That's very open ended at this point, that's why the recommendation is to explore it. We don't know what it would look like, but there is certainly, yeah, desire to incubate more businesses other than just food cards, if that's what you were getting at.

Yeah. That's helpful. Thank you.

And I would note that, you know, some of this happens sometimes, automatically by developers or through other projects not coming from here. And so, for example, at the, new Vuela Building, there'll be that is opened, adjacent to the transit center. On the Ground Floor, there is a business incubation program, that will function very similar to this, but it's not food trucks specifically. So, sometimes it we get lucky, and it happens without it having to come from one of our plants. I mean, we we worked on that project obviously as a city and, but that was something that came from, the developer and their local partner.

Commissioner Trevor, did you have something?

Yeah. I just to clarify about the food cart, obviously, that's just an idea. But are you guys looking at it being more of, a pop up scenario or more of a permanent, setup, like, they have it, like, the garage in Westland and the library Canby?

Think the the model that we're looking at is taking inspiration from the city of Tigard. They have a program that's called LaunchPod, and there's a food cart pod in Tigard, and they have a partnership there where the city actually owns one of the food carts and leases that space and then subleases at a deep discount to a new food business that's incubating in that space. And they sign up to receive business mentorship and help all along the way to become successful. And then once they graduate, they vacate and a new business takes its place. But the city actually owns that food card and subleases.

So that's kinda where what we're thinking about for that particular piece. To answer your question about where it happens or is it a pop up or permanent, the hope would certainly be that a food cart pod comes about through desire of private investment in the development community, and the city would be able to just participate in that. That's the hope.

Other questions? Yes.

Sorry. I have another one. In kind of the resolution language, it says that the EDS may have future budget implications, which would be evaluated through separate council actions. Does that mean that if, you know, we recommend this, we're sort of locking council into having to address those future budget implications? Like because I know budget's always a big question. Right? And I don't wanna say, like, yeah. We should do this. And then they're like, cool. It costs a $100,000,000. And now the the council's like, well, now we gotta figure out where we find a $100,000,000.

Do you wanna answer?

Sure. I'd be happy to. So the language there, the intent of that is to say that, like, all of the recommended recommended actions that say that they would need further resources, that language is saying we're not locking the council into, requiring adjustments to budget to do these things that say they need more resources. It's saying that if the council essentially wanted to consider one of those things that needs additional budget, that that would be considered in the future by them. And so it's essentially saying we're not guaranteeing any of those things will be done. It will be those would require additional action. Like, this action isn't putting that in place.

Okay. Cool. Thank you. Mhmm.

Anything else?

Seeing none. Is that is there any other part of

Yep. Just wrapping up. Okay. Yeah. Couple more slides to get done. Yeah. And thank you for asking, actually. And a few of you are in a very bad spot of having your first meeting be a public hearing where you need make a decision.

800 pages.

And the packet was 800 pages. So apologies, but that unfortunately is how it timed out. You haven't had the opportunity that everyone else has had to read and see this before. So the staff recommendation tonight is for the Planning Commission to adopt resolution LP 26 dash zero zero zero one, which is a recommendation to the city council to adopt the citywide economic opportunities analysis. And then I hope you have it, actually. Thank you. Just as an FYI, the next steps are that the we head to City Council for a public hearing on March 2, so coming up pretty soon. And I think that is it. So there we are.

Thank you so much for walking us through that and answering the questions. And I do wanna double check and just make sure does any other, commissioner have any other questions for staff at this time? Okay. So there will be an additional opportunity to ask questions following public testimony. The next portion of the public hearing will provide an opportunity for the planning commission to hear testimony from audience members.

We will take public testimony in the following order, those present in person at City Hall and then those participating remotely via teleconference. As you are given an opportunity to testify either in person or via Zoom, please state your name and address or state that your address is provided on the testimony card and then present any testimony to the planning commission regarding the matter before them. Please do your best to speak clearly and directly into the microphone so other participants are sure to hear your comments. After each participant's testimony, I will ask the planning commission if they have any other questions for the speaker. Before I call the, for the testimony from the audience, is there any member, in the audience at City Hall who wishes to testify who has not yet filled out a testimony card?

If so, fill out a card now and give it to the clerk. And seeing no one in the audience I'm just doing my due diligence.

There we go.

So I I do see no one in the audience. But and then, seeing none, I'm gonna ask if there's anybody online who wishes to testify at this time. I do not have any attendees online. Okay. Sounds good. So then moving on, to commissioners, if you have any additional questions. Well, I guess this is based on any testimony provided, so never mind. Let's see. Okay. So now we get to move on to discussion.

So what, if any, discussion does any commissioner wish to have to help ensure they have gathered all the information they need to make a decision? This is different than the discussion we will have to deliberate once a motion is made. Discussion at this point should focus on ensuring understanding of the facts presented and clarifying particular points rather than expressing conclusions, which we'll do in a few minutes. Any discussion? Yeah.

I just wanna recognize that we have a lot of newer commissioners too, so thank you for reading through the documents and asking questions. I think it's helpful to get that new new perspective. We've know, the commissioners who were here last year have been through a handful of work sessions, so we might have not had as many questions this time. But we definitely had a lot of questions throughout the process, so I just wanted to to note that. And I'm excited to have, especially the economic opportunities analysis. I think it's great to, yeah, just have that, as a tool in our our toolkit for the city. So hearing no just yeah. Go for it.

Just, maybe building on that a little bit. As as a new commissioner, this was a it was trial by fire, so to speak, jumping into the deep end of the pool. But I I would like to express appreciation to the fellow counselors and to staff for the questions. Some of them may have been ones that would have been answered in other sessions. So thanks for your patience on that. But I also like to say this is actually a really great way to immerse myself in something that is really central to planning commission and really kind of orient toward to the space as a first timer. So yeah. Thank you. Great.

Okay. So hearing no discussion, I am prepared to close the hearing. Once the hearing is closed, there cannot be any other discussion, comment, or questions pertaining to the material matters of the case file except among commissioners. However, the commissioner commission may ask staff specific clarifying procedural questions. Okay.

And I'm just gonna confirm there's no additional discussion needed at this point. So I'll go ahead and declare this public hearing closed at 06:56PM. And with the hearing closed, it's time for the planning commission to entertain a motion to deliberate and make a decision on the resolution before us. If a commissioner wishes to amend the staff report in any way, it should be included in the motion. So do I have a motion on the resolution number, which is LP26Dash001?

Motion

for approval.

Does that suffice, or should he

Do I have to say more? Make a complete. Yeah. If you could make a complete a motion to approve resolution number LP26Dash0001. Okay.

Yes. A motion this is a motion for approval of you have to give me the number again. LP26260001.

And then you did great. Okay. And then do I have a second?

I'll second because that's much easier.

Thank you. Thank you. Wonderful. Okay. So it has been moved and seconded, that we are moving yeah. Approving. Approving the, the resolution LP26Dash0001. Is there any discussion? Okay. Seeing none, I'll go to I know. I will call the question. All those in favor, please say aye.

Aye.

Aye. Aye. Aye.

Aye. And then all opposed? Hearing none, the motion, carries passes unanimously. And are you are we good with okay. Great. Okay. So that, ends the public hearing portion. Thank you, staff, again, for your time and all your work and to Eco North Northwest for all of your hard work and technical expertise.

Great.

Thank you.

Okay. So I'm sorry. I'm gonna take this back. Okay. So we're gonna move on to administrative matters, which I was so eager to do earlier, which is to seek, approval of the 12/10/2025 planning commission meeting minutes. Those were previously distributed. Are there any corrections to the minutes? Okay. Seeing none, I'll go ahead and, approve the minutes as just distributed. Okay. And then we have to get we get to elect a chair and a vice chair, and so I might just look at our city attorney for a little guidance on process.

Thank you, chair Hendrix. The planning commission will elect a chair and a vice chair subject to the following rules. We will begin with nominations for the position of chair of the planning commission. Any member of the planning commission can nominate someone for chair. You can also nominate yourself. Nominations do not have to be seconded. If you are nominated but do not want the position, simply state that you decline the nomination. When the nomination stop, chair Hendrix will call for any further nominations. When no more nominations are forthcoming, chair Hendrix will declare the nominations closed. Once the nominations are closed, we will conduct a roll call vote.

Each of you will state the name of your chosen nominee when you are called to vote. If one person receives a majority of the vote, chair Hendrix will declare the result. If no one person receives a majority, we will redo the vote until one person receives the majority of the vote. No nominee may be dropped from consideration unless that person voluntarily withdraws. Upon completion of the election of the chair, we will then elect the vice chair in the same manner by first nominating candidates, then closing nominations, voting until one person receives the majority of the votes, and then chair Hendrix will declare the result.

Great. Thank you for the guidance. So I'll go ahead and look to my fellow commissioners to see if you have any nominations for chair.

Is it bad form to nominate Andrew since he's not here?

Probably, but that's fair. That is fair.

And commissioner Carr was the chair

He was.

Yeah. The prior year.

Of him.

Yeah. No. He's wonderful. And if he was here, yeah, it was it's an option. That that might have been yeah, okay. Do do we know

if he's expressed an interest?

I haven't heard, but I would love to hear if there's any interest in the room, if there's anybody interested in maybe

I'd like to nominate.

K.

I'd like to nominate Yana as my selection. I think she'd be great in representing us, and I wanna say thanks to Nicole, obviously, for all the work. There's a lot of work that goes into it, but k.

Well done.

And I know we don't need a second nominations, but I will echo that I would love to see, commissioner Seminova as our chair for this year.

I don't know if anyone

else has any I know it's hard new members too. It's a little like, yeah. Unless you're interested in being chair. Yeah.

I'm just thinking think I'd like dive in

the deep end with public hearing and then being chair.

Yeah. I would like to get a sense of how this works before I put myself forward.

I had enough fun reading off the stuff when I was on the DRB. So I'm good with letting someone else read it off. Great.

Okay. So I'm gonna go ahead and close the nominations for chair then, and, I'm asking for a roll call vote for the nomination, which is to have commissioner Seminova be chair for this year. And I'm looking to yeah. Staff. And I took off the record that,

commissioner Cambria nominated Andrew Carr because that I understood was kind of in jest.

Yeah. That was not a real nomination.

It's not

in jest. Yeah. Thank you for clarifying.

I was a question about whether I could Since he wasn't here. And he's my neighbor. So Okay. Nomination.

So this is for, Yana Seminova to be chair. Jeff commissioner Zandel.

Do I just say yes or no? Or Yana, commissioner Seminova?

Is it yes or I? Or what's the

Saying the name. Okay.

Commissioner Seminova.

Tavi or commissioner Trauber.

I elect, commissioner Seminova. Yeah.

Chair Hendrix? Commissioner Seminova?

Commissioner Constantine.

Absolutely. Commissioner Seminova.

Commissioner Kandrian.

Commissioner Seminova.

And Commissioner Seminova.

Commissioner Constantine.

Alright. Okay. So do I have

to the election. So so I have the

So I I do wanna clarify that commissioner Constantine wasn't one of the nominees. So I do wanna clear on the record who who you are. Or if you wanna decline to vote, that's fine. But

So you have to vote

for he wasn't one of the nominees.

Decline either way. But you

can vote for yourself. Yeah. It's okay.

You should vote. Okay. I'll vote for myself. Okay. Great.

Thank you for keeping us in line. Yeah. Good try. Do you have to repeat?

Yeah. The so, commissioner Yana Seminova was unanimously voted, elected as chair for 2026 by six to zero. Great.

Votes. And do I have to declare it, or is that the declaration?

That's we have it on the record.

That's fine. Yay. Congratulations. Thank you.

You're about

to Freedom.

No. I'm

just kidding. No. It's been great. Okay. So we are going to now open the nominations for the vice chair role. So any ideas on vice chair? I elect commissioner Constantine. I five minutes. I would also, be in agreement with that. I'm looking to Likewise. Okay.

Yeah. It works for me.

Okay. Hearing no other nominations, I'm gonna close that portion and then ask for a roll call vote.

Commissioner Candian.

Commissioner Constantine.

Commissioner Hendrix. Commissioner Constantine. Commissioner Seminova. Commissioner Constantine. Commissioner Traubber. Commissioner Constantine. Commissioner Sandel.

Commissioner Constantine.

And Commissioner Constantine.

As long as she's never absent, I vote yes.

No pressure.

So again, we have is that did I catch everybody? Yes. Okay. So we have unanimously elected as vice chair. Great. Commissioner Constantine by a vote, six to zero.

Great. Awesome. Alright. Great. So with that, I think we can move on to the next part of the agenda. So this is kind of an informational portion. I'll look to city team members if they have anything for us, related to work plan or action items or anything else. Thank you, outgoing chair Hendrix Thank you.

And chair Simonova. I know. I know. I'm just I have just a couple of items. The first one is, as you know, we are, quickly working on a housing statutory compliance project that miss Reibold brought to you, I believe, your last meeting and went over the scope of work for that and what it will entail and got some initial input.

We have just now essentially been able to sign and and officially put in place the grant agreement with the state. It took a lot longer than we were expecting, so we're a little bit behind schedule. And we would like to propose slash ask you if you would be willing to reschedule your March planning commission meeting. They're always the second Wednesday of the month, and we know that you have that on hold, and you may not be able to make a shift. But I have a couple possible dates to float to you to see if you're available.

Hopefully, you have your calendars, ready. We really need to be able to keep this within March in order to bring something to council in April to stay on schedule, but we just it just won't be possible to get you a draft in time for the second Wednesday. So we were hoping that I'll start with March 30 and find out if March 30. And you could just do, like, a show of hands if you would be able to make it on March 30.

Oh, wow. Well, that Incredible.

Wild. That is wild.

Oh, take it. Run with me.

Taking it. It's closed. I have a motion a second,

and it's about the in 30 emails a month?

I know. I have a fifth Monday. It's crazy. We could do if you're available March 31, we could also raise of hands. No. Okay. No. Alright. We're locked in on the thirtieth. We're good. And that's replacing

the meeting on the eleventh.

That would be replacing the meeting on the eleventh. Yes. We would not hold two meetings that month.

Okay. Oh, okay.

And then the second item is

I'm sorry. Can I get clarification? That's replacing the March 11 meeting.

So we will be based on this, we will be canceling the March 11 meeting, rescheduling it to Monday, March 30.

K. I just want and then the April meeting is still

The April meeting will still be on, for now.

Okay.

We will revisit some schedules, I'll confirm that. But for now, assume that April is still on.

Thank you. Mhmm.

And then the last item is that when we have new planning commissioners, we tend to like to go around the room and, have the commission just do some introductions, little bit of a get to know who each other are, and kind of just give a sense. Typically, we like to cover, you know, how long you've lived in Wilsonville, your interests, different things that you might wanna mention. And so I just wanted to float that to the chairs and find out if we'd like to go ahead and go around the dais and do that.

I think that sounds like a good idea. Who wants to start? Do you wanna

kick it off? I'll start this off. Sure. Yeah. I don't know. How much detail do we wanna go into? Is that are we doing, like, thirty minutes per Oh.

Oh. Oh. Please

don't I'm just joking. Could we

We are curious.

I would love if we I would propose, actually, I guess, that we get maybe a brief intro from the the sitting count counselors as well, the ones that have that have been I'm just proposing. Just a just a proposal. So a little bit about me. Was raised here in Wilsonville, but I didn't I did not live here all my life. I my family moved here when the Mentor Graphics campus opened.

My dad was one of the early employees at that campus. So I got to spend most of my childhood from first grade until graduation from Wilsonville High School here. I went to the Wilsonville primary that's no longer here in town, is lots of good memories there. But but I've lived a lot of places around the world, and I've had a chance to kinda see how a lot of different cities are structured and and how how it feels to live in different places in in including places outside of The US. And I think from an early age, was always very interested in in transportation and mobility.

And so for me, a lot of a lot of my interest in planning commission and and how and seeing how the city of Wilsonville develops is really anchored a lot around how do how do people get around. And not and while my early interest when I was a kid was very centered on cars, as I became more experienced with getting around myself, I became much more interested in other ways of of mobility, other forms of mobility. Today, I'm an avid cyclist. I'm a motorcyclist as well. I walk around a lot.

I don't run as much anymore because my knees hurt. But I but I I really appreciate how Wilsonville one of the things that that I've I've noticed as I've come back as an adult, Wilsonville really has a lot of different ways of getting around, whether it's the smart bus system or the bike paths that we have around town, on street and off street, and the walkability of neighborhoods like Villa Ball where I live, as well as really everywhere around town. Wilsonville is a very pleasant place to get around even if it is still largely car centric. And so that's a lot of my interest is seeing like what are what are new ways that what are what are the new shifts that we're looking at as the world continues to change and evolve? How can we maybe think a little bit out of the box in terms of, you know, not sometimes I say I'm interested in other ways of getting around other types of mobility and people are like, like, oh, that's somebody who wants to get rid of cars.

I love cars. But but how do we maybe look at like, do we have the right balance? Is Wilsonville a human scaled city or is it a car scaled city? And how do we how do we maybe evaluate whether we're on the track for the kind of city that we wanna be and really question that a little bit. So that's a little bit about me. I guess, terms of, like, my interest, as I I moved back to Wilsonville in 2020 after being away for for, I don't know, a long time. And I have a little 10 year old son who's classmates with Tabby's oldest son as well. Sorry. Commissioner Travers' oldest son. And they both go to Lowry.

We ride our bikes to school every single day year round. It's the Rainer sign, which is great. And then I have a loving wife as well. So there you go. I'll maybe cap it there.

Okay. So I am Tabby, and I have three children. As he had mentioned, one goes with his son at Lowry. I have another there and then one that will actually be coming in the fall. So I'll have one year where all three of them will be there, which will be awesome. But I actually grew up in Southeast Portland. And then right out of high school, I moved to California and lived there for about nineteen years. And so I was actually, in property management for about thirteen, and we did a lot of new builds and, like, master plan communities. So that's why I was, like, really interested about this because the company I worked for actually built, like, their own little cities. So it was, like, apartments and then everything around it with retail and and commercial and everything.

And then I moved on to real estate, so I've been doing that for ten years. And then I also do event planning. So I'm just really, like, centered with I just love Wilsonville and, like, just the city, the parks, the schools, and bringing everybody together. And so I like to be able to kind of see, you know, selfishly what's in it for my family in the future. And obviously, I have a wonderful husband, going on eighteen years together. So, yeah.

We're we're going down the line now. Alright.

Alright. We do all the commissioners.

Oh, got it. Alright. Just to clarify. He doesn't listen to

me anymore.

I'm not sure.

I moved from California about five years ago. And this was where we really wanted to settle. So we brought a lot of family members with us. And it's a beautiful place, forward thinking. I worked in public health for almost thirty years, and so I'm really interested in how our health is impacted by communities and how our policies affect our well-being. And I just I really have loved the experience here for the last few years at Planning Commission. And I think we've got a lot of forward thinking, caring, kind staff and commissioners, and I've been always impressed with that.

If if I can add, I'm free I realized I left out. You've the last two commissioners spoke about their what they do for their day job or what they do outside of planning commission. And I forgot to mention it. I think I mentioned it to commissioner Constantine when we were kind of g chatting at the beginning. I'm a software designer, product designer, and and that's it informs a lot of how I think about problems in the world too. I try to try to look through lens of, like, how do humans use this? How do how what's the system that we're we're working with? And as a product designer, I specialize in accessibility, so I often am looking through that lens as well. Like, people are different. Thanks

for sharing that. Well, hi, everyone. Nice to meet you. My name's Nicole. I moved to Wilsonville about nine years ago.

Grew up in Tualatin and before that in Torrance, California. And, yeah, I actually got involved with the city, first as an employee, similar to commissioner Zendel. Interested in public transportation, alternative forms of transportation, and so I got, a job at the SMART department, which is our bus system and, worked there for four or five years and then, got a job with the city of Tigard, and that's where I'm at now in their city manager's office. And and then wanted to get more involved in my own community. Missed that connection, and so, joined the development review board.

Did that for a few years and then, got connected with the food bank. So I'm on the food bank board, now. And then in my spare time, I I play the flute, so I am in the Twalton Valley Community Band. So if you play an instrument and you're looking to get involved, hit me up. And then let's see what else. Yeah. I think that that's about that's about it.

I'm Yana Simonova, and this is my first

time being a commissioner. Planning commissioners? I hear you. Mic.

I don't know

if it matters.

Yeah. So I hear

a lot of people transitioning into this from DRB, and I didn't have that experience. So this has been definitely trial and fire. But it's been, really eye opening. I've wanted to get in, you know, more into, like, public affairs and public policy making and being more involved in the community, and so this has been a really great experience. But, a little bit about me, I moved to The United States when I was 10 years old and took straight to Oregon and grew up in Clackamas, before there was a Happy Valley and spent there most of, my life.

And then in about '20, you know, 2019 is when we moved to Wilsonville. I have three boys, in three different schools, which is painful. But so one of them is at Lowry. The other two have moved on to middle school and high school, and so they you know? But that is one of the reasons I also want to be involved is because you help shape what Wilsonville is for the future of your children too.

So it's, that's been rewarding. They're like, what do you do there? It's really hard to explain, but you try. I work at PGE. Work you worked there for twenty one years in various roles and right now in, substation and meter operations, crew coordination, like, so planning and scheduling of the field work that, the takes place. I'm a PSU and U of O alumni, so go ducks. But that that is about it. Yeah. I love to travel, and we have a little Frenchy now too in addition to our family. So it's been fun.

Yep. But we'll see we'll see each other around, over at Lowry.

I'm Rob Kandrian. Been a Wilsonville resident since 2018. We did the typical Australia to Oregon move, just like half the, you know, half the state. I was born in California, though. But my mom was a my mom was a Portland resident, so that's kind of what ended up bringing us out here. And we've since recruited my parents. I they may be the only people in history who moved from Florida to Oregon, But they did that about two years ago. So they're over in Villa Bois. We're over here in Canyon Creek Estates. I went to law school, but I do not practice law, which was apparent because I was asking questions that I didn't know the answers to.

And you're never supposed to ask questions you don't know the answers to if you're a lawyer. Right? And you're you're, you know, asking questions in court. I was on the DRB. I did the the Citizens Academy. It was the Citizens Academy at the time. I think the the name changed. The Citizens something else. Civics Academy. Civics Academy. Okay. And, previously, I worked for before moving here, I worked for the US government, did national security and foreign policy things. So that was like, I feel like I know a lot about that, but I didn't know a lot about local things. And so doing Citizens Academy, being out here, made me wanna get involved. So I was on the DRB for the past, I think, four years.

And then I also tried to get involved in local politics a year or two ago. And it's easier to get onto the planning commission, I think, than And it that's a much more enjoyable experience than trying to get votes. I have my wife and I have been married since 2003. So that's twenty three years. We have three kids, two at Wilsonville High School, and then one who's doing a homeschool co op at Lake Oswego Learning Center.

And we stay busy with their soccer, and my son's involved in robotics, and my daughter is in, like, the orchestra. And we also like to go ski and snowboard. And like Jeff mentioned, I like to ride my bike around here. Got a nice ride in today for about an hour heading out to Stafford. So I just wish the bike lane continued a little bit farther than some of the places, especially a bike lane on Stafford would be amazing. But I risked my life for a little bit going down Stafford a little bit today. But We should make that happen. Happy to be here.

Just to to piggyback, my I just started my son's robotics team for the, like, the it's not really the Lowry robotics team, it's the the kids in Villa Boss kinda come clommed together. It's our first year. It's been an adventure. It's like the the first LEGO League robotics, and it's been a wild journey trying to trying to learn how to do that.

No. It's cool. My my son's he's been on it all three years. He's a junior, and he's been helping mentor the middle school team this year, which has been fun for him. Like, I my my wife and were like, oh, this is awesome. I'll help you out with college stuff. Like, what? Like, he was just, like, super into robotics, and it was like another opportunity to go and and help people out with it. He was, like, not thinking about, like, how you could throw that on

a Yeah. One one of our teammates, older brothers, is also on the the high school robotics team, and and it's great having that mentorship. It's amazing. So

I don't I'm not chair anymore, am I, technically?

For the rest of this meeting.

Okay. For the rest of this meeting. I didn't know. Did did you all get a chance to meet with the Citi team too? Did you wanna do any you have you had time to okay. Okay. I just wanna say we do have a one wonderful Citi team. So if you ever have any questions, they are just super supportive and very grateful for them. So, with that, I if there's any more any more informational items from staff? Okay. Then I'm gonna adjourn the meeting at 07:23PM.

Cool? Thanks.

Well done. Done.

Yeah. Well done.