1997-22797-Ordinance No. 97-042 Recorded 6/26/19970162=0497
97-22797
REVIEWED
LEGAL COUNSEL
BEFORE THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF DESCHUTES COIJNVYOREGON
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An Ordinance Amending Ordinance No. PL -16
the Sisters Urban Area Comprehensive Plan,
and Declaring an Emergency.
ORDINANCE NO. 97-042
WHEREAS, Ordinance No. 85-029 adopted the Sisters Transportation Element providing
transportation background information, goals, findings and policies for the Sisters Urban Area; and
WHEREAS, PMR Dev. Co., L.L.C. applied for an amendment to the Sisters Urban Area
Comprehensive Plan to revise the transpoOrtation element to reflect and support requested map
amendments outlined in Ordinance No. 97-043; and
WHEREAS, the Deschutes County Planning Commission after review conducted in accordance
with applicable law, has recommended approval of the proposed Amendments to the Sisters Urban Area
Comprehensive Plan (Ordinance No. 85-029); and
WHEREAS, after notice was given and hearing conducted in accordance with applicable law, the
Board of County Commissioners has considered the Planning Commission recommendation; now
therefore,
THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF DESCHUTES COUNTY, OREGON,
ORDAINS as follows:
Section 1. Amendment of Transportation Element. The Transportation Element of the
Sisters Urban Area Comprehensive Plan is amended to repeal Road Systems Policy 1 of the 1985
Transportation Element of the Sisters Urban Area Comprehensive Plan set out on page 5 of Ordinance 85-
029, as shown on Exhibit A, attached hereto and by this reference incorporated herein.
Section 2. Amendment of Transportation Element. The Transportation Element of the
Sisters Urban Area Comprehensive Plan is amended to add a new Road Systems Policy 1 which reads as
follows:
" 1. The County and City shall support the development of Hood Avenue, between
Highway 20 and Highway 242, to allow local traffic to bypass the intersection of
Highway 20 and Highway 242. The County and City shall also support the development
of Hood Avenue to collector street standards to provide an additional east -west route for
Sisters area traffic to access downtown Sisters and to access the state highway system at
the east and west ends of downtown Sisters."
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Section 3. Findings. Findings supporting the adoption of the proposed amendments are
set forth in the Staff Report - File No. PA -97-3, attached hereto as Exhibit B and by this reference
incorporated herein.
Section 4. Severability. The provisions of this ordinance are severable. If any section,
sentence, clause or phrase of this ordinance is adjudged to be invalid by a court of competent jurisdiction,
that decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions of this ordinance.
Section 5. Codification. County Legal Counsel shall have the authority to format the
provisions contained herein in a manner that will integrate them into the County Code consistent with the
Deschutes County Form and Style Manual for Board Documents. Such codification shall include the
authority to make such changes, to make changes in numbering systems and to make such numbering
changes consistent with interrelated code sections. In addition, as part of codification of these ordinances,
County Legal Counsel may insert appropriate legislative history reference. Any legislative history
references included herein are not adopted as part of the substance of this ordinance, but are included for
administrative convenience and as a reference. They may be changed to correct errors and to conform to
proper style without action of the Board of County Commissioners.
Section 4. Repeal of Ordinances as Affecting Existing Liabilities. The repeal, express or
implied, of any ordinance, ordinance provision, code section, or any map or any line on a map
incorporated therein by reference, by this amending ordinance shall not release or extinguish any duty,
condition, penalty, forfeiture, or liability previously incurred or that may hereafter be incurred under such
ordinance, unless a provision of this amending ordinance shall so expressly provide, and such ordinance
repealed shall be treated as still remaining in force for the purpose of sustaining any proper action or
prosecution for the enforcement of such duty, condition, penalty, forfeiture, or liability, and for the
purpose of authorizing the prosecution, conviction and punishment of the person or persons who
previously violated the repealed ordinance.
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Section 5. Emergency. This ordinance being necessary for the immediate preservation of the
public peace, health and safety, an emergency is declared to exist, and this ordinance takes effect on its
passage.
DATED this ?5 day of , 1997.
BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
QF DESCHUTES COUNTY, OREGON
ATTEST:
Recording Secretary
CY,RQPE SgHLANGEN, Chair
L. NIPPER, Corfi'rnissi
v
A L. SWE G , Commissioner
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? 7. Transportation is a major consumer of increasingly scarce.
energy resources..
8. On -street parking along Cascade Street results in major
conflicts between local cross traffic and through traffic.
9. A one-way traffic couplet is one possible solution to reduce
traffic congestion along Cascade Street.
10. Side streets having 80 foot rights-of-way provide good
potential parking areas for the CG, General Commercial and
RH, High Density Residential zoning districts.
11. The Oregon State Highway Department maintains Cascade Street
between the curbs. The City of sisters is responsible for
Cascade Street from the curb to the right-of-way line.
12. The City of Sisters does not have an adequate maintenance
. program for repair of streets and sidewalks.
13. The City does not have a storm drain system to dispose of
snowmelt ponding and storm run-off.
14. Most existing arterial, collector, and local streets do not
meet current adopted urban road standards.
15. Cascade Street is not capable of accomodating the projected
traffic for the planning period without major modification.
16. Public transit services are not available for the Sisters
Urban Area other than through inter -city bus lines.
17. A few bicycle paths or pedestrian lanes exist in the Sisters
Urban Area.
18. Sisters Eagle Air Inc. provides a runway for local business
and recreational purposes.
19. Commercial air service is provided at Roberts Field in
Redmond.
20. Financing to meet transportation needs is a critical problem.
POLICIES
Road Systems:
in order to reduce orn elimin.
.the City and State Wilghway Department should deyelep a
program to
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TRANSPORTATION ELEMENT Page -5-
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GOALS:
1.
To provide and encourage a safe, convenient and economic
transportation system.
2.
esand feeds in
To consider alternative transportatinmodes
Costs, al
terms of environmental impacts, patin
conservation and impact on the local
consequences, energy
economy.
3.
To develop short and long term solutions to the ever-
traffic volume in the business
-increasing major highway
section of the community and the associated problems of
on -street parking and turning movements.
4.
To continue development of an urban area system of arterial,
trafficeprovidet efficiently -.to
.
collector, and local streets to move
functional areas of the city
and from all
their logical extension to future development areas.
5.
To provide for an ongoing review of the Transportation
Element.
FINDINGS
1.
The present transportation system for the Sisters Urban Area
is inadequate for local and through traffic.
2.
The timing,location and expansion of the transportation
future urbanization.
system are important factors affecting
1 3.
The majority of the community's future movement will occur -
the mix of transportation
over street rights-of-way, whatever
vehicle will be themajor modeof
modes. The- private motor
transportation throughout the planning pr
second mode of transportation will be non -motorized.
4.
A major concern of the community regarding the transportation
y Of
improve the livability
system is the need to maintain and
face of increasing population
residential areas in the
transportation requirements.
5.
Traffic congestion on Cascade Streeswhich carriesall
,whcar
highway traffic through the City, a
6,
needs of persons who have limited transportation choices
The Tanning of the
in the p
will require special consideration
transportation system.
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GOALS:
1, To provide and encourage a safe, convenient and economic
transportation system.
Z. To consider alternative transportation modes and needs in
terms of environmental impacts, public costs, .social
consequences, energy conservation and impact on the local
economy.
3. To develop short and long term solutions to the ever-
-increasing major highway traffic volume in the business
section of the community and the associated problems of
on -street parking and turning movements.
4. To continue development of an urban area system of arterial,
collector, and local streets to move traffic efficiently -.to
. and from all functional areas of the city and provide for,/
to future development areas.
their logical extension
5. To provide for an ongoing review of the Transportation
Element.
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FINDINGS
1. The present transportiandsystem
for
traffisisters Urban Area
is inadequate for local
. c.
2, The timing, location and
sexpansion
affect�ngthe
futurenurbanization.
system are important factor
3. The mstreetyof rightseof-wayr,iwhateverfuture
themovement
transportation
over stye g
modes. The. private motor vehicle will be the
major mode
of
transportation throughout the planning pr
second mode of transportation will be non -motorized.
4. A major concern of the community regarding the transportation
system is the need to maintain and improve the livability
y Of
residential areas in the face of increasing population
transportation requirements.
5. Traffic congestion on Cascade Street, which criticalries all
highway traffic through the City, a
6. The needs of persons who have limited transportation choices
will require special consideration in the planning
the
transportation system.
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DESCHUTE S COUNTY PLANNING DIVISION
STAFF REPORT
FILE NUMBER:
DATE:
TIME:
PLACE:
APPLICANT:
PROPERTY OWNERS:
ATTORNEY:
SURVEYOR:
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MAY 8, 1997
7:00 P.M.
Sisters Elementary School Commons
611 E. Cascade Street
Sisters, Oregon
P.M.R. Dev. Co., L.L.C.
c/o Ponderosa Properties
P.O. Box 1779
Sisters, OR 97759
Pine Meadow Ranch, Inc.
c/o Doug Sokol
P.O. Box 969
Sisters, OR 97759
Alexander and Bernadette
Trustees
Albertine Revocable Trust
1700 6th Street
Columbia City, Oregon 97018
Jerry L. and Janet E. Taylor
18615 Pinehurst Road
Bend, OR 97701
Liz Fancher, Attorney
25 N.W. Minnesota Avenue
Suite 5
Bend, OR 97701
Fred A. ' -Ast , Jr.
MAY 1991
a 1-
Albertine,
Fred A. Ast, Jr. and Associates
P.O. Box 751
Sisters, OR 97759 016O5lJ
ENGINEER: Tom Walker & Jim Frost �G� 4
W & H Pacific
155 NE Revere
Bend, OR 97701
REQUEST: An application to amend the Sisters Urban
Area Transportation Plan map and Sisters
Urban Area Comprehensive Plan (SUACP) map
to revise the location of Hood Street and
to designate Hood Street an "existing
collector street" rather than a "proposed
arterial street" between Highway 242 and
the eastern terminus of Hood Street near
the intersection of Highway 20/Cascade
Street and Cedar Street. In addition,
the amendment request includes amending
the text of the SUACP to reflect and
support this amendment.
LOCATION• The subject property consists of lots
identified on Deschutes County Assessor's
map as 15-10-08 tax lots 700, 701, 702,
703, 704, 705, 706, 708 and a portion of
707.
REVIEWER: Heidi Kennedy, Assistant Planner
STANDARDS AND APPLICABLE CRITERIA:
Title 21 of the County Code, Sisters Urban Area Zoning
Ordinance:
Chapter 21.20, General Commercial District - CG.
Chapter 21.52, Airport Overlay Zone - OA.
PL -16, the Sisters Urban Area Comprehensive Plan establishes
an overall planning and development framework for the Sisters
urban area.
Title 22 of the Deschutes County Code, Dechutes County
Development Procedures Ordinance.
OAR 660-12, the Oregon Transportation Planning Rule.
BASIC FINDINGS:
1. LOCATION: -he subject property is located within the
Sisters urban area. The property is bordered by Highway
242 on the north and by Pine Street on the east. A part
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of the western boundary of the
the urban growth boundary of
The northern portion of the
land that is located within
(LM) zone of the Sisters urban
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subject property adjoins
the Sisters urban area.
western boundary adjoins
the Landscape Management
area.
2. ZONING AND PLAN DESIGNATION: The subject property is
zoned CG, General Commercial. The property is
designated General Commercial by the Sisters Urban Area
Comprehensive Plan map. The small portion of Parcel 3
of MP -80-103 that will be dedicated for development as
Washington Avenue is planned as Urban High Density
Residential (RH) land and is presently zoned RH.
3. PROPERTY DESCRIPTION: The subject property consists of
Parcels 1 and 2 of MP -80-103, the undedicated
right-of-way of Hood Avenue that lies between Pine
Street and Highway 242 and a small portion of Parcel 3
of MP -80-103, which will serve as the right-of-way for
Washington Avenue.
The subject property is 15.15 acres in size and is
generally level. The property has been cleared and is
being used as pasture land. There is an existing
farm -related storage building located just south of the
subject property, adjacent to Pine Street, on Parcel 3
of MP -80-103. According to the submitted burden of
proof, the building is located on the portion of the
property that will be dedicated for the proposed
extension_ of Washington Street.
4. SURROUNDING LAND USE: The land to the south of the
subject property is currently vacant. This area is
currently designated RH and RS by the Sisters urban area
comprehensive plan. The RH and RS planned property was
recently rezoned from UAR-10 to RH and RS by Deschutes
County. (See County Files# PA-95-15/ZC-95-12)
Land directly to the east and north of the subject
property is zoned CG, General Commercial. This area is
and a gasoline station and
developed with two motels
convenience store. The land to the north across Highway
242 is land owned by the United States Forest Service
(USFS) and is zoned LM, Landscape Management. Property
to the west of the subject property is developed as the
Patterson llama and elk ranch. The northern portion of
the Patterson property that adjoins Highway 242 lies
within the Sisters urban growth boundary and is zoned
LM, Landscape Management. The remainder of the
Patterson property is zoned EFU-SC. Property to the
east of the subject property is zoned CG, General
Commercial and RH, Residential - Urban High Density.
This area has been developed with commercial buildings
and a professional office building.
1.
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LOT OF RECORD: The property e subject includes three lQe�2 O5O6
5.
lots of record created by Partition Plat MP -80-103
(Parcels 1, 2 and 3) and the undedicated right-of-way
for Hood Avenue that lies between Pine Street and
Highway 242. Parcel 2 and the undedicated right-of-way
for Hood Avenue is owned by Pine Meadow Ranch, Inc.
Parcel 1 is owned by three separate owners.that Parcelporti3 is
of
for proposed
owned by Pine Meadow Ranch, Inc. Only the
Parcel 3 that includes the right-of-way P P
extension of Washington Avenue is included in this
application. The separate ownerships occurred as the
result of foreclosure actions filed in the 1980's.
6 ggggSMUBgD The applicants have been advised by
Deschutes County and ODOT that the intersection of Hood
Avenue and Highway 242 approved through County partition
application MP -80-103 enters Highway 242 at an unsafe
angle. Additionally, the US Forest Service has
developed and approved a plan to develop USFS property
as a visitor's area with an informational kiosk,
trails
and a rest area. According to the submitted burden of
proof, the USFS has agreed to allow PMR Dev Co LLC to
construct Hood Avenue between the iotation where the
and US Highway
road enters the USFS kiosk parking
242. This intersection occurs at an acute angle which
is believed, by traffic experts, including ODOT, to pose
traffic safety problems. In order to create a ninety
degree angle intersection for Hood Avenue and Highway
242 and to align Hood Avenue with the portion of Hood
Avenue that will be constructed on the USFS kiosk
property, the applicant has requested permission to
relocate Hood Avenue from its planned location on the
subject property to a location further to the west.
The Deschutes County Planning Division has advised the
applicants that a comprehensive plan amendment to the
SUA Transportation Plan map is needed to show Hood
Avenue in the alignment requested by ODOT and the
County. As a result, the applicants have filed this
application.
The requested relocation of Hood Avenue will require the
applicants to dedicate additional right-of-way for Hood
Avenue from the subject property. The relocation of
Hood Avenue will leave a portion of the current,
undedicated Hood Avenue right-of-way shown on MP -80-103
unneeded. The applicants have submitted an application
to vacate a portion of the undedicated right of way with
the Deschutes County Public Works Department.
The Sisters Planning Commission and the City of Sisters
have been working to develop a revised comprehensive
plan for the Sisters urban area. The City and
new
the
County have also been working to adopt
Transportation System ',Plan and Transportation plan in
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of the State `s
order to meet the requirements
OAR 660-12. The current
Transportation Planning Rule, calls for the
draft of the new Transportation Plan map
street designation Of 1985 Transportation Plan Avenue to be Map)from
and a
,,proposed arterial"
,,proposed major highway" to an urban collector street
and changes the name of Hood Street han o d he en e . of
In
addition, the City is proposing t they end with
all east-we`st streets in Si rathersthana the designation
the designation of Avenue,
of Street.
e submitted a reportantroP°
sed
The applicants havThe
findings of fact in support of this aPPlicaion
application a
applicants initially included with their app
request for tentative approval of a subdivision.
es County requested the applicants
Deschutes subdivision application until all
withdraw the
amendments to the comprehensive Plan are completed.
lication has
Therefore, at this timesubdivision requested that all
been withdrawn. The applicants have ° t of the subdivision
materials submitted in supp.
application remain a part of the record of the other
pending land use applications. The submitted burden of
vision
proof for the subdiattached along comprehensive
Exhibit O for
text amendments are atta planning Commission and
review by the Deschutes County
of Sisters Planning Commission. The remaining
the City application are
exhibits included with the submitted
available for review at the Deschutes County Planning
Division office in Bend.
7. REQUESTED MAP AND TEXT AMDMEN'TS :
Transportation Plan map designation of
A. Change the 242 and the intersection of
Hood Avenue, between Highway roposed arterial" to
Highway 20 and Cedar Street from p
"existing collector".
B. Move the location of approved
by the USFS across the
nue to align with the
location for Hood Avenue ppoved
USFS kiosk property.
C. Add the following text to the Sisters Urban Area
Comprehensive Plan:
"The provisions of Exhibit "A" of Ordinance No • 85 lace
P
the Sisters Urban Area's Transportation oincluded in the
and repeal all prior Plan provisionsof
Transportation and TranspoatatPlan.Element
Further, ons the
the Sisters Urban Are No. s5-029
Transportation Plan Map adopted by Ordinance
shall serve as the controlling Sisters Urban Area Plan
map for all transp °ltdesignations on sisies in the
tthe
Urban Area. All transportation
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Sisters Urban Area Plan map are repealed and replace by
the Transportation Plan Map."
D. Repeal Policy 1 of the 1985 Transportation Element of
the SUACP which states:
"1. In order to reduce or eliminate congestion on
Cascade Street, the City and State Highway Department
should develop a program to separate directional
traffic, utilizing Hood Avenue for eastbound traffic and
Cascade or Main Street for westbound traffic."
E. Adopt a new Transportation Element Policy 1 to read
as follows:
111. The County and City shall support the development of
Hood Avenue, between Highway 20 and Highway 242 to allow
local traffic to bypass the intersection of Highway 20
and Highway 242. The County and City shall also support
the development of Hood Avenue to collector street
standards to provide an additional east -west routes for
Sisters area traffic to access downtown Sisters and to
access the state highway system at the east and west
ends of downtown Sisters."
8. The Planning Division has solicited comments from
affected agencies and departments. Comments received
include the following responses:
A. Deschutes County Building Division: No comments.
B. Property Address Coordinator: All proposed new road
names must be approved by the property address
coordinator.
C. Deschutes County Environmental Health: A septic site
evaluation is required for each parcel.
D. Deschutes County Transportation Planner: No
comments regarding the proposed plan amendment.
E. Watermaster - District 11: Our records show ground
water irrigation water rights on these properties. The
applicant needs to transfer the rights from the land
being developed. The water rights maybe subject to
abandonment if development occurs prior to moving the
water rights.
F. Deschutes County Assessor: No comments.
G. Sisters Fire Department: This property is wholely
within Sisters Camp Sherman RFPD not Cloverdale.
H. Oregon Department of Transportation: No comment.
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I. Deschutes County Public Works: The old right -way
of Hood Street, originally shown in the Hood Street
partition is to be vacated. (We are going through the
process of vacating this right-of-way although we have
not been able to finds that it was ever recorded as a
dedicated public road.
9. PUBLIC NOTICE AND COMMENTS: The Planning Division sent
written notice of the public hearing in this matter to
owners of all property located within 250 feet of the
subject property and published notice of the initial
public hearing in the Bend "BULLETIN". Staff received
no letters regarding this application. However, two
requests for copies of the submitted application were
requested and provided.
APPLICABLE CRITERIA:
1. Staff finds that Title 21 of the County Code, Sisters
Urban Area Zoning Ordinance is applicable only to the
subdivision application that has been withdrawn, at this
time, and not the proposed comprehensive plan map and
text amendments. Therefore, staff will not review the
Sisters Urban Area Zoning Ordinance for the proposed
plan map and text amendments as outlined above under
Basic Findings #7.
2. Transportation Element. The Transportation Element of
the Sisters Urban Area Comprehensive Plan (SUACP)
contains the following provisions that staff finds
relevant to the applicant's Plan Map amendment requests:
THE ROAD NETWORK SYSTEM
There are three primary roles for a road network:
traffic mobility, land access (access to property) and
the provision for utility service lines (water, sewer,
electricity, etc.).
There are five basic road classifications used for all
County roads, based on the type of service they provide:
1. Principal arterial - carries the major portion of
trips entering and leaving the urban area and outlying
rural and recreation area.
2. Minor Arterials
e. Urban minor arterial - interconnects with and
augments the principal arterial system and provides
service to intra-urban/intra-community areas.
f. Rural minor
arterial system
links cities and
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arterial - connects with the principal
and forms the rural road network that
rural' -service centers.
street provides service andfilr` 0510
3. Collector -
circulation between residential neighorhoods and the
arterial street system with limited access.
GOALS:
1. To provide and encourage a safe, convenient and economic
transportation system.
2. To develop short and long term solutions to the
ever-increasing major highway traffic volume in the
business section of the community and the associated
problems of on -street parking and turning movements.
3. To continue development of an urban area system of
arterial, collector and local streets to move traffic
efficiently to and from all functional areas of the city
and provide for their logical extension to future
development areas.
4. To provide for an on-going review of the Transportation
Element.
5. Traffic congestion on Cascade Street, which carries all
highway traffic through the City, is a critical problem.
6. A one-way traffic couplet is one possible solution to
reduce traffic congestion along Cascade Street.
7. Cascade Street is not capable of accommodating the
projected traffic for the planning period without major
modification.
g. Financing to meet transportation needs is a critical
problem.
POLICIES:
1. In order to reduce or eliminate congestion on Cascade
Street, the City and State Highway Department should
develop a program to separate directional traffic,
utilizing Hood Street for eastbound traffic and Cascade
or Main Street for westbound traffic.
2. The major traffic -carrying streets shall be Camp Polk
Road (Locust Street), Three Creeks Lake Road (Elm
Street), US Highway 20 and Oregon State Highways 126 and
242. These streets will be connected by a "beltline"
system of collector and local streets.
Comprehensive Plan Amendment Criteria. The Sisters Urban
Area Comprehensivedthe life of recognizes
plan. The afollowing Plan
ents are
necessary g
provisision guides such revisions:
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Plan Amendments will be necessary as time passes and
conditions change. The plan is intended to be a guide for
the future growth of the community. it should be subject to
periodic review and should be flexible, but not so flexible
as to be meaningless as a statement of community policy.
Changes in the plan should be made in light of considerations
relating to all or part of the community rather than to who
owns the property.
It is recommended that the plan be reviewed by the Planning
Commission every year to whatever degree is necessary to
insure that it is continuing to function as a guide for
community growth. In addition, it should be possible for
individuals to petition for changes or amendments to the plan
in a manner similar to that for zone changes. There must be
a public hearing before the Planning Commission and the
Governing Body prior to making any changes. Any changes
should be consistent with the goals, objectives, policies and
statements of intent of the plan or these guidelines should
first be changed or amended to reflect the new policies.
This should be true of both changes resulting from periodic
Planning Commission review and from individual petitions.
Hearings on plan amendments shall follow the amendment
procedures set forth in the ordinance adopting the Plan.
(p.108)
FINDING: The applicants have provided detailed findings for
the proposed Comprehensive Plan/Map amendments in order to
demonstrate compliance with the plan amendment applicable
criteria. This analysis, identified on pages o'1 through 73
of the submitted burden of proof is incorporated into the
record. Staff concurs with the provided findings and it is
staff's opinion the applicants have satisfactorily addressed
relevant goals, policies and criteria listed in the Sisters
Urban Area Comprehensive Plan for the proposed plan
amendment.
3. The applicants have submitted information regarding the
Statewide Land Use Goals. The findings, identified on pages
73 through 77 of the submitted burden of proof are
incorporated into the record. Planning staff concurs with
the applicant's analysis and finds applicants have
satisfactorily addressed the Statewide Land Use Goals
relevant to the proposed plan amendement.
4. TRANSPORTATION PLANNING RULE:
OAR 660-12-060 Plan and Land Use Regulation Amendments
Review of this rule establishes that the proposed Plan
map and text amendments significantly affect a
transportation facility, requiring the applicants to
address the requirements of OAR 660-12-060(1), as
discussed below. ''The following text of this
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administrative regulation
that is the most logical
regulation's requirements.
is addressed out of orderr"'as�"���
order in which to review the
(2) A plan or land use regulation amendment
significantly affects a transportation facility if it:
(a) Changes the functional classification of an existing
or planned transportation facility;
(b) Changes standards implementing a functional
classification system;
(c) Allows types or levels of land uses which would
result in levels of travel or access which are
inconsistent with the functional classification of a
transportation facility; or
(d) Would reduce the level of service of the facility
below the minimum acceptable level identified in the
TSP.
(1) Amendments to functional plans, acknowledged
comprehensive plans, and land use regulations which
significantly affect a transportation facility shall
assure that allowed land uses are consistent with the
identified function, capacity, and level of service of
the facility. This shall be accomplished by either:
(a) Limiting allowed land uses to be consistent with the
planned function, capacity and level of service of the
transportation facility;
(b) Amending the TSP to provide transportation
facilities adequate to support the proposed land uses
consistent with the requirements of this division; or
(c) Altering land use designations, densities, or design
requirements to reduce demand for automobile travel and
meet travel needs through other modes.
(2) Determinations under so affected t transportation
rule shall be coordinated with
facility and service providers and other affected local
governments.
FINDINGS: Planning staff finds the submitted findings
identified in the submitted burden of proof statement on
pages 77 through 79 satisfactorily addressed OAR 660-12-060
Plan and Land Plan mapulaton p,�nddtextsin amendmegtsds to the
proposed comprehensive
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STAFF COMMENTS AND RECOMMENDATIONS:
Based upon the foregoing findings, planning staff recommends
approval of the proposed Comprehensive Plan map and text
amendments. This should be confirmed or denied by the
Planning Commissions. Approval by the Planning Commissions
serves as a recommendation to the Board of County
Commissioners `and City of Sisters City Council. If the
Planning Commissions move to approve the request, staff asks
that the motion include direction to the Planning Division
staff to prepare findings and conclusions for review and
possible adoption by the Board of County Commissioners and
the City of Sisters City Council at a joint public hearing.
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