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AGENDA REQUEST & STAFF REPORT
For Board Business Meeting of October 31, 2011
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DATE: October 26, 2011.
FROM: Peter Gutowsky Community Development Department 385-1709
TITLE OF AGENDA ITEM:
A public hearing on and consideration of First Reading of Ordinance No. 2011-017, amending Title 23,
to Adopt a Regional Economic Opportunity Analysis and Regional Large-Lot Industrial Land Policies
for Central Oregon.
PUBLIC HEARING ON THIS DATE? Yes.
BACKGROUND AND POLICY IMPLICATIONS:
Empowered by a 2009-2011 Department of Land Conservation and Development (DLCD) technical
assistance grant, Deschutes County hired Johnson-Reid, an economic development consultant team
who, along with regional planners, economic development specialists and state agency representatives,
identified and articulated a strategy and process to create a regional large lot industrial land supply that
enables Central Oregon (Crook, Deschutes and Jefferson Counties and their primary urban areas) to be
a competitive region for industrial recruitment. The Regional Economic Opportunity Analysis (REOA)
recommends six SO-acre sites in three different jurisdictions, based on market choice for diversity of
sites in different locations (one 200 acre site is for a regional hub). Long-term supply calls for a total of
seventeen sites. As a result of the REOA, Deschutes County is currently proposing adopting it and
several regional economic development policies into Deschutes County's Comprehensive Plan. Upon
adoption, this policy framework will enable Crook and Jefferson Counties to undertake similar
legislative amendments. Furthermore the REOA and economic development policies provide a regional
platform to implement a large-lot industrial siting program in Central Oregon that has the potential to
be a model statewide. .
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:
None
RECOMMENDATION & ACTION REQUESTED:
Hold the public hearing.
Motion: First reading by Title only of Ordinance No. 2011-017
ATTENDANCE: Peter Gutowsky and Legal Counsel
DISTRIBUTION OF DOCUMENTS:
Peter Gutowsky, CDD.