Motion will come in from
all over but there's a lot of people
here.
>> Call this meeting call this meeting to
order.
Please rise
aliance to the flag of the United States
of America and to the republic for it
stands. One nation
indivisible with liberty justice for
all.
right,
roll call, please.
>> Commissioner Wagner is absent um today.
Commissioner Idka.
» Commissioner Idka,
>> I'm present. Sorry, I'm having
technological issues this morning. So, I
appreciate your patience. Thank you.
Commissioner Linder,
>> I'm here.
>> Commissioner Satanovich,
>> I'm present.
>> Commissioner Carmichael,
>> present.
>> Vice Chair Johnson,
>> present.
>> Chair Crushau,
>> present.
Thank you. Uh,
we can we get a motion to adopt the
agenda?
>> Move to adopt agenda. motion. Do we have
a second?
>> Second.
>> All those in favor to adopt the agenda.
>> Agenda I
>> agenda adopted. Thank you.
>> Uh business from the public, this is an
opportunity for anyone to give a brief
presentation about any land use planning
issue or county concern that is not on
the agenda.
Hearing none, we'll move on to
discussion. Work session
item number two, 2526 work plan update.
>> Yeah, thank you. Good morning,
commissioners. For the record, Gail
Hendrickson, community development
director. So, um, every quarter we've
been bringing you the work plan that
your uh, planning commission reviews
before we submit it for the budget uh,
usually in January or February each
year. And then we just want to keep you
informed of where we're at of the work
plan so that there's accountability for
the planning staff as well as
transparency for the public. Uh a couple
of things to point out
uh in the uh work plan. We did complete
uh several different things with the
adoption of goal 16, 17, and 18 earlier
this year. That officially
completed the comp plan update process.
It only took six years, give or take.
Um, but especially thank you to David
who shephered the last three goals
through and, uh, got those, uh, wrapped
up for us. So, well done. Um, with the
transportation system plan update, uh,
which I think is near the end of the
work program. We last updated the TSP in
2015, so we're really due for an update.
We've applied the past two years for a
transportation and growth management
grant uh and have not been awarded
either year. So this year we are
considering applying again for a third
time. But it also looks fairly certain
that we will be getting some money from
ODOT and that ODOT will actually be
hiring the consultant and paying for the
consultant on behalf of Classic County
so we can get the plan updated. And so
we do have um some of uh meetings
scheduled to review uh consultant
proposals later this month I believe or
into May um and then hopefully with a
start date of July 1st. So, as we're
moving through that process, uh, that
funding comes through for us, this will
be something that we'll be bringing back
to your planning commission, giving you
updates, and then, uh, looking to you to
make a recommendation to the board on
whether or not to adopt the
transportation system plan once we're
completed with it. Uh, I don't want to
go too much into my director's report.
Um, but really, we are just, um,
continuing to plug along at things. We
will be bringing in June the goal five
updates for the cultural resources and
the new rule making. And then yesterday
we just got the 2026 legislative summary
from Department of Land Conservation and
Development. So sometime in the fall,
you'll be seeing those legislative
amendments that we do annually coming
through to your planning commission as
well. Um other than that, I will just
stop there and see if there's any
questions about anything on the work
plan. Thank you.
Uh, I have a question about the
transportation plan and what would be
included in the transportation plan
updates and specifically about um things
that have been talked about for years um
such as a truck route around Atoria or
also known as a bypass
and I know it could be a long shot but
maybe it would be important to have it
as a part of this plan that u if if it
was supported by the committ
and others that that should be included
in at least looked at as a part of this
process.
>> Okay. Yeah. So, I will make a note of
that uh so that we can pass that along
to whatever consultants we do are
selected. Um I forgot to add too that we
also had the state uh department of land
conservation and development review the
current transportation system plan and
gave us a a long list of items that we
need to focus on. I don't remember
specifically if the bypass was one of
them. I don't think it was, but they did
do the code uh the plan audit and then
kind of laid out a path for us moving
forward. But I'll make sure that gets
passed along.
>> Okay.
» Any other commissioners?
>> None. Thank you.
» All right. Moving on. Uh project status
report. April 2026 project status
report.
Thank you. Good morning, planning
commissioners. My name is David Cook,
uh, planning manager with the community
development department. Um, a couple
updates on the project status report for
this month. The first one I'll I'll
mention is for ordinance 26-02,
which was our digital zoning maps um,
ordinance. Um, your commission saw this
back in March and we just took it to the
board of commissioners for a first
reading on April 8th. Um, they seem
generally supportive of it and it will
be going to its second hearing um on
April 22nd with the board and that will
be the vote to uh adopt or or not um
that order. Um, Commissioner Director Henrikson um took
the administrative variance ordinance um
26-05
to the uh board of commissioners um last
month and was approved and adopted. And
so we are starting to use um or starting
to be able to use the um code language
that your um commission recommended to
the board that allowed administrative
variances for small deviations to the land use code. So we're we're
excited to be able to use that to to try
and help people um with uh meeting our
standards. Uh couple other small things.
We we're still working on the commercial
and industrial uh zone audits. um trying
to wrap in a pretty comprehensive look
at those zones to see how we can make
permitting streamlined for um commercial
and industrial uses in those zones with
it where they are designated to be. So
hoping to bring that to your commission
in June. Um Director Henrikson also
mentioned the goal five uh updates that
we're looking to bring in June um as
well. So, um, that's all I've got on
your project status report, unless you
have any questions for me.
>> Thank you. Thank you.
Any questions?
>> No.
>> Nope.
>> All right. Director's report. April
2026, director's report.
>> Okay. So, we had a lot to report on this
month. Uh, the fairgrounds strategic
plan update continues. We're doing our
first public openhouse this Saturday
from noon to 2. We will be in the annex
building which is between the dairy barn
and behind the uh main exhibit hall. So
uh I would encourage if you can't be
there uh go online clatsoccount.gov take
the survey which will be open until
April 30th. Uh as of last Tuesday we had 46 respondents in about a 10-day
period which I thought was pretty good.
So we're hoping to um increase that
significantly. Uh but definitely if you
can be out there uh again Saturday noon
to 2 at the fairgrounds.
Uh the housing assistance grant that we
received from Department of Land
Conservation and Development uh this is
going to have their kickoff meeting on
April 21st. Uh we'll be meeting with the
consultants and DLCD staff to um set up
a schedule and a plan for uh completing
the grant work. The grant work is going
to be focused on uh sites within the
unincorporated area and within the
cities uh and looking taking a deeper
dive into the what we're calling
opportunity sites to see what sorts of
regulatory infrastructure or natural
hazard constraints might be preventing
development on these particular sites.
and uh just uh the consultant will be
putting together um drafts scenarios and
uh some market analysis to determine the
feasibility of getting those sites
developed and that work is expected to
be completed in March of 2027. So as we
work through that grant process uh we'll
be keeping you informed of any important
dates or progress.
Uh the task force will have its monthly
meeting uh on this uh also I believe
April 21st whatever that Wednesday is at
the end of the month. Um and actually we
moved it sorry to May 22nd because there
was a conflict uh but we will be uh
having some presentations and just
discussing uh the housing grant status
and uh working with that group. Um FEMA
seemed to have a lot of activity uh over
the past quarter or month or two. Uh the
reports threw out the lawsuit that had
been filed by some environmentalist
groups in 2023 saying that FEMA was not
moving quick enough to implement the
buyout. the uh courts throughout the
case because they felt that it wasn't
ripe uh for a lawsuit at this point
simply because FEMA has until September
of 2027 to fully implement the
biological opinion and so the court
dismissed that case. Um there's no
update on what it means for the
injunction that was filed uh and what
the status of that is. So that's still
lingering out there somewhere in pending
lawsuit land. Um there's also with the
uh federal budget funding um challenges
that uh some aspects of FEMA's program
have not been uh funded or renewed
including um some funding related to the
new risk maps which we talked about
maybe maybe about nine months ago that
FEMA was proposing that would have added
significantly more acreage especially in
the Warrington area and about a thousand
new structures in the Warrington ion
area. So due to lack of funding for
their contractors that implement that
program primarily, uh that program's
kind of on hold as well right now and so
we don't know what will be happening to
that in the in the near future. Uh
there's also been some federal
legislation introduced by Representative
Bence uh from Oregon about clarifying
the role that the Endangered Species Act
plays with the National Flood Insurance
Program. The last I had heard, there
were no co-sponsors for that bill, and I
don't believe that the last time I
checked, there have been any hearings or
anything scheduled on that, but it was
filed.
Um, planning commissioner terms. Our
application period closes May 3rd. I
have Commissioner Carmichael's
application and I've got about four
others, but um Jeremy and Katie, if you
plan to apply uh reapply for reappoint,
then we just need you to submit your
applications by May 3rd, please. And
then depending on uh the number of
applicants, the board will probably
conduct interviews. Uh they may not. Uh
we're still waiting to determine that
based on the number of applicants and
who applies.
Uh we held not we but the county held an
elected officials committee meeting back
on March 12th over at the fairgrounds.
This was a meeting between the board of
commissioners and the elected council
people from the various cities along
with the sheriff and uh representatives
legal law enforcement representatives
from the city of Atoria and Seaside and
the topic was 911 consolidation. Uh so
there was quite a big discussion about
that. No decisions were made. Obviously,
this wasn't a formal meeting to vote on
anything, but to lay out the different
pathways that could be taken to create a
unified 911 system, and then um law
enforcement will be working with the
county manager's office and the cities
to um move that forward during the
remainder of this year and into next
year.
Um, one thing that has been on our work
plan for quite a long time, probably a
couple years, is the watershed alliance
grant. Uh the county did not fund the
grant, but the county agreed to provide
some inkind services to assist with the
grant work and so um probably a year or
so had gone by where we hadn't had any
updates from the watershed alliance, but
we did get one back at the beginning of
March. Uh and I've included that
information for you in your packet. This
was the final report and what the grant
was focused on was looking at the
impacts of chemical runoff from uh a
chemical that I forget the name but uh
it is basically a coating that's found
on your tires on your vehicles and as
that chemical breaks down on the
roadways it gets washed into the
waterways and so they were studying the
impacts of that on um salmon and so
those conclusions are found in here.
They're going to continue to do uh
long-term monitoring of water
temperature at various locations
throughout the county and public works
has been assisting with that in terms of
placing temperature gauges. Um so uh I
don't know that we'll have any more
updates on that, but that's what the
outcome of the grant.
And then let's see here. Ah yeah, state
rulemaking which never seems to cease
and desist. Uh so the newest uh state
rule making that's coming up that we
need to take note of uh is one that is
going to look at housing in
unincorporated communities. And so
Classup County is kind of I think at the
forefront of this because our board was
very progressive in their housing
amendments and we've already made a lot
of changes to our unincorporated
communities of Arch Cape, Westport,
Miles Crossing, Jeff Gardens, um, Napa
Swenson to incorporate a lot of
different housing types including
duplexes, multipplexes, cottage
clusters, those types of middle housing
units and making those changes, reducing
lot sizes, reducing setbacks, things
like that, reducing parking. So, uh, the
state now has taken this to heart and is
going to be looking at uninccorporated
communities throughout the state and
doing rule making regarding middle
housing in those types of communities.
uh staff is probably going to be
requesting to be placed or at least
apply to be on that rulemaking advisory
committee uh simply because we've been
through this and there may be new things
that come out that could um assist the
county in its housing efforts as well.
So that's kind of a positive thing. And
then there's the undersea infrastructure
easements and fees which right now has
minimal impact in the county but could
potentially in the future have more
significant impact. And what is
happening is that um the department of
state lands is increasing its fees that
they're charging applicants for new
cable landings to renew a cable landing
to decommission a cable landing and for
the easements. And uh there were some
calculations that were provided and I
don't know if you had a chance to follow
the link but um there these are
significant increases. I mean in some
cases the application fees are going up
200% um that you are going to be paying
by length of cable. Uh and so in some
cases in the example they cited it ended
up being a $1.8 million fee for the
decommissioning. Um so it's it's
significant but again of limited impact
here but it also apparently affects
things not just cable landings but
outfalls that will um are on the ocean
beach. Uh so if there's any water
districts or any of the municipalities
have outfalls this could potentially
impact them. So that was the reason we
brought it to your commission's
attention um just so that you're aware
of it in case you hear rumblings about
it in the future.
And uh I think oh a couple of other
things um we do we have hired an
electrical inspector. He will be
starting on June 15th. He's coming from
Beaverton. Uh his name is Eric
Elmsshauser and uh again he'll be here
at the middle of June starting and our
recruitment for building official closed
on Sunday. So we're in the process now
of reviewing the applicants and
scheduling interviews. And again, Matt
Moore's last day will be June 30th. And
then we'll hopefully have a new building
inspector or building official on board
before then. And other than that, I'm
happy to answer any questions you might
have.
>> How long has Matt How long has Matt been
with the county now?
>> Oh goodness. You know, I should know
this. I want to say
nine years, 10 years, maybe a little bit
more. Yeah.
>> Like he's been here a while. Good while.
>> Yeah. Um,
let's see who's proposing the one the fees for the decommissioning in the cable land.
>> Uh, it's depart Department of State
Lands because those landings are
occurring on lands owned by the state
even if they're submerged.
>> Okay. So, that's was that a rule making
process? Legislative.
>> Yeah, rulem.
» All right. So, we won't have a whole lot
of say that. We could I mean I suppose
the county could weigh in and and
provide whatever feedback we want. Would
that be something that our planning
commission would do or is that something
staff or the the
>> um we would likely as staff and
definitely if the planning commission
wanted to weigh in, but we would want
probably the letter to come directly
from the board of commissioners um with
any input from the planning commission
that you might want to give. So I
believe that they are still at the very
beginning of the process. I think that
they have had either one or two meetings
right now and there's still several more
months of meetings to go. And these
meetings, these rulemaking advisory
committee meetings are all open to the
public. Um and then there will be a
public comment period once the proposed
rules are drafted and posted for um
consideration.
>> Um can you give us any highlights or uh
significant changes to the fairground
strategic plan? anything I mean other
than show up to the meeting and find
out.
>> So um for the past couple of months uh
David and I have been doing a lot of
work with the fair board behind the
scenes uh just putting together the
questions they want to ask the
fairgrounds they want to interview the
alternative venues they want to have us
look at and then the stakeholders we
need to talk to. So now this is really
the first time where we're really going
public. Um so there's not any
recommendations so far at this point. Uh
we'll get to that probably in late May,
early June. Uh we do have a second open
house scheduled in on May 20th, which is
a Wednesday evening from 5:30 to 7:30 at
the fairgrounds, which is when we would
look at any new recommendations that
might come out. What we're seeing
initially from the surveys that have
been turned in, um there's an emphasis
on deferred maintenance. Um, the
responses we got from the fair board
identified the need to expand the
kitchen and remodel the one that's right
now in the exhibit hall. Adding cooking
facilities and restrooms to the annex
andor the dairy barn. Um, those are some
of the big things. Uh, signage, the need
to improve signage because the
fairgrounds is a little bit out of the
way compared to many other fairgrounds
around the state. Um, electrical and
security upgrades. Um, and not I would
say electrical, but really technology
upgrades. Uh, things like the Wi-Fi and
having an electronic reader board and a
unified PA system so that you can talk
to everybody at once throughout the
fairgrounds and those types of things.
Um, we're also looking at fees compared
to other fairgrounds and alternative
venues just to get an idea of how we sit
in comparison. uh the surveys we've
received so far, the majority of people
thought our fees were about right for
the services that are being provided. Um
but we'll look at that and see what
comes out of that as well.
>> Yeah, I think that's really important
work and uh fairgrounds is a tremendous
asset to the entire county and we all
want to see it be successful. So glad
that that's going through.
>> That's all I had.
>> Okay. Yeah, we did meet uh with 4 last
not last Friday but the Friday before
and they are looking to do some
improvements to their building or
possibly replace the building because
they need more space and more storage
area and so they've got a lot of big
plans as well. So probably um in in the
next year you'll probably see them
coming forward and then um David do you
want to talk about uh the public
hearing?
So, we may actually have to have a
meeting in May. We had talked about
this, but yeah.
>> Yeah. So, um
earlier this year, I guess it would have
been in February,
our department received a conditional
use permit application for the Nest
Bakery, which is on Sunset Lake and
Lewis Road, right there at the corner.
Um the um the restaurant was previously
approved to have no interior seating. Um
because the addition of seating requires
off- streetet parking and if you kind of
know the area and you know their site,
they have zero space to put any off-
streetet parking. Um they now want to
include some seats in their restaurant.
Um and so that necessitates the need for
parking. Of course, there is no place to
put off- streetet parking
except there is public land across the
street which is the Sunset Lake Park and boat ramp.
um that land is not part of the county
park system. It's seated to the public.
It's maintained by the public. So, it's
been a little
strange
uh or or not not typical how we would
approve a private business to delineate
parking spaces on land that's deed to
and maintained by the public. Um,
so how we're thinking of doing this is
um upon a recommendation from your Let
me I'll back up a little bit. So we sent
this this application out um through a
public notice to surrounding property
owners. It ended up getting a fair bit
of attention in social media and so so
we got over 60 public comments on this
application. Um, so we've decided to
bring the application forward to your
commission for for a a review and a vote
whether to conditionally approve or or
to deny the application. Um, as part of
that, there's going to be a
um like a a resolution that we would ask
for your commission to make a
recommendation on to the board of
commissioners where the board of
commissioners would then decide um if
they would grant a certain area within
the public land at the park or the
creation of a parking lot that would
serve not only this restaurant, but
would also will just be available to the
public. So, it would be kind of like a
public park improvement that this
business has to pay for and maintain
that helps them meet their parking
requirement, but is not strictly for
their business alone.
>> The county doesn't own that parking lot.
It's how how do we approve something
that's not our
>> Well, in probably a weird situation, but
>> yeah, it's it's definitely not normal.
So, in chatting with with county
council, there is case law um that that
says basically, you know, land that's deed to the public
when when land owner authorization is
needed for something occurring on that
land, the county has uh the say
basically county gets to to to apply for
or approve these things.
So, I don't understand. Deed to the
public, but it's not it's a county, not
state of Oregon. It's correct. Deed to
the public.
>> Y and if you go on to um the county's
web maps and put in public the there are
several properties like that that were
deeded in as parts of plats usually for
parks or boat ramps. Um but it's no
different than a public street that's
not part of a county road system that's
maintained by the public, open to the
public. It's the same concept. What is
that noise?
>> The microphone.
» Just just curious. Sorry.
>> Which one it is?
>> So if there's maintenance there
and I understand what the public is, but
like who who pays for it?
>> The the paying for it. So there was in
the '9s um approval that was given by
the county to a private organization
that was proposing with volleyball court
and play area and I forget what else.
>> Yeah. Whatever features they have there
right now.
>> Yeah. And then improvements uh to the boat launch have been paid for by
private persons.
>> Oh,
it's I go to the bakery often on the
weekends. I mean, and it's whether
they're seating inside or not, it's
packed. I mean, it it there's a lot of
people. And I myself either park over at
the park or park along the road, which
as you know, there's not really I mean,
I have a wide truck and I stick out in
the road when I park there. There's But
it's pretty flourishing business and and
they could probably use some parking.
>> Yeah. and and and so as far as the
public comments we received um that had
issues with the application, parking and
traffic in the surrounding area is by
far the most
uh pressing issue for for people who who
have a an issue with the application.
>> Well, I I can applaud staff for trying
to come up with a creative solution and
trying to create a win-win here for the
public. If there's a developed parking
lot that everybody has access to for
there is more facilities there like that
boat ramp that people do use um that
could provide a benefit to everybody
that maybe they pay for the development
of a of a and help maintain a parking
lot that the public also has the ability
to use might be a win for everybody
there.
>> Yeah.
>> Question I would have is if they've
already got a conditional use permit to
have a business there. Is that correct?
How does it differ whether they I mean
if you've ever been in there there's not
room for much eating maybe
five six chairs 10 chairs I don't know
but what would be the difference is
someone's going there standing up
waiting for their coffee and donuts or
pastries rather than sitting down
because I mean there's still a lot of
parking being utilized whether it's
designated for it or not.
>> Yeah.
>> Do you understand what I'm asking?
>> Yeah, I understand it. The difference
the differences is purely just the
wording of our land use code requires
off- streetet parking for places based
on the number of seats that you're
providing. So if I had to guess the the
idea there was if there are no seats
people are more like coming and going.
Therefore maybe they park their car for
two, three, five minutes and then they
up and go. But if you can sit down, you
park for 30 minutes. That has to be the
idea behind it.
So look forward to that next month.
>> Yeah.
>> You have anything else that you wanted
to discuss?
>> Have anything Wayne?
>> Oh, good to of the order. I I would like
to bring up something and this is a an
annual workg group meeting that Bruce
Moffett, our NRCS district
conservationist, is is having. Uh this
is on the 22nd of April at the library
here, meeting room 007,
uh Asteria Public Library, 4 to 5:30. Uh
and the reason I bring it up is that
there are there are things happening at
the NRCS funding level that he's
concerned about. There's some major
changes as he points out. He's looking
for suggestions
that relate to significant changes in
how we allocate funding and where we are
funding. And that pains to a lot of us,
especially me, we have we have
consistent funding from NRCS for
property improvements and wetlands and
riparian zones. So, he would like to get
as much input as possible from people
interest or people involved. So again,
that's the 22nd at the public library, 4
to 5:30 in room 007.
Thank you.
>> Is that um for funding that's affecting
the uh soil and water conservation
district or
>> most likely it affects all the funding
and how it's how it's the rule making
and how it's allocated and what you have
to do to accommodate the funding that's
affecting me directly and funding that
we've had.
>> Okay. Right. Thank you.
» Anything else for good of the order?
» Um, not really good of the order, but
like I said, I told everybody I'm
probably going to miss the next two
meetings having some medical stuff done,
so I will probably not be here for the
next two months.
Put it on the
agenda.
>> Okay,
>> anybody else?
All right, then we can adjourn. Thank
you. You