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Wilsonville government makes tentative plans for outdoor events May 12 2021
City manager says the government intends to allow water features and local events like Concerts in the Park.
While most everything was shut down or relegated to Zoom last summer, the Wilsonville government is preparing to allow many of the city s summer staples to return in 2021.
Plans have yet to be finalized, but City Manager Bryan Cosgrove recently directed staff to come up with a list of activities that could be open to the public this summer and said the city thinks amenities such as water features and summer events like the Rotary Club of Wilsonville Concert Series and Movies in the Park can return safely.
Group seeks to halt development of 2,100 Portland area acres April 05 2021
New neighborhoods in Wilsonville, Hillsboro, Beaverton and King City could be tabled if legal challenge prevails.
The Metro regional government s most recent urban growth boundary expansion which ushered in over 2,100 acres of new residential land in Wilsonville, Beaverton, Hillsboro and King City is facing a legal challenge at the Oregon Court of Appeals.
Housing Land Advocates, a charitable corporation that focuses on land use policy and advocates for affordable housing, appealed the Land Conservation and Development Commission s decision to approve Metro s 2018 boundary expansion, arguing that the regional government needs to address housing shortages inside the existing growth boundary before expanding it. HLA asked the court to either remand or reverse the decision.
Wilsonville government opposes bill to allow affordable housing on reserve land March 04 2021
The city posits that workforce housing away from city centers can do more harm than good.
Though Wilsonville City Council has identified fostering affordable housing as one of its primary priorities and recently approved a roadmap to do so, the local government s stance on a new bill at the Oregon Legislature provides a window into where it believes such development should go and where it shouldn t.
House Bill 3072 stipulates that planning authorities may amend an urban growth boundary upon a petition from a developer offering to produce housing that is affordable to moderate or low-income households (called workforce housing) or commercial buildings that support housing in areas currently zoned as urban reserves (which is land just outside of the UGB that may be considered for development in the next 50 years). This excludes high-value farmland as well as other protect
January 16 2021
Councilors also will be able to add their names individually to the letter; West abstains from vote
During a special Wilsonville City Council meeting Thursday, Jan. 14, the council agreed to allow Mayor Julie Fitzgerald to sign a letter calling for the resignation of Clackamas County Commissioner Mark Shull for Islamophobic, transphobic, anti-immigrant and racist comments he made on social media that have surfaced this week.
Fitzgerald and three councilors voted to approve the motion while Councilor Ben West abstained from the vote.
Lake Oswego Mayor Joe Buck distributed the letter this week to Clackamas County representatives and many of these elected officials already had signed the letter by the time of the meeting.