[zilfondel]

Thats funny. Its not Metro that requires UGB plans, its the State. Big fail with these guys. It will be even more funny when 1000 Friends of Oregon sues their pants off.

Its kind of a strange area, however. My wife and I visited Happy Valley off Sunnyside this past weekend and it really reminds me of Seattle-area sprawl and how abruptly the urban area just kind of peters out into trees. A little bit like Tigard or Wilsonville, but with hills.

Damascus is even further out and arguably shouldn't have been brought into the UGB - it will be decades or longer before there is infrastructure money to improve it, and it is so far out in Clackamas County the big question is "why?"

The area should have been a rural preserve/green belt isntead (just look to the North on Google Maps).



Just sayin'