Clackamas County

[Grantenfuego]

Originally Posted by NJD

Rural conservatives and liberal urbanites can both agree that a smaller UGB is good for growth management for different and similar reasons... would anyone oppose this plan?

Damascus considers partial withdrawal from urban growth boundary
Published: Friday, July 13, 2012 By Emily Fuggetta, The Oregonian

DAMASCUS — Nearly a decade after Metro brought then-unincorporated Damascus into its urban growth boundary, residents may vote this December on whether they want all of the city to remain therein.

In light of new a recent Metro population forecast that predicts the city's 2035 population at about 30,000 — about 8,000 fewer than previously estimated — the Damascus City Council has begun to consider asking to remove a large eastern portion of the city from the boundary.

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Makes sense to me. Keep the UGB as small as possible. Especially, when it's not needed and clearly there is plenty of develop-able space within the boundary.

[RED_PDXer]

Originally Posted by NJD

Rural conservatives and liberal urbanites can both agree that a smaller UGB is good for growth management for different and similar reasons... would anyone oppose this plan?

Damascus considers partial withdrawal from urban growth boundary
Published: Friday, July 13, 2012 By Emily Fuggetta, The Oregonian

DAMASCUS — Nearly a decade after Metro brought then-unincorporated Damascus into its urban growth boundary, residents may vote this December on whether they want all of the city to remain therein.

In light of new a recent Metro population forecast that predicts the city's 2035 population at about 30,000 — about 8,000 fewer than previously estimated — the Damascus City Council has begun to consider asking to remove a large eastern portion of the city from the boundary.

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Good riddens! Lesson to region.. don't allow UGB expansion without an established city in control. Small town politics is a serious waste of time and obviously inefficient - Damascus has been stuck in a holding pattern for years due to politics and it seems like nothing can happen without a public vote. Talk about slow, inefficient government... Hillsboro is far from ideal, but they at least know what to do with land they bring into the UGB and waste no time in doing it.

[philopdx]

See, here in the city of Damascus, we wanna build up dem walmarts and parking lots, just like Vancouver! We don need no stinking hippies tellin' us how to build us a fine, fine city with backyards and McDonalds for all our white citizens.

The way I see it it fellow Damascusites, it's high time we sprawl out with the @#$% out.

[zilfondel]

You know, since the 'burbs real estate tanked in the recession, and will likely never be coming back... I doubt Damascus will be built out int he next 50 years. Real estate values and demand has done a complete 180 over the past 10-20 years.