Approved Minutes - 1976-04-27 Iv
LAKE OSWEGO TASK FORCE
NATURAL RESOURCES ANT) OPEN SPACE
MEETING: April 27, 1976,
Members Present:
Gray, White, Harlan, Layton, Miller, Schukart, Hailing, Weaver, George, Kuntz,
Fuchs, Ratten (Ad Hoc), guest Sarah Norum (Lewis and Clark College).
Chair Gray opened the meeting, and there was a discussion of tax deferral land
around Lake Oswego - 580 acres already in this plan, which is county supervised.
The City of Lake Oswego has no provision for agricultural land use, and mention
of including such a recommendation in our final proposals.
A tour, in conjunction with the Transportation Task Force, is scheduled for 1:00
P.M. Saturday, May 1st. Members will meet near the Foto-Mat unit in the Safeway
Parking lot. on A Street. We will start at Tryon Creek and work our way towards
the river and south, hopefully ending at George Rogers or Marry Young parks. Three
Transportation members, with specific interest in bikeways, will join us. Glenn
Greg, member of the State Bikeways Commission is one of these. Gray stressed the
fact that our prime task is getting out and seeing the various areas in order to
start thinking about our priorities.
Gray mentioned that the Planning Department is working on a Comprehensive Plan for
Lake Oswego to assist us in organizing our thinking. It will be more of an outline
for us to fill in the details. Our proposed organization for the Comprehensive Plan
would be:
A. Fragile Areas:
B. Hazard To Urban Use: .
C. Treasured Areas (Amenities)
Distinctive Areas: Habitat
Vegetation
Scenic (slope height)
Stream banks
Shape & structure
Community identification
We need to concentrate on C. above, for this is where the City will rely heavily on
our recommendations. There is a strong need for us - as a whole committee - to address
ourselves to distinctive areas, rather than working further with our specific sub-
groups.
At our next meeting - May 4th - the Transportation group will present their ideas
on bikeways and interconnecting areas, as a follow-up on our Saturday tour. Mention
was made of our need to have more communication with the Parks and Recreation task
force, to be more aware of their ideas.
A lengthy discussion on the matter of a Cultural Center, with some varying opinions
where would be the best location. Concensus seemed to be ti,at traffic problems and
completed development would make it difficult to locate in or near the central core.
More potential was seen in the west area, where the potential for actually planning
a complex would be greater.
Natural Resources/Open Space
April 27, 1976
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Dick White brought up a topic that opened up the discussion to general overall
philosophy — shouldn't our perogatives actually lie in planning to conserve our
actual natural resources (air, water, trees, etc.), rather than just providing
more recreational or "planned" space. Included in the discussion was the matter
of whether cars as we know them would be obsolete — making providing, for more and
larger traffic planning obsolete as well. Sorre mention of plans for the buildings
at the bottom of A atState Street, and the possibility that it would be geared for
a bus "terminal".
Considerable time spent in looking over the maps and overlays which the committee
has prepared. At the next meeting, Dick White will have an overlay map with the
distinctive areas outlined.
Gray said there was a need for someone to meet with Community Design group, to go
over their maps and bring back a summary of their work. Ann Schukart volunteered
to do this.
On closing the meeting, Kathryn Gray asked that the members concentrate this week
on consideration of the distinctive areas.
Geri Miller, Recorder