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SANOY ( O r * ) POST Thurs
Jo nuor y 14
1902 (Sec
I)
Comprehensive plans:
E co n o m ist p red icts fiscal re b o u n d
Sandy nears LCDC approval
by DAN DILLO N
Local officials are confident
that Sandy's comprehensive land-
use plan will finally be accepted
by the state Land Conservation
and Development Commission
following the creation of a special
density for mobile homes
“ LCDC staff has indicated they
will make a positive recommen
dation for the February meeting
with the full commission, so it will
be in compliance with statewide
goals,’* City Manager Roger Jor
dan said last week.
The decision to create the
special density for mobile homes
came after protests from LCDC
and the mobile home industry
The city had taken the stand
that mobile homes be placed
prim arily in high density areas
(10-15 dw elling s per a c re ).
However, mobile home develop
ment typically occurs in the six to
nine units per acre range
In Sandy, both the Knollwood
Estates Mobile Home Park and
Hood Chalet Mobil Park fall in
that density range
While the city’s high<Jensity
designation would be too confin
ing, the medium-density range
<5-6 dwellings per acre) was
thought to be too open, leaving a
gap in the density where mobile
home parks are developed
As a result, the city last week
adopted an ordinance for mobile
homes only which will allow
development in the recommended
6-9 units per acre range
The change will not affect other
housing types, according to City
Planner Don Wilson
Another section which the city
adopted simply demonstrates that
the city has sufficient buildable
lands within its high-density area
to accommodate both projected
mobile home units and projected
multiple family housing. “ It is re-
quired in order to demonstrate
that we are not discriminating
against mobile homes by pro
viding no land for their use.’’
Wilson said
If LCDC agrees with its staff
recommendation at the Feb 5
hearing and approves Sandy's
plan, it will be the end of nearly
three years of study and prepara
tion
Prior to June i960, when the city
first submitted the plan for con
sidération. Straam Engineers Inc
had worked throughout 1979 com
piling the data needed for the
document
After the initial submission to
the state and its review process,
LCDC found that the plan needed
revisions to comply with four
statewide planning goals
During a continuance period,
the city staff prepared an amend
ment package which was adopted
and resubmitted to the state Oct
19, 1961.
C o u n ty officials rev ise th r e e areas
Clackamas County of
ficials are working to
revise the county’s land
use plan which gained
partial approval from
the state in December
Oregon’s Land Con
servation an< Develop
ment Commt-xion for
malized an uO-day ex
tension Jan 4 on three
parts of the plan that
didn’t meet with its ap
proval
A rd is
S tev en so n ,
assistant director of the
Environmental Services
Department, said the
LCDC wants more work
done on rural contested
areas, the Mount Hood
c o rr id o r and a rea s
covered under a new
"goal five’’ of the stan
dards
The only rural con
tested area in the north
Clackamas County area
is C a rm e l E s ta te s ,
which is more than 20
acres near the intersec
tion of U S Highway 26
and Oregon Highway
212 The county claims
the land should be zoned
for com m ercial use.
LCDC members want
the land designated for
agricultural or forest
uses, as do city of Sandy
officials who have op
posed the commercial
zone since it was first
designated.
The Mount Hood area
along Highway 26 out
side of the Hoodland
lo c a l
im p ro v e m e n t
district is under study
by the LCDC The com
mission has requested
additional information
on the area from the
county before land use
designations are made
tai, economic, energy
and social impacts of
preserving such sites in
the county are She said
one c h u rc h in the
Damascus-Boring area
is the only such struc
ture in the area involved
in this part of the ex
tended land-use plan’s
approval process
The county has been
working on its p a n
sine
the LCDC was
formed, and w ill be
among the firs t 10
Oregon counties to com
plete the planning pro
cess if the commission
approves the revisions
submitted at the end of
the extension
Goal 5 of the state’s
laws calls for special
designation of wetland
and historic areas iri the
county.
According to Steven
son, the LCDC wants the
county to determ ine
what the environmen-
C itizen-of-year b an q u et th is F riday
A crowd of 90-120 is ex
pected at the annual Sandy
Chamber of Commerce in
stallation and awards ban
quet this Friday at Red
L io n B o w m a n 's
in
Welches.
A no-host cocktail hour
opens the evening at 6 30
p m with a dinner of stuff
ed chicken to follow
Highlight of the evening
will be naming of Sandy
area's citizen of the year
for 1961 Winner last year
was D a rre ll D em pster,
current Kiwams president
and M ountain F estival
chairman.
The Sandy High School
Pionnaires musical group
will entertain
Chuck
Jones
of
Ferguson’s Power Equip
ment in Sandy will be in
stalled as new (’hamber
president
Other new officers are
Vicki Ward, vice presi
dent; M arge H offm an,
secretary, and Ed Storey,
treasurer
Tickets are available at
the Chamber of Commerce
office
Chamber to eye taxes and timber
.Sandy Chamber of Com
merce will get an insider's
look into county taxation
and Mt. Hood National
Forest soon at upcoming
meetings
G e o rg e
M a lin ,
C la c k a m a s
C o u nty
assessor, will address the
Chamber at noon this Tues
day, Jan 19, at theTollgate
Inn about county tax
assessments A short ques
tion and answer period will
follow
Charles Smay, district
ranger at Zigzag, will ad
dress the Sandy Chamber
at noon the following Tues
day, Jan 26. at theTollgate
Inn on topics of local con
cern
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Oregon's economy will
hit bottom and rebound all
in this year, but Sandy can
rebound even faster by at
tracting industry.
At least that’s the pro
gnosis and local advice
from Mt Hood College
economics instructor Ted
Shineman, form er state
economic consultant in
Maryland
His forecasts for 1962
were delivered this week to
the Sandy Chamber of
Commerce
He joined state Labor
Commissioner Mary Wen
dy Roberts and the city’s
own Economic Develop
Alarm rate
down during
recent year
Chimney fires during the
single month of December
accounted for more than
one-third of all chimney
fires reported during 1981
as winter weather hit the
Sandy area.
According to year-end
statistics released this
week by the Sandy Fire
D istrict, there were 17
chimney fires last month
and 46 during the year
During the year there
were 152 reported fires,
many of them preventable
“ T hat’s many more fires
than we'd like to see,’’ said
F ir e
M a rs h a l
Jim
Gallagher Chimney fires
are preventable by proper«
operation and maintenan.e
of -.he system, he said
“ You can prevent them
You don’t need to a
chimney fire,” Gallagher
pointed out
Another 30 percent of the
y e a r's fire w ere also
preventable. Forty-three
grass, rubbish and trash
fires were reported and
those can be stopped “ by
people observing some
basic common sense,”
Gallagher said
There were 870 alarms
recorded during 1981, com
pared to 986 one year
earlier
A g a in
e m e rg e n c y
medical services made up
the bulk of the calls For
the year there were 558
EM Scalls. 152 fire alarms.
76 public assistances, 55
mutual aids with adjacent
fire districts, and 29 false
alarms
ment Commission in urg
mg Sandy to attract new in
dustry to town, a task eas
ed by favorable climate
here. Shineman said
Major factors cited by in
dustrialists who relocate
are met locally, he said,
with Sandy’s recreational
fa c ilitie s , skilled labor
force, relatively low hous
ing costs and affordable
land and taxes
For Oregon and the na
tion as a whole. Shineman
forecasts a slight improve
ment by the end of the
year, after the economy
hits bottom in late spring or
summer
"Oregon services the
rest of the country." he
said of Oregon business
makeup, “so we can't ex
pect to do well if the coun
try doesn't.
“ W hen
W ash in g to n
(D C .) sneezes, we get a
cold
When Washington
gets a co ld , we get
pneumonia ”
S h in em an
p re d ic ts
Oregon's unemployment
soon will hit 11.1 percent,
its highest since the Great
Depression
A third of state sawmills
will be closed with another
third slowed down this
year, he also forecast
Non-durable goods will
be hit less, he said, but
almost all sectors of the
economy will be down
There are bright spots
Agriculture statewide may
improve this year with
more exports, and inflation
alre ad y is slowing on
almost everything but final
goods to retail consumers.
W hile single-family hous
ing starts statewide in
December totaled only 318
with 63 additional apart
ment units, 20 of the
Portland metro area's total
of 28 apartment units were
started here in Sandy
Those 20 new Sandy
ap artm ents under con
struction are part of Sandy
builder Ginny Brewster s
housing complex for senior
citizens
Actual employment rate
coming out for Oregon, he
said, will be up 8 percent
i versus the unemployment
m ark of 11 I percent),
since there are more peo
pie here this year
The nation's growing $109
million deficit is held at
bay now, almost ironically,
by high interest rates that
keeps the private sector
from borrowing, Shineman
added So there's even a
bright side to the current
recession, he said, with
pressure on the credit
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