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GOAL 9 analysis shows need
for more employment lands
throughout South Morrow
By Andrea Di Salvo
The recent Goal 9
buildable lands analysis
conducted for the three
communities of the Willow
Creek Valley wrapped up
last month. Morrow Coun-
ty Planner Tamra Mabbott
and the team from Points
Consulting appeared before
the Morrow County Board
of Commissioners June 21
to provide an update on the
team’s findings.
Mabbott said she ap-
proached the cities of South
Morrow County about a
year ago and told them the
county had just finished the
buildable lands inventory
for housing and asked if
they would like the same
thing done for employment
lands. Employment lands
are places people work,
commercial or industrial
property. Oregon Statewide
Planning Program has 17
planning goals; Goal 9 is
economic development.
With that in mind, Mor-
row County Planning se-
cured a technical assistance
grant from the Department
of Land Conservation and
Development (DLCD),
aiming to support the eco-
nomic development and
employment opportunities
in the Willow Creek Valley.
The contract for the project
was awarded to Points Con-
sulting in July 2022.
Points Consulting
project assistant Madeline
Bowen was at the meet-
ing via Zoom, along with
economist Pedro Jimenez,
and senior planner Ryan
Hughes from Nexus Plan-
ning Services.
One crucial aspect of
the project involved analyz-
ing the existing commercial
and industrial land supplies
in each community.
Hughes’s role was to
analyze the existing com-
mercial and industrial land
supplies in each communi-
ty. The team then looked at
constraints such as wetlands
and flood plains, slopes,
ownership.
“That would give us
our net supply, and from
there we’re looking at both
vacant and redevelopable
lands that would suggest
how much is available for
future development,” said
Hughes.
Hughes added that
flood plains are a “sig-
nificant” constraint when
it comes to development
along the Willow Creek
Valley.
For instance, Hughes
said, in Heppner they start-
ed with a gross of roughly
290 acres of employment
land, but ended with a net
of only 49.6 acres.
“In this case, it really
just limits what can be done
for the future, so we see that
the supply is quite limited
there,” he said.
The situation was sim-
ilar in Ione, where analysis
showed zero available in-
dustrial acres even though
they began analysis with
roughly 64 gross acres.
In Lexington, there were
only about two good-sized
industrial plots available.
“It kind of gives us a
sense that, overall, we’re
fairly limited in what can
be done, and when we look
at future opportunities, we
want to see that there’s va-
cant acreage that a potential
business or an investor
could come in and pro-
vide additional employment
use.”
Population projections
were also taken into account
during the assessment.
“Historically, the Wil-
low Creek Valley has done
fairly well,” Bowen said.
W h i l e t h e Wi l l o w
Creek Valley experienced
a slight population drop
during the COVID-19 pan-
demic, as did many areas,
future projections indicate
a steady population growth.
The exception is Lexington,
which is expected to see a
very slight decline.
Despite this, the area
has shown strong employ-
ment growth over the past
decade, outpacing both the
state and national averag-
es—40 percent higher than
the national average, in fact.
Factors such as the ar-
rival of large employers like
Amazon and the support of
the Columbia River Enter-
prise Zone have contribut-
ed to this growth, Bowen
said. She said employment
growth is projected to con-
tinue, though it may not be
as significant as in previous
years.
Overall, there are cur-
rently 704 jobs in the Wil-
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low Creek Valley. Jiminez
said those are expected to
increase 0.4 percent over
the next 10 years to 707
jobs, followed by a decline
down to 702 jobs, for an
overall decline of 0.3 per-
cent over 20 years.
The county has also
experienced significant
growth in wages, increas-
ing 125 percent in 11 years.
“It’s worth knowing
that these job numbers are
by place of work rather
than by place of residence,”
said Jiminez. “This means
that the actual number of
employed persons in each
WCV is higher than the
numbers shown, but many
of these workers currently
out-commute from their
cities to go to work.”
He also said the projec-
tions were assuming a sta-
tus quo, with no changes to
the urban growth boundary
or new investments by the
town or cities.
“The cities in the
WCV aren’t necessarily
predestined to this,” he
said. “These numbers can
change if those assumptions
I mentioned before change
as well.”
Based on his research,
Jiminez said the Willow
Creek Valley would prob-
ably see a 5.2-acre demand
for industrial acreage, with
a four-percent demand for
commercial acres. Of the
three communities, Hep-
pner is the one that will
likely have the greatest
need for industrial acres
with a demand for 1.8 acres
by 2043, while Ione will
probably have the greatest
need for commercial land,
at 2.6 acres.
However, the findings
of the assessment revealed
a shortage of both medium
and large industrial sites in
the Willow Creek Valley,
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P.O. Box 337
Heppner, OR 97836
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