Comprehensive Plan Update
The City of Woodburn has spent the past eight years on tasks to update its Comprehensive Plan, which functions as the
blueprint for how the city will grow over the next 20 years. This process involved completing various plans and studies
that provided the basis for updating the Woodburn Comprehensive Plan and Woodburn Development Ordinance. These plans
and studies included an updated housing needs analysis, a buildable lands analysis, a wetlands study, an updated
transportation systems plan, a parks master plan, a public facilities plan, and an economic opportunities analysis and
strategy.
Based on the information provided by these plans and studies and public input provided at Planning Commission and City
Council meetings and hearings, the City has determined that Woodburn does not have sufficient buildable land within its
current Urban Growth Boundary (UGB) for the next 20 years. The City proposes to expand the UGB to provide for planned
growth. The City will also update the comprehensive plan and development ordinances based on the information provided
by the plans and studies and consistent with state planning goals and rules. In addition, the City proposes to change t
he comprehensive plan designation and zoning of many properties in the UGB to be consistent with the proposed comprehensive plan.
Below is the ordinance (including attachments) that was adopted by the City Council at its October 31, 2005 meeting to
implement these various changes.
The following items were presented at the September 12, 2005 Council meeting.
Staff recommendations following the June 13, 2005 Council meeting are available below.
The original proposed plan and land use regulation amendments are provided below.
Maps illustrating the proposed Urban Growth Boundary expansion and comprehensive plan designations and maps of proposed changes to comprehensive
plan designations and zoning are provided below.