83-01 Comprehensive Plan Amendments
ORDINANCE NO. 83-1 APPENDIX A
CITY OF SODAVILLE
POST ACKNOWLEDGEMENT AMENDMENTS TO THE
COMPREHENSIVE PLAN
ACCEPTED BY THE CITY OF SODAVILLE COMMON COUNCIL
ON JULY 26, 1983
CITIZEN PARTICIPATION AND COMMUNITY SERVICES COMMUNITY GOALS
1. Provide a way for citizens, including seniors and teenagers, to share skills and knowledge while contributing to the community and local government.
2. Train, educate and inform the citizens about the problems and limits a small community faces by involving them in leadership and service roles in the operations of the village government.
3. Provide for continuity in local government.
PROBLEMS AND POTENTIALS
The city of Sodaville cannot afford the modern separation of policy making from city operations. The city must rely upon committees of volunteers both to suggest policy and to carry out city council policy and directives strict financial controls should minimize the possibility of committees acting without Council Authority.
Effective citizen involvement can reduce the citizens negative feelings toward local government by drawing them into decision making by helping them look at problems from a community wide perspective.
By spreading responsibility, volunteers will be kept from "burning out."
POLICIES:
The City of Sodaville shall:
1-A Continue #o notify people of planning meetings and their results.
1-B Encourage people to attend planning meetings and hearings regarding revisions to the Comprehensive Plan.
1-C Conduct community surveys every two years as the basis for plan revisions and grant applications.
1-D Make the Comprehensive plan available to the public.
1-E Continually update background material.
Policy 2.
Review and anger as necessary the Comprehensive Plan.
Policy 3.
Establish council/citizen advisory committees, of two or more members, chaired by council persons, to research problems the community faces and to make policy recommendations to the council as a whole.
Policy 4.
Maintain the following committees
a. planning and community development
b. public works and utilities
c. public health and safety
Policy 5.
Include insurance protection for volunteers in the city liability and medical insurance package.
RECOMMENDATIONS:
1. Provide as needed the following committees:
A. Recreation and Community affairs.
B. Housing, Energy & Socia1 Services and other committees that conditions my require.
2. Reserve one position for a senior on the housing, energy, and social service committee.
3. Reserve a spot for a teenager, a senior, and the school superintendant [sic] on the recreation & community affairs committee.
4. Allow one person outside the city property to serve as a member.
Note--Committee job descriptions appear in appendix.
REASONS FOR CHANGES
1. Pages 7,8,9 are confusing to read, a lot of overlap in content and combining the pages eliminates redundancy.
2. The manor of listing policies on pages 8 and 9 was in form of job descriptions for committees.
In combining the three pages, several items were listed as policies, and those items which described committee function were moved to a new chapter in the appendix.
3, [sic] Policy No. 10 on page 9 is deleted because it is already provided for on page 53 in section Public Facilities and Utilities, general goals: number one and on each of pages 57 through 77.
4. Policy No. 9 is added because it was not inc1uded,in the original Comprehensive Plan.
SELF RELIANT ECONOMY
Community Goal
Encourage and assit [sic] individuals, as well as the community as a whole to provide for their own needs.
PROBLEMS AND POTENTIALS
Sodaville household economy is based on the following resources; relatively large personal investments in tools and equipment; low-density housing on large lots due to septic limitations; and construction, gardening and homemaking skills. This household economy provides the basis for the less developed exchange economy which involves the sharing of skills and tools as well as trading services.
In the volunteer economy, residents utilize idle equipment and leisure time to assist neighbors and the community through selffulfilling [sic] activities such as building, 'teaching or leading. The co-operative economy has not yet been developed.
POLICIES:
The City of Sodaville shall:
1. Avoid, whenever possible, policies and programs which discourage people from providing for their own needs.
2. Encourage residents to volunteer their time and services to the community by working with the Council Committees and especially by contributing their individual ideas and talents to community projects.
3. Assist, where possible, the formation of consumers or produces co-operatives.
RECOMMENDATIONS:
Facilitate the exchange economy by providing space for skills sharing and a tool and service
exchange.
Policy No. 1 was made a recommendation.
RECREATION - SPORTS
Community Goals
1. Use of the Sodaville setting for active recreational activities.
2. Provide an adequate range of recreational activities to satisfy all age groups.
3. Co-ordinate recreational planning and implementation with surrounding areas.
PROBLEMS AND POTENTIALS
In line with the concept developed in the leisure section, the City of Sodaville is not a provider of services; instead, it provides recreational opportunities. It is the village itself, the setting, and the people which create a park like environment.
Multiple use of the public open spaces for recreation (Sodaville Park, Sodaville School) plus as much incentive as possible in promoting private recreational activity are general parameters for city policy.
POLICIES
Continually work with County Parks Department to secure park development funds.
RECOMMENDATIONS
Seek funds from State or Federal Funding.
"Note" Reasons:
Deleted 1-3 as these policies mandate appropriation of funds that should be at the discretion of the City.
RECREATION - CULTURAL
Community Goals
1. Maintain and entice the historical and cultural character of the City
2. Provide opportunities for informal educational enrichment.
PROBLEMS AND POTENTIALS
A community as rich in history as Sodaville has obvious potential for recapturing some of this character. "Identity" is a Key to the subelement....realization of what Sodaville has been, what it is now and what it can be, are all important. Recognition of historic sties [sic], building, and activities in Sodaville lends continunity [sic] to come of the current life- styles and potential activities e.g. outdoor concerts and plays. Other cultural activities can serve to compliment these.
POLICIES
The City of Sodaville shall:
1. Maintain at the Sodaville City Hall a collection of applicable information on programs available for historic preservation.
2. Actively promote the preservation of historic sites and structures.
3. Evaluate the installation of a community owned coaxial cable network which would either carry programs purchased at wholesale or be leased to a cable T.V. company in addition to carrying local programming and data transmission.
"Note" Reasons
Policy 4 deleted as decision should be at the discretion of the City when and if the need arises.
OPEN SPACE - WITHIN CITY
Communtiy [sic] Goals:
1. Insure that open space is maintained throughout the city such that all age groups are adequately provided for.
2. Recognize the North-South Corridor through Sodaville as an important visual experience.
3. Focus the expansion of open spaces around the Sodaville Park and along the northern and eastern boundries [sic].
PROBLEMS AND POTENTIALS
To date, open space in Sodaville has occured [sic] naturally. Large lots, unopened street right-of-ways and undevelopable loss have all contributed to this. In addition, the natural vegetation of the area contributes to the scenic quality of Sodaville.
The greatest potential for creating further open space and associated uses lies within and adjacent to the City Park. Based again the the recognition of Sodaville Park as a focus for community services, open space uses in the area can enhance the environment for civic activities.
POLICIES
The City of Sodaville shall:
1. Explore alternative transportation routes around Sodaville Park to decrease automobile disruption of open space and increase the potential land area for open space.
2. Evaluate using drainageways and unopened streets for community garden and orchards.
RECOMMENDATIONS
1. Encourage uses and structures as well as vegetation preservation which will enhance the visual quality of the North/South Corridor.
2. Establish a tree planting program in the City with emphasis on the greenways along lanes.
3. Evaluate using drainageways and unopened streets for community garden and orchards.
4. Establish a tree planting program in the city with emphasis on the greenways along lanes.
"Note" Reasons
Policies 2,3,5,7 was removed as policies and made recommendations. Policy 8 was deleted as we do not anticipate community drainfield now or in near future.
OPEN SPACE - OUTSIDE CITY
Community Goals
1. Maintain scenic views afforded from within Sodaville.
2. Insure that scenic views are not obstructed by unnecessary vegetation, building heights or other disruptive factors.
PROBLEMS AND POTENTIALS
For such a small geographical area Sodaville and environs possess a broad variety of landscapes: flat pastures, steep wooded hillsides and low-lying farmland typify the setting.
Sodaville's scenic setting is a major source of the visual attractiveness of Sodaville. Views of Petersons Butte, Tyler Hills and the Oak Creek watershed all contribute to the setting of the City. Within this context, the City and its surroundings are also a scenic view. Vegetagion [sic] protection is an important consideration towards preserving this setting.
View obstruction is a potential problem stemming from two factors.
1. New development within Sodaville that may block existing views and
2. City policies that encourage landscape planting and protection of existing vegetation. Plantings that are not excessive in heighth should be encouraged.
Rural land development should be assessed for its visual impacts as well. Monitoring development within the Sodaville "view shed" will insure that Sodaville Comment is heard.
POLICIES:
The City of Sodaville shall:
1. Obtain monthly agenda from Linn County Planning Department on cases to be heard by the County Planning Commission for the purpose of commenting on visual impacts from proposed developments that may affect the Sodaville area.
REASONS:
Policy 1 - It is deleted because it is covered in Sodaville zoning ordinances in exsisting [sic] Policy #1.
PARK AND OPEN SPACE
Policies 1,2,7,8 should be changed to the category "Recommendations" because they may, at some time in the future be good ideas, but are not feasible at the present or near future.
Policy #4 should be deleted because the road is a major collector and on street parking is prohibited in the transportation plan. If off street parking can be constructed for access to the city park, this might be in harmony with use of the major collector, especially if in the future, Sodaville- Waterloo Drive is re-routed to another intersection of Sodaville- Mountain Home Road. Parking on street on this major collector, expecially [sic] since it is used so heavily by large trucks, is not safe.
PROPOSED SMALL SCALE INDUSTRIAL SITE Page 67
Policies #1 & 2 need to be placed under the category "Recommendations" because (a) the level of home occupations is really not a matter that slates to industrial siting unless some one attempted to put an industrial business in a residential or comercial [sic] zone and (b) CR 736 is a residentially zone and used on the east side and (c) is outside the UGB on the west side, and it used for agricultural land. If it was ever annexed, it might become a possible industrial site, but not unless such use was requested by someone. To keep Sodaville a rural village atmosphere, industrial use would have to be very light, quite small, very inoffensive and not very demanding on services or utilities.
Policy #3 should be deleted from this page and any such need would normally be handled under and at the request of interested industrial developers. The City certainly cannot afford to provide potential services for an industrial site that may never’’: exist and which would necessarily be very limited in scope, thereby not requiring much in the way of services and utilities.
SOLID WASTE
COMMUNITY GOALS
* Establish a recycling center within Sodaville
PROBLEMS AND POTENTIALS:
Lebanon Sanitation provides collection service to Sodaville at a rate intended to discourage illegal dumping of solid waste. This, however, is not always the case.
A local approach to addressing part of this problem might start with the establishment of a recycling center in Sodaville. High School volunteers currently operate such a center across from Century Park in Lebanon . A Sodaville center located on municipal property might conceivably be a satellite to the existing center in Lebanon or be staffed by a teen youth group from Sodaville Church .
POLICIES:
The City of Sodaville shall:
* Evaluate the feasibility of locating a recycling center in Sodaville.
* The City of Sodaville will cooperate with State and Federal AGencies [sic] which regulate environmental quality and shall adhere to the standards established by there agencies in the issuance of any permits or approvals given by the City of Sodaville. This policy is intended to cover discharges and emissions which may impair air, water or land quality or exceed the established standards for noises or other emissions.
WASTEWATER TRLATMENT
The original thought of the committee was to delete the entire page, but now it is felt that the LCDC requirements are such that the issue of wastewater treatment must be addressed. The first change recommended is to change the title from "Community Sewer" to "Wastewater Treatment". The reason for this is that the word "sewer" tends to refer to handling of solids as well as 'grey and black water'. The expense of such a full-scale treatment facility or hooking up to one in Lebanon is so great that it is a remote and certainly distant possibility. The reasons given in problems and potentials speak to this also. The development of Sodaville while maintaining its rural atmosphere requires some limitations. One way of Keeping the ’residential density low is to not provide full-scale wastewater treatment. The following changes recommended for this page are aimed toward the general goals found in the forward of the Comprehensive Plan.
COMMUNITY GOALS:
a. delete the stated goal entirely - it is in conflict with the general goals.
b. Add the following 3 goals:
1. cooperate with Oregon State DEQ and Linn County Health and Sanitation in maintaining safe and efficient treatment of wastewater,
2. Assist landowners in obtaining help from government agencies in correcting any septic tank systems which might fail in the future, especially by consideration of alternative systems to tank and leechline methods.
3. If and when a group or large number of existing systems fail (prior to 1980), consider the development of a limited small-scale community watewater [sic] treatment system.
PROBLEMS AND POTENTIALS
Change this section to read as follows:
The community survey of 1977 revealed a divided opinion on the need for community wastewater treatment in Sodaville. Seventeen respondents thought there was need, seventeen thought there was no need for a sewage disposal system. Nineteen responses thought there would be a need in ten years and fifteen thought the opposite. The research data soils in Sodaville collected for the Background Report for the Comprehensive Plan indicated that there is a problem in the city because soils are either poor, marginal, or severe for septic tank/leech line systems. No soils were considered fair, good, or excellent (pp 9-15). High ground water (pp 21-22), the proximity of Oak Creek, fed in part by Sodaville surface drainage systems (pp 34-35) and actual well contamination and an outbreak of hepatitis (pp 39-41) all point to the need for a watchful and observant attitude by the city.
To get funding for a large-scale treatment system is unlikely, as Sodaville is number 12O on a list of priority need kept by the DEQ. The opportunity for funding for Alternative Systems for small cities (under 3,500) is more likely. But the best and lest expensive solutions continue to be private, in nature, rather than , public. Sodavilles [sic] population currently and even projected in the future is relatively small. The already installed water supply system removes much of the hazards previously experienced. The remaining hazard of surface water contamination can propably [sic] be handled best by dealing with each individual problem as it arises and only considering small scale community treatment in the event of large numbers or a group of private systems failins [sic].
POLICIES
Assist families whose existing (prior to 1980) waste- water treatment systems fail either to repair or to install alternative systems, guiding them to government agencies for information and fincancial [sic] assistance, where necessary.
Explore alternatives to the traditional septic tank/ drainfield leech line disposal systems and provide this information to citizens when requested.
3. Consider funding for a limited alternative type wastewater treatment systeme [sic] if a group of existing systems fail (including shared drainfields overseen by the Linn County Sanitation Department, but not including shared drainfields for dwelling constructed after 1980)
4. Allow dwellings constructed after 1980 to install only individual wastewater treatment systems (drainfields may be located on land owned by other if proper easements are recorded with Linn County, but such drainfields may not have any leech lines inter-connected with any other private wastewater treatment systems)
5. Accept conditional use on lots of record in January 1, 1980.
DRAINAGE
Delete polices #1 & 2. The reason for this is to be consistent with the recommendations being made for the road- ways in the transportation plan.
Police #3 should be changed to read:
Work with the Linn County Road Department and the City Engineer in utilizing holding basins, swales, open ditches, and culverts as needed to best solve drainage needs in the city.
MULTIFAMILY
Community Goals
Provide low cost alternative to single family housing.
PROBLEMS AND POTENTIALS
Energy efficiency, land efficiency, low cost construction, low maintenance and efficiency of servicing make these types of units appealing to young couples without children, seniors, singles, partially-disabled individuals and female heads of households. Septic tank limitations are the major hindrance to this type of housing. The transportation network, private utilities and water system will best serve medium density housing when it is located along Sodaville Road.
POLICIES
The City of Sodaville shall:
1. Encourange [sic] the development of low rise, energy efficient, multiunit housing with special design features for seniors located in areas with close access to recreation and convenience shopping.
2. Work with public and nonprofit bodies to provide small scale (4 to 6 units) housing for seniors.
Policy 2 delete because community drainfields apply.
HOUSING ENVIRONMENT
Community Goals
1. Enhance the sense of community identity.
2. Preserve the attractive aesthetic environment created by the diversity of Sodaville's housing.
PROBLEMS AND POTENTIALS
1. Historically, city character has been based on the compactness of the village and the privacy of low density. However, Sodaville lacks those qualities to make it attractive to children, teens, the elderly and the handicapped. These groups have been continully [sic] considered in arriving at the policies in this plan.
2. Older homes and natural landscape are a part of the Sodaville environment that is so effective in conveying the character and livability of the village. Character which above all, decision makers seek to preserve.
POLICIES
The City of Sodaville shall:
1. Stress and publicize housing preservation and restoration, where feasible as opposed to demolition and replacement.
2. Encourage landscaping with indigenous materials in such a way that access to sunlight as an energy source is not impeded or eliminated.
3. Encourage the development of Convenience shopping for the transportation disadvantaged.
4. Increase recreational opportunities for children, teens, and seniors by co-ordinating recreational activity with the school and church.
5. Maintain public greenbelts (see transportation plan) as a way of beautifying and providing privacy for homes.
6. Assess and consider possible impacts on fish and wild- life habitats in reviewing development proposals.
REASONS:
1. Existing policy 3 deleted because it is addressed in transportation plan.
2. Policy 5 was deleted after word "church".
3. Existing policy 6 was deleted as it is beyond the City scope to do.