Comprehensive Plan Amendment

The City of Newberg is proposing to amend its Comprehensive Plan, V. Land Supply and Need, to incorporate new information from the Newberg Housing Needs Analysis (June 2021) and Newberg Housing Strategy (January 2021), Newberg Economic Opportunities Analysis (March 2021), and Newberg Public and Semi-Public Land Need 2021-2014 analysis.

 

We invite you to participate in the land use hearing scheduled before the Planning Commission on October 13, 2022 at 7:00pm. If you wish to participate in the hearing, you may do so in person or be represented by someone else. Oral testimony typically is limited to five minutes per speaker.

If you mail your comments to the City, please put the following information on the outside of the envelope:

Written Comments: File No. CPTA22-0002        
City of Newberg                                           
Community Development Department
PO Box 970
Newberg, OR  97132

All written comments must be turned in by noon on Monday October 10, 2022.  Written information received after this time will be read out loud at the hearing subject to time limits for speakers, and will be included in the record if there are further proceedings.

You can look over all the information about this project or drop comments off at Newberg City Hall, 414 E First Street.  You can also buy copies of the information for a cost of 25 cents a page.  A staff report relating to the proposal will be available for inspection at no cost seven days prior to the public hearing.  If you have any questions about the project, you can call the Newberg Planning Division at 503-537-1240.                                                                                                                 

Any issue which might be raised in an appeal of this case to the Land Use Board of Appeals (LUBA) must be raised during the public hearing process.  You must include enough detail to enable the decision maker an opportunity to respond.  The applicable criteria used to make a decision on this application for a comprehensive Plan amendment are found in Newberg Development Code Section 15.100.060.

Prior to the conclusion of the initial evidentiary hearing, any participant may request an opportunity to present additional evidence, arguments or testimony regarding the application through a continuance or extension of the record.  Failure of an issue to be raised in the hearing, in person or by letter, or failure to provide statements or evidence sufficient to afford the decision maker an opportunity to respond to the issue precludes appeal to the State Land Use Board of Appeals based on that issue.

If you participate in the public hearing process, either by testifying at the public hearing, or by sending in written comments, you will be sent information about any decision made by the City relating to this project.

Additional information and updates such as public hearing schedules and other project information will be posted as evaluation of the project advances.