From: Alice Cannon

Sent: Mon Sep 09 10:20:03 2019

To: Morgan Will; Gerald Fisher

Cc: 'Steve Kay'

Subject: RE: Coho Street Subdivision Questions

Importance: Normal

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Good morning:

Thanks for your note. You are correct about the historical context of the approval and findings for P45-2016.

We are always open to discussion about variations to our standards. In this case, Gerald didn’t yet believe the variations your team requested are justified. That said, we don’t have the context to demonstrate why you have abandoned proposals that meet the City’s standards. That burden of proof will be important to justify any variations. We look forward to talking more in a pre-app session or by phone or at the front counter.

Regards,

Alice Cannon

Alice Cannon | Planning Director

City of Molalla

117 N Molalla Ave. | PO Box 248 |Molalla, OR 97038

Office: 503.829.6855 | Direct: 503.759.0219

acannon@cityofmolalla.com

From: Morgan Will <morgan@staffordlandcompany.com>

Sent: Monday, September 9, 2019 9:18 AM

To: Alice Cannon <acannon@cityofmolalla.com>; Gerald Fisher <gfisher@cityofmolalla.com>

Cc: 'Steve Kay' <steve@cascadiapd.com>

Subject: RE: Coho Street Subdivision Questions

Alice,

I am under the understanding that the approval for File No. P-45-2016 has expired and has no bearing on this inquiry nor any future application, other than historical context. This seems particularly true since the City has updated its zoning code, its transportation system plan, and its public works standards since the application which lead to approval of File No. P-45-2016. Is this not correct?

We sent this inquiry via email in lieu of asking questions over the counter. We felt it would be more efficient and would allow staff to confer and answer the questions at their leisure. We are aware of the value of a pre-application meeting, and certainly intend to schedule one in the near future. We already had a pre-application meeting considering a 3-Lot Partition of the property, and did not want to waste staff time in another pre-application meeting with a development program that Staff would not support. Thus, we shared the plan and questions via email hoping to get staff perspective.

We understand it will be our burden to demonstrate in our application the constraints we faced in design of a subdivision and to address the exceptions requested. We did not want to list them all out in a narrative for this preliminary inquiry.

Alice and Gerald, we just wanted to know if City staff were open to supporting the types of exceptions discussed. It sounds like City staff is open to that based on your email below, staff just wants to discuss it further at a pre-application meeting to get more of a context before commenting further. Is that correct?

Best,

From: Alice Cannon <acannon@cityofmolalla.com>

Sent: Monday, September 9, 2019 8:57 AM

To: Morgan Will <morgan@staffordlandcompany.com>; Gerald Fisher <gfisher@cityofmolalla.com>

Cc: 'Steve Kay' <steve@cascadiapd.com>; Gerald Fisher <gfisher@cityofmolalla.com>

Subject: RE: Coho Street Subdivision Questions

Good morning Morgan:

All of these questions would be best answered at a pre-application meeting. When I spoke with Gerald, he did not see any justification for modifications to our standards relating to driveways, dead ends or deferral of highway frontage improvements. Further, the need for lot area adjustments is needed due to the exceptions requested with driveways, and dead ends. If we are communicating only via email and not in a pre-app meeting, we have no way of knowing the alternatives you considered or the constraints you faced when designing this proposed subdivision. We look forward to more dialogue in the context of a pre-app meeting.

I also understand that the Molalla City Council adopted specific findings about the deferral of sidewalks. I suspect you have a copy of those findings. If not, I have attached them.

I have included a link to the pre-app form for your reference. We look forward to meeting when your team is ready.

https://www.cityofmolalla.com/sites/default/files/fileattachments/planning/page/1851/pre_application_conference.pdf

Regards,

Alice Cannon

From: Morgan Will <morgan@staffordlandcompany.com>

Sent: Thursday, August 22, 2019 4:23 PM

To: Gerald Fisher <gfisher@cityofmolalla.com>

Cc: Alice Cannon <acannon@cityofmolalla.com>; 'Steve Kay' <steve@cascadiapd.com>

Subject: Coho Street Subdivision Questions

Hello Gerald,

Following our pre-app with the City where we were looking at a 3-lot partition, when we learned the City zoning code had changed, we took a new look at our property:

Tax Lot 200 on Clackamas County Tax Map 5 2E 09DA (see attached tax map)

Could I ask you to review the attached list of questions with appropriate review staff at the City and get back to me with answers? (See also attached Concept Plan)

We’d like to know the answers so we can decide how to move forward with development planning for this property.

I’m assuming if we proceed to pursue a subdivision we’ll need schedule a new pre-application meeting where we could have further discussion about our proposal, which we can do, but first we’d appreciate receiving answers to the attached questions so we can decide if we want to move forward with a subdivision application like this one, or not.

I look forward to hearing back from you.

Best,