Group to ask Washington County

Members of the Citizen Participation Organization 7 unanimously Monday night to ask the Washington County Board of Commissioners not to adopt Ordinance 730, which would adopt a secondary plan area to the north of Bethany.

Was attended by about 70 people at the meeting, most of them spoke out against the proposed funding strategy for the province of Northern urban development plan 800 acres of the United States 26, Portland Community College Rock Creek campus. And demonstrated knowledge of the meeting would be packed, more than 12 attendees with their own chairs.

Throughout the meeting, said meeting the provincial plan - which would cover only 69 million dollars in projects, or create a quarter of transport needs already identified by the development - is not enough. He said the plan require attendance until 69 million dollars of taxpayers outside the North Bethany to help in any invoice or live with less services.

"What you're trying to figure out for four years is how much the cost of this at home for a person living in, say, Tigard?" Said Greg Malinowski, 7, and both, the member who is also the Commissioner for the province. "Now, this will be the development of inflation, and I'm sure we will love all that, but the rest of us will be paying for it."

The crowd laughed when Malinowski called the development "inflation."

Although most people in the meeting of the developers have to bear a greater burden for financing and means of transport - without passing along the fees to homeowners - the Organization's appeal sent to the province does not speak to those frustrations. Message and both, also does not suggest a strategy to promote the development, but instead simply says that the financing of the biggest list on the basis of off-site transportation projects - a total of about 289 million - should be identified and secured before the province approved for development.

Will be discussed by the Planning Commission Decree in session August 25, but the Commission will not take public testimony. Residents can speak again in the County Board of Commissioners meeting on September 7 at 10:00, in the hall of Shirley Hoffman building public services.