On January
12, 2015, the Tabor Reservoir disconnect project had its second Historic
Resource Review hearing in front of the Historic Landmarks Commission (HLC). Documentary filmmaker Brad Yazzolino has
posted video of the 3 hour hearing here: https://vimeo.com/116833723
Water Bureau
continued to resist including in their project documents, the preservation
plans required by Oregon land use law.
If you’d like to see more about the Water Bureau’s failure to meet land
use law with this proposal, see land use attorney Ty Wyman’s brief on this
subject here. Additionally,
Water Bureau only addressed 6 of the 11 items about which the Historic
Landmarks Commission previously requested more documentation.
Without proper documentation (including
preservation plans for the site), PWB’s application violates land use law, and
if this proposal is allowed to move forward in its current state there is
ground for an appeal to LUBA. MTNA and
other neighborhood groups are prepared for that possibility.
However, as the right path forward serves both the interests of the
community and the interests of the law, we continue to hope the proposal will
be amended by either the Water Bureau or the HLC.
The Historic
Landmarks Commission was not satisfied with Water Bureau’s application, and these
Commissioners did not make a decision at Monday’s hearing. Because new information was introduced just
before the hearing, the record is held open until 12 noon on January 20th
to allow comment on that new information.
(To see the information in the record thus far, visit the HLC EFiles
site linked below)
All of the
comments received by noon on January 20th will be posted to the
HLC’s Efiles site by January 21st (linked below). Then, to allow comment on that new comment,
the record will be held open until 12 noon on January 26th, at which
time a new public hearing will happen. There will be no public comment at this
January 26th hearing.
Links:
For all
documents submitted to the Historic Landmarks Commission in this case, visit
the City’s EFiles site for this case: http://efiles.portlandoregon.gov/record/7060913
For MTNA’s January
8th letter to HLC, responding to the Dec 1st hearing and
the Dec 23rd document from Water Bureau, follow this link: http://mtna-landuse.blogspot.com/2014/11/hlc-comments.html
For a debrief on the first hearing on
December 1st, 2014; follow this link:
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