Tabor Disconnect Newsflash: Settlement

Today MTNA representatives finalized a settlement with the Portland Water Bureau in the Tabor Reservoir land use appeal (LU 14-218444 HREN).  

These are the terms:  

• We agree to eliminate Condition E from the land use Decision's Conditions of Approval (this Condition mandated spending on the preservation work called out in the Historic Structures Report).  
• We agree to modify Condition B in the land use Decision's Conditions of Approval (this Condition deals with water).  
• We co-wrote a Council Resolution, which carries the binding force of law, which covers several community concerns and mandates $4 million in spending for the preservation work called out in the Historic Structures Report.  
• At the hearing on July 15, Council will be asked to adopt this Resolution, and in turn MTNA will pledge not to appeal the land use Decision to LUBA. Then Council will approve the modified Decision for this land use case.  If any of these steps go awry, the deal will also.  

The documents

Click here for the modified Condition B.

Click here for the new Council Resolution.
Concerned about the binding nature of the Resolution?  We are too.  Read this.

It's taken 18 months, what have we achieved?
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