Current Planning

Summary

Current planning involves review of land use applications for conformance with the Tualatin Development Code (TDC).

Application review involves application of TDC standards, exercise of professional judgment, and collaboration with other departments and divisions and outside parties, particularly when applying City goals and objectives such as those in:

• Tualatin Community Plan, the City's comprehensive plan or comp plan that is Chapters 1-30 within the TDC
• Remainder of the TDC (Chapters 31-75)
• City Council Strategic Management Plan (SMP)
• Tualatin Tomorrow Community Vision and Strategic Action Plan (TT CVSAP).

Major Current Planning Topics

• Architectural Review (AR), including Single-family AR (ARSF)

• Fee Schedule

• Fences

• Historic Preservation

• Neighborhood/Developer (N/D) Meetings 

• Projects (i.e., Submitted Land Use Applications)

• Pre-Application & Scoping Meetings

• Signs / Signage / Sign Regulations

• Trees / Tree Regulations

• Wireless Communication Facility (WCF) / Cell Tower

• Zoning (Planning Districts)

Pre-Requisites

Most land use applications require prior to submittal:

1. Pre-application meeting (pre-app)

2. Neighborhood/developer (n/d) meeting
    

Major Application Types

Applications that are both major and fairly frequent are:

• Architectural Review (AR)
• Conditional Use Permit (CUP)
• Plan Amendments:
  • Plan Map Amendment (PMA), in Tualatin equivalent also to a rezoning
  • Plan Text Amendment (PTA).
     

Minor Application Types

Other land use or permit applications that are minor or less frequent include:

• Annexation (ANN)
• Architectural Review - Single-Family (ARSF)
• Historic Landmark action (HIST)
• Industrial Master Plan (IMP)
• Interpretation (INT)
• Minor Architectural Review (MAR)
• Minor Variance (MVAR)
• Sign Permit (S), the most frequently submitted application
• Sign Variance (SVAR)
• Temporary Use Permit (TUP)
• Transitional Use Permit (TRP)
• Tree Removal Permits (TCP)
• Variance (VAR).
   

The Engineering Division of the Community Development Department processes two land use application types that relate to land division:

• Partition (PAR)
• Subdivision (SB).
   

Notice of Application

View submitted applications and neighborhood/developer (n/d) meeting notices respectively through:

1. Projects Webpage, and
2. Tualatin News, an RSS feed
    

Reviewing Bodies

• Architectural Review Board (ARB)
  • View ARB calendar
• Tualatin Planning Commission (TPC)
  • View TPC calendar
• City Council:
  • View City Council calendar
  • For applications that go to public hearing before the City Council for approval, you can view City Council agendas and agenda items by visiting the City Council meeting agenda webpage starting a week before the hearing date of an item. The City Council meets the second (2nd) and fourth (4th) Mondays of the month, except the last Monday in December.

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[Webpage last updated 10/03/2012]