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Oregon Department of Land Conservation and Development

City of Damascus Acknowledgement
Damascus Acknowledgement Director's Report
The Damascus Comprehensive Plan will be heard at the April 22, 2011 Land Conservation and Development (LCDC) meeting in Salem.

Introduction/Timeline
The City of Damascus submitted their locally adopted comprehensive plan and map for acknowledgement by the Land Conservation and Development Commission on December 16, 2010.  The department sent a letter of incompleteness to the City on December 29, 2010.  The Department is currently reviewing the submitted plan and working with the City to confirm the contents of its submittal for hearing before the Commission.  A date has not been set for the Commission to hear the acknowledgement request.
 
 
If you have questions about the City of Damascus’s acknowledgement, please contact Jennifer Donnelly, DLCD Metro Regional Representative at (503) 725-2183 or jennifer.donnelly@state.or.us.
 

Process
The Land Conservation and Development Commission is scheduled to review Damascus’ Comprehensive Plan at its regular meeting in Salem on April 21 and 22, 2011. The process for acknowledging a new city’s comprehensive plan is outlined in OAR 660-003; Procedure for review and approval of compliance acknowledgement request.
 
Following the April 2011 hearing, the commission will decide whether Damascus’ comprehensive plan complies with, partially complies with, or does not comply with Oregon’s statewide planning goals. If the city’s plan partially complies with or does not comply with the statewide goals, the city will have opportunity to submit a revised plan for further consideration by the commission.
 
This constitutes the state’s public notice on this matter. Parties are invited to provide written comments to the commission regarding the city's plan, ordinances or land use regulations and whether those documents comply or not with one or more of Oregon’s statewide planning goals. Parties that wish to participate in the commission hearing(s) on this matter must submit written comments addressing the Damascus Comprehensive Plan’s compliance with Oregon’s statewide planning goals. Damascus 45 day comment notice. 
 
The department will accept written comments on this matter until close of business on March 7, 2011. For more information or to submit comments for consideration by the commission, please contact DLCD’s Metro Regional Representative Jennifer Donnelly at jennifer.donnelly@state.or.usor (503) 725-2183. The department respectfully requests that parties sending written comments to the department also send a copy of those comments to the City of Damascus.
 
If an additional commission hearing(s) should be necessary, the department will notify parties who participate in the April 21-22, 2011 hearing and who provide written comments to the department by March 7, 2011. Parties will have a minimum of 20 days to submit additional written comments to the department prior to the subsequent commission hearing.

LCDC Acknowledgement Order 2011 and Compliance Schedule

City of Damascus Acknowledgement Request
City of Damascus comprehensive plan adopting ordinance.  
 
City of Damascus locally adopted comprehensive plan map. 
 
For more information about the City of Damascus.