Patricia Roberts Voting Logic On Bradwood Landing - #1

Large Site Versus Small To Medium - A Matter Of Semantics Versus Reality

The Bradwood sub-area plan called for any development to be small to medium in scale. How can this development be considered small?There are two facts that indicate that this project can be identified as small to medium. GRP -The premise for most of the justification for the vote, per Roberts herself, on the sweeping approvals for this vote by Clatsop County B.O.C.C., was that they were site specific issues only and Bradwood/Northern Star had agreed verbally, no written agreement, to be as cooperative as "THEY" could be. First, the state of Oregon in an attempt to encourage development of former mill sires, around 1990, ruled that all former mill sites were exempt from any building size. ( other industrial site are limited to a 30,000 square foot square t building size for industrial development.) In fact Bradwood, a former mill site, is specifically named in Clatsop County documents as exempt from a limitation on building size. Second, the only other indicator of size in the planning documents state the relative number of acres of an industrial site. Large is defined as 100 acres or more. Bradwood, at 40 acres thus is on the lesser side of medium, or 50 acres. There is no height limit on industrial sites in Clatsop County.Further, the Board stipulated that the small to medium size limited the site to a maximum of two LNG tanks. The applicant had request three tanks. The applicant had also requested all language limiting the site to the small to medium size development be removed from the approval criteria. Their request was denied. Further the application is limited to the 36 mile pipeline included in the approval document. No other pipeline is included in this approval.