North Bethany Subarea Plan

The planning for the North Bethany Subarea consists of two key components:

• Land Use/Transportation
• Funding

Land Use/Transportation

The Washington County Board of Commissioners (BCC) adopted Ordinance 739-A on October 25, 2011. Ordinance 739-A amended the North Bethany Subarea Plan, including the removal of the FD-20 land use designation and application of urban land use designations; creation of a map identifying North Bethany urban/rural edge buffer elements; and amendments to existing plan text, maps and development standards to address issues such as provision of community service uses, urban/rural compatibility, and public facility and service requirements.

The BCC also directed action in 2012 on consideration of specific outstanding issues identified primarily as placeholders in Ordinance 739-A. These placeholders include:

- Allowing detached single family dwellings in R-15 NB District

- Planned development standards for a density bonus

- Planned development standards to adjust dimensional standards

- Cluster housing: two building prototypes - county's proposal (based on other jurisdictions' existing standards) and K&R's proposal (based on its Beaverton development)

- Finalizing the plan amendment criteria for North Bethany

- Determine if a plan amendment is needed for the final delineation of Significant Natural Resource boundaries

- Complete the Building Design & Variety standards for Section 390-20

- Examine the alignment of Road P16 concerning its crossing of the creek

- Consider if modifications to the standards for the assurance methods and acquisition of land for public facilities, especially parkland, should be made

- Consider the creation of new partition standards to allow for the acquisition of parkland prior to development of the subject site

- Consider the creation of partition standards for lots with more than one land use designation