NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARINGS

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARINGS FOREST GROVE PLANNING COMMISSION & FOREST GROVE CITY COUNCIL WATER MASTER PLAN UPDATE FILE NUMBER 311-22-000006-PLNG NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Forest Grove Planning Commission will hold a Public Hearing on Monday, April 18, 2022, and the Forest Grove City Council will hold public hearings on May 9, 2022, and May 23, 2022, at 7:00 p.m. or thereafter, at the Community Auditorium, 1915 Main Street and via Zoom video conferencing, to consider an ordinance to amend the text of the Forest Grove Comprehensive Plan to add the 2022 Water Master Plan update as a technical appendix. The Planning Commission and City Council will consider this proposal and base their decisions on the following policies. Comments in response to this proposal must address the applicable policies: –Oregon Statewide Planning Goal 11 (Public Facilities) –Forest Grove Comprehensive Plan Chapter 7 (Public Facil- ities; Water Service Goals and Local Policies) All persons will be given reasonable opportunity to give testimony about this proposal responding to the review criteria above. If an issue is not raised in the hearing (by person or by letter) or if the issue is not explained in sufficient detail to allow the Planning Commission or City Council to respond to the issue, then that issue cannot be used for an appeal to the Land Use Board of Appeals. If additional documents or evidence are provided in support of the application, any party shall be entitled to a continuance of the hearing. Unless there is a continuance, if a participant so requests before the conclusion of the initial evidentiary hearing, the record shall remain open for at least seven days after the hearing. A copy of the staff report will be available seven days prior to the hearing and is published on the City’s website at https://www.forestgrove-or.gov/meetings. For further information pertaining to this proposal, please contact Senior Planner Dan Riordan, driordan@forestgrove-or.gov, (503) 992-3226, between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. The hearings will be held in a hybrid format allowing the public to attend the meetings virtual via Zoom and in-person. The Community Auditorium, 1915 Main Street, is open and has limited availability and social distancing measures. A copy of the meeting agendas with Zoom instructions and staff reports are available and published on the City’s website at https://www.forestgrove-or.gov/meetings. To provide testimony via Zoom, please email aruggles@forestgrove-or.gov at least 24 hours prior to the hearing. Written comments or testimony be submitted at the hearings or sent prior to the hearings to the attention of the City Recorder’s Office, P.O. Box 326, 1924 Council Street, 2nd Floor, Forest Grove, OR 97116, aruggles@forestgrove-or.gov. For assistance, please call the City Recorder’s Office at 503.992.3235. Anna D. Ruggles, CMC, City Recorder City of Forest Grove Publish April 7 & 28, 2022 FGNT238296

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