CITY OF HILLSBORO NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING CASE FILE NO. CU-002-23 COSTCO WHOLESALE FUELING FACILITY EXPANSION

CITY OF HILLSBORO NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING CASE FILE NO. CU-002-23 COSTCO WHOLESALE FUELING FACILITY EXPANSION NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a public hearing will be held before the Planning and Zoning Hearings Board (PZHB) at or shortly after 6:30 pm, at their regular meeting on Wednesday, April 5, 2023. This meeting will be held in person in Conference Room 113, located on the 1st floor at the Civic Center, 150 E Main Street, Hillsboro, AND remotely via Zoom. Instructions on how to join the Zoom virtual meeting are listed below. At this hearing, the PZHB will consider a request for Conditional Use approval to allow an expansion of an existing wholesale retail fueling facility located on a site approximately 21.89 acres in size. The proposed expansion would include a canopy expansion of approximately 3,336 square feet and installation of four multi-product dispensers, a controller enclosure, and transformer. The project includes removing 17 parking stalls, landscaping, including the removal and replacement of several trees and directional ground painting. The applicant received Conditional Use approval in August of 2018 (Case File No. CU-010-17) for a similar scope of work, which expired in August 2020. The subject property can be specifically identified as Tax Lot 200 on Washington County Assessor’s Tax Map 1N2-28DC and is generally located north of NE Cornell Road, south of NE Airport Road, east of NE Brookwood Parkway and west of NE 48th Avenue. The property owner is Costco Wholesale, Inc., and applicant is Julie Anderson, Barghausen Consulting Engineers, Inc. The applicable approval criteria for this application may be found in Section 12.80.020 of the Community Development Code (CDC). The CDC may be viewed online at www.hillsboro-oregon.gov/communitydevelopmentcode or in the Planning Division office. The complete application, staff report and responses to all related criteria for this application will be available at https://hillsboro-oregon.civicweb.net/Portal/ by Wednesday, March 29. 2023. All interested persons are invited to attend this virtual hearing on Zoom (instructions below) and will be given an opportunity to be heard concerning the proposal. Testimony can be submitted in writing prior to the meeting or provided during the hearing. Instructions are provided below on how to provide that testimony. You will need to provide your name, phone number, and address when providing testimony so that the City can provide you with the necessary documents following the hearing. For more information contact: Rachel Marble, Senior Planner, at 503-681-6155 or by email at rachel.marble@hillsboro-oregon.gov. Written Testimony: If you would like to submit written testimony prior to the hearing, please send your testimony via email to planning@hillsboro-oregon.gov. Testimony received prior to 8:00 am on the day of the hearing will be posted to the agenda packet online. Testimony received after 8:00 am on the day of the hearing will be forwarded to the PZHB either before or during the meeting. Please note that the PZHB may have limited time to review any written testimony received after 8:00 am on the day of the public hearing. Please reference the case file no. on all written testimony. In-Person Testimony: You may testify in-person. At the hearing, the Hearings Officer will call for public testimony, at which time you may request to speak. You will have three minutes once called upon. Please use the sign in sheet at the back of the room to sign in to receive a copy of the notice of decision. Teleconference Testimony: You may pre-register to speak during the hearing by providing your name, phone number, address, and Zoom account name to via email at planning@hillsboro-oregon.gov prior to 5:00 pm on the day of the hearing. Your information will not be shared at the hearing. At the hearing, the Hearings Officer may read down the list of those who pre-registered. If you were unable to pre-register prior to the meeting, you may email planning@hillsboro-oregon.gov during the hearing to request to speak or use the raise hand function in Zoom. You will have three minutes to speak once called upon. Members of the public using Zoom will not be able to share their screen during the meeting; presentation materials should be submitted as written testimony by 5:00 pm on the day of the hearing to planning@hillsboro-oregon.gov. Testimony should avoid repetition of issues, and should be based on the application or on the approval criteria listed above. Oregon Revised Statutes (ORS) 197.797 provides that under certain circumstances, the record may remain open or a continuance may be granted upon the request of a participant. Telephone conversations cannot be accepted as testimony. General comments, requests and inquiries, not related to the hearing, can be emailed to planning@hillsboro-oregon.gov. Pursuant to ORS 197.797, failure to raise an issue at the final evidentiary hearing, or by close of the record, in person or by letter, or failure to provide statements or evidence sufficient to afford the decision maker an opportunity to respond to the issue precludes appeal to the Land Use Board of Appeals based on that issue. Join us in person at the Hillsboro Civic Center in Conference Room 113 located on the 1st floor; or To join the Zoom Meeting, go to Zoom.us/Join and enter the following: Meeting ID: 869 3118 8188 and Passcode: 726588. You can also call in to the meeting by dialing 1-253-215-8782. Publish March 16th, 2023 FGNT281235

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