There are currently openings on the Planning Commission. Please visit the Vacancy Recruitments page for more information.
The Planning Commission was established in 1967 and is a quasi-judicial body which serves as an advisory group to the City Council on issues and policies related to planning, land use regulations, and community development. Planning Commissioners work to develop plans and implement policies that affect how the community changes with growth and development. Some of the duties include:
- Management of the Coburg Comprehensive Plan, functional plans, and refinement plans for the City that have been adopted by Council.
- Update and keep current zoning, subdivision, and sign code ordinances with required findings in the Coburg Comprehensive plan.
- Hold hearings and approve or deny applications for partitions and subdivisions. Using the basis of their consistency adopted in the subdivision ordinance.
- Provide recommendations to the City Council on streets, parking areas, sidewalks, and bikeways.
- To recommend to the Council and all other public authorities plans for regulation of the future growth, development, and beautification of the municipality in respect to its public and private buildings and works, streets, parks, grounds and vacant lots, and plans consistent with future growth and development of the City in order to secure to the City and its inhabitants sanitation, proper service of all public utilities, and transportation facilities (ORS 227.090).
- To study and propose in general such measures as may be advisable for promotion if environmental quality as well as the public interest, health, morals, safety, comfort, convenience, and welfare of the City and of the area if influence (ORS 227.090).
Meetings: Monthly (3rd Wednesday)
Membership: Seven (7)
The planning commission consists of seven members who are appointed by the city council. Five members must be City residents. Two members may live within the City or within the area of influence as defined by the Comprehensive Plan, or own real property within the City or be an owner or partner of a business in the city limits