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Oregon CI Advisory Committee

TIME

March 6, 2006

Land Use Committee
Hugo Neighborhood Association

Common CI Issues & Problems In Josephine County

A common theme to all the citizen involvement (CI) issues and problems in Josephine County is a CI program that can be improved.¹ According to the Oregon Citizen Involvement Advisory Committee (CIAC) the first 10 of the following CI issues and problems are common statewide.²

1. Common Land Use Issues & Problems

2. Funding

3. Staffing

4. Time

5. Legal Constraints

6. Apathy

7. Technocracy

8. The Need for Predictability

9. State and Federal Mandates

10. The Overburdened Citizen

11. Oregon Citizen Involvement Advisory Committee

Oregon CIAC Time Observations & Suggestions

CIAC Time Observations³

"Effective CI also takes time — sometimes a great deal of it. To hold a single public hearing on a local land use decision, for example, usually requires more than a month. Notice must be mailed at least 20 days before the hearing. Then there is an appeal period of at least 10 days after the hearing before the decision becomes final.""Concern about time is one of the most potent forces working against CI. Developers want to get their permits fast. Planners want to keep their projects on schedule. Decision makers want to make decisions and get on with other business. Such wants create strong and never-ending pressures to shorten appeal periods, limit standing, reduce the extent of notification, and so on."

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CIAC Suggestions³

"Allocate adequate time for notice, hearings, appeals, and other CI activities in the agency work program. Inform permit applicants, citizen groups, managers, and elected officials about state and local time limits and deadlines. Remind managers and decision makers that inadequate CI is likely to lead to litigation, opposition to or misunderstanding of the plan, and bad planning

More Information. Would you like to learn more? Contact a member of the Hugo Land Use Committee.

Disclaimer. This brochure is as much about providing information and provoking questions as it is about opinions concerning the adequacy of findings of fact and land use decisions. It does not provide recommendations to citizens and it is not legal advice. It does not take the place of a lawyer. If citizens use information contained in this paper, it is their personal responsibility to make sure that the facts and general information contained in it are applicable to their situation.

1. Josephine County Ordinance 93-13.
2. Oregon Citizen Involvement Advisory Committee (CIAC). July 1992. Putting the People Into Planning. Salem, OR. Web Page - http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~pppm/landuse/docs/toc.htm
3. Rohse, Mitch & Ross, Kim. 1992. Putting the People Into Planning. Funding. by DLCD for CIAC. pps. 40 - 41 . Salem, OR.

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