In 1997 Metro identified over 18,000 acres surrounding its boarders as Urban Growth Boundary Reserves (UGBRs).  Over 3,000 of those acres (Areas 25 and 26) were located in the Beavercreek area.  Primarily as a result of including "protected lands" within the UGBRs, the Reserves were removed. 
    The above is a simplified description of a very laborious and time consuming process that included One Thousand Friends of Oregon, LUBA, the Court of Appeals, Metro and many concerned citizens… including a local Beavercreek resident, Elizabeth Graser-Lindsey.  The BCCP would like to congratulate those involved in and dedicated to this process.
    Nearly as soon as the Reserves were removed, the tri-counties reenacted a "boarder freeze."  A boarder freeze is a freeze of lands within 2 miles of its boarder from zoning changes and development.
So, where does that leave us, the local citizens of the Beavercreek area?

Let's consider what hasn't changed:

• Metro is still responsible for finding a 20-year supply of lands to accommodate growth in the Portland metro area and needs to do so by October of 2000.


• LCDC, the governing body for growth in the State of Oregon and Metro region, has expressed the desire to Metro to see growth contiguous to the current Metro boundary and to include only exception lands.


• Areas 25 and 26 (over 3,000 acres in the heart of Beavercreek) are all "exception lands" and contiguous to Metro's boundary.


• Beavercreek has infrastructure problems.

Beavercreek Committee for Community Planning
(BCCP)...
1st & 3rd Monday at the Fire Station at 7:30 p.m.

Beavercreek Boosters...
3rd Wednesday at the Grange at 7:30 p.m.

Beavercreek Communty Planning Org. (CPO)...
4th Wednesday at the Grange at 7:00 p.m.

Beavercreek Grange...
2nd Saturday at the Grange at 7:00 p.m.

Beavercreek Lions...
1st and 3rd Saturday at the Grange at 7:30 a.m.

Boy Scout Troop #445...
Mondays at the Fire Station at 7:00 p.m.

Carus Community Planning Org. (CPO)...
2nd Thursday at the Beavercreek Christian Church at  7:00 p.m.

Clarkes Community Planning Org. (CPO)...
1st Wednesday of each Quarter plus February & March at the Clarkes Fire Station at 7:00 p.m.

• However, as noted by Metro, so do most other exception lands being considered.


• Other than the Beavercreek CPO, Beavercreek citizens have very little representation and little to no planning or decision making authority when it comes to what happens in Beavercreek.


• Beavercreek has been, is and will continue to grow… Beavercreek has grown over 400% in the past 20 years.


• The BCCP has recently learned that many years ago Clackamas County identified downtown Beavercreek as a "Rural Center."  We are researching what that is and how that may help Beavercreek to control its own destiny.

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