There was a meeting held at the Beavercreek Fire Station on Thursday, March 11, 2004, that was in response to a letter sent by the Beavercreek Community Planning Organization to the Clackamas County Board of Commissioners and Alice Norris, Mayor of Oregon City.
  Attending the meeting were Bill Kennemer, Clackamas County Commissioner; Doug McClain, Director of Planning for Clackamas County; Alice Norris, Mayor of Oregon City; Doug Neeley, Oregon City Commissioner;  Larry Patterson, Oregon City Manager;  and four residents of Beavercreek; Norm Andreen, Elizabeth Graser-Linsey, Lance Margeson and Bill Merchant.
  If you remember, a copy of the letter was published in the November 2003 issue of the Bulletin. If you would like to read the letter you may do so by going online to:

  Click on the 2003 Archives hyperlink and then on the November issue link. The article is on page one.
    The letter addressed the lack of concurrency in the Beavercreek area. It raised "concerns about the inadequacy of traffic infrastructure to handle traffic created by new and planned development in the corridor feeding Beavercreek Road and Highway 213 -- that is the inadequacy of traffic infrastructure to handle development originating and planned to originate in both Oregon City and the County."
    There were twelve points made that substantiated the concerns of residents regarding the lack of concurrency.
    As a result of no response by either the Board of County Commissioners or the City of Oregon City, it was suggested by the assistant to Commissioner Bill Kennemer that a meeting should be held. 
    All who attended the meeting had read the letter in question and during the discussion certain facts came to light.
  "Concurrency" only works to prevent the last straw from breaking the camel's back... in other words, the Concurrency Ordinance does not prevent the infrastructure from being degraded by reduction in service level. It only stops the last development that would cause the infrastructure to reach the level of "D." In an A, B, C designation "F" is failing. The Ordinance does not ad