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Minutes, January 18, 2023

MINUTES OF THE LAKE GROVE NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION
BOARD MEETING
http://www.lakegroveneighborhood.com/
Lake Grove Presbyterian Church, January 18, 2023, 7 pm
Board Members Present: Chair Dan Anderson, Directors; Audrey Block, Chuck
Fisher, Robert Hrdinsky, Yoko Kinoshita
Called to Order by Dan Anderson at 7:00 pm
Minutes of November 17, 2022, Board Meeting, Approved

  • Chuck Fisher will serve as ad-hoc Secretary for this meeting.
  • Robert Hrdinsky was elected to the position of Secretary to begin February
    2023.

    Board Chair Report
  • City is offering Pre-Application training (self-paced, online) at
    https://www.ci.oswego.or.us/planning/self-guided-pre-app-trainingneighborhood-association-reps. Robert Hrdinsky and Yoko Kinoshita
    expressed interest in completing the training.
  • Review Lake Grove Neighborhood Plan and Bylaws at
    https://lakegroveneighborhood.wordpress.com/2023/01/18/lake-groveneighborhood-bylaws-plan/

    Neighbor Input
  • None this meeting

    Director Reports
  • Mike Buck, (As delivered by Dan Anderson)
  • Announcement of planning for the City’s Arbor Month.
    ▪ Mike Buck has met with the owners of the Jenike property to do
    a landscape planting of native and ornamental shrubs and trees.
    Funding to be provided by the Lake Grove Business Association.
    ▪ Mike Buck will be meeting with a Lake Grove Elementary School
    faculty member who does environmental/sustainability teaching
    and a parent. Anyone who would like to help with plantings or
    an event at the school would be welcome and greatly
    appreciated.
    ▪ Mike Buck has met with the ILA, (French School), Board about a
    possible project. The school is undertaking an 11,000sf
    mitigation and restoration on its site.
  • Mike Buck requests the Board address West Lake Grove, (WLG), code
    that places constraints on development within the WLG district. The
    concern is that the design provisions of the WLG district are overly
    restrictive.
  • Mike Buck asks anyone who has comments or thoughts with respect to
    amending the Tree or Development Cost, to please pass those along to
    him. The goal is to develop feasible, reasonable alternatives that can
    be implemented to enhance our urban forest without negative
    consequences.
  • Robert Hrdinsky, presented three topics and followed up with an email. He
    requested anyone with questions and/or recommendations, please pass them
    along to him. From his email dated 01/20/2023
    o Speed Limits: “A new state law allows Oregon cities to apply for the
    authority to designate speed limits on their roads. In the past, a city
    dealing with speeding or accidents on their roads had to get permission
    from the state to change the speed limit, even if the street was owned
    and maintained by the city..”.
    https://www.opb.org/article/2022/11/30/oregon-cities-can-now-controlspeed-limits-on-own-streets/ (House Bill 3055)
    o Group Email: looking options if it’d be beneficial to have a group mail-list
    like where we can simply send to alias [LGNA] and all Members/Directors
    would get the mail plus keeps an archive through-out the years, Google
    Groups is one common option
    o Neighborhood Contact: having the ability for our neighbors to contact us,
    looks like we already own lakegroveneighborhood.com so we can have an
    email alias like hello@lakegroveneighborhood.com that forwards to a
    designated email, ideally a group email like above (goal is to not advertise
    our personal email). Also was mentioned about possibly having some
    presence on Nextdoor (I’m off social media so not sure how it’d fully
    work). With the main purpose for us to be able to be a resource and guide
    neighbors to the right contact/department (e.g. questions around Speed
    Bumps), and hopefully to have more community connection / impactful
    gatherings.

    Proposed Developments
  • House at 16112 Reese (LU 22-0065), Short discussion of the proposed
    project. Appears at first to be lot-line adjustment but does include
    teardown of an existing dwelling.
  • Cancelled West Lake Grove development of a private school at 16710
    Boones Ferry Rd, (LU 22-0090). The issue leading to the withdrawal of
    the application for the school in the WLG district was due to the
    application of design standards specific to WLG. (LOC 50.03.003.5.f.ii)
    ( https://www.codepublishing.com/OR/LakeOswego/html/LakeOswego5
    0/LakeOswego5003003.html
    )

    Tree Removal Applications:
    https://www.ci.oswego.or.us/Tools/planning/trees/#/map
  • Cedar at 4330 Upper, (499-23-000024-TREE). Dan Anderson went by.
    He noted the tree is leaning.
    https://www.ci.oswego.or.us/api/trees/permits/2267/application

    Adjourned: 7:45 p.m.
    Next Board meeting: 7 p.m., February 16, 2023,
    Lake Grove Presbyterian Church
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Author: Lake Grove Neighborhood Association

We are a neighborhood located northwest of Oswego Lake in Lake Oswego, Oregon. Our neighborhood association was organized in 2008. The purpose of LGNA is "to provide a forum for its membership to discuss matters of common concern and to represent the views of the members before appropriate public bodies." All residents in the Lake Grove neighborhood are automatically members. https://lakegroveneighborhood.com/

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