Hearings Officer

The Land Use Hearings Officer is an impartial third party contracted by the county to hear land-use applications that require judgment and discretion in applying the Clackamas County Zoning and Development Ordinance, as well as the Clackamas County Comprehensive Plan and other criteria under State law. The Hearings Officer may impose conditions in order for the application to comply with county and state regulations and to minimize impacts to surrounding properties.

  • Hearings will not begin before the time noted but may begin later depending on the length of prior items.
  • Any interested person may attend the hearing to listen or testify.
  • This public hearing will be conducted virtually using the Zoom platform. One week before the hearing, a Zoom link to the public hearing and details on how to observe and testify online or by telephone will be available by clicking on the file number.
  • Applications may be viewed online. After selecting the “Planning” tab, enter the Record (File) Number to search. (Do not include the second dash or the letters that follow it.) Select Record Info and then select “Attachments” from the dropdown list, where you will find the submitted application.
  • Please direct questions to the staff planner, whose contact information is found by selecting the file number below.
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Thursday, November 12, 2026

9:30 am
The applicant requests a Conditional Use Permit for a recreational vehicle camping facility accommodating 78 RVs with associated improvements. Each RV camping space will include a 1,500 square foot camping area, an RV parking space, two passenger vehicle spaces (for all but three sites), individual utility connections, camping amenities, and privacy landscaping. Associated site improvements include landscaping, onsite circulation, shared laundry facilities, stormwater facilities, and frontage improvements along adjacent roadways.

Thursday, October 29, 2026

9:30 am
Conditional Use application for a Home Occupation to Host Events. The applicant proposes an event center operating January through December at a rate of 50 events a year with a maximum of 300 guests on Timber (TBR) zoned property.

Thursday, October 22, 2026

9:30 am
The Planner Director decision has been appealed.
Development of a single family dwelling with an accessory dwelling unit, with approximately 90 square feet of non-exempt encroachment into the Habitat Conservation Area. The proposal does not qualify for the prescriptive review path under ZDO 706.10(A) because the prescribed maximum disturbance area for the entire lot is 5,000 square feet and the proposed development will disturb over 6,500 square feet. The applicant is therefore requesting approval under ZDO 706.10(B) which allows flexibility to the disturbance area limits of 706.10(A) contingent on the applicant demonstrating that: 1) They have analyzed all practicable options for avoiding impacts to the HCA; and that 2) The project will provide equal or better mitigation (native plantings) than the mitigation required by the prescriptive review path under 706.10(A), as certified by a qualified professional if not providing the mitigation prescribed under 706.10(A).

Thursday, September 24, 2026

9:30 am
The applicant proposes a Home Occupation to Host Events for an event venue to host up to 48 events per year with a maximum of 200 guests on an EFU zoned property. The proposal includes plans to convert an existing barn for event use, an outdoor ceremony area, a dedicate gravel parking area for 100 vehicles, and overflow parking on grass.
1:00 pm
Conditional Use Review for a utility facility otherwise not listed for a two single story, unmanned 864 SF premanufactured fiber optic utility building(s) that will act as an infrastructure component to their underground fiber-optic network. The building(s) are a precast concrete building with a smooth gray painted finish, that is set on and anchored to a concrete foundation. There will be no antennas, towers, or dishes at the site for these buildings. The facility will be an unoccupied facility that is not open to the public and locked at all times. Access is only permitted by trained and authorized service personnel on a very infrequent basis. The building(s) will be within a 110x86 fence lease area that will also include ground equipment and two generators.

Thursday, September 10, 2026

9:30 am
Provide the Estacada Cemetery with the ability to expand onto the property to the north by moving the existing fence 150 feet.

Thursday, September 3, 2026

9:30 am
Hearing has been postponed. New date will be rescheduled soon.
Conditional Use application for a Home Occupation to Host Events. The applicant proposes an event center operating January through December at a rate of 50 events a year with a maximum of 300 guests on Timber (TBR) zoned property.

Thursday, August 20, 2026

9:30 am
The Planner Director decision has been appealed.
Sage and Social event venue is requesting to modify their prior land use approval: Land use permit number Z0123-23 was approved to authorize events, such as weddings, to take place within an existing barn building on site. The applicants are requesting permission to do an addition onto the barn that would accommodate permanent restroom facilities within the barn. The proposed addition will not change the use, event capacity, event frequency, hours of operation, parking, or other operational characteristics that were previously approved. Changes to the parking lot layout are also proposed.

Thursday, July 23, 2026

9:30 am
Conditional Use for the placement of two modular buildings on tax lot 00701 to be used as four Kindergarten through Grade 5 classrooms and associated site improvements including landscaping, walkways, a fire access turn around, and stormwater mitigation.

Thursday, July 16, 2026

9:30 am
The applicant is proposing to use an existing structure for an indoor gym that would be the location of basketball and volleyball training programs.

Thursday, July 9, 2026

9:30 am
The Planner Director decision has been appealed.
Appeal of a 4 lot minor Subdivision

Thursday, May 28, 2026

9:28 am
The Planner Director decision has been appealed.
Appeal of a time extension for a 12-lot subdivision.

Thursday, May 7, 2026

9:30 am
The Planner Director decision has been appealed.
The applicant is requesting an alteration of a previous NCU approved on the subject property. The site was previously used concurrently as a metal fabrication business and car, motorcycle, truck, and farm/industrial equipment repair shop. The applicant is requesting approval for an asphalt cutting and coring business. The site will serve as a primary base of operations for the business, with primary work functions occurring off-site. Clients will not be visiting the site, and the applicant will be primarily storing materials, including work trucks, and preparing materials for off-site jobs. Planning Director’s Initial Decision: Approval, with Conditions

Thursday, April 30, 2026

9:30 am
The Oregon City School District seeks approval of a Conditional use permit application at Candy Lane Elementary School to permit a building addition and associated site improvements. The proposal includes the construction of a new cafeteria building of approximately 4,520 square feet as an addition to an existing gymnasium. Other proposed improvements include the reconfiguration and expansion of an existing parking lot, construction of a driveway to Portland Avenue, construction of a retaining wall along Portland Avenue, relocation and improvement of a playground, construction of trash enclosure, and the construction of storm water facilities.

Thursday, April 9, 2026

9:30 am
Home occupation for the purpose of hosting events, year round, on 53.12 acre property. The property currently contains a manufactured home, several accessory structures, and approximately 20 acres of vineyard. The development proposal includes the construction of two-story venue building with a main floor area of 11,532 square feet, a gravel parking area including 76 spaces, a garbage enclosure, and other associated improvements. The proposed event venue would take access from an existing driveway to S. New Era Road.

Thursday, March 12, 2026

9:30 am
To construct a 12-acre photovoltaic solar power generation facility with solar panels, racking, invertors, overhead poles and lines, and perimeter fencing.

Thursday, February 19, 2026

9:30 am
The applicant is requesting a Conditional Use Permit for a proposed private community dock and park with associated improvements on a .87 acre undeveloped lot, with several environmental overlays, in R-10 Zoning District.

Thursday, February 12, 2026

9:30 am
The applicant requests approval to use 3,000 square feet of building area for their Home Occupation storage business.

Thursday, January 15, 2026

9:30 am
Commercial and processing activities that are in conjunction with forest uses to allow the applicant to store, sort, and air-dry timber removed from other properties and brought to the subject site. The applicant also proposes to store logging equipment and log trucks on site.

Thursday, January 8, 2026

9:30 am
The applicant proposes to rent an existing residential accessory structure to the Clackamas County Sheriff’s Office Marine Unit to use as a warehouse and storage
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