By Pat Erdenberger, Hoodland CPO
The Mountain Times
The goal of the Hoodland Community Planning Organization (HCPO) is to bring county information to our Hoodland community and provide the community a voice back to the county. HCPO is interested in hearing from any individual or business with a concern, an issue, or a question.
The Hoodland CPO will have a speaker at each community meeting. These speakers include representatives from Salmon Valley Water Company, the Clackamas County Engineering Department (Welches Road Project), the National Alliance of Mental Illness (NAMI), and the Superintendent of the Oregon Trails School District.
The Mt. Hood Corridor Wildfire Partnership will be holding another debris collection in early fall. Please trim excess fuels on your property and have them ready for quick and free disposal. The May collection was wildly successful.
The Board of County Commissioners (BCC) approved the zoning change that will allow ADUs and RVs to be designated permanent dwellings. Like other CPOs in the Mt Hood Corridor, we welcome ADUs, but zoning RVs as permanent dwellings encountered majority objection among HCPO membership.
At their August 7th policy meeting, the BCC was scheduled to discuss a plan to allow RVs as temporary dwellings – an issue of extreme concern in our area. The meeting ran out of time prior to the plan being discussed, and it is unclear when it will reappear on the BCC agenda. Stay tuned.
The HCPO August 1st Community Meeting saw a new Hoodland CPO Board elected. Officers for the 2024 to 2025 term are: Chair, Pat Erdenberger; Vice Chair, Lisa Massena; Secretary, Marti Bowne; Treasurer, Monica Taylor; Sergeant at Arms, Jenni Rogers. Thank you to the community members who participated and voted: we appreciate your time and attention.
A meeting of the Hoodland Community Resource Collaboration was held on August 1st. This is the second meeting of representatives from most of the local non-profit organizations and a representative from the HCPO. There was agreement to meet quarterly to share ideas and resources, develop a shared calendar of events, engineer a place to electronically store documents, and discuss future plans for a website. The HCPO is very pleased to work with these generous volunteers.
The United States Forest Service held a Strategic Planning Workshop August 6th at the Welches School, and HCPO was also in attendance. The USFS’ purpose was to elicit ideas and opinions from the community regarding fuels reduction in the forest and on our properties. There is a 10 million dollar budget to clear the excess fuels from the Mt.Hood National Forest and homes in the Wildland Urban Interface (WUI). We look forward to the development of this plan to address these urgent fire safety needs.
Please consider offering your time and talent to the Hoodland Community Planning Organization as a volunteer.
Should you have interest or any questions, please contact us at hoodlandcpo@gmail.com.
“It Takes a Village.”