La Grande to hear petition to vacate N. Cherry Street right of way
La Grande reviewed a petition to vacate 20 feet of N. Cherry Street between Cove and Penn, a change that could redraw property lines and future access for nearby lots.
La Grande’s Planning Commission met Tuesday at 6 p.m. at City Hall, 1000 Adams Avenue, to consider a petition from Brian and Michelle Peterson to vacate the west and east 10 feet of the N. Cherry Street public right-of-way between Cove Avenue and E. Penn Avenue. The request, filed as 489-26-000016 VAC, covered the strip of street corridor adjacent to Tax Lots 3600, 4300, 4700 and 4800 in Section 05DC, Township 3 South, Range 38 East, in Union County.
If approved, the vacation would remove a public strip now part of the Cherry Street corridor and could change where the public way ends and adjacent private property begins.
The petition form required support from every directly adjacent abutting property owner on each side of the proposed vacation, along with a map and a legal description. The petition would be processed under the La Grande land development code and state law. The proposed vacation would be considered only against the applicable criteria and standards, not as a discretionary neighborhood preference.
The hearing followed Oregon’s quasi-judicial land-use process. The chair was to ask for a staff report, the applicant could address the commission, and then the public would be invited to testify. Written comments had to be submitted electronically before 4:30 p.m. on the day of the hearing. Oregon land-use law requires appeal issues to be raised by the close of the record at or following the final evidentiary hearing.
The Planning Commission meets monthly on the second Tuesday at 6 p.m., and La Grande’s planning division oversees land use and zoning within the city and its urban growth boundary. The city’s Goal 9 economic opportunities analysis found a need for about 184 acres of new vacant land. A Goal 14 study identified 148.7 acres of commercial land and 215.4 acres of industrial land in two south-side areas before the effort stalled for lack of property-owner interest. The updated land development code was adopted after 20 work sessions.
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