Planning Division

The Tualatin Commons

The Commons is within the Town Center.

The Planning Division of the Community Development Department handles city planning, also known as urban planning, and is informally divided into two workgroups: Current and Long-range Planning.

Current Planning

Current planning involves review of land use applications and site plans for proposed development, redevelopment, and infill; closest coordination with the Building and Engineering Divisions; and service to:

• Architectural Review Board (ARB)
• City Council
• Transportation Task Force (TTF)
• Tualatin Planning Commission (TPC)

The prime reference tool is the Tualatin Development Code (TDC), an integrated comprehensive or comp plan and land development code that includes planning districts, which are akin to zoning districts. Refer to further information specific to major current planning topics.

Major Current Planning Topics:

• Architectural Review (AR), including Single-family AR (ARSF)

• Land Use Notices

• Neighborhood/Developer Meetings
  

• Public Records Requests

• Scoping & Pre-Application Meetings

• Signs / Signage / Sign Regulations

• Trees

• Zoning

Long-range Planning

Long-range planning participates in regional planning efforts led by the Oregon Department of Land Conservation and Development (DLCD) and Metro, the Portland metro area regional government, and serves the Transportation Task Force, Tualatin Planning Commission (TPC), and City Council. The comprehensive or comp plan within the Tualatin Development Code (TDC) and concept planning of defined geographic areas are long-range planning tools.

Further information specific to the topics below is available via the Long-range Planning webpage and topic-specific webpages.

Major Long-range Plans:

• Concept Plans
  • Basalt Creek Concept Plan
  • Southwest Tualatin Concept Plan (SW Concept Plan)
• Other Plans
  • Linking Tualatin (related to the Metro Southwest Corridor Plan)
  • Tualatin Town Center Plan
  • Transportation System Plan (TSP) Update