Urban/Rural Reserves Blog for Mulino

Hello and welcome!

In an effort to keep people up to date on the issues surrounding the urban/rural reserves policy advisory committee, and also to provide a venue for people to let me know what they think, especially what the people in the Mulino hamlet think about the reserves, I've set up this blog.

I'd like to encourage anyone interested in the urban/rural reserves to get involved. If you own property and/or live in Clackamas, Multnomah, or Washington counties, this process will eventually affect you one way or another as it will have an impact of the level of development allowed in given areas of the counties to a greater or lesser degree. If you live in an urban or a rural area, you will be affected by what we on the clackamas county PAC recomend to our county commissioner who is a memeber of the CORE4, and what actions that the counties and Metro eventually take regarding land use and growth.

Please, even if you don't contact me, anyone on the PAC or the staff for the PAC, please take the time to visit the website listed in the links list for Clackamas county. This will take you to the website set up for the urban/rural reserves study PAC. Take the time to read the reports, look at the other information supplied on the site, and take a look at the membership roster for the PAC to find out who, if anyone, is representing your area. I was appointed by clackamas county to represent the hamlet of Mulino. I will be updating the board and anyone else who attends the monthly hamlet meetings, in order to keep everyone interested in the reserves process and how it may affect you.

Also, all of the PAC meetings are open to the public. I urge everyone to come to the meetings if at all possible. Time is alloted for public comment at the meetings. If you don't attend, or voice your opinion in some other way, you won't have a voice be able to contribute your input which is so very important in this process.

I'm allowing comments on this blog and if there is an isuse you'd like to see adressed or if you'd like to write an article for the blog please let me know, either via email or on the phone. Email's generally better because then everything is in writing and misunderstandings are easier to avoid that way, but not everyone has an internet connection, so you can call me week day evenings from 7:00pm to 9:00pm or from 9:00am to 8:00pm on Satruday and Sunday. Also, in the same vein, please pass on the word about the reserves PAC and the whole process to your friends and neighbors. Try to educate the ones who aren't on the net about the PAC and the county's website, and pass on the web info to those friends and neighbors who are on the net so that they can in turn help spread the word.

Thanks much, and I look foreward to hearing from you and perhaps seeing you at a PAC or Hamlet meeting.
Joanne Rigutto
(503) 535-9716
jo@jrigutto.com