The Oregon State Parks and Recreation Commission will review the final draft plan for Cottonwood Canyon State Park at its July 20 meeting in Bandon. Here’s the file:
Here’s where we are in the guesstimated timeline:
- April 25 – May 5 >> Last Round Public Meetings DONE
- May 26 >> Comment Period Closed DONE
- July 20 >> Final Draft Submitted for Commission Review
- Fall 2011 >> Land Use Approval Process
- Fall 2011 >> Environmental Assessment work with BLM initiated
- Spring – Summer 2012 >> Construction
- Park Opening >> September 2013
The Draft Plan
The draft plan, maps and some display boards will be presented at the public meetings in April and May. Here they are (all are PDFs, so you’ll need the Acrobat Reader):
Maps for Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Chapter 3, Chapter 7, Chapter 9, Chapter 10
April public meetings
During these months we’ve spent listening to public ideas about the new park, staff and consultants have also been busy examining the landscape and doing a dizzying number of natural, recreational and cultural reviews. All this is coming together to present a first draft of the park plan in April. Here’s the schedule:
- Monday, April 25, 6-8 p.m: Sherman County Public Library, Program Room, Moro
- Tuesday, April 26, 6-8 p.m: Veterans Memorial Hall, Condon
- Thursday, April 28, 6-8 p.m: Tryon Creek State Natural Area, Portland
- UPDATE: Thursday, May 5, 6-8 p.m: East Bend Public Library, Bend
These meetings will include presentations of the draft and open them for comment. Obviously, we aren’t adopting or setting anything in stone on these dates.
The public comment period for the drafts will open at the meeting and last through May 27. The final draft will follow, and be presented to the Oregon State Parks and Recreation Commission in July. If they approve of the plan, the next stop is county land use for their review.
We’ll post the April public meeting materials — including a copy of the draft plan — right here when they’re ready.
Read the complete February Planning Newsletter for Cottonwood Canyon.
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