May 2016 Port of Tillamook Bay Future Land Use Plan

Executive Summary – POTB Future Land Use Plan 2016

Master Planning was identified as a need for the Port of Tillamook Bay in 2009, in the Port’s original Strategic Business Plan. Since

then the Port, in conjunction with the University of Oregon’s Resource Assistance for Rural Environments (RARE) program, has spent

two years conducting both site analysis and land use master planning for Port lands. Through 2014-15 the a Site Analysis was created

for the Port that framed much of the work for the Future Land Use Plan that the Port Commission worked through in 2015-16. In

working through the planning process, the Port Commission determined eight (8) land use goals laid out below. These goals are

intended to serve as guiding principles for long range land use planning at the Port of Tillamook Bay. In order to be consistent with the

changing economic atmosphere of Tillamook County the goals themselves should be periodically reviewed to ensure consistency with

current trends and local economic development.

The following goals are:

1) Prepare Port land to work in conjunction with current and future land uses including:

a. Expand and Support Office Uses

b. Expand and Support Recreation Uses

c. Expand and Support Interim Uses

d. Expand and Support Officer’s Mess Hall

2) Cluster compatible land uses for efficient land use. It is the Port’s desire to create neighboring uses that benefit one another for a supportive and dense business and industrial atmosphere.

3) Seek to expand utilities, roads and similar infrastructures when fiscally feasible while maintaining sustainable debt practices.

4) Support the development of the Salmonberry Trail.

5) Encourage the retention and expansion of airport uses to accommodate a lively airport district for Tillamook County.

6) Ensure that development along Highway 101 is of the highest and best use allowed within current and future zoning.

7) Seek to re-focus agricultural use on Port’s M-1 zoned land, to keep consistent with the industrial use goals of the Port.

8) When the opportunity is present, seek to reacquire properties centralized within the Port’s boundaries and sell properties not essential to the

centralized development of the Port of Tillamook Bay.

May 2016 Port of Tillamook Bay Future Land Use Plan