Salem wants to eliminate exclusive single-family zoning in neighborhoods in all cities with populations more than 10,000

Pie and Planning - Vison Summit.

Join us on October 29th at 6:00 PM to 8:30 PM at the Sherwood Center for the Performing Arts for the Pie and Planning-Vison Summit.

Sherwood is considering an expansion of the Urban Growth Boundary. The current proposed expansion could add 2,800 homes, 9,576 people, 2,576 students to Sherwood over the next 6 to 15 years. Special Interest groups that represent large developers are pulling out all the stops to push this through. We need to hear from the citizens of Sherwood as well. 

Thanks Again to all who took the time to answer the poll. I thought a more detailed analysis of the results was in order. This analysis breaks down housing preferences based on how respondents answered questions about housing affordability.

The Results are in! Thanks to everyone for taking part in the poll and being part of the debate. Over 600 people took the poll. Want to make sure you have the chance to respond to future polls? Please like and follow my facebook page. That is where I will post new polls in the future.

Sherwood is considering asking Metro to expand the Urban Growth Boundary on the West Side of Sherwood. This expansion would add 626 acres of land Over the next ten years, this has the potential of adding up to 5155 homes and increasing our population by 51% to 76%, Take the poll!

On November 7th, 2017 in a Sherwood City Council work session, the council decided to have the city manager send a non-binding letter of interest to Metro stating our intentions to request an expansion of the Urban Growth Boundary (UGB) by 626 acres (455 developable). This letter did not commit us to a 626-acre expansion, it was only a non-binding letter of intent. The council will have to decide whether to formalize the request, change the size of the request or withdraw from the process all together.