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Greetings -

I am a City Councillor in Tangent. We are a rural community in the center of the Willamette Valley and close to both Corvallis and Albany. One of the unique features of Tangent is that a large part of our incorporated city is OUTSIDE of our urban growth boundary.

We, as residents, depend on Land Use Planning, and the force of state law, to maintain the ag land around us to prevent our being swallowed by the nearby cities. The force of state law also prevents wild variation from year to year as personalities come and go from city government. Visits to Colorado over 40 years gives me a huge appreciation for the system we have compared to the land gobbling mind set there!

I am personally very apprehensive about the Big Look changes. Valley ag land has a huge number of demands and development seems to muster the money to get what it wants. Power follows money and I hate to see what will happen in the future, here.

Jim Wagner
Tangent, OR

posted 4 years, 9 months ago
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