Tonight is the Night at Hillsboro City Hall for everyone to come and testify. You will get three minutes to speak in person or online on the matter at hand. That matter is the single biggest and only land expansion that any Governor has ever done in Oregon- period. This is big, and it is NOT WHAT WE DO!
Governor Kotek is Going to Expand the Hillsboro Urban Growth Boundary, and NONE OF US LOCALS have ever been consulted or asked- NEVER! Not one meeting, not one hearing, not one work session! And you want to know why?
- Hillsboro Mayor Steve Callaway and the soon-to-be-mayor Beach Pace have had private meetings with Landowners far outside our City Limits and have encouraged this deal.
- Senator Jennie Sollman, who represents many of you, did not want nor seek your input—not Once. But she has met with and spoken to the land owners often over the years based on firsthand experience and written documents.
- Governor Tina Kotek and her team did not ask anyone in the City of Hillsboro or Washington County if we wanted more of this. Based on what I have seen, they do not care.
The meeting packet was just posted, and I have not seen the City nor anyone post it. Well, here it is for your review.
CLICK HERE FOR ALL INFO https://www.oregon.gov/biz/programs/sb4-10/pages/default.aspx
The State has finally posted the actual map of the property they are going after; as predicted, the Herald was correct. This is the only property we believed should or could come in. SPECIAL NOTE- Pay careful attention to the little portion of US 26 and the land crossing to the North Side of the HIghway. This opens the Door for Hillsboro leadership aspirations to connect with and help North Plains Grow- or to get Hillsboro’s boundary to the North Side to allow future annexations of Helvetia and the lands to the East – this is not being done for no reason. Very calculated move.
HERE ARE SOME FACTS:
I would not expect to see the Governor at this meeting. I believe she will hide in the Capitol and maybe watch it on Zoom
This meeting will be well attended – this is an unprecedented Big Event.
Get there by 5 PM and sign up to testify by 5:30 PM.
Those in attendance will be given 3 Minutes to Speak. Having done this often, make your best points and speak your mind. GO FOR IT!
Those wanting to testify via Zoom only have until 12 Noon to register– not fair but that is the way it is. I have not seen tis announcement in the news, and am posting at 1:32 AM as I just saw this.
Having said all of that, they don’t care, really. If they did, the people of North Plains and Hillsboro would have been notified and had meetings for a year or more leading up to this. This is a slam job – speak your mind, but they don’t care. Despite the fact that the website says this meeting is being held to ” To discuss a proposed determination by the Governor to bring identified lands into the urban growth boundary near Hillsboro” they have already decided. BUT YOU MUST COME AND SPEAK UP AND SPEAK OUT!
The State website says this: Decision.
Decision
Based on the findings made above on the applicable approval criteria, the Governor intends to act,
consistent with the authority granted via Section 10 of Senate Bill 4 (2023), to bring in lands to the
existing urban growth boundary adjacent to the City of Hillsboro and further identified as part of Exhibit
A (Site Map). This decision is subject to the following conditions of approval:
1. Permitted uses for this land shall be limited to semiconductor industry, advanced manufacturing,
or the supply chain for semiconductors or advanced manufacturing. Uses such as data centers
and warehouses not directly associated with the semiconductor industry shall not be permitted.
They already have their Decision posted—her decision posted. I am an Independent who leans Democrat, and I am ashamed of her, as well as of Senator Sollman, Mayor Callaway, and Councilwoman Pace. Nothing they have done on this matter, which I have closely monitored, is Democratic nor based on those heralded principles of fairness, equity, and transparency—quite the opposite. Some of their actions would probably make Donald Trump beam with the glory of a proud Father!
Mayor Callaway went as far as to lobby for a special law that explicitly denies the People of Hillsboro and Washington County from seeking legal remedies promised to them by the Oregon Constitution. He made sure that none of us could appeal this decision, and he did it out in the open in his testimony and his work as our Mayor. That is a stain Steve will never be able to wash off. Here is his letter to the State and Governor during Senate Bill 4 to allow this land into the Boundary.
OK, on the Meeting-
HERE IS THE INFORMATION FROM THE STATE:
- Get to the City Hall at 5 PM for a Rally of Opposition being held in the Courtyard – 150 East Main Street- Hillsboro, Oregon
- SIGN THE ONLINE PETITION – https://www.friendsofsmartgrowth.org/petition?fbclid=IwY2xjawFpETtleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHcE2ztXE60WTfEoVBT-UKDf8B3GVMCEkS4MJBra-hF-F-pHV51F3g8_l8w_aem_fHxKK9xqOC0WUiflSfkbgw
The Hillsboro Herald is a News source- an online digital newspaper and media source. Most of our stories are one-of-a-kind, unique, hyper-local, investigative, and uncovered by no other news media. We have subscribers and allow advertisers to work with us and meet our readers. We are formally organized as an Oregon LLC with the express purpose of gathering and diseminating news to the public and the Citizens of the Communities we serve. The City of Hillsboro leadership denies the Hillsboro Herald access to Executive Sessions, which has been held almost every meeting lately. There is no record of what happens in those meetings, and media and journalists are allowed. The Herald has been denied access because their city attorneys stated that this is a blog site, not a news media source. This makes it convenient for them to hide what is being done and said from the Herald. We tell you, our readers, this to make you ponder their decision and why they have made it. Several attorneys from the State and National Levels offer to take this matter to court. We want to bring you the news- and the best of the news. We do not force our readers to pay for the news like The Oregonian, Oregon-Live, The Business Journal, and others will. We do ask for your support and patronage as a subscriber or supporter. You can do that right here- https://www.patreon.com/join/HillsboroHerald
Other tidbits being released suddenly by the State- WHAT IS PROJECT FABRIK?
“Round 2 applications were recently announced and ecosystem companies awarded funding include AGC
Electronic America, Kokusai Semiconductor Equipment Corporation, Tokyo Ohka Kogyo America, and
Project Fabrik (a recruitment opportunity that plans to locate in Hillsboro and has expressed a need for
land). Because of investments like those mentioned here, Oregon will see continued supply chain
activity and expansion to support the approximately $40 billion in contracted projects via the Oregon
CHIPS Act. This commitment of investment from private industry reinforces that Oregon can secure and
maintain our research and development position and see continued investment in the broader supply
chain and semiconductor ecosystem. “
It is what it is and we all need to acknowledge it: these politicians are being paid to act in this way.
These are corrupt officials doing the work of Intel and others for a cut.
I wouldn’t worry. First of all its only 373 acres out of the approximately 50 sq miles of western Washington county, which is negligible. Secondly, and most importantly… nothing will ever get built. Elected officials in Southern and Midwestern states competing for these research sites will offer up not hundreds but *thousands* of acres, along with enormous tax carve outs and many other giveaways that would simply never fly here. In a way it is rather sad because I am sure that governor Kotek truly believes she is acting in our states best interest, but I am equally certain that the US states that are wealthier and more conservative politically are eventually going to win these installations … guaranteed. So not to worry …..
I think you are forgetting this is a government bail out move. This money is coming from Wyden who at the end of his career become very powerful. This could be like one of those bridges to nowhere – but I believe it is happening!
I assume you have proof of those allegations if not let’s hope one of those people take you to court for those knee jerk comments. There are intelligent questions on both sides and then there are your comments