Excellent explanation for why we need to limit the amount and nature of development in flood area.

I believe the poorly planned, overly-intensive condominium development by Oakleigh Meadows Cohousing (at the end of Oakleigh Lane) provides a good example of development that the new regulations should not, and hopefully will not, allow.
 
OMC was required to get a fairly toothless "Willamette Greenway Permit" for the proposed development, but it appears that permit has now expired, and OMC will have to go through a new review and approval process under whatever new regulations may be in effect at the time OMC submits a new Willamette Greenway Permit application.

OMC still doesn't have approval for the condominium development, and it may be years before OMC could obtain the necessary building permits.

-- Paul