The combined 1,900 acres were voted inside the region's urban growth boundary in December along with another 16,700 acres. The state's Land Conservation and Development Commission, charged with evaluating and confirming the UGB expansion, placed the would-be industrial properties at the top of their list to confirm and unanimously did so Thursday.
In addition to the Springwater Corridor in Gresham, LCDC has given top priority to a 216-acre site in Wilsonville, 203 acres of farmland in Hillsboro, the 250-acre Tigard Sand and Gravel site south of Tualatin-Sherwood Road and an adjacent 62-acre parcel owned by Tonquin Industrial Group.
Of the 1,900 acres, just less than half will actually hold buildings. The rest will be used for natural resources, open space, roads and other infrastructure.
LCDC will evaluate other potential industrial land in May with the rest of the would-be expansion. When the regional government Metro approved the 16,700-ace expansion in December, it figured the region had a 5,600-acre shortage of industrial land within the UGB. If the entire expansion is approved, the estimated shortage would still stand at around 2,000 acres.
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