Project Team

City of Oregon City Staff

Tony Konkol, Senior Planner for the Community Development Department, is managing this effort with assistance from other members of the Community Development Department, as well as other City Departments and commissions.

Consulting Team

The City has selected a team of consultants to assist them with this project. Team members and key personnel are listed below.

Otak, Inc., led by Team Project Manager Joe Dills, is a multidisciplinary planning and engineering firm with in-house designers, engineers, and sustainability experts.   Otak has prepared five successful concept plans, including Pleasant Valley, Damascus/Boring, Rock Creek, Wilsonville Day Road, and SW Tualatin.   Otak will lead the consultant team management, planning, design, sustainability, infrastructure, and public involvement elements of the project.   Otak is one of the leading smart growth code writers in Oregon. Between 1998 and the present, they have prepared 25 smart growth codes, model codes, and handbooks. All of Otak's planners have worked in both the public and private sector.  

Kittelson & Associates, Inc. (KAI), led by Phillip Worth, will draw on its extensive experience in Oregon City and beyond to provide transportation planning services for the concept plan.   KAI applies expertise in planning, assessing, and designing multimodal transportation systems to be safe, cost-feasible, and effective, providing balanced accessibility for all modes and integrating transportation services with the land uses they are intended to serve. KAI fosters a broad understanding of the relationship between land use and transportation, as well as the interdependency of such modes as walking and transit.   This combination of experience, expertise, and understanding is vital to effective interactions with agencies/stakeholders and builds confidence and consensus in decision making and implementation.

ECONorthwest (ECO), led by Terry Moore, brings over 25 years of experience performing planning, market, fiscal, and feasibility studies for clients throughout the Pacific Northwest.   In addition to providing thorough technical analysis of economic, market, and fiscal conditions, ECO's staff will address procedural issues and work with advisory groups and the public to ensure that its recommendations are technically correct, feasible, and politically realistic.

Environmental Science &Assessment (ES&A), led by Wallace Leake, offers the project team expert knowledge of natural systems that is vital to developing a Concept Plan that minimizes impacts to wetlands, streams, and sensitive upland wildlife corridors. ES&A helped create the “Green Streets Handbook” for Metro in 2001. ES&A's knowledge of resource assessment methods, regional environmental data sources and green street design will ensure that the Concept Plan protects valuable natural features in the project area. ESA will identify Goal 5 resources and incorporate these resources into the Concept Plan design. By working closely together, ES&A's scientists and Otak staff will combine their knowledge, creativity, and technical capabilities to create a Concept Plan that protects significant natural resources, preserves open space, provides aesthetic and recreational opportunities and creates an efficient transportation system.

Jeanne Lawson and Associates, Inc. (JLA), led by Kristin Hull, is a public involvement firm that provides a broad range of public involvement, facilitation, mediation, and public information services to clients throughout the Pacific Northwest.   JLA will help Otak ensure that the concept plan process meaningfully engages people and reflects community attitudes, concerns, and ideas.

The City's Planning Commission will review and make a recommendation to the City Commission, which will review and ultimately adopt the Beavercreek Road Concept Plan.