• UPDATE (09/17/2026): The applicant has appealed the Planning Commission’s 5-0 decision denying their application to the City Council. The applicant has also filed a complaint with the Oregon Housing Accountability and Production Office (HAPO). Please click here for the full appeal and HAPO complaint.

  What’s Next? The City Council will hold a Special Meeting on Tuesday, 9/22, at 1 PM to discuss delegating their authority to a hearings officer. This is the same maneuver the Council performed with the recent Operations Complex decision. Apparently, this Council does not feel comfortable making the tough decisions that affect our city and prefers to offload said decisions to a third party who has no stake in the outcome. Please try to attend this Special Meeting on Tuesday, 9/22, at 1 PM at City Hall and let the Council know that we don’t want them to delegate their authority yet again.

• UPDATE (09/03/2026): At a Special Meeting on Wednesday, September 2, 2026, the Planning Commission finalized their vote denying the Tannler applcation. This was a required procedural step to formalize the reasons for the denial. As they stated in their August 26th meeting, the Planning Commission again listed stormwater detention, lack of retaining wall details, buildings with no commercial component, and not meeting codes related to streets vs. access driveways. You can read the Planning Commission’s Final Decision and Order here.

  What’s Next? The Applicant can still appeal the Planning Commission’s decision to the City Council. They have 14 days to do so, ending on September 17 at 5 pm. We will continue to post here as we learn of any updates.

• UPDATE (08/26/2026): Tonight the Planning Commission voted 5-0 to deny the Tannler Apartments application. Their reasons for denial included non-compliance with West Linn’s Community Development Code (CDC) related to stormwater detention, not complying with the requirements of the OBC zone by having buildings with no commercial component, and not meeting codes related to city streets vs. access driveways. The Planning Commission repeatedly cited the lack of specificity in the application and that it had not met the “burden of proof” regarding various sections of the CDC.

What’s Next? The applicant can appeal the Planning Commission decision to the City Council so this is not over. We need your continued support at the City Council hearing (details to follow as we know them). Please keep your yard signs in place to show our community support.

Thanks to everyone who supported us in this fight against poorly planned development. And, remember, it’s not over yet, but tonight was a big step in the right direction.

• UPDATE (08/19/2026): Thanks to the very generous donations of over 200 of the 375 neighbors on our email list, we have met our funding goal and are now 100% fully funded. You contributions have allowed us to hire experts in civil engineering, traffic engineering, and two attorneys. All of our experts have provided valuable testimony to the Planning Commission and will do so again, either verbally or in writing, at the City Council hearing.

• UPDATE (08/13/2026): On August 10, 2026 the Planning Commission held the first hearing on this application. Approximately 100 people were in attendance. We overflowed the City Council chamber and filled two other areas in City Hall where people could watch the proceedings on television. Here is a summary of the hearing:

1. No decision was made on either the commercial or the residential portion of the application.

2. The Planning Commission will deliberate and reach a decision on August 26th starting at 6 PM in City Hall. No further testimony will be allowed (neither verbal nor in writing). Let’s pack City Hall again for this meeting!

3. The hearing ended at around 11 pm. (Making it just about a 5-hour long meeting.)

Whichever way the Planning Commission rules, there will be an appeal hearing in front of the City Council. The neighbors will appeal if the applicant wins. The applicant will appeal if the neighbors win.

Planning Commission hearing 8/10/26 photos: https://photos.app.goo.gl/RsZMvsgNcg9dmTJu7

Here is the link to the video of the hearing from the city’s website : https://westlinn.granicus.com/player/clip/1769?view_id=2&meta_id=89613&redirect=true

• On July 31st we attended a Town Hall meeting with Rep. Jules Walters, State Senator Wagner, and Tualatin Mayor Frank Bubenik. We asked our legislators about HB 4037 which eliminates the public’s ability to testify at and appeal most land-use hearings. When asked why they voted for this legislation our legislators said the following: 1. The Governor wanted it, 2. We didn’t read it, and 3. We thought we would fix it if problems came up.

  This is not what we wanted to hear from our legislators, how about you? Mayor Bubenik stated Tualatin is having the same problems we are talking about in West Linn and that most cities in Oregon were opposed to this legislation because people don’t like losing their rights.

• We are continuing a letter writing campaign to Governor Kotek, Senate President Wagner, and Representative Walters asking them to have the legislature take another look at HB 4037 with an eye towards remedying some of the problems we see with it. Maybe you can write to them as well (we were told by our attorney that a written letter has more impact than an email or phone call). Here is a document with more information.

• Mill Creek Residential Trust withdrew as the applicant a few months ago. The new applicant is the property owner, Jeff Parker, and his partner. Mr. Parker’s company is Tannler Holdings LLC.

• The State passed, and Governor Kotek signed, HB 4037 which prohibits cities over 10,000 population from holding public hearings on applications where there are clear and objective standards in place. It also prohibits appeals of land use decisions by anyone but the applicant. It was effective July 1, 2026.