School officials in Wilsonville are asking for a 40-acre urban growth boundary expansion, to accommodate two new schools and a park.
The Metro Council is set to consider the West Linn-Wilsonville School District's application for a so-called major urban growth boundary amendment starting Oct. 3.
As part of the proposal, the school district would build an elementary and middle school on the site, and the Wilsonville Parks and Recreation Department would add a park that would have sports facilities for the schools and the general public.
The site is located southeast of the intersection of Advance, Boeckman, Wilsonville and Stafford roads, on the east end of the city.
Tim Woodley, director of operations for the West Linn-Wilsonville School District, said the nearest middle school, Inza R. Wood Middle School, has portable classrooms and close to 700 students.
The district has planned for a middle school at the east Wilsonville site for nearly a decade, and its enrollment projections figure that Wilsonville will have an additional 300 to 350 middle school students by 2017.
"Our goal would be to open the new middle school by fall of 2017," Woodley said, adding that funding was contingent on the passage of a construction bond to pay for a new school.
Because the review is happening outside the normal urban growth boundary expansion cycle, the Metro Council is acting as a quasi-judicial body in its decision, looking at whether the expansion passes legal muster. Its decision is expected Oct. 10.
A hearings officer, which reviewed the proposal as well as opposition from a nearby property owner, recommended the Metro Council approve the site contingent on it only being developed for a school and park.