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Oregon Department of Land Conservation and Development

Citizen Involvement Advisory Committee
About CIAC
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Citizens of Oregon often ask how they can participate in the statewide land use planning program. The system, after all, is complex and can be cumbersome and intimidating.

The CIAC operates, in part, to provide a regular forum where citizens around the state can share their experiences and find information.

The CIAC is supported in this effort by the department´s staff, Bob Rindy, who helps citizens and professionals alike find easier ways to:
  • Access planning information;
  • Demystify planning and legal processes;
  • Put you in touch with staff and public records; and
  • Foster an interaction with the department and its public policy decision-making body, the Land Conservation and Development Commission (LCDC).

This website has been designed to help citizens and citizen planners, who often ask for a Statewide Planning 101 course. Beyond the basics, you can also learn about how citizens of Oregon are actively involved in protecting the citizen involvement process, promoting and challenging the statewide land use program, finding new avenues of expression and involvement in critical land use planning issues, and expanding citizen involvement around the state.
 
Online citizen’s guides (see the Publications page ) will also show you how to work with the program’s 19 Statewide Planning Goals and Oregon administrative rules. They also will help you to better understand how federal programs and executive initiatives influence the way that statewide land use planning, development and conservation are being achieved in Oregon.
 
Each city and county comprehensive plan includes a Citizen Involvement Program (CIP), which describes how the public can participate in each phase of the planning process. Local governments must periodically evaluate their efforts to involve citizens, and, if necessary, update their programs. These requirements are established in Goal 1, Citizen Involvement:
  1. A Committee for Citizen Involvement (CCI) be established to monitor citizen involvement;
  2. A Citizen Involvement Program (CIP) be adopted, providing for involvement in all phases of the planning process; and
  3. The CIP be reviewed periodically to assure that opportunities continue to be provided.
 
ORS 197 established the state´s Citizen Involvement Advisory Committee (CIAC) to advise LCDC and local governments on matters pertaining to citizen involvement.
 
CIAC is a permanent committee established by this statute. CIAC is only an advisory body; it has no explicit or implied authority over any local government or state agency. It does not set policy nor review local land use plans or decisions.
 
The CIAC has eight volunteer members, one from each of Oregon´s five Congressional Districts and three chosen at-large. Committee members are appointed to four-year terms by LCDC.

CIAC´s chair is elected, by the committee´s members, for a term of one year. The committee meets every other month alternating between meeting in Salem and meeting electronically.

 
 
Publications

 
Link to Meetings Page
To view CIAC meeting agendas and minutes, please go here.

 
Current Members

MEMBER

DISTRICT

 APPOINTED TERM EXPIRES 

Amy Sheckla-Cox 

 District 1
May 2013 April 2017

David Sykes

 District 2 May 2013 April 2017

Steve Faust 

 District 3 May 2013 April 2017

Gregory McClarren (acting Chair) 

 District 4 March 2008 December 2014

Lisa Phipps

 

 District 5 May 2013 April 2017

Don Greene

 

 At-large August 2008 June 2016

Debra Martzahn

 

 At-large January 2010 December 2013
Sadie Carney At-large March 2012

 

December 2015