The West Linn Comprehensive Plan composed of goals, objectives, policies, standards, implementation strategies, and Comprehensive Plan Land Use Maps, is hereby adopted as the West Linn Comprehensive Plan as required by ORS 197.010 and 197.175. The text and map of the West Linn Comprehensive Plan are attached to the ordinance codified in this chapter as Exhibit “A” and incorporated herein by reference.

From the effective date of the ordinance codified in this chapter, the West Linn Comprehensive Plan shall serve as the land use policy for the City, and shall govern the exercise of the planning and zoning responsibilities of the City thereafter.

The West Linn Comprehensive Plan is adopted and based upon the findings of fact, inventory and analysis, database and evaluation contained in the text and maps contained in the West Linn Comprehensive Plan, and in the planning background reports of the West Linn comprehensive planning program set forth in Exhibit “C” of the West Linn Comprehensive Plan, which are attached to the ordinance codified in this chapter as Exhibit “B” and adopted herein by reference. The information contained and incorporated in the ordinance codified in this chapter as Exhibit “B” is adopted only as additional justification for the adoption of the West Linn Comprehensive Plan set forth in Exhibit “A,” and shall not govern the exercise of the planning and zoning responsibilities of the City.

Certified copies of the West Linn Comprehensive Plan shall be filed with the City Recorder, Clackamas County, the Metropolitan Service District, and the Land Conservation and Development Commission of the State of Oregon.