Participants warned that the city's 10% open-space requirement can produce hard-scaped plazas rather than tree-filled green space, urged higher protection for mature trees, and pressed for coordinated parking and access to river parks as development reduces informal parking fields.

Council held a lengthy quasi-judicial hearing on the proposed 45-acre Cavi major community master plan and continued deliberation to July 15 after residents contested use of the Central Oregon Irrigation District canal as part of the project's 10% open-space requirement and staff asked for time to prepare revised findings.