Keizer city councilors got plenty of advice from residents recently about expanding Keizer’s boundary to make room for more people. Among the take-aways:

• They worry about already-congested streets becoming more crowded.

• They worry about losing Keizer’s small-town feel.

• And they are concerned about how the city – the public – will pay for a growing municipality.

Residents voiced their views at two recent informal town halls put on by city officials.

The prime issues are how and when to change the land-use belt that constrains Keizer. The urban growth boundary limits development and protects farmland from industrialization or housing development.

Nearly 40,000 people call Keizer home and studies indicate at least another 50 acres of land is needed for housing to meet the projecte

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