Mayor candidate · City of Oregon City · November 3, 2026
Rodney La Barr
Facilities safety technician with building-trades experience.
Reach the campaign
As published in their City filing.
Campaign finance: sources, amounts and timing ↓
In their words
Said: For nearly 20 years I have worked in trades across Alameda and Multnomah Counties.
Pamphlet p. 38
Candidate statement · November 2026 edition; extracted September 21, 2026
Clackamas County voters’ pamphlet · PDF page 38 ↗Nothing skipped: the statement opens with running prose. Verbatim opening of the candidate's own statement; publication by the county does not verify the claims.
The verbatim opening of their voters’ pamphlet statement, the same rule for every candidate. We chose nothing.
What they say they would do
Our summary of their platform, in our wordsArgues that lower permitting, regulatory and fee burdens would revive properties and expand housing.
- Reduce unnecessary construction and business barriers.
- Encourage housing of several types.
- Use growth-related revenue for services and parks without raising taxes.
Our reading
Our interpretation, not their wordsThe chain runs lower costs, more building, more revenue, then services and parks; the size and timing of that revenue are assumed rather than shown.
Where they stand
Rent and homes
Cut unneeded fees, permits- What
- Said: Would create affordable housing by reducing or eliminating unnecessary regulations, permits and fees so builders can produce homes of all types, from ADUs (backyard cottages) to apartments.
- How
- Not in their sources
- Measured by
- Not in their sources
Camps, crime and who responds
Growth deters crime- What
- Said: Would reduce crime and homelessness through economic growth: active areas deter crime, and growth revenue funds services and transitional housing.
- How
- Not in their sources
- Measured by
- Not in their sources
Your bills and taxes
Growth funds parks- What
- Said: Would reduce or eliminate unnecessary permits and fees, and fund parks from the new revenue that follows, without raising taxes.
- How
- Not in their sources
- Measured by
- Not in their sources
Streets, buses and air
No I-205 tolls- What
- Said: Opposes any tolling of I-205.
- How
- Not in their sources
- Measured by
- Not in their sources
The choices this office faces
Every candidate in this race is asked the same 6 questions. Rodney La Barr is on record on 4, with 2 still open. A question without an answer is a research gap, not a position.
No answer we could findAdopt a temporary moratorium on data centers while the city rewrites its code?
Nothing on this exact choice in the sources we reviewed.
Keep the urban-renewal district (about $3.2 million a year in tax increment) and try again to loosen the charter’s voter-approval rule, or wind it down?
Nothing on this exact choice in the sources we reviewed.
Close the general fund’s structural gap by raising the property-tax rate or the $6.50-a-month public-safety fee, or by cutting?
Said: Would reduce or eliminate unnecessary permits, fees and regulations and fund parks from new growth revenue “without raising taxes”; the property-tax rate, the $6.50 public-safety fee and any cuts are unsaid.
On the topic; the exact choice is unsaid.
Move the city’s Caring Court into the Caring Place services hub, and keep the downtown civil-exclusion zone?
Said: Says economic growth funds the services and transitional housing needed to reduce homelessness; the Caring Court move and the exclusion zone are unsaid.
On the topic; the exact choice is unsaid.
Give ODOT five more years, to 2031, to stage I-205 bridge work in two riverfront parks, and keep pressing the state to strike tolling from statute?
Said: Says everyone on both ends of I-5, in Oregon or Washington, should be against “any I-205 tolling nonsense”; the five-year park extension is unsaid.
On the topic; the exact choice is unsaid.
Ask voters for a parks bond to build a new aquatic center and rebuild the End of the Oregon Trail center?
Said: Would create funding to reinvigorate city parks from growth revenue without raising taxes; a parks bond is unsaid.
On the topic; the exact choice is unsaid.
A question the evidence leaves open
Which requirements would you remove, and how would you fund infrastructure before growth revenue arrives?
Sources (1)
- Clackamas County voters’ pamphlet · PDF page 38Candidate statement · November 2026 edition; reviewed September 18, 2026Written by the candidate or campaign. Publication by the county does not verify the claims.