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TIMES FACT BOOK
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By BARBARA SHERMAN
Pamplin Media Group
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ing City top 10. OK, top eight.
1. King City is no longer ex-
clusively a retirement communi-
ty. The original city lies within
the King City Civic Association boundary
and is limited to residents who are age 55
and older, but a large area to the west —
Edgewater on the Tualatin — started be-
ing annexed in 2001, and there are now
hundreds of houses filled with families of
all ages. In fact, those residents make up
about one-third of the city’s total popula-
tion of 3,115.
2. King City lies in the Tigard-Tualatin
School District and even has an elementary
school — Deer Creek Elementary —within
the city limits.
3. King City could grow even more in the
future as the area to its west along Beef
Bend Road develops, and properties are an-
nexed into King City, Tigard and Sherwood.
4. Despite its small size, the KCCA has
about 50 clubs for interests ranging from
art to travel, and with a nod to “old-time”
sports, there are indoor shuffleboard
courts and lawn bowling greens plus two
swimming pools and a nine-hole golf
course.
5. And King City is one of the few cities
in Oregon that allows people to drive golf
carts on city streets.
6. In 2011, the King City City Council ap-
proved an ordinance allowing homeowners
to keep up to four chickens on their proper-
ty but no roosters.
7. Also in 2011, the Oregon Community
Associations Institute
announced that the KC-
CA won the homeowner
association of the year
award in the very-large
association category for
“outstanding efforts by a
community association
that reflects a thriving
and successful communi-
ty.”
8. One very popular
event within the KCCA
area is the annual golf
cart parade on the
Fourth of July, when peo-
ple decorate their carts
with elaborate and patriotic touches and
drive along numerous streets where
crowds wait to cheer them on; for many
years, the residents of Pacific Pointe Re-
tirement Inn have acted as the judges, vot-
ing and choosing first-, second- and third-
place winners, who take home prizes.
8. Several years ago, families in Edgewa-
ter started their own Fourth of July parade,
decorating strollers, red wagons, tricycles
and bicycles, and other forms of transpor-
tation for a loop through the streets and
ending in King City Community Park.
One-third of the population lives
in a subdivision for all ages
King City isn’t just for old folks anymore
REGAL COURIER PHOTO: BARBARA SHERMAN
Drivers maneuver golf carts past the judges in the annual King
City Civic Association Fourth of July parade.
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