Or. Admin. Code § 660-046-0010 - Applicability

(1) A local government that is a Medium City or Large City must comply with this division.

(2) Notwithstanding section (1), a Medium or Large City need not comply with this division for:

(a) Lots or Parcels that are not zoned for residential use, including but not limited to Lots or Parcels zoned primarily for commercial, industrial, agricultural, or public uses;

(b) Lots or Parcels that are Zoned For Residential Use but do not allow for the development of a detached single-family dwelling; and

(c) Lots or Parcels that are not incorporated and that are zoned under an interim zoning designation that maintains the land's potential for planned urban development.

(3) A Medium or Large City may regulate Middle Housing to comply with protective measures (including plans, policies, and regulations) adopted and acknowledged pursuant to statewide land use planning goals. Where Medium and Large Cities have adopted, or shall adopt, regulations implementing the following statewide planning goals, the following provisions provide direction as to how those regulations shall be implemented in relation to Middle Housing, as required by this rule.

(a) Goal 5: Natural Resources, Scenic, and Historic Areas - OAR chapter 660, division 23, prescribes procedures, and in some cases, standards, for complying with Goal 5. OAR chapter 660, division 16 directed implementation of Goal 5 prior to division 23. Local protection measures adopted pursuant to divisions 23 and 16 are applicable to Middle Housing.

(A) Goal 5 Natural Resources - Pursuant to OAR 660-023-0050 through OAR 660-023-0110, Medium and Large Cities must adopt land use regulations to protect water quality, aquatic habitat, and the habitat of threatened, endangered and sensitive species. This includes regulations applicable to Middle Housing to comply with protective measures adopted pursuant to Goal 5:

(i) Medium and Large Cities may apply regulations to Duplexes that apply to detached single-family dwellings in the same zone;

(ii) Medium and Large Cities may limit the development of Middle Housing other than Duplexes in significant resource sites identified and protected pursuant to Goal 5; and

(iii) If a Medium or Large City has not adopted land use regulations pursuant to OAR 660-023-0090, it must apply a 100-foot setback to Middle Housing developed along a riparian corridor.

(B) Goal 5: Historic Resources - Pursuant to OAR 660-023-0200(7), Medium and Large Cities must adopt land use regulations to protect locally significant historic resources. This includes regulations applicable to Middle Housing to comply with protective measures as it relates to the integrity of a historic resource or district. Protective measures shall be adopted and applied as provided in OAR 660-023-0200. Medium and Large Cities may apply regulations adopted under OAR 660-023-0200 to Middle Housing that apply to detached single-family dwellings in the same zone, except as provided below. If a Medium or Large City has not adopted land use regulations to protect significant historic resources listed on the National Register of Historic Places, it must apply protective measures to Middle Housing as provided in OAR 660-023-0200(8)(a) until the Medium or Large City adopts land use regulations in compliance with OAR 660-023-0200. Medium or Large Cities may not apply the following types of regulations specific to Middle Housing:

(i) Use, density, and occupancy restrictions that prohibit the development of Middle Housing on historic properties or districts that otherwise permit the development of detached single-family dwellings; and

(ii) Standards that prohibit the development of Middle Housing on historic properties or districts that otherwise permit the development of detached single-family dwellings.

(b) Goal 6: Air, Water and Land Resources Quality - Pursuant to OAR 660-015-0000(6), a Medium or Large City may limit development within an urban growth boundary to support attainment of federal and state air, water, and land quality requirements. Medium and Large Cities may apply regulations adopted pursuant to Goal 6 to the development of Middle Housing.

(c) Goal 7: Areas Subject to Natural Hazards - Pursuant to OAR 660-015-0000(7), Medium and Large Cities must adopt comprehensive plans (inventories, policies, and implementing measures) to reduce risk to people and property from natural hazards. Such protective measures adopted pursuant to Goal 7 apply to Middle Housing, including, but not limited to, restrictions on use, density, and occupancy in the following areas:

(A) Special Flood Hazard Areas as identified on the applicable Federal Emergency Management Agency Flood Insurance Rate Map; and

(B) Other hazard areas identified in an adopted comprehensive plan or development code, provided the Medium or Large City determines that the development of Middle Housing presents a greater risk to life or property than the development of detached single-family dwellings from the identified hazard. Greater risk includes but is not limited to actions or effects such as:

(i) Increasing the number of people exposed to a hazard;

(ii) Increasing risk of damage to property, built, or natural infrastructure; and

(iii) Exacerbating the risk by altering the natural landscape, hydraulics, or hydrology.

(d) Goal 9: Economic Development - Pursuant to OAR 660-009-0025, Medium and Large Cities must adopt measures adequate to implement industrial and other employment development policies, including comprehensive plan designations. Medium and Large Cities may limit the development of Middle Housing on Lots or Parcels Zoned For Residential Use designated for future industrial or employment uses.

(e) Goal 11: Public Facilities and Services - Pursuant to OAR 660-011-0020(2), a public facility plan must identify significant public facility projects which are to support the land uses designated in the acknowledged comprehensive plan. This includes public facility projects to support the development of Middle Housing in areas zoned for residential use that allow for the development of detached single-family dwellings. Following adoption of Middle Housing allowances by a Large City, the Large City shall work to ensure that infrastructure serving undeveloped or underdeveloped areas, as defined in OAR 660-046-0320(8), where Middle Housing is allowed is appropriately designed and sized to serve Middle Housing.

(f) Goal 15: Willamette Greenway - Pursuant to OAR 660-015-0005, Medium and Large Cities must review intensifications, changes of use or developments to insure their compatibility with the Willamette River Greenway. Medium and Large Cities may allow and regulate the development of Middle Housing in the Willamette Greenway, provided that applicable regulations adopted pursuant to Goal 15 comply with ORS 197.307.

(g) Goal 16: Estuarine Resources - Pursuant to OAR 660-015-0010(1) and OAR chapter 660, division 17, Medium and Large Cities must apply land use regulations that protect the estuarine ecosystem, including its natural biological productivity, habitat, diversity, unique features, and water quality. Medium and Large Cities may prohibit Middle Housing in areas regulated to protect estuarine resources under Goal 16 in the same manner as the Medium or Large City prohibits detached single-family dwellings to protect estuarine resources under Goal 16.

(h) Goal 17: Coastal Shorelands - Pursuant to OAR 660-015-0010(2) and OAR 660-037-0080, local governments must apply land use regulations that protect shorelands for water-dependent recreational, commercial, and industrial uses. This includes regulations applicable to Middle Housing to comply with protective measures adopted pursuant to Goal 17. Local governments may apply regulations to Middle Housing that apply to detached single-family dwellings in the same zone.

(i) Goal 18: Beaches and Dunes - Pursuant to OAR 660-015-0010(3), Medium and Large Cities must apply land use regulations to residential developments to mitigate hazards to life, public and private property, and the natural environment in areas identified as Beaches and Dunes under Goal 18. This includes regulations applicable to Middle Housing to comply with protective measures adopted pursuant to Goal 18 including but not limited to restrictions on use, density, and occupancy; provided the development of Middle Housing presents a greater risk to life or property than development of detached single-family dwellings. Greater risk includes but is not limited to actions or effects such as:

(A) Increasing the number of people exposed to a hazard;

(B) Increasing risk of damage to property, built or natural infrastructure; and

(C) Exacerbating the risk by altering the natural landscape, hydraulics, or hydrology.

(4) For the purposes of assisting local jurisdictions in adopting reasonable siting and design standards for Middle Housing, the applicable Model Code adopted in this section will be applied to A Local Government That Has Not Acted to comply with the provisions of ORS 197.758 and this division. For such Medium and Large Cities, the applicable Model Code completely replaces and pre-empts any provisions of those Medium and Large Cities' development codes that conflict with the Model Code. The Commission adopts the following Middle Housing Model Codes:

(a) The Medium City Model Code as provided in Exhibit A; and

(b) The Large City Model Code as provided in Exhibit B.

(5) This division does not prohibit Medium of Large Cities from allowing:

(a) Single-family dwellings in areas zoned to allow for single-family dwellings; or

(b) Middle Housing in areas not required under this division.

Notes

Or. Admin. Code § 660-046-0010

LCDD 12-2020, adopt filed 07/31/2020, effective 8/3/2020; LCDD 18-2020, amend filed 12/29/2020, effective 12/31/2020; LCDD 3-2021, amend filed 06/02/2021, effective 6/5/2021

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Statutory/Other Authority: ORS 197.040

Statutes/Other Implemented: ORS 197.758