(1) The Land Conservation and Development Commission, in consultation with the Housing and Community Services Department, shall adopt criteria for reviewing and identifying cities with a population greater than 10,000 that have not sufficiently:

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Terms Used In Oregon Statutes 197A.130

  • Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
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  • City: includes any incorporated village or town. See Oregon Statutes 174.100
  • Equitable: Pertaining to civil suits in "equity" rather than in "law." In English legal history, the courts of "law" could order the payment of damages and could afford no other remedy. See damages. A separate court of "equity" could order someone to do something or to cease to do something. See, e.g., injunction. In American jurisprudence, the federal courts have both legal and equitable power, but the distinction is still an important one. For example, a trial by jury is normally available in "law" cases but not in "equity" cases. Source: U.S. Courts
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
  • public body: means state government bodies, local government bodies and special government bodies. See Oregon Statutes 174.109

(a) Achieved production of needed housing within their jurisdiction; or

(b) Implemented a housing production strategy adopted under ORS § 197A.100.

(2) The criteria adopted by the commission under subsection (1) of this section may include the city‘s:

(a) Unmet housing need as described in ORS § 197A.350 (6);

(b) Unmet housing need in proportion to the city’s population;

(c) Percentage of households identified as severely rent burdened as described in ORS § 456.586;

(d) Recent housing development;

(e) Recent adoption of a housing production strategy under ORS § 197A.100 or adoption of actions pursuant to a housing production strategy;

(f) Recent or frequent previous identification by the Department of Land Conservation and Development under this section; or

(g) Other attributes that the commission considers relevant.

(3) The Department of Land Conservation and Development may review cities under the criteria adopted under subsection (2) of this section for the purposes of prioritizing actions by the department, including:

(a) Awarding available technical or financial resources;

(b) Providing enhanced review and oversight of the city’s housing production strategy;

(c) Requiring a report and explanation if a city does not implement an action within the approximate time frame scheduled within a housing production strategy;

(d) Entering into agreements with the city relating to the city’s modification or implementation of its housing production strategy; or

(e) Petitioning the commission to act under ORS § 197.319 to 197.335 to require the city to comply with ORS Chapter 197A or statewide land use planning goals related to housing or urbanization. [Formerly 197.293]

 

The amendments to 197A.130 (formerly 197.293) by section 14, chapter 13, Oregon Laws 2023, become operative January 1, 2025. See section 18, chapter 13, Oregon Laws 2023. The text that is operative on and after January 1, 2025, including amendments by section 10, chapter 326, Oregon Laws 2023, is set forth for the user’s convenience.

(1) In developing and implementing this section and performing its duties under ORS § 197.319 (4), the Department of Land Conservation and Development shall be guided by ORS § 197A.025 (1) and the following principles:

(a) Increasing housing production;

(b) Developing affordable and equitable housing;

(c) Forming partnerships with cities and with other public bodies;

(d) Responding proportionately to housing underproduction;

(e) Escalating enforcement to address persistent, repeated or deliberate noncompliance with housing production strategies and action items; and

(f) Considering the availability of state resources to support housing production.

(2)(a) In determining whether a city should be referred under subsection (3) of this section, the department may base its evaluation on the city’s relative performance with consideration of its region, as established in the Oregon Housing Needs Analysis under ORS § 184.451 (1), on any one of, or any combination of, the following:

(A) A city’s progress, proportionate to its population size, toward the total housing production target under ORS § 184.455 (2)(a).

(B) A city’s progress, proportionate to its population size, toward the housing production targets for those affordability levels for families making less than 80 percent of median family income under ORS § 184.455 (2)(b).

(C) The city’s performance as demonstrated by a statewide housing equity indicator under ORS § 456.602.

(b) The department may not base a determination made under this subsection solely on a city’s performance on any single equity indicator.

(3) Each year, the department shall refer into its housing acceleration program, under subsection (4) of this section:

(a) Of those cities that adopted a housing production strategy more than three but less than four years ago, including as required by subsection (7)(a) of this section, the lowest performing cities, if any exist, as determined under subsection (2) of this section;

(b) Each city that has failed to adopt a housing production strategy by the deadline under ORS § 197A.100 (1);

(c) Each city that has failed to undertake actions in its housing production strategy by the deadline under ORS § 197A.100 (4); and

(d) Cities referred under ORS § 197.319 (4).

(4) For each city referred to the housing acceleration program, within six months, the department shall, in cooperation with the city, complete an audit of specific housing barriers, that must include an analysis of the following factors affecting housing production, affordability and choice:

(a) The existing housing production strategy and the documents and record supporting the strategy;

(b) Public written comments and invited stakeholder feedback received by a date specified by the department;

(c) Land use planning regulations, including zoning and development code;

(d) Permitting and approval processes relating to development of housing and infrastructure supporting housing;

(e) Required fees, exactions and improvements;

(f) Actions and inactions that can impact fair and equitable housing outcomes, environmental justice, climate resilience and location choice;

(g) Local resource deficiencies, including staffing, public facilities, capital improvements to infrastructure, availability of buildable lands and actions or investments to prepare land for development;

(h) Specific additional state resources that could support housing production;

(i) Changes to state laws or rules or the regulations, policies, actions or inactions of any public body, as defined in ORS § 174.109, as that could impact housing production; and

(j) Other factors limiting housing that are not within the city’s control.

(5) In performing an audit under subsection (4) of this section, the department:

(a) May request concurrent review of the city’s measures and housing production strategies under ORS § 197A.205; and

(b) Shall notify any public body identified under subsection (4)(i) of this section.

(6) Within six months following an audit under subsection (4) of this section, the city and the department must enter into a housing acceleration agreement that is based on and proportionate to the city’s basis for referral under subsection (3) of this section and informed by the audit under subsection (4) of this section.

(7) Under the housing acceleration agreement, the department shall agree to provide:

(a) Specified technical assistance, regulatory support and other assistance, to assist the city in performing its agreement under subsection (8) of this section;

(b) Specific funding under the department’s control; and

(c) Specified assistance in pursuing other state or public funds.

(8) Under the housing acceleration agreement, the city shall agree to:

(a) If the department determines that the factors affecting housing production, affordability and choice are a consequence of policies and practices that are directly within the city’s control, adopt an amended housing production strategy within six months that includes:

(A) A timeline for performance under ORS § 197A.100 (4) of no less than one year; and

(B) Specified actions which may include, but are not limited to:

(i) Actions under ORS § 197A.100 (3);

(ii) Dedicating funds for increased local capacity to facilitate housing production, affordability and choice;

(iii) Dedicating funds for public facilities and infrastructure necessary to support housing production;

(iv) Taking measures that increase the availability of development-ready land;

(v) Amending the development code, approval criteria or procedures to reduce cost or delay to housing production; and

(vi) Taking emergency temporary measures to support housing production; and

(b) Join any department initiated interagency mediation to identify policies and resources that would support housing production in the city.

(9) The department may require that a city that is not required to adopt an amendment to its housing production strategy under subsection (8)(a) of this section include findings at the time that the city is next required to adopt a housing production strategy under ORS § 197A.100 (1) that describe how the city has addressed the audit’s findings and any suggested actions.

(10) The department may grant limited extensions to deadlines under subsections (3)(b) and (c) and (8)(a) of this section for emergencies, good cause or other factors outside of the city’s control.

(11) The actions by a city or department under this section are not land use decisions and are not subject to appeal or review.

(12) All public bodies, as defined in ORS § 174.109, are directed to assist cities and the department in the performance of their duties under this section and to take timely action to ensure that the agency’s rules or policies do not unduly delay implementation of a housing acceleration agreement under this section.

 

PLANNING FOR URBAN GROWTH

 

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