2017 Omnibus - Minor CDC Amendments
Contact: Michelle Miller, senior planner |503-846-8101
Background
The Omnibus ordinance is used to address several minor, but important,
Comprehensive Plan or Community Development Code (CDC) amendments in one
ordinance. Each year, the County receives input from citizen advisory committees,
current planning staff and the general community requesting minor changes to
improve and comply with changes to state and regional land use law and policy.
This year, the following minor changes are proposed under the Omnibus
Ordinance:
- Amend the CDC to allow air conditioning units in
the required residential side yard.
- Change the CDC so that Type III Transit
Orientated Development appeals do not go to the Board of Commissioners, but
directly to the Land Use Board of Appeals, similar
to other Type III applications.
- Amend the Comprehensive Framework Plan for the
Urban Area (CFP) Policy 41, Urban Growth Boundary Expansion, to allow large
industrial parcels with a FD-20 land use designation to be partitioned under
certain circumstances, including use for public facilities and services.
- Amend the CDC to reduce the front-yard setback
to 5 feet in mobile home parks developed before 1983.
- Amend Rural/Natural Resource Plan Policy 1, The
Planning Process, to add restrictions on plan amendments or land use changes
within properties designated as Rural Reserves, in order to follow state law.
- Amend the CDC to require a
neighborhood meeting when a Type II or III Commercial, Institutional or
Industrial use is proposed within a certain distance of a residential area.
- Amend provisions of CDC related to school
district notice requirements and the removal of inaccurate references.
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Adopted Ordinance
- Ordinance No. 822, updating the Rural/Natural Resource Plan, The Comprehensive Framework Plan and Community Development Code was adopted 10/17/17 - effective 10/26/17.
Additional Resources
See the 2017 Land Use Ordinance page for a list of hearing dates, times, and materials for all land use ordinances filed or adopted in the 2017 ordinance season.
