2020 Land Use Ordinances

Provided below is a list of land use ordinances for 2020. 

To receive email updates on these land use ordinances, please select Land Use Ordinance Updates on the County e-Subscriptions page. You can also receive mailed notice of all filed land use ordinances for the current year for an annual fee of $31. Please fill out and mail in the Annual Land Use Notice Subcription form.

Official communications on ordinances must be received in writing or provided at a hearing. Written testimony, including email regarding proposed ordinances, must include the author(s)' name, address and phone number and may submitted via email, fax, at a hearing or by U.S. Mail: Washington County Long Range Planning, 155 N First Ave., Suite 350, MS14, Hillsboro, OR 97124-3072.

Public hearings are conducted in the Charles D. Cameron Public Services Building Auditorium, 155 N First Ave., Hillsboro.

Ord. #

 Description Planning Commission Hearing(s) Board of Commissioner Hearing(s) Staff Contact
864

Adopted Ordinance No. 864
Breweries and Cideries

Ordinance No. 864 amends the Community Development Code (CDC) to address changes in state law that the County must implement to allow cider businesses and farm breweries and associated activities in exclusive farm use districts (EFU and AF-20). The ordinance also makes minor amendments to accommodate the added uses.

Adopted 7/21/20 - Effective 8/20/20

June 17, 2020
@ 6:30 p.m.

July 21, 2020
@ 10 a.m.

 Carine Arendes,
Associate Planner
865

Ordinance No. 865
Urban Growth Boundary (UGB) Expansion Areas

Ordinance No. 865 proposes to amend the Comprehensive Framework Plan for the Urban Area (CFP), the Rural/Natural Resource Plan (RNRP), the Aloha-Reedville-Cooper Mountain Community Plan, the Bull Mountain Community Plan, the East Hillsboro Community Plan and the West Union Community Plan to address the approval by Metro Council and subsequent acknowledgement by the Oregon Land Conservation and Development Commission (LCDC) to expand the urban growth boundary (UGB) in four locations in Washington County.

Aug. 19, 2020
@ 6:30 p.m.

Aug. 5, 2020
@ 1:30 p.m.

March 2, 2021
@ 10 a.m.

Sept. 1, 2020
@ 10 a.m.

 Todd Borkowitz,
Associate Planner
866

Adopted Ordinance No. 866
Minor Amendments

Ordinance No. 866 makes minor updates, corrections and revisions to the CFP, Bethany Community Plan and the CDC.

Adopted 9/1/20 - Effective 10/1/20

Aug. 5, 2020
@ 1:30 p.m.

Sept. 1, 2020
@ 10 a.m.

 Bryan Robb,
Associate Planner
867

Adopted Ordinance No. 867
Safe Parking

Ordinance No. 867 amends the CDC to allow religious institution sites and other properties in certain urban nonresidential land use districts to offer space where homeless persons can temporarily live in vehicles, subject to participation in a program designed to transition them to stable housing.

Adopted 9/1/20 - Effective 10/1/20

Aug. 5, 2020
@ 1:30 p.m.

Sept. 1, 2020
@ 10 a.m.

 Anne Kelly,
Senior Planner
868

Adopted Ordinance No. 868
Tektronix Development Agreement

Ordinance No. 868 updates the Development Agreement between Beaverton, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Tektronix, Inc., and Washington County.

Adopted 9/15/20 - Effective 10/15/20

Aug. 19, 2020
@ 6:30 p.m.

 

 

Sept. 15, 2020
@ 10 a.m.

Suzanne Savin,
Senior Planner
(land use)

Steve Kelley,
Senior Planner
(transportation)
869

Ordinance No. 869
Significant Natural Resources

Ordinance No. 869 proposes to amend the CDC related to significant natural resources in the development review process, adopt clear and objective standards for tree preservation and removal requirements within significant natural resource areas and allow protected habitat areas to meet open space requirements in planned developments.

Oct. 7, 2020
@ 1:30 p.m.

Sept. 16, 2020
@ 6:30 p.m.

Sept. 2, 2020
@ 1:30 p.m.

Aug. 19, 2020
@ 6:30 p.m.

Sept. 29, 2020
@ 10 a.m.

Sept. 15, 2020
@ 10 a.m.

 Michelle Miller,
Senior Planner