OAR 660-009-0020
Industrial and Other Employment Development Policies
(1)
Comprehensive plans subject to this division must include policies stating the economic development objectives for the planning area. These policies must be based on the community economic opportunities analysis prepared pursuant to OAR 660-009-0015 (Economic Opportunities Analysis) and must provide the following:(a)
Community Economic Development Objectives. The plan must state the overall objectives for economic development in the planning area and identify categories or particular types of industrial and other employment uses desired by the community. Policy objectives may identify the level of short-term supply of land the planning area needs. Cities and counties are strongly encouraged to select a competitive short-term supply of land as a policy objective.(b)
Commitment to Provide a Competitive Short-Term Supply. Cities and counties within a Metropolitan Planning Organization must adopt a policy stating that a competitive short-term supply of land as a community economic development objective for the industrial and other employment uses selected through the economic opportunities analysis pursuant to OAR 660-009-0015 (Economic Opportunities Analysis).(c)
Commitment to Provide Adequate Sites and Facilities. The plan must include policies committing the city or county to designate an adequate number of sites of suitable sizes, types and locations. The plan must also include policies, through public facilities planning and transportation system planning, to provide necessary public facilities and transportation facilities for the planning area.(2)
Plans for cities and counties within a Metropolitan Planning Organization or that adopt policies relating to the short-term supply of land, must include detailed strategies for preparing the total land supply for development and for replacing the short-term supply of land as it is developed. These policies must describe dates, events or both, that trigger local review of the short-term supply of land.(3)
Plans may include policies to maintain existing categories or levels of industrial and other employment uses including maintaining downtowns or central business districts.(4)
Plan policies may emphasize the expansion of and increased productivity from existing industries and firms as a means to facilitate local economic development.(5)
Cities and counties are strongly encouraged to adopt plan policies that include brownfield redevelopment strategies for retaining land in industrial use and for qualifying them as part of the local short-term supply of land.(6)
Cities and counties are strongly encouraged to adopt plan policies pertaining to prime industrial land pursuant to OAR 660-009-0025 (Designation of Lands for Industrial and Other Employment Uses)(8).(7)
Cities and counties are strongly encouraged to adopt plan policies that include additional approaches to implement this division including, but not limited to:(a)
Tax incentives and disincentives;(b)
Land use controls and ordinances;(c)
Preferential tax assessments;(d)
Capital improvement programming;(e)
Property acquisition techniques;(f)
Public/private partnerships; and(g)
Intergovernmental agreements.
Source:
Rule 660-009-0020 — Industrial and Other Employment Development Policies, https://secure.sos.state.or.us/oard/view.action?ruleNumber=660-009-0020.