ORS 197.299
Metro accommodation of needed housing and school lands
(1)
A metropolitan service district organized under ORS chapter 268 shall complete the inventory, determination and analysis required under ORS 197.296 (Analysis of housing capacity and needed housing by Metro, cities outside of Metro and smaller cities) (3) not later than six years after completion of the previous inventory, determination and analysis.(2)
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The metropolitan service district shall take such action as necessary under ORS 197.296 (Analysis of housing capacity and needed housing by Metro, cities outside of Metro and smaller cities) (6)(a) to accommodate one-half of a 20-year buildable land supply determined under ORS 197.296 (Analysis of housing capacity and needed housing by Metro, cities outside of Metro and smaller cities) (3) within one year of completing the analysis.(b)
The metropolitan service district shall take all final action under ORS 197.296 (Analysis of housing capacity and needed housing by Metro, cities outside of Metro and smaller cities) (6)(a) necessary to accommodate a 20-year buildable land supply determined under ORS 197.296 (Analysis of housing capacity and needed housing by Metro, cities outside of Metro and smaller cities) (3) within two years of completing the analysis.(c)
The metropolitan service district shall take action under ORS 197.296 (Analysis of housing capacity and needed housing by Metro, cities outside of Metro and smaller cities) (6)(b), within one year after the analysis required under ORS 197.296 (Analysis of housing capacity and needed housing by Metro, cities outside of Metro and smaller cities) (3)(b) is completed, to provide sufficient buildable land within the urban growth boundary to accommodate the estimated housing needs for 20 years from the time the actions are completed.(d)
The metropolitan service district shall consider and adopt new measures that the governing body deems appropriate under ORS 197.296 (Analysis of housing capacity and needed housing by Metro, cities outside of Metro and smaller cities) (6)(b).(3)
The commission may grant an extension to the time limits of subsection (2) of this section if the Director of the Department of Land Conservation and Development determines that the metropolitan service district has provided good cause for failing to meet the time limits.(4)
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The metropolitan service district shall establish a process to expand the urban growth boundary to accommodate a need for land for a public school that cannot reasonably be accommodated within the existing urban growth boundary. The metropolitan service district shall design the process to:(A)
Accommodate a need that must be accommodated between periodic analyses of urban growth boundary capacity required by subsection (1) of this section; and(B)
Provide for a final decision on a proposal to expand the urban growth boundary within four months after submission of a complete application by a large school district as defined in ORS 195.110 (School facility plan for large school districts).(b)
At the request of a large school district, the metropolitan service district shall assist the large school district to identify school sites required by the school facility planning process described in ORS 195.110 (School facility plan for large school districts). A need for a public school is a specific type of identified land need under ORS 197.298 (Priority of land to be included within urban growth boundary) (3).(5)
Three years after completing its most recent demonstration of sufficient buildable lands under ORS 197.296 (Analysis of housing capacity and needed housing by Metro, cities outside of Metro and smaller cities), a metropolitan service district may, on a single occasion, revise the determination and analysis required as part of the demonstration for the purpose of considering an amendment to the metropolitan service district’s urban growth boundary, provided:(a)
The metropolitan service district has entered into an intergovernmental agreement and has designated rural reserves and urban reserves under ORS 195.141 (Designation of rural reserves and urban reserves pursuant to intergovernmental agreement) and 195.145 (Urban reserves) with each county located within the district;(b)
The commission has acknowledged the rural reserve and urban reserve designations described in paragraph (a) of this subsection;(c)
One or more cities within the metropolitan service district have proposed a development that would require expansion of the urban growth boundary;(d)
The city or cities proposing the development have provided evidence to the metropolitan service district that the proposed development would provide additional needed housing to the needed housing included in the most recent determination and analysis;(e)
The location chosen for the proposed development is adjacent to the city proposing the development; and(f)
The location chosen for the proposed development is located within an area designated and acknowledged as an urban reserve.(6)
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If a metropolitan service district, after revising its most recent determination and analysis pursuant to subsection (5) of this section, concludes that an expansion of its urban growth boundary is warranted, the metropolitan service district may take action to expand its urban growth boundary in one or more locations to accommodate the proposed development, provided the urban growth boundary expansion does not exceed a total of 1,000 acres.(b)
A metropolitan service district that expands its urban growth boundary under this subsection:(A)
Must adopt the urban growth boundary expansion not more than four years after completing its most recent demonstration of sufficient buildable lands under ORS 197.296 (Analysis of housing capacity and needed housing by Metro, cities outside of Metro and smaller cities); and(B)
Is exempt from the boundary location requirements described in the statewide land use planning goals relating to urbanization. [1997 c.763 §2; 2001 c.908 §2; 2005 c.590 §1; 2007 c.579 §2; 2014 c.92 §5; 2017 c.199 §1; 2019 c.640 §9; 2021 c.164 §4]
Source:
Section 197.299 — Metro accommodation of needed housing and school lands, https://www.oregonlegislature.gov/bills_laws/ors/ors197.html.
Law Review Citations
93 OLR 455 (2014)
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