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State Land Use Enacted Legislation
| Bill # | State | Year | Party | Topic |
|---|---|---|---|---|
HB 2003 |
OR | 2019 | D | Affordable housing incentives and financing, Fair distribution of housing, Faith-based organizations, Planning Requirements, Publicly-owned, Technical assistance, Written findings, burden and standard of proof |
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Summary
- Requires regional housing needs analysis and, for certain cities and Metro, to estimate existing housing stock, to establish a housing shortage analysis and to estimate needed housing units for next 20 years.
- Requires Department of Land Conservation and Development (DLCD) create a methodology for calculating this – must classify housing by type and affordability.
- Requires each city outside Metro with a population greater than 10,000 to estimate its housing need and capacity no less than once every eight years and adopt a housing production strategy.
- Metro and cities within Metro to estimate their housing need and capacity no less than every six years.
- Requires such local governments, within one year of determining estimated housing needs, to adopt housing production strategy to meet estimated housing needs.
- Strategy must include a list of specific actions the city can undertake to address the shortage. Specifies what information cities must include in reports to DLCD.
- Requires Land Conservation and Development Commission to identify cities that experience difficulties implementing housing production strategy and appropriates funds to DLCD to assist cities with implementation of housing production strategy.
- Requires LCDC to issue an order requiring local governments to bring their comprehensive plan and land use regulations into compliance with statewide.
- Directs state agencies to conduct regional housing needs analyses every 4 years and report findings to the Legislature by January 31, 2021 and report on how this compares to the existing assessment of housing need and capacity conducted by local governments.
- Allows development or rezoning of public property in urban growth boundaries for affordable housing if compatible with surrounding zoning.
- Requires local government to adopt findings supported by substantial evidence in support of the necessity of reduction in density or height in housing development application.
- Becomes operative on January 1, 2020.
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Bill Title
Relating to buildings.
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