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Agenda
- Why We’re Updating the Code
Project purpose, scope, and clear & objective requirements - Proposed Changes
Natural resources and natural hazards - What the Changes Mean
Effects on property owners, resource protection, and public safety - Questions & Public Feedback
To comply with state law for housing development, Clackamas County is updating county code related to regulations protecting natural resources and natural hazard areas (like steep slopes and rivers) in urban and rural areas. The county will hold two public meetings in October to provide details and allow for comments and questions.
The purpose of these land use regulation changes is to remove subjective elements that staff must interpret and to move to objective and prescribed direction for all applications that provide consistent interpretation of the regulation.
With more predictability for local government and property owners in housing development land use rules, we expect property owners to have better information about their specific site, and predictability related to land use rules when considering changes to their property using fewer overlapping code sections to reference, and with better hazard information and clearer natural resource protection requirements.
Examples of proposed land use regulation changes in the urban area include:
- Habitat and water quality inside Metro: Restructures habitat and water-quality resources protection from several sections to one protection program and clarifies conservation and water quality standards.
- Willamette River Greenway: Clarifies specific requirements for greenways and moves standards for vegetation and riparian protections to the habitat and water quality section of the code.
- Hazards to safety: Reduces hillside and landslide regulations from several sections to one protection program, creates measurable thresholds for housing development and establishes standards when developing an existing property.
- Fire hazards: Fire hazards: Removes unclear land use requirements for fire hazard standards for housing development. All building code and fire code requirements remain.
- Open space: Removes duplicative requirements for greenway, habitat, rivers and streams, floodplains and natural hazards.