Land Use Hearings

Oregon Administrative Rule (OAR) 660-012 outlines the requirements for Transportation Planning and includes specific requirements for Pedestrian System Planning and Bicycle System Planning. File ZDO-292 will amend Appendix A of the Comprehensive Plan to include the Walk Bike Clackamas (WBC) Plan and update the active transportation policies of Comprehensive Plan Chapter 5: Transportation System Plan.

File nos. Z0197-24 and Z0198-24 include a proposed Comprehensive Plan map amendment to change the land use plan designation for approximately one acre of the subject property from Unincorporated Community Residential (UCR) to Rural Commercial (RC), with a corresponding zone change from Rural Area Residential 1-Acre (RA-1) to Rural Commercial (RC).The application does not itself propose, nor would its approval authorize, any new development.

Ordinance ZDO-288, Utility Facilities, is a package of text amendments to the Clackamas County Comprehensive Plan (Plan) and Zoning and Development Ordinance (ZDO). It is intended to more comprehensively define “utility facility” and related terms and to allow a broader range of utility facilities to qualify as primary or accessory uses rather than conditional uses. The significance of this is that utility facilities that are primary or accessory uses would not require a land use application in most cases; the exception would be where the facility is subject to certain environmental or hazard regulations, such as floodplain or stream buffer requirements.

Minor and Time-Sensitive Comprehensive Plan and ZDO Amendments is a Planning project that is intended to be completed annually and focuses on changes to the County’s Comprehensive Plan and Zoning and Development Ordinance (ZDO) to comply with any new state and federal mandates, clarify existing language, correct errors, or adopt optional provisions that require only minimal analysis. This year, however, this amendment package is also proposed as a vehicle for the adoption of new land use allowances in state law.

The 2023-2024 Minor and Time Sensitive Amendments and New Housing Options package, Ordinance ZDO-285, is a narrowly-focused package of amendments that primarily responds to certain land use legislation approved in the 2021, 2022 and 2023 Oregon legislative sessions and recent state rulemaking.