Legislative Policies for the 2005 Legislative Session

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Recommendation: ' cities. The City will continue to oppose proposals for intensification of use outside in 1. Support legislation to amend ORS 197.296 to allow policy and land use code rural areas near city urban growth boundaries. amendments to be considered in the determination of housing capacity and need. Bills also have been introduced over the past decade to restructure the LCDC. Proposed 2. Oppose legislation that would establish a comparable requirement that the changes included the shift from an appointed to an elected commission and the establishment of several regional commissions to replace the existing single commission. determination of commercial and industrial capacity and need must be based only The number of commissioners was increased from seven to eight by the 1993 Legislature, on actual past development. but the Commission structure was not changed. 4. ANNEXATION Recommendation: 1. Oppose legislation that would weaken the statewide land use planning program The Eugene-Springfield Metro Plan establishes an urban growth boundary and envisions or the role or structure .of the Land Conservation and Development Commission. that all land within the urban growth boundary ultimately will be annexed to a city and provided with the required urban services. Annexations to Eugene are processed by the 6. PREEMPTNE ZONING AND SUPERSITING Lane County Boundary Commission. In past legislative sessions, legislation has been introduced to eliminate the Lane County boundary commissions and to eliminate or During the past several legislative sessions, legislation has been introduced that would weaken existing methods of annexation. preempt local zoning regulations and substitute statewide zoning regulation, or that would establish State supersiting authority. While it is the responsibility of the State law currently requires that withdrawals of annexed territory from special service Legislature to identify land use issues of statewide concern, local governments should districts be processed by a city separately from Boundary Commission action on the have the flexibility to implement State land use policy within the context of their annexation request, necessitating a separate city hearing and action following Boundary acknowledged comprehensive plans. State agency plans and decisions should be Commission approval of an annexation, consistent with local ackn wl o ed ed com rehensive tans and local la ' nnm rocesses. g p p P g p Recommendations: Recommendation: - 1 • Oppose legislation that eliminates the Lane County Boundary Commission or 1. Oppose legislation that establishes statutory preemptive zoning or State eliminates or weakens existing methods of annexation, supersiting authority. 2• Support legislation to allow withdrawal of territory from special service districts to be processed by the Boundary Commission concurrent with its action on annexation requests. 5. .OREGON LAND USE PLANNING PROGRAM AND LAND CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION Senate Bill 100, enacted in 1973, established a statewide land use planning program to address concerns that rapid and uncoordinated development was threatening Oregon's livability. It required cities and counties to adopt and maintain comprehensive plans, ' focusing urban development within UGBs and limiting rural development outside UGBs to preserve Oregon's farm and forest land. During the 1993 ;Legislative Session, the legislature adopted HB 3661, which revised and weakened the requirements for development on rural lands. Two of the bills vetoed by Governor Kitzhaber following the 1999 Legislative Session would have further expanded the uses allowed in rural.areas and one of the bills vetoed by the Governor following the 2001 Legislative Session would have required LCDC to review its rules on developments in rural residential areas near City of Eugene Legislative Policies, 2005 Session 31 City of Eugene Legislative Policies, 2005 Session 32