ORS Chapter 197a — Land Use Planning: Housing

ORS 197a.130. (2) A housing production strategy must include a list of specific actions, including the adoption of measures and policies, that the city shall undertake to promote: (a) The development of needed housing; (b) The development and maintenance of housing that is of diverse housing types, high-quality, affordable and accessible; (c) Housing with access to economic opportunities, services and amenities; and (d) Affirmatively furthering fair housing. (3) Actions that may be included in a housing production strategy include: (a) The reduction of financial and regulatory impediments to developing needed housing, including removing or easing approval standards or procedures for needed housing at higher densities or that is affordable; (b) The creation of financial and regulatory incentives for development of needed housing, including creating incentives for needed housing at higher densities or that is affordable; (c) The development of a plan to access resources available at local, regional, state and national levels to increase the availability and affordability of needed housing; (d) Target development on identified development-ready lands; (e) Actions that affirmatively further fair housing; (f) Actions that: (A) Increase housing diversity, efficiency and affordability, including new construction and the preservation of naturally occurring affordable housing; (B) Allow greater housing choice for households and greater flexibility in location, type and density; (C) Reduce cost or delay and increase procedural certainty for the production of housing; or (D) Prepare land for development or redevelopment, including: (i) Public facilities planning and other investment strategies that increase the readiness of land for development for housing production; (ii) Site preparation, financial incentives or other incentive-based measures that increase the likelihood of development or redevelopment of land; or (iii) The redevelopment of underutilized commercial and employment lands for housing or a mix of housing and commercial uses; or (g) Any other actions identified by rule of the Land Conservation and Development Commission intended to promote housing production, affordability and choice. (4) Actions proposed in a citys housing production strategy shall include clear deadlines by which the city expects to undertake the action. (5) In creating a housing production strategy, a city shall review and consider: (a) Socioeconomic and demographic characteristics of households living in existing needed housing; (b) Market conditions affecting the provision of needed housing; (c) Measures already adopted by the city to promote the development of needed housing; (d) Existing and expected barriers to the development of needed housing; and (e) For each action the city includes in its housing production strategy: (A) The schedule for its adoption; (B) The schedule for its implementation; (C) Its expected magnitude of impact on the development of needed housing; and (D) The time frame over which it is expected to impact needed housing. (6) The housing production strategy must include within its index a copy of the citys most recently completed survey under ORS 197A.110. (7) The adoption of a housing production strategy is not a land use decision and is not subject to appeal or review except as provided in ORS 197A.103. (8) A city with a population of less than 10,000 may develop a housing production strategy as provided in this section. (9) As used in this section, affirmatively furthering fair housing means meaningful actions that, when taken together, address significant disparities in housing needs and access to opportunity and replace segregated living patterns with truly integrated and balanced living patterns to transform racially and ethnically concentrated areas of poverty into areas of opportunity and foster and maintain compliance with civil rights and fair housing laws. [Formerly 197.290]