Oregon Administrative Rules › Chapter 660 - LAND CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT › Division 27 - URBAN AND RURAL RESERVES IN THE PORTLAND METROPOLITAN AREA › Section 660-027-0010 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 63, No. 7, July 1, 2024
The definitions contained in ORS chapters 195 and 197 and the
				Statewide Planning Goals (OAR chapter 660, division 15) apply to this division,
				unless the context requires otherwise. In addition, the following definitions
				apply:
(1) "Foundation Agricultural
			 Lands" means those lands mapped as Foundation Agricultural Lands in the January
			 2007 Oregon Department of Agriculture report to Metro entitled "Identification
			 and Assessment of the Long-Term Commercial Viability of Metro Region
			 Agricultural Lands."
(2) "Important
			 Agricultural Lands" means those lands mapped as Important Agricultural Lands in
			 the January 2007 Oregon Department of Agriculture report to Metro entitled
			 "Identification and Assessment of the Long-Term Commercial Viability of Metro
			 Region Agricultural Lands."
(3)
			 "Intergovernmental agreement" means an agreement between Metro and a county
			 pursuant to applicable requirements for such agreements in ORS
			 190.003 to
			 190.130,
			 195.025 or
			 197.652 to
			 197.658, and in accordance with
			 the requirements in this division regarding the designation of urban and rural
			 reserves and the performance of related land use planning and other activities
			 pursuant to such designation.
(4)
			 "Livable communities" means communities with development patterns, public
			 services and infrastructure that make them safe, healthy, affordable,
			 sustainable and attractive places to live and work.
(5) "Metro" means a metropolitan service
			 district organized under ORS chapter 268.
(6) "Important natural landscape features"
			 means landscape features that limit urban development or help define
			 appropriate natural boundaries of urbanization, and that thereby provide for
			 the long-term protection and enhancement of the region's natural resources,
			 public health and safety, and unique sense of place. These features include,
			 but are not limited to, plant, fish and wildlife habitat; corridors important
			 for ecological, scenic and recreational connectivity; steep slopes, floodplains
			 and other natural hazard lands; areas critical to the region's air and water
			 quality; historic and cultural areas; and other landscape features that define
			 and distinguish the region.
(7)
			 "Public facilities and services" means sanitary sewer, water, transportation,
			 storm water management facilities and public parks.
(8) "Regional framework plan" means the plan
			 adopted by Metro pursuant to ORS
			 197.015(17).
(9) "Rural reserve" means lands outside the
			 Metro UGB, and outside any other UGB in a county with which Metro has an
			 agreement pursuant to this division, reserved to provide long-term protection
			 for agriculture, forestry or important natural landscape features.
(10) "UGB" means an acknowledged urban growth
			 boundary established under Goal 14 and as defined in ORS
			 195.060(2).
(11) "Urban reserve" means lands outside an
			 urban growth boundary designated to provide for future expansion of the UGB
			 over a long-term period and to facilitate planning for the cost-effective
			 provision of public facilities and services when the lands are included within
			 the urban growth boundary.
(12)
			 "Walkable" describes a community in which land uses are mixed, built compactly,
			 and designed to provide residents, employees and others safe and convenient
			 pedestrian access to schools, offices, businesses, parks and recreation
			 facilities, libraries and other places that provide goods and services used on
			 a regular basis.
Stat. Auth.: ORS
				  195.141,
				  197.040
Stats. Implemented: ORS
				  195.137 -
				  195.145