Oregon Administrative Rules › Chapter 350 - COLUMBIA RIVER GORGE COMMISSION › Division 82 - LAND USE ORDINANCE › Section 350-082-0220 - Development and Uses Eligible for Expedited Review

Current through Register Vol. 63, No. 7, July 1, 2024
(1)
			 The following development and uses may be allowed, provided they comply with
			 the resource protection guidelines contained in section (2) below.
(a) Except in Open Space and
			 Agriculture-Special, accessory structures between 60 and 200 square feet in
			 area and ten feet or less in height. Only one accessory building per parcel may
			 be allowed under this guideline, regardless of whether the parcel already
			 includes an accessory building(s). Additional accessory buildings shall be
			 subject to full review. This category does not include signs, decks, fences,
			 outdoor lights, retaining walls, transportation facilities, or utility
			 facilities.
(b) Additions and
			 covered decks for existing buildings, provided the existing building is at
			 least 500 square feet in area and the addition or covered deck is no larger
			 than 200 square feet in area and no taller than the height of the existing
			 building. Only one addition and one covered deck per parcel may be allowed
			 under this guideline, regardless of whether the parcel already includes an
			 addition or covered deck.
(c) Rail,
			 solid or semi-solid fences accessory to existing dwellings less than or equal
			 to six feet in height and less than or equal to 100 feet in length.
(d) Wire-strand fences other than those
			 allowed outright, provided the fence complies with 350-082-0650(5)  if it is
			 inside deer and elk winter range as delineated in the Gorge Commission and
			 Forest Service natural resource data or determined by an appropriate federal or
			 state agency.
(e) In the GMA,
			 woven-wire fences for agricultural use that would enclose 80 acres or
			 less.
(f) Decks that are uncovered,
			 attached and accessory to existing dwellings, and 500 square feet or less in
			 area and 30 inches or less in height above existing grade.
(g) Road closure gates.
(h) Signs, other than those allowed
			 outright.
(i) Outdoor
			 lights.
(j) Air, weather, water and
			 other similar research and monitoring facilities, provided the facilities are
			 attached to existing structures or are less than or equal to 120 square feet in
			 size and less than or equal to 12 feet in height.
(k) Lot line adjustments in the GMA that
			 would not result in the potential to create additional parcels through
			 subsequent land divisions, as determined by 350-082-0570(1), except all lot
			 line adjustments for parcels designated Open Space, Agriculture-Special, Public
			 Recreation, or Commercial Recreation shall be reviewed through the full
			 development review process.
(l) Lot
			 line adjustments in the SMAs, subject to compliance with
			 350-082-0570(2).
(m) Removal or
			 demolition of structures that are less than 50 years old, including wells,
			 septic tanks and fuel tanks.
(n)
			 Decommission non-paved roads, including ripping the road surface, barriers, and
			 revegetation.
(o) Trail
			 reconstruction involving up to 1,000 feet of trail re-route.
(p) The following transportation facilities,
			 provided they are not a part of larger construction or reconstruction projects
			 (which shall be reviewed as a whole):
(A) New
			 traffic barriers and guardrail ends, other than those allowed outright, and new
			 wire-strand and woven-wire access control fences. This category does not
			 include jersey barriers.
(B) New
			 traffic detection devices, vehicle weighing devices, and signal boxes less than
			 or equal to 120 square feet in size and less than or equal to 12 feet in
			 height. This category does not include signs.
(C) Pave existing dirt and gravel roads,
			 provided the activity does not increase the width of the road or disturb the
			 toe of adjacent embankments, slopes or cut banks.
(D) New weather, air, traffic or other
			 monitoring equipment attached to existing structures or that are less than or
			 equal to 120 square feet in size and less than or equal to 12 feet in
			 height.
(q) Except in
			 Agriculture-Special, new underground utility facilities located inside road,
			 utility or railroad rights-of-way or easements that have been disturbed in the
			 past, provided that no ditch for linear facilities would be more than 36 inches
			 wide and no excavation for non-linear facilities would exceed 20 cubic
			 yards.
(r) The following
			 aboveground and overhead utility facilities:
(A) Modify existing aboveground and overhead
			 utility facilities or, except in Agriculture-Special, develop new aboveground
			 and overhead utility facilities including building and equipment foundations,
			 poles, transformers, conduit, fencing, pumps, valves, pipes, and water meters,
			 provided the development would be less than or equal to 120 square feet in area
			 and less than or equal to 12 feet in height.
(B) Replace existing aboveground and overhead
			 utility facilities including building and equipment foundations, poles,
			 transformers, conduit, fencing, pumps, valves, pipes, and water meters,
			 provided the replacement facilities would be in the same location as and no
			 more than 15 percent larger than the physical size of the existing
			 facilities.
(C) New antennas and
			 associated support structures necessary for public service on existing wireless
			 communication poles and towers other than those allowed outright, provided the
			 size is the minimum necessary to provide the service.
(s) Replace an existing mobile home in a
			 mobile home space within a mobile home park, provided:
(A) The mobile home to be replaced, the
			 mobile home space, and the mobile home park shall be existing, lawful uses
			 according to the definition of existing use or structure in 350-082-0070(73)
 
			 and in accordance with 350-082-0220(1)  through 350-082-0220(4);
(B) The replacement mobile home shall be in
			 the same location as the mobile home to be replaced;
(C) The height of the replacement mobile home
			 shall be no more than 20 percent greater than the mobile home to be replaced;
			 and
(D) the mass and footprint of
			 the replacement mobile home shall be no more than 100 percent greater than a
			 single-wide mobile home to be replaced or no more than 25 percent greater than
			 a double-wide mobile home to be replaced.
(t) Retaining walls accessory to existing
			 dwellings less than or equal to two feet in height and less than or equal to
			 100 feet in length.
(u) In the
			 SMAs, wind machines for frost control in conjunction with agricultural
			 use.
(v) Additions to existing
			 buildings or structures that generate solar power for approved uses, provided
			 that the panels and hardware are non-reflective black or dark earth tone colors
			 and do not increase the overall roof height. This category does not include
			 free-standing solar arrays, which are subject to full review as new structures
			 under 350-0820540.