Oregon Administrative Rules › Chapter 660 - LAND CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT › Division 44 - METROPOLITAN GREENHOUSE GAS REDUCTION TARGETS › Section 660-044-0005 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 63, No. 7, July 1, 2024
For the purposes of this division, the definitions in ORS
				197.015 and the statewide planning goals apply. In addition, the following definitions
				shall apply:
(1) "Climate Friendly
			 Area" has the meaning provided in OAR 660-012-0005(10).
(2) "Community-based conversations" means
			 accessible and inclusive community meetings held for areas with above-average
			 concentrations of underserved community members.
(3) "Design type" means the conceptual areas
			 described in the Metro Growth Concept text and map in the Metro regional
			 framework plan, including central city, regional centers, town centers, station
			 communities, corridors, main streets, neighborhoods, industrial areas and
			 employment areas.
(4) "Equitable
			 outcomes" has the meaning provided in OAR 660-012-0005(14).
(5) "Framework plan" or "regional framework
			 plan" means the plan adopted by Metro as defined by ORS
			 197.015(16).
(6) "Functional plan" or "regional functional
			 plan" means an ordinance adopted by Metro to implement the regional framework
			 plan through city and county comprehensive plans and land use
			 regulations.
(7) "Greenhouse gas"
			 has the meaning given in ORS
			 468A.210.
			 Greenhouse gases are measured in terms of carbon dioxide equivalents, which
			 means the quantity of a given greenhouse gas multiplied by a global warming
			 potential factor consistent with a state-approved emissions reporting
			 method.
(8) "Greenhouse gas
			 emissions reduction target" or "target" means a reduction from 2005 emission
			 levels of per capita greenhouse gas emissions from travel in light vehicles.
			 Targets are the reductions beyond reductions in emissions that are likely to
			 result from the use of improved vehicle technologies and fuels. Travel in light
			 vehicles includes all travel by members of households or university group
			 quarters living within a metropolitan area regardless of where the travel
			 occurs, and local commercial vehicle travel that is a function of household
			 labor or demand regardless of where the travel occurs. Examples include
			 commuting to work, going to school, going shopping, traveling for recreation,
			 delivery vehicles, service vehicles, travel to business meetings, and travel to
			 jobsites.
(9) "Land use and
			 transportation scenario planning" means the preparation and evaluation by local
			 governments of two or more land use and transportation scenarios and the
			 cooperative selection of a preferred land use and transportation scenario that
			 accommodates planned population and employment growth while achieving a
			 reduction in greenhouse gas emissions from light vehicle travel in the
			 metropolitan area and an increase in equitable outcomes for underserved
			 community members. Land use and transportation scenario planning may include
			 preparation and evaluation of alternative scenarios that do not meet targets
			 specified in this division.
(10)
			 "Light vehicles" means motor vehicles with a gross vehicle weight rating of
			 10,000 pounds or less.
(11) "Metro"
			 means the metropolitan service district organized for the Portland metropolitan
			 area under ORS chapter 268.
(12)
			 "Metropolitan planning area" or "metropolitan area" means lands within the
			 planning area boundary of a metropolitan planning organization.
(13) "Metropolitan planning organization"
			 means an organization located wholly within the State of Oregon and designated
			 by the Governor to coordinate transportation planning in an urbanized area of
			 the state pursuant to
			 49 USC §
									5303(c). The
			 Longview-Kelso-Rainier metropolitan planning organization and the Walla Walla
			 Valley metropolitan planning organization are not metropolitan planning
			 organizations for the purposes of this division.
(14) "Planning period" means the period of
			 time over which the expected outcomes of a scenario plan are estimated,
			 measured from a 2005 base year, to a future year that corresponds with
			 greenhouse gas emission targets set forth in this division.
(15) "Preferred land use and transportation
			 scenario" means a plan for a metropolitan area that achieves the targets for
			 reducing greenhouse gas emissions set forth in OAR 660-044-0020  and
			 660-0440-0025 as provided in OAR 660-044-0040  and 660-044-0110.
(16) "Underserved Populations" has the
			 meaning provided in OAR 660-012-0125(2).
(17) "Vehicle Miles Traveled" has the meaning
			 provided in OAR 660-012-0005(59).
(18) "Statewide Transportation Strategy"
			 means the statewide strategy adopted by the Oregon Transportation Commission as
			 part of the state transportation policy to aid in achieving the greenhouse gas
			 emissions reduction goals set forth in ORS
			 468A.205 as provided in Oregon Laws 2010, chapter 85, section 2.
Tables referenced are not included in rule text.
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Statutory/Other Authority: ORS
				  197.040,
				  Ch 865 OL 2009 (HB 2001) § 37(6) and (8) & Ch 85 OL 2010 Special
				  Session (SB 1059) § 5
Statutes/Other Implemented: Ch 865 OL 2009 (HB 2001) §
				  37(6) and (8) & Ch 85 OL 2010 Special Session (SB 1059) §
				  5