Bill Text: OR SB771 | 2011 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to planning use of land for development of employment opportunities; declaring an emergency.
Spectrum: Committee Bill
Status: (Failed) 2011-06-30 - In committee upon adjournment. [SB771 Detail]
Download: Oregon-2011-SB771-Introduced.html
76th OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2011 Regular Session
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LC 3266
Senate Bill 771
Sponsored by COMMITTEE ON BUSINESS, TRANSPORTATION AND ECONOMIC
DEVELOPMENT
SUMMARY
The following summary is not prepared by the sponsors of the
measure and is not a part of the body thereof subject to
consideration by the Legislative Assembly. It is an editor's
brief statement of the essential features of the measure as
introduced.
Authorizes local governments to enter into cooperative
agreements to plan for regional economic development and
designate sites that are suitable for development of employment
opportunities.
Declares emergency, effective on passage.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to planning use of land for development of employment
opportunities; and declaring an emergency.
Whereas Oregon needs a reliable supply of competitive sites to
attract employment and investment; and
Whereas the need for the sites is of statewide strategic
importance and represents an external demand for land to be
developed for employment opportunities that is not predictable by
reference to the local, coordinated population and employment
forecasts but is more directly related to infrastructure funding
and regulatory streamlining; and
Whereas development on the sites contributes so significantly
to the state's economy, job base and ability to provide services
that focused regulatory relief is a wise investment; and
Whereas cooperative regional economic development plans offer
an effective way to identify suitable high-value employment sites
and to direct that public investment toward workforce development
and infrastructure; and
Whereas methods are needed to plan and prioritize high-value
employment sites, provide infrastructure, protect the sites for
their intended use and prevent excessive supply; and
Whereas informed public participation is necessary at the local
level where the benefits and burdens of development have local
impacts; and
Whereas the employment-related land planning projects of
several local governments have been stopped or stalled by
judicial review of technical flaws and lack of a clear state
policy to provide a strategic supply of high-value employment
sites; and
Whereas certain counties and cities in central Oregon are
expected to complete a high-value employment land and large-lot
industrial needs and strategy planning project by June 2011; now,
therefore,
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1. { + (1) As used in this section:
(a) 'High-value employment site' means a site planned and zoned
for development of employment opportunities.
(b) 'Qualifying regional economic development plan' means a
component of a comprehensive plan or land use regulations that
establishes a process and standards for the designation and
maintenance of a strategic supply of high-value employment sites.
(2) The governing bodies of two or more local governments
representing contiguous counties and a majority of the cities in
the participating counties may adopt a qualifying regional
economic development plan.
(3) A qualifying regional economic development plan must:
(a) Provide for extensive public outreach.
(b) Provide for coordination of investments in public
facilities and services among the participating local
governments.
(c) Provide a mechanism to identify and compare characteristics
of high-value employment sites.
(d) Provide for a maximum number of high-value employment sites
based on an infrastructure financing plan.
(e) Prohibit conversion of the high-value employment sites to
another use.
(f) Emphasize infrastructure finance planning to provide
high-value employment sites that are ready for development of
employment opportunities.
(g) Provide a mechanism to designate sites and replace
designated sites as the sites are developed.
(h) Provide a mechanism to cooperatively set and keep regional
priorities when requesting state or federal funding or regulatory
relief.
(i) Prohibit residential and retail development on high-value
employment sites, except as provided by exceptions identified in
the qualifying regional economic development plan.
(4) A qualifying regional economic development plan may include
all or part of the geographic area of the participating counties
according to the purpose and scope of the qualifying regional
economic development plan.
(5) High-value employment sites:
(a) Are deemed to comply with a statewide land use planning
goal relating to urbanization and the requirements for locally
demonstrated need and location criteria, including demonstrations
of consistency with coordinated 20-year population forecasts
under ORS 195.036, historic trend-based employment forecasts and
land priority; and
(b) Must have public facilities and services in place or be
supported by a feasible infrastructure financing plan that is
coordinated with the infrastructure financing plans of other
local governments that are participants in the qualifying
regional economic development plan.
(6) If zoned, developed and managed to meet the requirements of
the qualifying regional economic development plan, a high-value
employment site is exempt from the access management and mobility
standards required by a rule adopted or enforced by the Land
Conservation and Development Commission requiring local
governments to ensure or assure that a land use allowed under an
acknowledged comprehensive plan, functional plan or land use
regulation that significantly affects transportation facilities
is consistent with the function, capacity or performance
standards of the transportation facilities.
(7) Local governments may:
(a) Plan and designate for urban development high-value
employment sites in a manner and quantity determined by a
qualifying regional economic development plan.
(b) Designate high-value employment sites as urban reserves
pursuant to ORS 195.145.
(8) The Oregon Business Development Department shall:
(a) Determine the quantity and characteristics of high-value
employment sites needed within an area described in a qualifying
regional economic development plan to provide a strategic supply
sufficient to meet regional economic development objectives.
(b) Encourage, establish or participate in public or private
partnerships to move high-value employment sites from the
planning phase to infrastructure development and the development
of employment opportunities.
(c) Provide assistance to local governments seeking to comply
with this subsection, including, but not limited to, assistance
related to jurisdictional lines, watersheds, transportation
corridors, supply chains and proximity to research
institutions. + }
SECTION 2. { + (1) The Department of Land Conservation and
Development shall adopt changes to the statewide land use
planning goals and to rules to conform to the requirements of
section 1 of this 2011 Act within one year after the effective
date of this 2011 Act.
(2) The Department of Land Conservation and Development and the
Department of Transportation shall coordinate to adopt changes to
the statewide land use planning goal related to transportation
planning and to rules implementing the goal to conform the goal
and rules to the requirements of section 1 of this 2011 Act
within one year after the effective date of this 2011 Act. + }
SECTION 3. { + This 2011 Act being necessary for the immediate
preservation of the public peace, health and safety, an emergency
is declared to exist, and this 2011 Act takes effect on its
passage. + }
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