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  • 11-801 - Definitions
    In this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires: 1. "Area of jurisdiction" means that part of the county outside the corporate limits of any municipality....
  • 11-802 - County planning and zoning
    The board of supervisors of a county, in order to conserve and promote the public health, safety, convenience and general welfare, and in accordance with...
  • 11-803 - County planning and zoning commissions; membership; terms; advisory officers
    A. In the counties having three supervisorial districts, each county planning and zoning commission shall consist of nine members who shall be qualified electors of...
  • 11-804 - Organization of commission
    A. The commission shall: 1. Elect a chairman from among its members for a term of one year, and such other officers as it may...
  • 11-805 - Consultants; employees; use of services by city or town
    A. The board may contract with consultants for services as may be required, employ such persons and provide funds as it deems necessary to carry...
  • 11-806 - Powers and duties; comprehensive plan
    A. The commission shall act in an advisory capacity to the board and may from time to time, and shall, when requested by the board,...
  • 11-806.01 - Subdivision regulation; platting regulations; violation; classification; easement vesting
    A. The county board of supervisors shall regulate the subdivision of all lands within its corporate limits, except subdivisions which are regulated by municipalities. B....
  • 11-806.02 - Subdivision reservation for public facilities and services; conditions; procedures; time limitation
    A. A board of supervisors may require by ordinance that land areas within a subdivision be reserved for parks, recreational facilities, school sites and fire...
  • 11-807 - Boards of adjustment; powers; appeals
    A. There shall be one or more boards of adjustment composed of not less than three nor more than five members each, one of which...
  • 11-808 - Enforcement; county zoning inspector; deputies; building permits; violations; classification; civil penalties; hearing officers and procedures
    A. The county zoning ordinance shall provide for its enforcement within a zoned territory by means of withholding building permits, and for such purposes may...
  • 11-809 - Review of land divisions; definitions
    A. The board of supervisors of each county may adopt ordinances and regulations pursuant to this section for staff review and approval of land divisions...
  • 11-810 - Appeals of county actions; dedication or exaction; excessive reduction in property value; burden of proof; attorney fees
    A. Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, a property owner may appeal the following actions relating to the owner's property by a county, or...
  • 11-811 - Compliance with court decisions
    A county or an agency or instrumentality of a county shall comply with the United States Supreme Court cases of Dolan v. City of Tigard,...
  • 11-812 - Disclosure of filings; military electronics range; definition
    A. A county that contains any portion of a military electronics range as delineated in the military electronics range map prepared by the state land...
  • 11-821 - County plan; definitions
    A. The commission shall formulate and the board of supervisors shall adopt or readopt a comprehensive long-term county plan for the development of the area...
  • 11-821.01 - Duty to zone certain area for canneries, fertilizer plants, refineries, commercial feed lots, meat packing plants, tallow works, and other like businesses; procedure
    A. The county planning and zoning commission shall designate and zone appropriate areas of reasonable size in which there may be established with reasonable permanency...
  • 11-821.02 - Operating requirements for businesses and facilities
    Notwithstanding section 11-830, a county in regulating or licensing businesses and facilities pursuant to section 11-821, may impose reasonable operating requirements that affect the existing...
  • 11-821.03 - Transfer of development rights; definitions
    A. The board of supervisors may establish procedures, methods and standards for the transfer of development rights within its jurisdiction. Any proposed transfer of all...
  • 11-822 - Drafting county plan by commission; notice; hearing
    The commission may formulate and draft the county plan as a whole, or separate parts of the plan corresponding with functional divisions of the subject...
  • 11-823 - Submission of county plan to board; hearing; notice
    A. After the commission recommends the county plan or any section of the plan, the plan shall be submitted to the board of supervisors for...
  • 11-824 - Adoption and amendment of county plan by board of supervisors; expiration and readoption
    A. The board of supervisors may adopt the county comprehensive plan as a whole, or by successive actions adopt separate parts of the plan. The...
  • 11-825 - Specific zoning plans; adoption; administration; contents
    A. The board of supervisors or zoning commission of a county with a population of less than two million persons may prepare specific zoning plans...
  • 11-826 - Infrastructure service area boundaries
    A. The county planning and zoning commission may prepare a plan and provide regulations determining the location of infrastructure service area boundaries consistent with the...
  • 11-829 - Amendment of ordinance or change of zoning district boundaries; definition
    A. A property owner or authorized agent of a property owner desiring an amendment or change in the zoning ordinance changing the zoning district boundaries...
  • 11-830 - Restriction on regulation; exceptions; aggregate mining regulation; definitions
    A. Nothing contained in any ordinance authorized by this chapter shall: 1. Affect existing uses of property or the right to its continued use or...
  • 11-831 - Additional requirements for certain lands
    A. The rezoning or subdivision plat of any unincorporated area completely surrounded by a city or town shall use as a guideline the adopted general...
  • 11-832 - Conditional zoning change; board approval; reversion
    The board may approve a change of zone conditioned on a schedule for development of the specific use or uses for which rezoning is requested....
  • 11-833 - Standards for enactment of moratorium; land development; limitations; definitions
    A. A county shall not adopt a moratorium on construction or land development unless it first: 1. Provides notice to the public published once in...
  • 11-861 - Adoption of codes by reference; limitations; method of adoption
    A. In any county which has adopted zoning pursuant to this chapter, the board of supervisors may adopt and enforce, for the unincorporated areas of...
  • 11-861.01 - Single family residences; solar water heating requirement
    A. Any code adopted pursuant to this article may contain a provision requiring new single family residences in the county to be designed to facilitate...
  • 11-862 - Advisory board; appointment; terms; duties
    A. Any code adopted pursuant to this article shall contain a provision for an advisory board consisting of at least five members in order to...
  • 11-863 - Contract by county and city for enforcement; rules and regulations; fees for permits
    A. Any county may contract with a city or town to provide for enforcement of such codes or rules and regulations adopted pursuant thereto. B....
  • 11-864 - Publication of ordinance adopting code
    Any code authorized by this article may be enacted without setting forth in full such provisions, but the adopting ordinance shall be published in full....
  • 11-865 - Exemptions; exception
    A. The provisions of this article shall not be construed to apply to: 1. Construction or operation incidental to construction and repair to irrigation and...
  • 11-866 - Penalties
    A penalty clause contained in a code adopted by reference shall not be adopted by reference but shall be set forth in full in the...
  • 11-871 - Emissions control; no burn; exemptions; penalty
    A. A county that contains any part of area A, as defined in section 49-541, shall develop, implement and enforce in area A, as defined...
  • 11-872 - Control techniques; rules; schedule for adoption
    A. If the administrator of the United States environmental protection agency makes a finding relating to area A, as defined in section 49-541, pursuant to...
  • 11-873 - Rules; industry sectors; enhanced enforcement
    A county with a population of more than one million two hundred thousand persons as determined by the most recent United States decennial census that...
  • 11-874 - Control of area sources; rules; industry sectors
    A county with a population of more than one million two hundred thousand persons as determined by the most recent United States decennial census that...
  • 11-875 - Clean burning fireplace ordinance
    A. By December 31, 1998, a county that contains any portion of area A as defined in section 49-541 shall adopt, implement and enforce an...
  • 11-876 - Engine idling restrictions; exemptions; applicability; civil penalty; definition
    A. By July 1, 2002, a county that contains any portion of area A as defined in section 49-451 shall adopt, implement and enforce ordinances...
  • 11-877 - Air quality control measures
    A. In order to reduce particulate matter in ambient air, the board of supervisors of any county that contains any portion of area A, as...
  • Last modified: March 5, 2010