Oregon Statutes - Chapter 227 - City Planning and Zoning

227.010 Definition for ORS 227.030 to 227.300.
As used in ORS 227.030 to 227.300, �council� means a representative legislative body. [Amended by 1975 c.767 §1]
227.020 Authority to create planning commission.
(1) A city may create a planning commission for the city and provide for its organization and operations. (2) This section shall be liberally construed...
227.030 Membership.
(1) Not more than two members of a city planning commission may be city officers, who shall serve as ex officio nonvoting members. (2) A...
227.035 [1973 c.739 §5; renumbered 244.135 in 1993]
227.040 [Repealed by 1973 c.739 §13]
227.050 [Amended by 1969 c.430 §2; repealed by 1975 c.767 §16]
227.060 [Repealed by 1975 c.767 §16]
227.070 [Amended by 1969 c.430 §3; 1973 c.739 §3; repealed by 1975 c.767 §16]
227.080 [Repealed by 1973 c.739 §13]
227.090 Powers and duties of commission.
(1) Except as otherwise provided by the city council, a city planning commission may: (a) Recommend and make suggestions to the council and to other...
227.095 Definitions for ORS 227.100 and 227.110.
As used in ORS 227.100 and 227.110, �subdivision� and �plat� have the meanings given those terms in ORS 92.010. [1955 c.756 §28]
227.100 Submission of plats for subdivisions and plans for street alterations and public buildings to commission; report.
All subdivision plats located within the city limits, and all plans or plats for vacating or laying out, widening, extending, parking and locating streets or...
227.110 City approval prior to recording of subdivision plats and plats or deeds dedicating land to public use within six miles of city; exception.
(1) All subdivision plats and all plats or deeds dedicating land to public use in that portion of a county within six miles outside the...
227.120 Procedure and approval for renaming streets.
Within six miles of the limits of any city, the commission, if there is one, or if no such commission legally exists, then the city...
227.130 [Repealed by 1975 c.767 §16]
227.140 [Repealed by 1975 c.767 §16]
227.150 [Repealed by 1975 c.767 §16]
227.160 Definitions for ORS 227.160 to 227.186.
As used in ORS 227.160 to 227.186: (1) �Hearings officer� means a planning and zoning hearings officer appointed or designated by a city council under...
227.165 Planning and zoning hearings officers; duties and powers.
A city may appoint one or more planning and zoning hearings officers, to serve at the pleasure of the appointing authority. Such an officer shall...
227.170 Hearing procedure; rules.
(1) The city council shall prescribe one or more procedures for the conduct of hearings on permits and zone changes. (2) The city council shall...
227.172 Siting casino in incorporated city.
(1) As used in this section: (a) �Casino� means a facility in which casino games, as defined in ORS 167.117, are played for the purpose...
227.173 Basis for decision on permit application or expedited land division; statement of reasons for approval or denial.
(1) Approval or denial of a discretionary permit application shall be based on standards and criteria, which shall be set forth in the development ordinance...
227.175 Application for permit or zone change; fees; consolidated procedure; hearing; approval criteria; decision without hearing.
(1) When required or authorized by a city, an owner of land may apply in writing to the hearings officer, or such other person as...
227.178 Final action on certain applications required within 120 days; procedure; exceptions; refund of fees.
(1) Except as provided in subsections (3) and (5) of this section, the governing body of a city or its designee shall take final action...
227.179 Petition for writ of mandamus authorized when city fails to take final action on land use application within 120 days; jurisdiction; notice of petition.
(1) Except when an applicant requests an extension under ORS 227.178 (5), if the governing body of a city or its designee does not take...
227.180 Review of action on permit application; fees.
(1)(a) A party aggrieved by the action of a hearings officer may appeal the action to the planning commission or council of the city, or...
227.181 Final action required within 90 days following remand of land use decision.
(1) Pursuant to a final order of the Land Use Board of Appeals under ORS 197.830 remanding a decision to a city, the governing body...
227.182 Petition for writ of mandamus authorized when city fails to take final action within 90 days of remand of land use decision.
(1) If the governing body of a city or its designee fails to take final action on an application for a permit, limited land use...
227.184 Supplemental application for remaining permitted uses following denial of initial application.
(1) A person whose application for a permit is denied by the governing body of a city or its designee under ORS 227.178 may submit...
227.185 Transmission tower; location; conditions.
The governing body of a city or its designate may allow the establishment of a transmission tower over 200 feet in height in any zone...
227.186 Notice to property owners of hearing on certain zone change; form of notice; exceptions; reimbursement of cost.
(1) As used in this section, �owner� means the owner of the title to real property or the contract purchaser of real property, of record...
227.187 Public sale of copies of city comprehensive plan and land use regulations.
A city shall maintain copies of its comprehensive plan and land use regulations, as defined in ORS 197.015, for sale to the public. [1991 c.363...
227.190 Solar access ordinances; purpose; standards.
(1) City councils may adopt and implement solar access ordinances. The ordinances shall provide and protect to the extent feasible solar access to the south...
227.195 Effect of land use regulations and comprehensive plans.
Solar access ordinances shall not be in conflict with acknowledged comprehensive plans and land use regulations. [1981 c.722 §6]
227.210 [Repealed by 1975 c.767 §16]
227.215 �Development� defined; regulation of development.
(1) As used in this section, �development� means a building or mining operation, making a material change in the use or appearance of a structure...
227.220 [Repealed by 1975 c.767 §10 (227.215 enacted in lieu of 227.220)]
227.230 [Amended by 1971 c.739 §2; 1975 c.153 §4; repealed by 1975 c.767 §10 (227.215 enacted in lieu of 227.230)]
227.240 [Repealed by 1975 c.767 §10 (227.215 enacted in lieu of 227.240)]
227.250 [Repealed by 1975 c.767 §10 (227.215 enacted in lieu of 227.250)]
227.260 [Repealed by 1975 c.767 §10 (227.215 enacted in lieu of 227.260)]
227.270 [Repealed by 1975 c.767 §10 (227.215 enacted in lieu of 227.270)]
227.280 Enforcement of development legislation.
The council may provide for enforcement of any legislation established under ORS 227.215. [Amended by 1975 c.767 §14]
227.285 [1959 c.601 §1; repealed by 1969 c.460 §2 (227.286 enacted in lieu of 227.285)]
227.286 City ordinances applicable to public property.
City ordinances regulating the location, construction, maintenance, repair, alteration, use and occupancy of land and buildings and other structures shall apply to publicly owned property,...
227.290 Building setback lines established by city council; criteria.
(1) The council or other governing body of any incorporated city, under an exercise of its police powers, may establish or alter building setback lines...
227.300 Use of eminent domain power to establish setback lines.
The council or other governing body of any incorporated city, under an exercise of the power of eminent domain, may establish or alter building setback...
227.310 [1957 c.67 §1; 1975 c.767 §13; repealed by 1977 c.766 §16]
227.350 Notice of proposed wetlands development; exception; approval by city.
(1) After the Department of State Lands has provided the city with a copy of the applicable portions of the Statewide Wetlands Inventory, the city...
227.400 Truck routes; procedures for establishment or revision; notice; hearing.
(1) A city council shall not establish a new truck route or revise an existing truck route within the city unless the council first provides...
227.450 Recycling containers; recommendations for new construction.
(1) Each multifamily residential dwelling with more than 10 individual residential units that is constructed after October 4, 1997, should include adequate space and access...
227.500 Use of real property for religious activity; city regulation of real property used for religious activity.
(1) If a church, synagogue, temple, mosque, chapel, meeting house or other nonresidential place of worship is allowed on real property under state law and...

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