Oregon Statutes - Chapter 197 - Comprehensive Land Use Planning Coordination - Section 197.312 - Limitation on city and county authority to prohibit certain kinds of housing, including farmworker housing; real estate sales office.

(1) A city or county may not by charter prohibit from all residential zones attached or detached single-family housing, multifamily housing for both owner and renter occupancy or manufactured homes. A city or county may not by charter prohibit government assisted housing or impose additional approval standards on government assisted housing that are not applied to similar but unassisted housing.

(2) A city or county may not impose any approval standards, special conditions or procedures on farmworker housing that are not clear and objective or have the effect, either in themselves or cumulatively, of discouraging farmworker housing through unreasonable cost or delay or by discriminating against such housing.

(3)(a) A single-family dwelling for a farmworker and the farmworker’s immediate family is a permitted use in any residential or commercial zone that allows single-family dwellings as a permitted use.

(b) A city or county may not impose a zoning requirement on the establishment and maintenance of a single-family dwelling for a farmworker and the farmworker’s immediate family in a residential or commercial zone described in paragraph (a) of this subsection that is more restrictive than a zoning requirement imposed on other single-family dwellings in the same zone.

(4)(a) Multifamily housing for farmworkers and farmworkers’ immediate families is a permitted use in any residential or commercial zone that allows multifamily housing generally as a permitted use.

(b) A city or county may not impose a zoning requirement on the establishment and maintenance of multifamily housing for farmworkers and farmworkers’ immediate families in a residential or commercial zone described in paragraph (a) of this subsection that is more restrictive than a zoning requirement imposed on other multifamily housing in the same zone.

(5) A city or county may not prohibit a property owner or developer from maintaining a real estate sales office in a subdivision or planned community containing more than 50 lots or dwelling units for the sale of lots or dwelling units that remain available for sale to the public. [1983 c.795 §5; 1989 c.964 §7; 2001 c.437 §1; 2001 c.613 §3]

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