Saturday, August 25, 2018

City of Bend Oregon Findings Report Statewide Goal 4

City of Bend Oregon Findings Report
https://www.oregon.gov/LCD/docs/planamendments/Bend%202016/Ord.%20Ex%20A%20-%20Adopted%20Findings%20no%20watermark.pdf

Section 9-10:
9.2.3 Goals 3 and 4, Agriculture and Forestry
The Council finds that the neither Goal 3 nor Goal 4 are applicable to this proposal. The Boundary and Growth Scenarios TAC recommended and the USC approved two decisions that were intended to avoid including any resource land in a UGB expansion. First, the USC approved the decision to follow the statutory priorities in ORS 197.298 and focus first on exception lands (Priority 2 under ORS 197.298(1)(b)). Second, the USC approved the use of a two (2) mile study area within which properties would be evaluated for UGB expansion. These decisions led to research that showed there were over 0000 acres of exception lands that the City could evaluate for UGB expansion, and that there was the no need to consider resource lands (Priority 4 under ORS 197.298(1)(d)) (Rem Rec 3588). The proposed UGB amendment does not include any lands that were designated under the Deschutes County Comprehensive Plan as either agriculture or forest lands. 2

Oregon Statewide Planning Goals
https://www.oregon.gov/LCD/Pages/goals.aspx
Oregon´s statewide goals are achieved through local comprehensive planning. State law requires each city and county to adopt a comprehensive plan and the zoning and land-division ordinances needed to put the plan into effect. 
  
The local comprehensive plans must be consistent with the Statewide Planning Goals. Plans are reviewed for such consistency by the state´s Land Conservation and Development Commission (LCDC). When LCDC officially approves a local government´s plan, the plan is said to be acknowledged. It then becomes the controlling document for land use in the area covered by that plan. 
  
Oregon´s planning laws apply not only to local governments but also to special districts and state agencies. The laws strongly emphasize coordination -- keeping plans and programs consistent with each other, with the goals, and with acknowledged local plans. 

Oregon statewide Planning Goal 4
https://www.oregon.gov/LCD/docs/goals/goal4.pdf

https://www.oregonlaws.org/ors/527.722




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