What does it take to get quality, reasonably-priced homes in every Oregon community? It can be more complicated than you might think. In this section, we explain the policy and planning tools that local governments can use, including six overarching strategies that every community can benefit from.
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Planning for a more plentiful future
Our land use planning system, established in 1974 with SB 100 and 101, is the reason Oregon looks like Oregon. Oregon’s land use system has 19 statewide planning goals, including goals 10 and 14, which require cities to plan for and accommodate needed housing types.
Oregon's land use planning Goal 10 specifies that each city must plan for and accommodate all needed housing types, from single detached to multifamily to manufactured housing. It requires each city to inventory its buildable residential lands, project future housing needs, and plan and zone enough capacity and buildable land to meet those needs. It also prohibits local plans from discriminating against needed housing types.
Requires cities to estimate future housing, employment, parks, and other needs over the next 20 years, and then plan and zone enough capacity and land to meet those needs. It calls for each city to establish an urban growth boundary (UGB) to "identify and separate urbanizable land from rural land." Goal 14 specifies seven factors that must be considered in drawing up a UGB. It also lists four criteria to be applied when undeveloped land within the UGB is to be converted to urban uses.
These curated resources provide a clear path towards providing more housing for your community.
1000 Friends of Oregon has identified six core strategies to improve housing for all Oregonians.