A history of land use planning in Oregon

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A history of land use planning in Oregon

• Balancing urban development and the preservation
  of natural resources
• Charlotte Paganini
• LAA 6382
• 26 November 2007

National Geographic
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Tom McCall governor of Oregon (1967-75)

• Campaign for livable Oregon
• First major victory Beach Bill (1967)
• House Bill 1036 (1971) nations first mandatory
  bottle-deposit law
• Energy conservation methods
• State Bill 100 comprehensive land use planning
• Creation of Land Conservation and Development
  Committee and the Department of Land Conservation
  and Development (administrative)

Pacific University of Oregon
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LCDC 14 Goals for Land Planning

• 1 Citizen Involvement
• 2 Land Use Planning
• 3 Agricultural Lands
• 4 Forest Lands
• 5 Natural Resources, Scenic and Historic Areas
  and Open Spaces
• 6 Air, Water and Land Resources Quality
• 7 Areas Subject to Natural Hazards
• 8 Recreational Needs
• 9 Economic Development
• 10 Housing
• 11 Public Facilities and Services
• 12 Transportation
• 13 Energy Conservation
• 14 Urbanization

NASA
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5 Additional Goals to Preserve Waterbodies

• Willamette River Greenway
• Estuarine Resources
• Coastal Shorelands
• Beaches and Dunes
• Ocean Resources

Wikimedia, Willamette River
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1000 Friends of Oregon

• Founded by Tom McCall and Henry Richmond (1975)
• Public education and political activism
• Spearheaded other, more local, agencies

Friends.org
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Contributing Factors

• Ecological Principles
• Integrated Planning the Big picture
• Economic Principles
• Urban Growth Boundary
• Threat to free market economics
• Inflated property prices
• Legal Principles
• Right to Private Property
• House Bill 3661

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Measure 37 and 49

• Measure 37
• Pros
• Private Property Owners compensated for takings
  (adjusted to fair market value)
• Cons
• Increased risk of wildfires
• Low density development permitted on less
  desirable rural land (nearly 75 of forest and
  farm land)
• Measure 49 3 options for claimants
• 1.) pursue express option to build 1-3 houses
• 2.) pursue conditional option to build 1-10
  houses
• 3.) claim rights vested in a development project
  underway, in accordance with measure 37

Landusewatch.com
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The Big Look Oregon Task Force on land Use
Planning (2005, S.B. 82)

• Reevaluation of 19 planning goals
• Are certain taxes and fees actually hidden
  subsidies?
• Do urban boundaries need to be renegotiated?
• Where will Oregon put an additional 2 million
  citizens?