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Introduced
01/13/2025
01/13/2025
In Committee
01/17/2025
01/17/2025
Crossed Over
Passed
Dead
Introduced Session
2025 Legislative Measures
Bill Summary
The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards. Digest: This Act replaces an old industrial siting program with a new program that allows for UGB growth. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.1). Authorizes cities to bring certain lands within their urban growth boundaries for light industrial and open space uses. Sunsets January 2, 2037. Sunsets 2011 program under which the Economic Recovery Review Council designated re- gionally significant industrial areas.
AI Summary
This bill provides a new mechanism for smaller cities (with populations under 55,000) outside the Metro area to expand their urban growth boundaries (UGB) for specific purposes. The bill allows these cities to identify up to 80 contiguous acres of land adjacent to their existing UGB, with a requirement that no more than 50% of the identified land can be used for industrial purposes (including semiconductor and high-tech facilities), while the remaining land must be preserved as open space or parkland. Local governments must amend their comprehensive plans and land use regulations to accommodate these changes within 100 days of identifying the lands, and can do so regardless of existing land use planning goals related to agriculture, forest use, or urbanization. The bill includes several key restrictions: a city can only expand its UGB once under this provision, cannot rezone the newly added lands for 30 years, and the entire program is set to sunset on January 2, 2037. Additionally, the bill repeals several existing statutes related to industrial site development, effectively replacing an older industrial siting program with this new, more limited urban growth boundary expansion approach. The legislation aims to provide flexible economic development opportunities for smaller cities while maintaining some constraints on land use changes.
Committee Categories
Agriculture and Natural Resources
Sponsors (1)
Last Action
Referred to Agriculture, Land Use, Natural Resources, and Water. (on 01/17/2025)
Official Document
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Document Type | Source Location |
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State Bill Page | https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2025R1/Measures/Overview/HB2853 |
Open Government Impact Statement for HB2853 INTRO | https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2025R1/Downloads/MeasureAnalysisDocument/83828 |
BillText | https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2025R1/Downloads/MeasureDocument/HB2853/Introduced |
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