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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
A-Engrossed
House Bill 2950
Ordered by the House April 3
Including House Amendments dated April 3
Sponsored by Representatives TRAN, MCLAIN, ANDERSEN; Representatives GRAYBER, LIVELY, WALTERS,
Senators CAMPOS, FREDERICK, PHAM K (Presession filed.)
SUMMARY
The following summary is not prepared by the sponsors of the measure and is not a part of the body thereof subject
to consideration by the Legislative Assembly. It is an editor’s brief statement of the essential features of the
measure. The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards.
Digest: This Act makes LCDC update land use goals on public process and makes DLCD suggest
changes to how goals are updated.(Flesch Readability Score: 64.6).
Requires the Land Conservation and Development Commission to update the statewide land use
planning goal relating to “citizen involvement” by rule by [June 30, 2027] June 30, 2029. Requires
the advisory committee appointed by the Department of Land Conservation and Development
to provide the commission with draft recommendations by June 30, 2027.
Requires the Department of Land Conservation and Development to make recommendations by
December 31, 2026, relating to the goal amendment process to the interim committees of the Leg-
islative Assembly [relating] related to land use.
Establishes the Public Involvement Goal Update Fund. Appropriates moneys to the de-
partment for deposit into the fund.
Sunsets January 2, 2030.
Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to amending land use planning goals; and declaring an emergency.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1. Sections 2 and 3 of this 2025 Act are added to and made a part of ORS
chapter197.
SECTION 2.(1)(a) On or before June 30, 2029, the Land Conservation and Development
Commission shall amend the statewide land use planning goal relating to citizen involvement
as provided in this section.
(b) On or before June 30, 2027, the advisory committee appointed under subsection (3) of
this section shall deliver to the commission its recommendations in the form of drafted goal
amendments.
(2)(a) The commission shall adopt the goal amendments by rule following the procedural
and substantive requirements in ORS 183.325 to 183.410.
(b) ORS 197.230, 197.235, 197.240 and 197.245 do not apply to the goal amendments.
(3) The Department of Land Conservation and Development shall appoint an advisory
committee under ORS 183.333 consisting of up to 25 individuals, as follows:
(a) One member representing the Land Conservation and Development Commission;
(b) One member, selected by the Governor, representing the Governor’s Racial Justice
Council;
(c) One member from an organization focused on land use planning issues;
(d) One member from an organization focused on racial justice issues;
NOTE:Matter in boldfaced type in an amended section is new; matter [italic and bracketed] is existing law to be omitted.
New sections are in boldfaced type.
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(e) One member from an organization focused on environmental justice issues;
(f) One member from an Oregon chapter of a land use planning association;
(g) One member from an organization focused on public participation or with expertise
in public participation processes;
(h) One member representing the League of Oregon Cities;
(i) One member representing the Association of Oregon Counties;
(j) One member representing an organization focused on home building;
(k) One member representing commercial development;
(L) One member representing agricultural interests in this state;
(m) One member representing renters in this state;
(n) One member representing an organization focused on private property rights or
homeownership;
(o) One member representing applicants for quasi-judicial land use approvals in this
state;
(p) Three members of the public, including at least one from a rural area and at least
one from, or with direct ties to, an underserved population;
(q) Three members from a land use planning division or planning commission of a city,
including a member from:
(A) One city with a population of more than 25,000;
(B) One city with a population of at least 10,000 and not more than 25,000; and
(C) One city with a population of less than 10,000;
(r) Three members from a land use planning division or planning commission of a county,
including a member from:
(A) One county within Metro;
(B) One county with significant urban populations outside of Metro; and
(C) One rural county; and
(s) Only if a qualified individual is willing and available to serve, one member from a
federally recognized Indian tribe in Oregon with experience with land use planning and
Oregon Indian tribes and an understanding of rural and urban tribal populations.
(4)(a) In appointing a member under subsection (3)(s) of this section, the department may
consult with the Commission on Indian Services.
(b) The advisory committee may meet and conduct business without the appointment of
a member under subsection (3)(s) of this section.
(5) The meetings of the advisory committee must consist of no fewer than 10 meetings
that are made virtually open to the public and provide opportunities for oral and written
publiccomments.
(6) In adopting the goal amendments, the department and advisory committee shall give
consideration to addressing issues of:
(a) Adopting implementation standards;
(b) Outreach and education standards;
(c) Overcoming barriers to public participation related to time constraints, geography,
technology, language or other processes that reduce access to public participation;
(d) Inequities that exist in public participation due to race, age, socioeconomic status,
disability and other forms of diversity within local jurisdictions;
(e) Eliminating duplicative or inefficient processes that can lead to unwanted costs or
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delays;
(f) Limiting exploitation that leads to litigation or unreasonable delay to quasi-judicial
land use applications and decisions; and
(g) Exclusive or outdated language in the existing goal.
(7) The amended goal is effective 30 days after adoption.
(8) The amended goal shall include a renaming of the goal to reflect, to the greatest ex-
tent possible, the broadest and most inclusive public engagement and participation in land
use planning and decision-making processes by all members of the community, including
environmental justice communities, as defined in ORS 182.535.
(9) In addition to adopting the amended goal under this section, the advisory committee
shall assist the department with the reports under section 4 of this 2025 Act. The advisory
committee shall hold at least one public hearing, as described in subsection (5) of this sec-
tion, to solicit public feedback on the interim report.
(10) The commission or department may request the assistance of any state agency,
public or private organization, including federal agencies, other states and universities, in
the amendments and adoption of the goal.
SECTION 3. Notwithstanding ORS 197.250, state agencies and local governments shall
amend their comprehensive plans, land use regulations, zoning ordinances, rules, plans and
programs to comply with the changes to the statewide land use planning goals under section
2 of this 2025 Act on or before the date:
(1) One year after the adoption of the changes for state agencies, for cities with a popu-
lation of more than 25,000 and for counties with a population of more than 250,000; and
(2) Two years after the adoption of the changes for local governments not described in
subsection (1) of this section.
SECTION 4. (1) The Department of Land Conservation and Development, with the as-
sistance of the advisory committee and public participation under section 2 of this 2025 Act,
shall study and develop recommendations for the public participation process that the Land
Conservation and Development Commission uses to amend, implement and review land use
goals under ORS 197.158, 197.160, 197.165, 197.175, 197.225, 197.230, 197.235, 197.240 and 197.245.
(2) The department shall submit reports on the study in the manner provided by ORS
192.245, and may include recommendations for legislation, to the interim committees of the
Legislative Assembly related to land use including:
(a) An interim report no later than August 1, 2026; and
(b) A final report no later than December 31, 2026.
SECTION 5. (1) The Public Involvement Goal Update Fund is established in the State
Treasury, separate and distinct from the General Fund. Interest earned by the Public In-
volvement Goal Update Fund shall be credited to the fund.
(2) The fund consists of moneys appropriated, allocated, deposited or transferred to the
fund by the Legislative Assembly or otherwise.
(3) Moneys in the fund are continuously appropriated to the Department of Land Con-
servation and Development to administer sections 2 to 4 of this 2025 Act.
SECTION 6.In addition to and not in lieu of any other appropriation, there is appropri-
ated to the Department of Land Conservation and Development, for the biennium beginning
July 1, 2025, out of the General Fund, the amount of $___, for deposit into the Public In-
volvement Goal Update Fund established under section 5 of this 2025 Act.
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SECTION 7. (1) Sections 2 to 5 of this 2025 Act are repealed on January 2, 2030.
(2) Any unobligated moneys in the Public Involvement Goal Update Fund on January 2,
2030, shall be transferred to the General Fund for general governmental purposes.
SECTION 8.This 2025 Act being necessary for the immediate preservation of the public
peace, health and safety, an emergency is declared to exist, and this 2025 Act takes effect
on its passage.
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