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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
Senate Bill 1129
Sponsored by Senator BROADMAN
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 as introduced.The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability
standards.
Digest: This Act requires LCDC to amend its rules relating to urban reserves. (Flesch Read-
ability Score: 60.7).
Requires the Land Conservation and Development Commission to amend its rules relating to
urbanreserves.
Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to urban reserves; and declaring an emergency.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1. Section 2 of this 2025 Act is added to and made a part of ORS 197A.230 to
197A.250.
SECTION 2. On or before July 1, 2026, the Land Conservation and Development Com-
mission shall amend its rules related to the prioritization of lands being added to an urban
reserve in order to:
(1) Raise the priority for adding lands that are zoned for exclusive farm use and have
poor quality soils, limited water rights or minimal or no current or recent active farm use;
and
(2) Allow local governments to lower the priority of lands that are used as rural resi-
dential subdivisions or partitions or other rural planned developments if the local govern-
ment conducts an analysis showing that:
(a) Expanding urban services, as defined in ORS 195.065, would be cost prohibitive on
those lands; or
(b) Other factors make it unlikely to increase housing capacity on those lands.
SECTION 3. 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.
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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