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Umatilla County adopts code amendment to allow weddings and gatherings as home occupations in farmland
Summary
After public testimony for and against, Umatilla County commissioners on March 12 adopted a text amendment creating a permit path for weddings and commercial gatherings as a subtype of home occupations in Exclusive Farm Use zones, including limits on employees and a cap on events per year.
The Umatilla County Board of Commissioners voted March 12 to amend the county development code to allow weddings and commercial gatherings as a specific form of home occupation on Exclusive Farm Use properties, after a public hearing that included proponents, an attorney representing a rural landowner, and commissioner deliberation.
County planning manager Megan Dauchowski told commissioners the proposed text would create a subsection of the Umatilla County Development Code to establish criteria and a permit path for “commercial gatherings and weddings” under home-occupation standards. She said the proposed language includes statutory requirements and limits, “such as the limited number of employees, which is limited to 5,” and that staff modeled some provisions after other Oregon counties, including Hood River.
Why this matters: The amendment changes how the county treats certain event uses on farmland by creating a regulatory path under home-occupation rules rather than treating each…
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