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Deschutes County adopts McKenzie Meadow Village plan amendment and zone change by emergency
Summary
The Deschutes County Board of Commissioners adopted Ordinance 2025-014, amending the comprehensive plan map designation from forest to rural residential exception area and changing the zoning from Forest Use 2 to Multiple Use Agriculture for the McKenzie Meadow Village property; the adoption was declared an emergency and takes effect immediately.
The Deschutes County Board of Commissioners on Oct. 6 adopted Ordinance 2025-014, approving a plan amendment and zone change for McKenzie Meadow Village and declaring the measure an emergency so it takes effect immediately.
Jacob Ripper, principal planner with the county Community Development Department, told the board he returned with a corrected ordinance after an earlier error in the ordinance number. "Returning to you with the ordinance for McKenzie Meadow Village plan amendment and zone change," Ripper said during the meeting.
The ordinance amends the Deschutes County Comprehensive Plan map designation for the property from Forest to Rural Residential Exception Area and changes the Deschutes County zoning map designation from Forest Use 2 to Multiple Use Agriculture. The board read the ordinance for a first and second reading by title and then adopted it by emergency so the ordinance takes effect immediately.
Commissioner votes were recorded in favor of adoption; the chair also voted yes. County staff said the corrected ordinance number was included on the documents provided to the board before adoption.
The county described the action as aligning the ordinance language and numbering with the board's prior intentions and removing the numbering error from materials circulated at last week's meeting. No additional public testimony or detailed project conditions were recorded in the meeting transcript during the adoption.
The county's Community Development Department will maintain the finalized ordinance documents and the updated plan and zoning maps as required under local code.
