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Corvallis amends parking-locational code to ease development constraints in open-space zones

2983520 · April 7, 2025
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Summary

The council adopted a text amendment to the Land Development Code that exempts agricultural/open-space zones and certain accessory buildings from the vehicle parking locational standard and modifies how the standard applies to properties with three or more street frontages.

The Corvallis City Council adopted an ordinance on April 7 amending the Land Development Code (LDC) to refine where accessory parking may be placed and to exempt certain open-space zones from the city’s vehicle parking locational standard.

Assistant planner Doug Palmerinki told the council the proposed changes respond to site-specific conflicts that arise when the city’s locational standard — which generally requires parking accessory to a use not separate buildings from streets — is applied rigidly in AgOS (agricultural open space) and CoS (conservation open space) zones, or on lots with unusual configurations such as three or more street…

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