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County planners to seek code updates aligning farm and forest rules with recent LCDC administrative changes
Summary
Deschutes County planning staff told the board Monday they will ask the Board of County Commissioners to adopt housekeeping updates to county farm- and forest-related code to conform to recent rule changes completed by the Land Conservation and Development Commission (LCDC).
Deschutes County planning staff told the board Monday they will ask the Board of County Commissioners to adopt housekeeping updates to county farm- and forest-related code to conform to recent rule changes completed by the Land Conservation and Development Commission (LCDC). Nicole Mardell, senior planner, said the amendments primarily codify state case-law interpretations and administrative-rule changes that took effect Jan. 1 and that county staff have been applying where conflicts arose.
Why it matters: Mardell said the package incorporates clarified approaches to the farm impacts test for conditional uses in the Exclusive Farm Use (EFU) zone, a four-level intensity framework for agritourism and related commercial events, a clarified definition of "private park" to limit overly…
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