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Board adopts zoning change to allow medical temporary hardship dwellings in more zones; MUA/RR exceptions remain

3453208 · May 21, 2025
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Summary

On second reading the Board adopted Ordinance 2025-005 to amend county code relating to temporary medical hardship dwellings. The change allows existing buildings to be used as medical hardship dwellings in several additional zones but not in MUA10 or RR10, consistent with state law.

Deschutes County on May 21 adopted Ordinance 2025-005, a zoning text amendment revising rules for temporary medical hardship dwellings and implementing a clarification staff described as clerical: the ordinance restores the term “medical” in the definition and expands where an existing…

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