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Washington County planners briefed on new state housing-needs rules, outreach and timelines
Summary
County planners received a detailed briefing on the Oregon Housing Needs Analysis rulemaking, including new requirements for jurisdiction-specific analyses, fair-housing issue-area work, and timelines that will require county capacity work through 2026–2027. Staff said robust local engagement and a housing production strategy will be required.
Deborah Lockwood, chair of the Washington County Planning Commission, on Dec. 4 heard a presentation from Anne Kelly, senior planner, on the Oregon Housing Needs Analysis (ONA) rulemaking and what it will require of the county.
Kelly said the ONA updates how the state implements statewide planning Goal 10 (housing) and Goal 14 (urbanization), shifting work from a narrow land-capacity focus to analyses that promote housing production, affordability and choice. She told commissioners the rules require jurisdiction-specific quantitative and qualitative analyses, including a contextualized housing-need assessment and a…
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