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Work group proposes loosening SB 1537 triggers and expanding acreage as part of LC 205
Summary
A stakeholder work group presented LC 205 recommendations to ease eligibility for the accelerated UGB expansion tool: remove "severely" from rent/cost burden criteria, clarify undeveloped internal tract definitions, and raise the net residential cap to 150 acres (plus a 30% allowance for roads/commercial). Opponents warned against easing protections for resource lands and substantially enlarging the acreage cap.
A bipartisan work group and stakeholders told the House Interim Committee on Housing and Homelessness that LC 205 would adjust eligibility and clarity in the SB 1537 expedited urban growth boundary (UGB) expansion tool to allow more cities to use the one‑time process.
Alexander Ring, housing and land‑use lobbyist for the League of Oregon Cities, said the group settled on a set of changes aimed at making the tool usable for more jurisdictions. "We agreed on a solution, which is simply to strike the word severely from the cost burden and rent burden criteria," Ring said,…
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