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Staff outlines new state housing rules, warns of tight timeline and staffing needs
Summary
City planners briefed the council on the Oregon Housing Needs Analysis (ONA) process, saying the state now provides production targets and that Springfield must complete a contextualized housing need, housing capacity analysis by 2027 and a housing production strategy by 2028; councilors raised concerns about resources and shifting rules.
City planning staff told the Springfield City Council that recent state rulemaking has changed how cities must plan for housing, shifting production-target calculations to the state and adding new analytic steps that increase staff workload and require significant community engagement.
Katie Carroll, introduced as the city’s new senior planner, said the Oregon Housing Needs Analysis (ONA) rules were adopted by the Land Conservation Development Commission in December and now require cities to use state-provided production targets broken out by income level, then supplement those targets with a contextualized housing needs analysis, housing…
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