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Oregon City to advance code and policy changes clarifying historic‑review triggers, easing some small‑dwelling reviews
Summary
City planning staff and the Historic Review Board asked commissioners to move a package of code amendments and Policy 13 toward legislative adoption; changes clarify the 30% addition trigger (capped at 700 sq ft), exclude ground‑floor rear decks accessed from grade, and create staff‑level pathways for certain detached dwellings and ADUs.
City planning staff and members of the Historic Review Board on April 1 presented a package of code changes and a new HRB Policy 13 intended to clarify when proposed work in Oregon City’s historic conservation districts must go before the Historic Review Board and when it can be handled at the staff level.
Senior planner Christina Robertson Gardner told the commission the project grew out of neighborhood concerns dating to 2019 about the 30% addition trigger that determines whether a project requires a type‑III Historic Review Board public hearing. "We requested direction from the board and you sent us away and said work on your implementation code and documents and we're back," Gardner said, summarizing the…
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