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OR SB73

Bill

Status

Failed

6/27/2025

Primary Sponsor

Unknown

Origin

Senate

2025 Legislative Measures

AI Summary

  • Amends ORS 215.788 to restrict counties from approving comprehensive plan amendments that redesignate farm, forest, or mixed farm and forest lands to nonresource use

  • Allows redesignation to nonresource use only through three pathways: the existing reacknowledgment process in ORS 215.788, a goal exception under ORS 197.732, or when lands have been added to an urban growth boundary

  • Maintains existing county authority to conduct legislative reviews of resource lands to correct mapping errors and update designations, subject to Department of Land Conservation and Development work plan approval

  • Preserves requirement that reviewed lands must be zoned according to whether they meet definitions of "agricultural land," "forest land," both, or neither

Legislative Description

Relating to redesignating resource lands for nonresource use.

Last Action

In committee upon adjournment.

6/27/2025

Committee Referrals

Natural Resources and Wildfire1/17/2025

Full Bill Text

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