in 1999]

455.422 in 1999]

FARMLAND AND FORESTLAND ZONES

(Lot or Parcel of Record Dwellings)

����� 215.700 Resource land dwelling policy. The Legislative Assembly declares that land use regulations limit residential development on some less productive resource land acquired before the owners could reasonably be expected to know of the regulations. In order to assist these owners while protecting the state�s more productive resource land from the detrimental effects of uses not related to agriculture and forestry, it is necessary to:

����� (1) Provide certain owners of less productive land an opportunity to build a dwelling on their land; and

����� (2) Limit the future division of and the siting of dwellings upon the state�s more productive resource land. [1993 c.792 �10]

(Temporary provisions relating to rezoning of farmlands within the Eastern Oregon Border Economic Development Region)

����� Note: Sections 1 to 4, chapter 671, Oregon Laws 2021, provide:

����� Sec. 1. Sections 2 and 3 of this 2021 Act are added to and made a part of ORS chapter 215. [2021 c.671 �1]

����� Sec. 2. (1) Notwithstanding any land use planning goal related to urbanization or agricultural lands, a county that has established a review board described in section 3, chapter 671, Oregon Laws 2021, may rezone, and if necessary divide, lands that are zoned for exclusive farm use and within the Eastern Oregon Border Economic Development Region, as defined in ORS 284.771, for the development of one residential unit per lot or parcel of two acres or more, provided that:

����� (a) The rezoned lands have not been employed for farm use in the prior three years;

����� (b) The rezoned lands are not:

����� (A) High-value farmland, as described in ORS 195.300 (10), excluding lands described in ORS