Oregon's Senate Bill 100: One State's Innovative Approach to the Protection of Farmland
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Beatley, Timothy
- Affiliation: College of Arts and Sciences, Department of City and Regional Planning
- Abstract
- The State of Oregon instituted in 1973, under Senate Bill 100, one of the most innovative and comprehensive land management systems in this country. While often described as state planning, the Oregon program in fact represents a unique partnership between state and locality; one which allows local governments flexibility in solving local land use problems, while at the same time protecting significant elements of statewide planning concern. The central foci of the Oregon program are its nineteen statewide planning goals, ranging in subject from housing to transportation, to environmental quality. The goals carry the weight of law, and each local government must prepare its comprehensive plan and implementing ordinances so that they are in conformance with them. A seven-member laybody, the Land Conservation and Development Commission (LCDC) , was created to oversee the statewide planning process, with its chief responsibility being to review all plans and ordinances for goal conformance. The commission has substantial enforcement powers, and is legally able to prevent or nullify local land use actions it deems inconsistent with the goals. From its beginnings, the Oregon program has had as a major focus the protection of agricultural land. Two of the statewide goals, the Agricultural Lands and Urbanization Goals (goals 3 and 14), and related statutory provisions, form the nexus of the farmland protection program. The Agricultural Lands goal is one of the more specific of the nineteen goals, and requires localities to inventory agricultural land, and to include within Exclusive Farm Use (EFU) zones all such land "suitable" for agricultural production. The goal further defines suitable agricultural land as that of predominantly SCS soil classes I through IV in western Oregon, and SCS classes I through IV in eastern Oregon. The provision thus requires the protection not only of prime farmland, but all land generally suitable for agricultural production.
- Date of publication
- 1982
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- Article
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- Carolina Planning Journal
- Journal volume
- 8
- Journal issue
- 1
- Page start
- 23
- Page end
- 24
- Language
- English
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- Carolina Planning Journal
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