The Oregon Land Conservation and Development Act of 1973, formally Oregon Senate Bills 100 and 101 of 1973 (SB 100 and SB 101), were pieces of
landmark legislation passed by the
Oregon State Senate
The Oregon State Senate is the upper house of the statewide legislature for the US state of Oregon. Along with the lower chamber Oregon House of Representatives it makes up the Oregon Legislative Assembly. There are 30 members of the state Sena ...
in 1973 and later signed into law. It created a framework for
land use planning across the state, requiring every city and county to develop a comprehensive plan for land use.
SB 100 expanded on
Senate Bill 10 (SB 10) of 1969. This legislation created the
Oregon Land Conservation and Development Commission
Oregon () is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the Western United States. The Columbia River delineates much of Oregon's northern boundary with Washington, while the Snake River delineates much of its eastern boundary with Idaho. T ...
(LCDC), which expanded on the statewide planning goals of SB 10. It also established the
Oregon Department of Land Conservation and Development
The Oregon Department of Land Conservation and Development (DLCD) is the chief land-use planning and regulatory agency of the government of the U.S. state of Oregon. The DLCD administers the statewide land use planning program. A seven-member vol ...
.
Planning goals
By 1976, the planning goals laid out by the act numbered 19:
[
Beggs, C.E. (May 28, 1973)]
"1st statewide planning commission will be created this year."
Oregon Statesman. Salem, Oregon. Section 1:6.
[
McCall, Tom]
The Oregon Land Use Story.
Executive Department, Local Government Relations Division, January 7, 1974.
# Citizen Involvement
# Land Use Planning
# Agricultural Land
# Forest Lands
# Open Spaces, Scenic and Historic Areas, and Natural Resources
# Air, Water, and Land Resources Quality
# Areas Subject to Natural Disaster and Hazards
# Recreational Needs
# Economy of the State
# Housing
# Public Facilities and Services
# Transportation
# Energy Conservation
# Urbanization
# Willamette River Greenway
# Estuarine Resources
# Coastal Shorelands
# Beaches and Dunes
# Ocean Resources
Attempts to repeal
An attempt to repeal SB 100 was launched as early as 1976. In an editorial, the ''
Eugene Register-Guard
''The Register-Guard'' is a daily newspaper in the northwestern United States, published in Eugene, Oregon. It was formed in a 1930 merger of two Eugene papers, the ''Eugene Daily Guard'' and the ''Morning Register''. The paper serves the Eugene- ...
'' asserted its staff had attended many of the legislative hearings leading to the bills' passage, and that it was "too early to talk about a repeal of Senate Bill 100, when it
adhardly a chance to work." The initiative petition succeeded in putting
Measure 10 on the November ballot, but the measure was the first of many repeal attempts to fail in subsequent decades. The Central Lane County
League of Women Voters
The League of Women Voters (LWV or the League) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan political organization in the United States. Founded in 1920, its ongoing major activities include registering voters, providing voter information, and advocating for vot ...
published a booklet on land use planning that year.
In 2000,
Measure 7 passed, but was later overturned by the
Oregon Supreme Court
The Oregon Supreme Court (OSC) is the highest state court in the U.S. state of Oregon. The only court that may reverse or modify a decision of the Oregon Supreme Court is the Supreme Court of the United States.[Measure 37
Oregon Ballot Measure 37 was a controversial land-use ballot initiative that passed in the U.S. state of Oregon in 2004 and is now codified as Oregon Revised Statutes (ORS) 195.305. Measure 37 has figured prominently in debates about the rights of ...]
also passed, but its impacts were lessened with 2007's
Measure 49.
See also
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Land use in Oregon
Land use in Oregon concerns the evolving set of laws affecting land ownership and its restrictions in the U.S. state of Oregon.
Timeline
* 1822: Henry Schenck Tanner's map of the U.S. is likely the first to identify the "Oregon Terry."
* 18 ...
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Hector Macpherson, Jr.
Hector "Huck" Macpherson Jr. (September 18, 1918 – March 21, 2015) was an American dairy farmer and politician in the state of Oregon. Macpherson was a member of the Oregon State Senate from 1971 to 1974 and is best remembered as a primary au ...
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Wilbur Ternyik
Wilbur E. Ternyik (January 26, 1926 – April 2, 2018) was an American civic leader who has been characterized as a founding father of coastal planning, a coastal advocate, and a guardian of the Oregon Coast. News coverage of his work has descri ...
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Tom McCall
Thomas Lawson McCall (March 22, 1913 January 8, 1983) was an American statesman, politician and journalist in the state of Oregon. A Republican, he was the state's thirtieth governor from 1967 to 1975. A native of Massachusetts, McCall grew up th ...
, Oregon governor intimately involved in the passage of these bills
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Willamette Valley
The Willamette Valley ( ) is a long valley in Oregon, in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. The Willamette River flows the entire length of the valley and is surrounded by mountains on three sides: the Cascade Range to the east, ...
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Metro (Oregon regional government)
References
External links
Land use in Oregon overview
{{Oregon legislation
Politics of Oregon
Land use in Oregon
1970s in Oregon