Chapter 16.43
COMPREHENSIVE PLAN AMENDMENTS

Sections:

16.43.000    Definitions.

16.43.010    Procedures for legislative plan amendments.

16.43.020    Procedures for nonlegislative plan amendments.

16.43.000 Definitions.

A Comprehensive Plan amendment is any amendment to the Marion County Comprehensive Plan, and any city comprehensive plan applied outside of the respective city limits, which deletes, supplements, or changes the text, land use map designations, or urban growth boundaries or takes an exception to a statewide land use goal.

A. A nonlegislative Comprehensive Plan amendment is a Comprehensive Plan amendment that only involves a change to the land use designation of five or fewer different ownerships.

B. A legislative Comprehensive Plan amendment is all Comprehensive Plan amendments other than nonlegislative amendments. [Ord. 1301 § 4 (Exh. A), 2010; Ord. 863 § 5, 1990. UZ Ord. § 43.00.]

16.43.010 Procedures for legislative plan amendments.

Procedures and criteria for legislative plan amendments shall be as provided in Chapter 16.38 MCC for legislative zone amendments. In addition, applicable procedural requirements in an intergovernmental agreement regarding land use coordination between Marion County and the city which adopted the applicable comprehensive plan shall apply. All proposals to amend the Comprehensive Plan shall be forwarded to the Director of the Department of Land Conservation and Development prior to the first evidentiary hearing. [Ord. 1301 § 4 (Exh. A), 2010; Ord. 863 § 5, 1990. UZ Ord. § 43.01.]

16.43.020 Procedures for nonlegislative plan amendments.

Procedures for nonlegislative plan amendments shall be as provided in Chapter 16.39 MCC for zone changes. All proposals to amend the Comprehensive Plan shall be forwarded to the Director of the Department of Land Conservation and Development prior to the first evidentiary hearing. The criteria for nonlegislative plan amendments are:

A. Conformance with the Comprehensive Plan goals, policies and intent, and any plan map amendment criteria in the plan, or intergovernmental planning coordination agreement, pertaining to unincorporated lands.

B. The addition of the subject property to the inventory of lands in the proposed map designation and the corresponding inventory reduction in the current designation are consistent with projected needs for such lands in the Comprehensive Plan.

C. Uses allowed in the proposed designation will not significantly adversely affect planned uses on adjacent lands.

D. Public facilities and services necessary to support uses allowed in the proposed designation are available or are likely to be available in the near future. [Ord. 1301 § 4 (Exh. A), 2010; Ord. 863 § 5, 1990. UZ Ord. § 43.02.]