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Multnomah County Transportation and Land Use Planning Division

Special Plan Area


11.15.6600 Purposes

The general purposes of the Special Plan Area Subdistricts are to implement various provisions of the Comprehensive Plan, the Statewide Planning Goals and the land use control elements of Special Plan Area plans and of plans for neighborhoods and subcommunity vitalization; to aid in realizing opportunities to achieve community, social and economic stability and vigor; to institute desired patterns and improvement standards for land uses according to adopted specific-place plans; to facilitate public-private sector cooperation in the development of such areas; to establish more flexible and diversified standards and procedures; and to provide means to establish such interim land use controls as are deemed necessary, pending the preparation of local area comprehensive plan revisions or development strategies.

11.15.6602 Area Affected

The provisions of a Special Plan Area subdistrict shall apply to specific land areas according to their designations as subdistricts SPA-l, SPA-2, SPA-3, etc., on the Multnomah County Zoning Map.

11.15.6604 Procedure to Establish an SPA Subdistrict

  1. An SPA subdistrict shall be established as an addition to this section by legislative amendment of the text and Zoning Map of this Chapter.

  2. An amendment establishing an SPA subdistrict shall include the following:

    1. The designation of the subdistrict as SPA-l, SPA-2, SPA-3, etc., in the text and on the appropriate Sectional Zoning Map;

    2. A statement of the purposes of the subdistrict;

    3. Definitions of terms, as appropriate;

    4. A statement of the findings and policies on which the subdistrict is based, including reference to the related Special Area Plan or Comprehensive Plan revision which the subdistrict is designed to implement or to the special problems or circumstances which the subdistrict is designed to address;

    5. A description of the relationships between the provisions of the SPA subdistrict and those of the underlying district;

    6. A listing of the SPA subdistrict uses authorized as Permitted Uses, Uses Under Prescribed Conditions, or Conditional Uses, as appropriate;

    7. A description of any approval procedure or criteria required to satisfy the subdistrict provisions;

    8. Any development standards or dimensional requirements for authorized uses in the subdistrict;

    9. A description of the nature of and approval procedures for any exceptions from subdistrict requirements;

    10. A statement of the methods of appeal from a decision made under the provisions of the subdistrict; and

    11. Any provisions for the expiration of the SPA subdistrict.

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