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12/15/2021 Member News

HBA Serves as Legal Issues Panelist on Middle Housing and Permitting Timelines


This month, HBA and the Cities of Portland, Bend, Happy Valley, and Eugene joined the Oregon Chapter of the American Planning Association (OAPA) on their annual Legal Issues Panel. HBA offered builder perspectives on 2019 Oregon House Bills 2306 and 2001, outlining benefits that each piece of legislation offers local jurisdictions as they seek to meet their housing needs over the next 5-20 years. Additionally, HBA acknowledged development community and jurisdictional concerns around the bills, highlighting the important roles that builders, together with the local planning, engineering, and building departments, play in bill implementation.

HB2306 requires jurisdictions to issue residential building permits upon the substantial completion of public improvements in residential subdivisions. The goal of the bill is to reduce development and construction timelines and promote housing production, while ensuring that jurisdictions obtain needed public improvements. HB2001 requires all jurisdictions within Metro’s Urban Growth Boundary, and certain others throughout the state, to allow more housing types – including duplexes-quadplexes, townhomes and cottage clusters – in areas that are currently zoned for single detached dwellings. You can view presentations here, or watch the annual workshop recording here. To learn more about HBA’s work with HB2306 and HB2001 in jurisdictions west of I-5, contact Ryan Makinster, Ryanm@hbapdx.org. To learn more about this work east of I-5, contact Roseann Johnson, roseannj@hbapdx.org.