Attachment F <br />. '4 F ° Department of Land Conservation and Development <br />w~ rCe gon <br />635 Capitol Street NE, Suite 150 <br />-Salem Oregon 97301-2540 <br />Kate Brown, Governor <br />Phone: (503) 373-0050 <br />Fax: (503) 378-5518 <br />www.oregon.gov/LCD <br />November 23, 2015 <br />TO: Land Conservation and Development Commission <br />FROM: Jim Rue, Director <br />SUBJECT: Agenda Item 4: December 3-4,2015, LCDC Meeting <br />Public Hearing and Adoption of Proposed New and <br />Amended Administrative Rules and Amendments to Goal 14 <br />Regarding the Urban Growth Boundary Process <br />Under this item, the Land Conservation and Development Commission (LCDC or the <br />commission) will hold a public hearing, receive public testimony, and may adopt proposed new <br />and amended administrative rules (see Attachments A - C). The proposed rules and amendments <br />are in response to 2013 legislation (197A.300 to 197A.325) that goes into effect January 1, 2016, <br />and which requires LCDC to adopt implementing administrative rules. The rules would establish <br />a new, optional "simplified process" which a city outside of Metro may use to evaluate or amend <br />its urban growth boundary (UGB).1 The new rules will be codified under OAR chapter 660, <br />division 38. Other amendments to current administrative rules and to Goal 14 regarding UGBs <br />are also proposed in order to implement these new laws. <br />The Department of Land Conservation and Development (DLCD or the department) issued <br />broad public notice about this hearing, including legislator notice, on September 2, 2015. The <br />department issued the first public draft of the proposed rules and rule amendments on September <br />10, 2015, and the commission held a public hearing on those drafts in Astoria on October 23, <br />2015. The department issued a second set of public notices November 1 and 5, 2015, and issued <br />the second public drafts of rules on November 13, 2015. A third set of public drafts was issued <br />simultaneously with this report on November 23, 2015 (See Attachments A - C). The public <br />notices invite the public to provide written and oral comments to the commission regarding the <br />public drafts, and indicated that LCDC may adopt the rules and rule amendments at its hearing <br />on December 3, 2015. The notices indicated that comments will be accepted until the close of the <br />hearing on December 3, 2015. <br />In addition to the new simplified rules, the department is also proposing new and amended rules <br />under OAR chapter 660, division 24 to implement one of the new state laws, ORS 197A.320, <br />For purposes of this report and in the proposed new rules, the department uses the term "simplified process" to <br />describe the new optional UGB process and the "traditional process" to describe the longstanding UGB process in <br />current LCDC rules under OAR 660, division 24. <br />