This Code update is the result of the Parking and New Apartments Project and will be effective May 10, 2013.

Code Update Packet: 158
Effective Date: May 10, 2013
Contact: Matt Wickstrom (503-823-2834)
Amends Chapters: 33.130, 33.140, 33.266, 33.460, 33.521, 33.526

Substantive Changes
The code changes affecting parking regulations for multi-dwelling development were the result of community concerns about the impacts that these new developments may have on surrounding neighborhoods. Substantive changes to the Zoning Code include the establishment of parking minimums for larger scale residential development located in certain zones and in close proximity to transit.

Amendments also include:

• Clarification of building main entrance requirements on transit streets and within specific areas.
• Incentives to reduce minimum parking subject to a maximum cap.
• Refinement of loading space requirements.
• Setting size requirements for long-term bicycle parking.
• Options to allow joint use of residential parking.
• Increasing allowed proximity to nonresidential off-site parking.

Click here to download Zoning Code Update Pages #158. Subsequent updates may have modified some of these pages. The links to chapters in the chart below will provide the current version of the chapter.

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Clarification of building main entrance requirements on transit streets and within specific areas.Incentives to reduce minimum parking subject to a maximum cap.Refinement of loading space requirements.Setting size requirements for long-term bicycle parking.Options to allow joint use of residential parking.Increasing allowed proximity to nonresidential off-site parking.

This Code update is the result of amendments to make minor home improvements easier in the City’s historic and conservation districts and will be effective May 1, 2013.

Code Update Packet: 157
Effective Date: May 1, 2013
Contact: Joan Hamilton (503-823-5772)
Amends Chapters: 33.100, 33.110, 33.120, 33.130, 33.140, 33.218, 33.274, 33.405, 33.420, 33.430, 33.445, 33.465, 33.505, 33.510, 33.555, 33.660, 33.662, 33.664, 33.670, 33.675, 33.700, 33.710, 33.720, 33.730, 33.805, 33.809, 33.825, 33.835, 33.846, 33.848, 33.849, 33.855, 33.900, 33.910

Substantive Changes (Chapters 33.465, 33.730 and 33.910): Amendments make it easier for property owners to do minor home improvements in the City’s historic and conservation districts.

Changes to Terminology (All other Chapters):

• Change Historic Design Review to Historic Resource Review
• Change Historic Reviews to Historic Resource Reviews
• Change Historic Resource Protection Overlay Zone to Historic Resource Overlay Zone
• Change historic design districts to historic districts
• Change current occurrences of Type I to Type Ix to distinguish from a new Type I procedure that is proposed for some historic resource reviews

Click here to download Zoning Code Update Pages #157. Subsequent updates may have modified some of these pages. The links to chapters in the chart below will provide the current version of the chapter.

The official Title 33, Planning and Zoning (Zoning Code) is the printed copy in the Development Services Center. PDFs available on PortlandOnline are not the official text of Title 33, Planning and Zoning. Although every effort is made to ensure that the two texts are identical, errors or differences may remain. It is the user's responsibility to verify the legal accuracy of all provisions.

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This Code update is the result of the automatic adjustment for inflation required by Code Section 33.700.075, Automatic Changes to Specified Dollar Thresholds.

Code Update Packet: 156
Effective Date: March 1, 2013
Contact: Joan Hamilton (503-823-5772)
Amends Chapters: 33.258, 33.440, 33.480, 33.510, 33.515, 33.560, 33.565, 33.825, 33.846
Substantive Changes: Automatic adjustment for inflation required by Code Section 33.700.075, Automatic Changes to Specified Dollar Thresholds.

Click here to download Zoning Code Update Pages #156. Subsequent updates may have modified some of these pages. The links to chapters in the chart below will provide the current version of the chapter.

The official Title 33, Planning and Zoning (Zoning Code) is the printed copy in the Development Services Center. PDFs available on PortlandOnline are not the official text of Title 33, Planning and Zoning. Although every effort is made to ensure that the two texts are identical, errors or differences may remain. It is the user's responsibility to verify the legal accuracy of all provisions.

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This Code update the result of the Urban Food Code Project that passed City Council on June 13, 2012. These amendments were adopted by emergency ordinance and are already in effect.

Code Update Packet: 155

Effective Date: June 13, 2012

Contact: Julia Gisler (503-823-7624)

Amends Chapters: 33.100, 33.110, 33.120, 33.130, 33.140, 33.200, 33.237, 33.279, 33.281, 33.296, 33.815, 33.900, 33.910, 33.920

Substantive Changes: 

Amendments to the Zoning Code include the following:

1. Allow market gardens in all zones with size limits in R zones, while ensuring that negative impacts of the gardening on neighbors are minimized.
2. Minimize the negative impacts of community gardens on surrounding neighbors.
3. Allow food membership distribution sites in all zones but regulate the impacts of the distribution activity in R zones, including frequency of deliveries and number of members.
4. Explicitly allow farmers markets as a temporary activity in all nonresidential zones and high-density residential zones. Regulations also address number of non-farm vendors and when markets may set up on parking lots.
5. Require notice to neighbors in certain situations.

Click here to download Zoning Code Update Pages #155. Subsequent updates may have modified some of these pages. The links to chapters in the chart below will provide the current version of the chapter.

The official Title 33, Planning and Zoning (Zoning Code) is the printed copy in the Development Services Center. PDFs available on PortlandOnline are not the official text of Title 33, Planning and Zoning. Although every effort is made to ensure that the two texts are identical, errors or differences may remain. It is the user's responsibility to verify the legal accuracy of all provisions.

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• Base Zones and Overlay Zones
• Single-dwelling Zones
• Multi-dwelling Zones
• Commercial Zones
• Employment Zones
• Industrial Zones
• Overlay Zones
• Environmental Zones
• Greenway Zones
• Comprehensive Plan Map Designations That Have More Than One Corresponding Zone
• Plan Districts
• Conservation Districts
• Historic Districts
• Natural Resource Management Plans
• Design Districts (not in zoning layer)

This Code update is the result of Extension of expiration dates for land use reviews; and changed timelines for final plat review; changed date for automatic adjustments to dollar thresholds.

Code Update Packet: 154

Effective Date: May 16, 2012

Contact: Douglas Hardy (503-823-7816)

Amends Chapters: 33.565, 33.663, 33.700, 33.730

Substantive Changes: 

1. Extends expiration date of land use approvals due to slow recovery from economic recession.
2. Creates a maximum period for applicant to provide all missing information for Final Plat applications.
3. Changes annual date for automatic adjustment for inflation required by Section 33.700.075, Automatic Changes, to March 1.

Click here to download Zoning Code Update Pages #154. Subsequent updates may have modified some of these pages. The links to chapters in the chart below will provide the current version of the chapter.

The official Title 33, Planning and Zoning (Zoning Code) is the printed copy in the Development Services Center. PDFs available on PortlandOnline are not the official text of Title 33, Planning and Zoning. Although every effort is made to ensure that the two texts are identical, errors or differences may remain. It is the user's responsibility to verify the legal accuracy of all provisions.

Click here to email the Bureau of Planning and Sustainability if you have suggestions about how to improve these notifications. 

This Code update is the result of the automatic adjustment for inflation required by Code Section 33.700.075, Automatic Changes to Specified Dollar Thresholds.

Code Update Packet: 153

Effective Date: February 1, 2012

Contact: Joan Hamilton (503-823-5772)

Amends Chapters: 33.258, 33.440, 33.480, 33.510, 33.515, 33.560, 33.565, 33.700, 33.825, 33.846

Substantive Changes:

Automatic adjustment for inflation required by Code Section 33.700.075, Automatic Changes to Specified Dollar Thresholds.

The official Title 33, Planning and Zoning (Zoning Code) is the printed copy in the Development Services Center. PDFs available on PortlandOnline are not the official text of Title 33, Planning and Zoning. Although every effort is made to ensure that the two texts are identical, errors or differences may remain. It is the user's responsibility to verify the legal accuracy of all provisions.

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This Code update is the result of Retirement of the Natural Resources Management Plan for Smith and Bybee Lakes and addition of 3 maps from the Airport Futures Project.

Code Update Packet: 152

Effective Date: November 18, 2011

Contact: Christina Scarzello (503-823-7716)

Amends Chapters: 33.430, 33.565, 33.580, 33.809

Substantive Changes:

This project repeals the Smith/Bybee Natural Resource Management Plan (NRMP) in order to replace it with a Comprehensive Natural Resource Plan (CNRP), a new resource plan that is adopted through the quasi-judicial process. To ensure that the Smith and Bybee Lakes NRMP remains in place until a CNRP is approved for the area, the NRMP will not be repealed until the CNRP is approved. These amendments also make some changes to the approval criteria for CNRPs so that NRMPs being repealed do not have to be addressed.

When the Airport Futures Project was adopted, they omitted three maps; this project corrects that omission. The maps have no substantive effect; they are for information only.

Click here to download Zoning Code Update Pages #152. Subsequent updates may have modified some of these pages. The links to chapters in the chart below will provide the current version of the chapter.

The official Title 33, Planning and Zoning (Zoning Code) is the printed copy in the Development Services Center. PDFs available on PortlandOnline are not the official text of Title 33, Planning and Zoning. Although every effort is made to ensure that the two texts are identical, errors or differences may remain. It is the user's responsibility to verify the legal accuracy of all provisions.

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This Code update is the result of the Solar and Mechanical Equipment Project and is effective September 2, 2011.

Code Update Packet: 151

Effective Date: September 2, 2011

Contact: Jessica Richman (503-823-7847)

Amends Chapters: 33.218, 33.420, 33.445

Substantive Changes:

There are two components in this project. The first relates to solar energy systems: House Bill 3516 requires that solar panels be allowed without land use review on most structures, including non-landmarks in Conservation Districts and the Design Overlay Zone. These amendments to the Zoning Code will bring the code into conformance with the legislation.

The second extends an exemption from review for rooftop mechanical equipment. The Zoning Code currently exempts rooftop mechanical equipment in design overlay zones and conservation and historic districts from review if it is on a building at least 45 feet tall and if the equipment is set back from the roof perimeter. However, for buildings that are less than 45 feet tall, the installation of mechanical equipment still triggers a design/historic review. These amendments will allow the installation of rooftop mechanical equipment on buildings less than 45 feet tall if certain standards are met.

Click here to download Zoning Code Update Pages #151. Subsequent updates may have modified some of these pages. The links to chapters in the chart below will provide the current version of the chapter.

The official Title 33, Planning and Zoning (Zoning Code) is the printed copy in the Development Services Center. PDFs available on PortlandOnline are not the official text of Title 33, Planning and Zoning. Although every effort is made to ensure that the two texts are identical, errors or differences may remain. It is the user's responsibility to verify the legal accuracy of all provisions.

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This Code update is the result of the Citywide Tree Project and the Invasive Plants Project and is effective July 1, 2011.

Code Update Packet: 150

Effective Date: July 1, 2011

Contact: Morgan Tracy (503-823-6879), Stephanie Beckman; (503-823-6042)

Amends Chapters: List of Chapters, Table of Contents and Index of Symbols, 33.100, 33.120, 33.130, 33.140, 33.248, 33.266, 33.430, 33.465, 33.480, 33.537, 33.570, 33.580, 33.630, 33.635, 33.660, 33.662, 33.663, 33.730, 800s Contents, 33.809 (new chapter), 33.853, 33.900, 33.910, 33.930

Substantive Changes:

1) The first phase of the Citywide Tree Project code amendments includes several "flexible development standards" (parking, pedestrian paths) to encourage tree preservation.  The amendments also:

• Add the Comprehensive Natural Resource Plan tool for large sites with natural resources and long term development or restoration objectives;
• Add requirements to record tree preservation plans when approved through a land division; and
• Make tree regulations in several plan districts and overlay zones more clear and consistent.

2) Add a general development standard to the Environmental Overlay Zone requiring removal of invasive plants and replanting with native plants.  This applies to new development only.  This was adopted in February 2010 as part of the Invasive Plants project.

Click here to download Zoning Code Update Pages #150. Subsequent updates may have modified some of these pages. The links to chapters in the chart below will provide the current version of the chapter.

The official Title 33, Planning and Zoning (Zoning Code) is the printed copy in the Development Services Center. PDFs available on PortlandOnline are not the official text of Title 33, Planning and Zoning. Although every effort is made to ensure that the two texts are identical, errors or differences may remain. It is the user's responsibility to verify the legal accuracy of all provisions.

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This Code update is the result of the Airport Futures Project and is effective May 13, 2011.

Code Update Packet: 149

Effective Date: May 13, 2011

Contact: Jay Sugnet, 503-823-5869

Amends Chapters: List of Chapters, Table of Contents, 33.120, 33.130, 33.140, 33.218, 33.400, 33.445, 33.470, 500s Contents, 33.508, 33.515, 33.565 (new chapter), 33.700, 800s Contents, 33.806 (new chapter), 33.815, 33.846, 33.900, 33.910, 33.920

Substantive Changes:

Airport Futures was a collaborative effort between the City of Portland, Port of Portland, and the Portland-Vancouver metropolitan community to create an integrated long-range development plan for Portland International Airport (PDX). The results include a new plan district and specific reviews for certain activities.

Click here to download Zoning Code Update Pages #149. Subsequent updates may have modified some of these pages. The links to chapters in the chart below will provide the current version of the chapter.

The official Title 33, Planning and Zoning (Zoning Code) is the printed copy in the Development Services Center. PDFs available on PortlandOnline are not the official text of Title 33, Planning and Zoning. Although every effort is made to ensure that the two texts are identical, errors or differences may remain. It is the user's responsibility to verify the legal accuracy of all provisions.

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