Legislative Success
2024 Legislative Session
The 2024 Legislative Session has finally finished and OPOA is thrilled to announce a banner year. This Session, OPOA’s Dave Hunnicutt was at the Capitol daily working to help pass legislation that supports private property rights, and amend or kill any bill that makes it harder for private property owners to utilize their land. We are excited to announce that all of OPOA’s legislative priorities passed this Session.
Creates the new Housing Accountability and Production Office, requires approval of certain adjustments to land use regulations, and creates an alternative process to amend UGB’s to include land for affordable and moderate-income housing.
Requires DLCD to develop model ordinances that may be adopted by local governments that provide clear and objective standards for the development of diverse housing types within UGB, including single-family detached housing, middle housing, accessory dwelling units, and multifamily housing.
In response to anti-growth campaign happening in North Plains, HB 4026 makes clear that certain land use decisions made by local governments, such as UGB expansions, cannot be referred to the voters for rejection or approval.
Requires Metro counties to plan for needed housing on urban unincorporated lands, allows a developer with a pending application to opt in to amended land use regulations, allows serial middle housing land partitions to be considered a single partition, and extends the applicability of middle housing land divisions to townhouses.