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The Tillamook County Department of Community Development is in process of amending resource zone codes to reflect updated state regulations in a series of proposed amendments to the Tillamook County Land Use Ordinance (TCLUO), Section 3.004: Forest (F) Zone, in consideration to ‘Template Dwelling’ reviews.

On July 2, 2019, Oregon Legislative Assembly enacted House Bill (HB) 2225. HB 2225 changes certain requirements for ‘Template Dwelling’ reviews, which are permitted in Forest (F) and Small Farm Woodlot (SFW-20) zones within areas that already had a certain number of existing dwellings and parcels on January 1, 1993. HB 2225 changes the following requirements set forth in ORS 215.750:

• Previously language required the 160-acre template to be centered on the tract but does not provide a method for determining center. Proposed language specifies that the template be centered on the “mathematical centroid of the tract”.
• Prohibit using property line adjustments to relocate parcels from areas where they would not qualify for a template dwelling to areas where they would qualify.
• Previous language did not allow template dwelling approval on a tract that has an existing dwelling. “Tract” means one or more contiguous lots or parcels under the same ownership. Proposed language will not allow template dwelling approval if a parcel was part of a tract on January 1, 2019 and another parcel that was part of the tract on that date has a dwelling.