Oregon Administrative Rules
Chapter 660 - LAND CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT
Division 38 - SIMPLIFIED URBAN GROWTH BOUNDARY METHOD
Section 660-038-0010 - Definitions

(1) "Buildable lands" means land in urban or urbanizable areas that are suitable for urban uses, as provided in ORS 197A.300(1). Note: This definition applies to this division only; a different definition of "buildable lands" is provided in laws and rules concerning needed housing (ORS 197.295; OAR 660-007-0005 and 660-008-0005 and OAR 660-024-0010).

(2) "Commercial" and "commercial use" mean office, retail, institutional and public employment land uses described by the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) Categories 44, 45, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 61, 62, 71, 72, 81, 92, and 99. These are land uses that generally do not require significant space for indoor or outdoor production or logistics.

(3) "Industrial" and "industrial use" mean employment activities including, but not limited to, manufacturing, assembly, fabrication, processing, storage, logistics, warehousing, importation, distribution and transshipment, and research and development, that generate income from the production, handling or distribution of goods or services, including goods or services in the traded sector, as defined in ORS 285A.010. "Industrial use" means NAICS Categories 11, 21, 22, 23, 31, 32, 33, 42, 48, and 49. These are land uses that generally require significant space for indoor or outdoor production or logistics.

(4) "Initiate" means that the local government issues a public notice specified in OAR 660-018-0020, including a notice to the Department of Land Conservation and Development, for a proposed plan amendment that concerns evaluating or amending a UGB.

(5) "Nonresource land" has the meaning specified in OAR 660-004-0005(3).

(6) "Range" means a range of numbers specified in rules in this division (see ORS 197A.325(2)(a)). A city may choose to use the number at either end of a stated range or any number between. Ranges allow a city to make choices regarding its future growth.

(7) "Serviceable" means, with respect to land supply in a UGB, and as described in OAR 660-038-0200, that:

(8) "UGB" means "urban growth boundary."

(9) "Urbanizable land" means land inside a UGB that, due to the present unavailability of urban facilities and services, or for other reasons, either retains the zone designations assigned prior to inclusion in the UGB or is subject to interim zone designations intended to maintain the land's potential for planned urban development until appropriate public facilities and services are available or planned.