RURAL AND SUBURBAN LANDS - Jackson County Oregon

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Rural and Suburban Lands Element 21-4iv)Rural and suburban lands and proposed developments beyond the areacited above will:a) Be appropriately, if not uniquely, suited to the area or siteproposed for such development;b) Promote an orderly and efficient rural and suburban land usepattern; and,c) Be located and designed so as to:* Preserve and enhance the rural character, naturalresources, scenic values and open spaces of the county;* Ensure the safety and viability of rural and suburban landsuses by limiting development in areas susceptible tonatural or man induced hazards;* Minimize the long-range public costs of providing facilitiesand services;* Provide an orderly transition between urban, suburbanand rural uses and areas;* Conserve natural resources with high amenity value;* Improve patterns of energy consumption; and,* Minimize the further degradation of air and water quality.2FINDING:The procedures required to develop a subdivision in Jackson County, and the types ofimprovements required, encourage many individuals to partition land rather than subdivide it.An astute team of developers can create as many as 27 new parcels from a single original lotin three years by partitioning. Such a development is not required to provide any improvementsand no permission from the County would be needed so long as minimal zoning requirementsare met. Another team of developers proposing to subdivide the same piece of property into 27lots would face public scrutiny, one or more hearings, and survey and improvement expenses,while facing the fact that the subdivision application could be denied.This double standard for subdivisions as opposed to partitions has a significant bearing uponpatterns of rural and suburban property divisions in Jackson County. Four to five times as manynew tracts are created by partitioning than by subdividing. The majority of rural and suburbanproperties are thus created without the types of improvements and overall design reviewJackson County Comprehensive Plan
Rural and Suburban Lands Element 21-5appropriate for land development. Efforts to implement the policies of the Comprehensive Planby simply amending the subdivision ordinance without standards will have minimal effect uponrural and suburban areas where little of the property division activity is actually subdividing.3FINDING:POLICY: ALL LAND PARTITIONING SHALL BE DESIGNED TO MINIMIZE LONG-RANGE PUBLIC COSTS RESULTING FROM PROPERTY DIVISION ORDEVELOPMENT.IMPLEMENTATION STRATEGIES:A) Revise the subdivision ordinance to include requirements for major and minorpartitions. Improvement requirements for any property division should reduce thelikelihood of eventual high public costs for the provision of early repair orreplacement of public services and facilities.B) Modify the private road system of property divisions and require county or otherpublic roads to serve most divisions.C) Consider systems development charges and similar programs to minimize publiccosts resulting from development.Preexisting, nonconforming mobile home parks in rural and suburban areas will not automaticallydisappear as a result of any planning action. Some parks have received a poor reputation dueto inadequate planning during the original development stages or simply as a result of poorupkeep. Methods and techniques are available to upgrade the livability and general appearanceof existing parks through incentives in a manner which will not necessarily place an undueburden on the owner.POLICY: IT IS THE POLICY OF JACKSON COUNTY TO ENCOURAGE THEUPGRADING OF EXISTING MOBILE HOME PARKS TO CURRENT DEVELOPMENTSTANDARDS.IMPLEMENTATION STRATEGY: Existing mobile home parks which do not meetcurrent development standards or zone density, shall be encouraged to improve byallowing some expansion in trade for a general upgrading of the existing park. Reviseand amend the existing zoning and mobile home park ordinance to provide for increasedensities in mobile home parks, conforming to the above policy through a system oflimited density bonus or transfer subject to compliance with stringentdevelopment/improvement guidelines and criteria. Expansions should occur only onlands not considered as farm or forest. Specific criteria will be developed in conjunctionwith the revision of the applicable ordinances. Criteria would address spacing,landscaping, paving of streets, lighting, signing, storage, accessory buildings, provisionsfor community facilities and other aesthetic or functional characteristics of the park.Jackson County Comprehensive Plan
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