71st OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2001 Regular Session
 
NOTE:  Matter within  { +  braces and plus signs + } in an
amended section is new. Matter within  { -  braces and minus
signs - } is existing law to be omitted. New sections are within
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LC 3720
 
                         House Bill 3171
 
Sponsored by COMMITTEE ON BUSINESS, LABOR, AND CONSUMER AFFAIRS
 
 
                             SUMMARY
 
The following summary is not prepared by the sponsors of the
measure and is not a part of the body thereof subject to
consideration by the Legislative Assembly. It is an editor's
brief statement of the essential features of the measure as
introduced.
 
  Creates right of action for developer of farmworker housing
damaged by unreasonable delay or discrimination.
 
                        A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to farmworker housing; amending ORS 197.312.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
  SECTION 1. ORS 197.312 is amended to read:
  197.312. (1)   { - No - }  { +  A + } city or county may
 { + not + } by charter prohibit from all residential zones
attached or detached single-family housing, multiple-family
housing for both owner and renter occupancy or manufactured
homes.   { - No - }  { +  A + } city or county may  { +  not + }
by charter prohibit government assisted housing or impose
additional approval standards on government assisted housing that
are not applied to similar but unassisted housing.
  (2)   { - No - }  { +  A + } city or county may  { + not + }
impose any approval standards, special conditions or procedures
on seasonal and year-round farmworker housing that are not clear
and objective or have the effect, either in themselves or
cumulatively, of discouraging seasonal and year-round farmworker
housing through unreasonable cost or delay or by discriminating
against such housing.
   { +  (3) If a city or county discourages seasonal and
year-round farmworker housing through unreasonable cost or delay,
by discriminating against farmworker housing or by otherwise
unreasonably preventing or withholding approval for construction
of or zoning changes facilitating farmworker housing, the
developer may file suit against the city or county seeking
recovery of costs or losses attributable to the delay,
discrimination or other action or failure to act. + }
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