HISTORY Adopted by Ord. 2012-004 §2 on 4/16/2012 Amended by Ord. 2025-002 §4 on 3/28/2025 18.16.050 Standards For Dwellings In The EFU Zones
Dwellings listed in DCC 18.16.025 and 18.16.030 may be allowed under the conditions set forth below for each kind of dwelling, and all dwellings are subject to the landowner for the property upon which the dwelling is placed, signing and recording in the deed records for the County, a document binding the landowner, and the landowner’s successors in interest, prohibiting them from pursuing a claim for relief or cause of action alleging injury from farming or forest practices for which no action or claim is allowed under ORS 30.936 or 30.937. A.Farm-related dwellings on non-high value farmland. A dwelling customarily provided in conjunction with farm use, as listed in DCC 18.16.025(A), may be approved if it satisfies any of the alternative tests set forth below: 1. Acreage test. a.On land not identified as high-value farmland, a dwelling, including a manufactured dwelling in accordance with DCC 18.116.070, may be considered customarily provided in conjunction with farm use if: (1) The lot or parcel on which the dwelling will be located is at least: (A) One hundred sixty acres and not in the Horse Ridge East subzone; or (B) Three hundred twenty acres in the Horse Ridge East subzone; (2)The subject tract is currently employed for farm use, as defined in DCC 18.04.030, and which is evidenced by a farm management plan; (3)The dwelling will be occupied by a person or persons who will be principally engaged in the farm use of the land, such as planting, harvesting, marketing or caring for livestock, at a commercial scale; (4)There is no other dwelling on the subject tract, except as allowed under DCC 18.16.020(K) and except for seasonal farmworker housing approved prior to 2001; 2. Median acreage/gross sales test. a.On land not identified as high-value farmland, a dwelling, including a manufactured dwelling in accordance with DCC 18.116.070, may be considered customarily provided in conjunction with farm use if: (1)The subject tract is at least as large as the median size of those commercial farm or ranch tracts capable of generating at least $10,000 in annual gross sales that are located within a study area that includes all tracts wholly or partially within one mile of the perimeter of the subject tract; (2)The subject tract is capable of producing at least the median level of annual gross sales of County indicator crops as the same commercial farm or ranch tracts used to calculate the tract size in DCC 18.16.050(A) (2)(a)(1);
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