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CHAPTER 4: RURAL TOURISM REGULATORY FRAMEWORK

Vancouver

Banks
North
Plains
Portland

Forest Hillsboro
Grove

Beaverton

Gaston

Lake
Oswego
King Durham
City
Added to Regional UGB Rivergrove
Tualatin
Rural Reserves
West
Yamhill
Urban Reserves Linn

Newberg Wilsonville
Carlton
Figure 4.1: Map of Urban and Rural Reserves Source: Washington County Long Range Planning, 2014

Regional Regulatory Context

Washington County is among the three counties resource lands. Metro is required by statute to
and 25 cities in the Portland metropolitan area assess land supply within the UGB every six years
that comprise Metro, a regional government that to accommodate projected residential growth and
coordinates with county and city jurisdictions employment needs for the following 20 years. The
in regulating land use, transportation and technical analysis of whether to expand the UGB,
environmental planning, solid waste management, where expansion could occur, and by how much, is
and regional parks. In compliance with Oregon included in Metro’s Urban Growth Report. The report
law governing urban development, Metro has recommendations on whether or not to expand the
established and maintains the Regional Urban UGB are forwarded to the seven-member Metro

Growth Boundary (UGB) to separate urban Council, which is the decision-making body for
communities from rural agricultural and forest approving a UGB expansion.

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