Oregon SB 877: Relating to golf courses on exclusive farm use lands in Coos County.

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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
Senate Bill 877
Sponsored by Senator SMITH DB, Representative BOICE
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. The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability
standards.
Digest: This Act allows Coos County two years to approve a golf course under new criteria.
(Flesch Readability Score: 67.5).
Adds additional criteria under which Coos County may approve a golf course on lands zoned for
exclusive farm use. Sunsets on January 1, 2028.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to golf courses on exclusive farm use lands in Coos County; creating new provisions; and
amending ORS 215.213 and 215.283.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1. Section 2 of this 2025 Act is added to and made a part of ORS chapter 215.
SECTION 2. Subject to ORS 215.296 and other approval or siting standards of a county,
a golf course allowed under ORS 215.213 (2)(f) or 215.283 (2)(f) may be sited on land that is
zoned for exclusive farm use and that is:
(1) Not high-value farmland, as defined in ORS 195.300 (10);
(2)(a) High-value farmland described in ORS 195.300 (10)(c);
(b) Not otherwise described in ORS 195.300 (10);
(c) Surrounded on all sides by an approved golf course; and
(d) West of U.S. Highway 101; or
(3)(a) Not described in ORS 215.710 (1) or (4);
(b) Not described in ORS 195.300 (10)(b) to (d);
(c) Part of a tract on which was grown specified perennials, as defined in ORS 215.710 (2),
on December 6, 2007;
(d) Not within the portion of the tract described in paragraph (c) of this subsection on
which specified perennials were grown on December 6, 2007; and
(e) In Coos County and west of U.S. Highway 101.
SECTION 3. Section 2 of this 2025 Act is amended to read:
Sec. 2. Subject to ORS 215.296 and other approval or siting standards of a county, a golf course
allowed under ORS 215.213 (2)(f) or 215.283 (2)(f) may be sited on land that is zoned for exclusive
farm use and that is:
(1) Not high-value farmland, as defined in ORS 195.300 (10); or
(2)(a) High-value farmland described in ORS 195.300 (10)(c);
(b) Not otherwise described in ORS 195.300 (10);
(c) Surrounded on all sides by an approved golf course; and
(d) West of U.S. Highway 101[; or].
[(3)(a) Not described in ORS 215.710 (1) or (4);]
NOTE: Matter in boldfaced type in an amended section is new; matter [italic and bracketed] is existing law to be omitted.
New sections are in boldfaced type.
LC 2264

SB 877
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[(b) Not described in ORS 195.300 (10)(b) to (d);]
[(c) Part of a tract on which was grown specified perennials, as defined in ORS 215.710 (2), on
December 6, 2007;]
[(d) Not within the portion of the tract described in paragraph (c) of this subsection on which
specified perennials were grown on December 6, 2007; and]
[(e) In Coos County and west of U.S. Highway 101.]
SECTION 4. The amendments to section 2 of this 2025 Act by section 3 of this 2025 Act
become operative on January 1, 2028.
SECTION 5. ORS 215.283 is amended to read:
215.283. (1) The following uses may be established in any area zoned for exclusive farm use:
(a) Churches and cemeteries in conjunction with churches.
(b) The propagation or harvesting of a forest product.
(c) Utility facilities necessary for public service, including wetland waste treatment systems but
not including commercial facilities for the purpose of generating electrical power for public use by
sale or transmission towers over 200 feet in height. A utility facility necessary for public service
may be established as provided in:
(A) ORS 215.275; or
(B) If the utility facility is an associated transmission line, as defined in ORS 215.274 and
469.300.
(d) A dwelling on real property used for farm use if the dwelling is occupied by a relative of the
farm operator or the farm operator’s spouse, which means a child, parent, stepparent, grandchild,
grandparent, stepgrandparent, sibling, stepsibling, niece, nephew or first cousin of either, if the farm
operator does or will require the assistance of the relative in the management of the farm use and
the dwelling is located on the same lot or parcel as the dwelling of the farm operator.
Notwithstanding ORS 92.010 to 92.192 or the minimum lot or parcel size requirements under ORS
215.780, if the owner of a dwelling described in this paragraph obtains construction financing or
other financing secured by the dwelling and the secured party forecloses on the dwelling, the se-
cured party may also foreclose on the homesite, as defined in ORS 308A.250, and the foreclosure
shall oper