OAR 660-022-0000: Purpose

(1) The purpose of this division is to establish a statewide policy for the planning and zoning of unincorporated communities that recognizes the importance of communities in rural Oregon. It is intended to expedite the planning process for counties by reducing their need to take exceptions to statewide planning goals when planning and zoning unincorporated communities. (2) This division interprets Goals 11 and 14 concerning urban and rural development outside urban growth boundaries and applies only to unincorporated communities defined in OAR 660-022-0010. (3) This division does not apply to areas approved as destination resorts under the destination resort statute, ORS 197.435 through 197.467.