Vertical Housing Development Zone Program

# (1)

(1) "Residential use" means regular, sustained occupancy of a residential unit in the project by a person or family as the person's or family's primary domicile, but not units and related areas used primarily as:

(a) Hotels, motels, hostels, rooming houses, bed and breakfast operations or other such transient accommodations; or

(b) Nursing homes, hospital-type in-patient facilities or other living arrangements, even of an enduring nature, where the character of the environment is predominately care-oriented rather than solely residential; or

(c) Nonresidential use as defined in ORS 307.841(5).

# (2)

(2) A new district that forms after the approval of a vertical housing development zone (VHDZ), or a district that annexes territory that is included in an existing VHDZ may opt out of participating in a VHDZ. To opt out, the district must provide:

(a) Written notice to the assessor and VHDZ city or county post-marked on or before a due date set by the city or county by rule; and

(b) A copy of a resolution or other appropriate official instrument duly adopted and issued by the governing body of the district affirming its decision to opt out of the VHDZ designation.

# (3)

(3) In the application for exemption under ORS 307.857, proposed projects must be described in terms of entire tax lots. Certified projects may not include partial tax lots.

# (4)

(4) VHDZ boundaries may not overlap. A project may only be located in one VHDZ.