Public-domain · open source
OpenJurist

ORS 227.160

Applied in 18 court decisions — leading case 29 Or. App. 761 - Bienz v. City of Dayton (1977)

Most recently applied in Northwest Environ. Defense Center v. City of Portland (November 2025)

1973 c.739 §6; 1975 c.767 §5; 1991 c.817 §8a; 1995 c.595 §13; 2015 c.260 §5; 2025 c.476 §43

How often courts cite this section

197719801990200020102020202520
citing decisions per year

Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.

As used in ORS 227.160 to 227.186:

(1) “Hearings officer” means a planning and zoning hearings officer appointed or designated by a city council under ORS 227.165.

(2) “Permit” means discretionary approval of a proposed development of land, under ORS 227.215 or city legislation or regulation. “Permit” does not include:

(a) A limited land use decision as defined in ORS 197.015;

(b) A decision which determines the appropriate zoning classification for a particular use by applying criteria or performance standards defining the uses permitted within the zone, and the determination applies only to land within an urban growth boundary;

(c) A decision which determines final engineering design, construction, operation, maintenance, repair or preservation of a transportation facility which is otherwise authorized by and consistent with the comprehensive plan and land use regulations; or

(d) An expedited land division, as described in ORS 197A.140.

Official source: Oregon State Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Oregon statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.