ADOPTING ORDINANCE
ORDINANCE NO. 2019-04
ENACTING CITY OF FOREST GROVE DEVELOPMENT CODE AS TITLE 17 OF THE CODE OF ORDINANCES, COPYRIGHTED 2019, PUBLISHED BY AMERICAN LEGAL PUBLISHING CORPORATION AND REPEALING ORDINANCE NO. 2009-01, DEVELOPMENT CODE OF 2009
The City of Forest Grove ordains as follows:
Section 1. Adoption. The provisions of the code designated as the City of Forest Grove, Oregon, “Development Code”, Title 17, copyrighted 2019, published by American Legal Publishing Corporation (Publisher), League of Oregon Cities, containing current existing ordinances through Ordinance 2018-07, dated 10/08/2018, (Exhibit A), a copy of which is placed on file in the office of the City Recorder and certified as the official copy by the recorder are hereby enacted as law of the City of Forest Grove, Oregon; and
Section 2. The City Council authorized a general compilation, editing and the codification of the existing ordinances of a general and permanent nature and publications of such ordinances in book form; and
Section 3. The Development Code, which has been separate from the Code of Ordinances, has kept the numbering and organization and text predominantly as it was provided to the Publisher by the City, except changing Code Section 10, Articles 10.1.000 to 10.12.210, as Title 17, Articles 17.1.000 to 17.12.210, and including the Design Guide Handbook 2009 as reference; and
Section 4. The provisions appearing in the “Development Code”, so far as they are the same as those ordinances or prior code sections existing at the time of the effective date of this Ordinance, shall be considered as continuations thereof and not as new enactments; and
Section 5. Ordinance No. 2009-01, which enacted Forest Grove Development Code of 2009, is hereby repealed on the effective date of this Ordinance.
Section 6. The “Forest Grove Development Code of 2019”, Title 17, shall be deemed published as of the day of the enactment of this Ordinance by the City Council.
PRESENTED AND PASSED the first reading this 13th day of May, 2019.
PASSED the second reading this 28th day of May, 2019.
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Anna D. Ruggles, City Recorder
APPROVED by the Mayor this 28th day of May, 2019.
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Peter B. Truax, Mayor
The Development Code of 2019 is linked below as reference:
TITLE XVII: DEVELOPMENT CODE:
ARTICLE 1: INTRODUCTION AND PROCEDURES
ARTICLE 2: LAND USE REVIEWS
ARTICLE 3: ZONING DISTRICTS
ARTICLE 4: OVERLAY DISTRICTS
ARTICLE 5: SPECIAL PROVISIONS
ARTICLE 6: LAND DIVISIONS
ARTICLE 7: MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
ARTICLE 8: GENERAL DEVELOPMENT STANDARDS
ARTICLE 9: RESERVED
ARTICLE 10: RESERVED
ARTICLE 11: RESERVED
ARTICLE 12: USE CATEGORIES AND DEFINITIONS