Portland City Code ch. 14 (Land Use Code)

Citation: Portland City Code ch. 14 (Land Use Code)
Jurisdiction: Portland (municipal)
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Review process objectives.
Any project within the Fort Sumner Park Overlay G. Provide a regulatory tool for Portland’s major
shall go before the Parks Commission for a institutions that includes the flexibility required
recommendation to the Planning Board regarding to balance the particular needs of institutions
potential impacts on Fort Sumner Park. with the needs of the surrounding
neighborhood and wider community.
8.3 INSTITUTIONAL OVERLAY (IOZ)
8.3.1 Purpose 8.3.2 Location and applicability
The Institutional Overlay Zone (IOZ) provides a The city’s major medical and higher education
regulatory tool available to the city’s major medical institutions are eligible to apply for designation as
and higher education campuses where an Institutional Overlay Zones. Use of an Institutional
alternative regulatory structure is needed to Overlay Zone is encouraged for these institutions,
facilitate a consistent, predictable, and clear growth particularly where proposed future development
management process. The purposes of the may be inconsistent with current base zoning.
Institutional Overlay Zone are to:
A. Acknowledge that the city’s major academic 8.3.3 Establishment
and medical institutions play a prominent role A. Application for an Institutional Overlay Zone.
in the health and well-being of the local and Where an eligible institution seeks designation as
regional community, and to sustain that role, an IOZ, they shall submit a zone change
these institutions need flexibility to change and application consisting of two components:
grow. 1. An Institutional Development Plan (IDP) in
B. Encourage proactive planning for institutional accordance with Subsection 8.3.4.
change and growth which identifies and 2. A regulatory framework in accordance
addresses likely long-term