Portland City Code ch. 14 (Land Use Code)

Citation: Portland City Code ch. 14 (Land Use Code)
Jurisdiction: Portland (municipal)
Source: Official source
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17.2.3 Ensuring workforce housing TABLE 17-C: MINIMUM TERM OF AFFORDABILITY FOR
A. Purpose. Based on the City’s Comprehensive REQUIRED WORKFORCE UNITS
Plan and the City’s 2015 housing study, it is in % of Workforce
the public interest to promote an adequate Units Provided Minimum Term of Affordability
supply of housing that is affordable to a range 25% 30 years
of households at different income levels. The 50% 20 years
purpose of this subsection is to ensure that 100% 10 years
housing developments over a certain size
provide a portion of workforce housing units from areas inside the respective buildings
and, by doing so, promote the health, safety, that these units are workforce housing
and welfare of Portland citizens. units, and must demonstrate general parity
B. Applicability. This subsection shall apply to in unit design, finishes, and amenities
site plan applications that create ten or more between market and workforce units in the
new dwelling units for rent or for sale through development. Applications shall include a
new construction, substantial alteration of narrative that addresses parity of
existing structures, adaptive reuse or workforce and market rate units, a
conversion of a nonresidential use to description of workforce and market rate
residential use, or any combination of these unit attributes and amenities, phasing if
elements. This subsection shall not apply to applicable, and integration into the
projects that otherwise meet or exceed the respective building and site design.
standards of 17.2.3(C). 4. Workforce units need not be the same size
C. Standards. Development projects subject to as other units in the development but the
this subsection shall meet to the following cumulative number of bedrooms in such
requirements: units shall be no less