The Oregon Land Conservation and Development Act of 1973, formally Oregon Senate Bills 100 and 101 of 1973 (SB 100 and SB 101), were pieces of
landmark legislation passed by the
Oregon State Senate in 1973 and later signed into law. It created a framework for
land use planning across the state, requiring every city and county to develop a comprehensive plan for land use.
By 1976, the planning goals laid out by the act numbered 19:[2][3][4][5][6][7]
Citizen Involvement
Land Use Planning
Agricultural Land
Forest Lands
Open Spaces, Scenic and Historic Areas, and Natural Resources
Air, Water, and Land Resources Quality
Areas Subject to Natural Disaster and Hazards
Recreational Needs
Economy of the State
Housing
Public Facilities and Services
Transportation
Energy Conservation
Urbanization
Willamette River Greenway
Estuarine Resources
Coastal Shorelands
Beaches and Dunes
Ocean Resources
Attempts to repeal
An attempt to repeal SB 100 was launched as early as 1976. In an editorial, the Eugene Register-Guard asserted its staff had attended many of the legislative hearings leading to the bills' passage, and that it was "too early to talk about a repeal of Senate Bill 100, when it [had] hardly a chance to work."[8] The initiative petition succeeded in putting
Measure 10 on the November ballot, but the measure was the first of many repeal attempts to fail in subsequent decades. The Central Lane County
League of Women Voters published a booklet on land use planning that year.[9]