PLANNING FOR HEALTHY COMMUNITIES – HB 3062

As co-leaders of the Planning for Healthy Communities Act, we’re working to strengthen Oregon’s land use laws by requiring robust health and environmental justice protections near homes, schools, and care facilities to curb negative impacts of industrial developments. By tackling air pollution, urban heat, and traffic risks head-on, this policy ensures that approval of permits to construct industrial facilities doesn’t come by sacrificing community health! This legislation, modeled after our Public Health Overlay Zone in Eugene, was the first development code to prioritize community health in zoning decisions.