Summary: Allows energy facilities and hydroelectric facilities as outright permitted uses in exclusive farm use zones, mixed farm and forest zones and forest zones.
The pdf can be found here: http://www.leg.state.or.us/11reg/measpdf/sb0400.dir/sb0473.intro.pdf
SB 473 as currently drafted would allow outright most of the major energy generating and transmission facilities on EFU zoned lands. No public process, no land use criteria.
Please contact your local representatives and Senator George and encourage them not to sell out EFU land use laws that we have had to live under all these years, leaving productive farm land the preferred route for utility companies not wanting to battle environmentalists in uninhabited public lands.
Capitol Phone: 503-986-1713
Capitol Address: 900 Court St NE, S-307, Salem, OR, 97301
Email: sen.larrygeorge@state.or.us
Website: http://www.leg.state.or.us/georgel
