Below are the City of Tigard’s key state legislative priorities. In coordination with our partners, Tigard will continue to pursue additional opportunities that align with our values as they arise.

Homelessness

Funding for shelters and support services

Establish an ongoing, stable funding mechanism to support existing shelters and support services to provide a permanent statewide shelter program. In Tigard, this would support:

• Safe Parking Program
• Good Neighbor Center, Just Compassion, and Family Promise of Tualatin Valley

HB 3115 reform

Provide needed support for municipalities to more effectively respond to homelessness, unsheltered camping, and behavioral health crises of people in the public right-of-way. State policy support includes funding and additional flexibility to HB 3115.

• Look for opportunities for state funding of police enforcement and encampment cleanup related to houselessness.
• Support behavioral health and street outreach funding that would benefit Tigard’s ongoing efforts to resource individuals experiencing houselessness.

Transportation

Revisit parking minimums

Review HB 2001 language on parking minimums or parking caps to bring back parking minimums or allow for local rulemaking.

• Providing adequate on-street parking within constrained right-of-way widths is increasingly difficult. Cities face competing demands for space such as wide sidewalks (often 8–10 feet), bike facilities, parking, and stormwater infrastructure, while also trying to maintain narrower overall street widths.
• There are cost implications to removing parking minimums. Costs can be borne by homeowners and renters who must lease off-street parking or search for limited parking options near their home.

Facilitate jurisdictional transfer of urban arterials

Update HB 2793 to remove Section 3 (3)(a) requiring the accepting jurisdiction provide at least 20 percent of the cost of the jurisdictional transfer. The local jurisdiction should also be able to request state funding to front load five years of future maintenance costs.

• When a local jurisdiction accepts a state roadway, it also assumes long-term operations and maintenance responsibilities in perpetuity, while the state permanently removes those expenses from its budget.
• Including the first five years of maintenance costs in the transfer package would give local governments the runway needed to build up resources for ongoing upkeep. This approach maintains state cost savings overall while ensuring a sustainable and equitable handoff.

Housing Services

Expand targeted infrastructure investment funding

Without infrastructure funding, the state’s ambitious housing production goals will not come to fruition. The state should invest in helping cities meet their Oregon Housing Needs Analysis targets by unlocking development potential for middle housing.

Pause further major housing policy bills until cities have a chance to implement the work imposed in the last three sessions.

The list of requirements and deadlines has grown significantly and cities as well as Department of Land Conservation and Development (DLCD) need a chance to implement without further policy changes.

Technical fixes to SB 974

• Clarify Shot Clock Review Requirements: Amend statute to specify how the “final engineering plans” shot clock applies to reviews by external agencies (e.g., fire districts, sewer agencies, ports) to prevent cities from facing litigation over timelines outside their control.
• Restore Quasi-Judicial Hearings for Planned Developments: Revisit the prohibition on quasi-judicial hearings for planned developments, which require discretionary review and often involve waivers of development standards. Staff-level approval conflicts with Statewide Planning Goal 1 and undermines the intent of local comprehensive plans.
• Reevaluate Pre-emption on Local Design Standards: Revisit or clarify the pre-emption on applying local design standards to ensure it aligns with SB 1537’s incentives for underproduced housing types. If not repealed, clarify how the 20-unit threshold should be applied or delay implementation to allow DLCD to establish rulemaking.