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A parcel of land may be used, developed by land division or otherwise, and a structure may be used or developed by construction, reconstruction alteration, occupancy or otherwise only as the Development Code permits.
If you have questions about the Development Code, please contact the Planner on Duty at 503-618-2780 or POD@GreshamOregon.gov.
Development code documents
Development Code table of contents
Development Code Article 1 - Using the Community Development Code - A guide to using the Development Code is to be developed in a future phase of work.
Development Code Article 2 - Introductory Provisions
Development Code Article 3 - Definitions
Development Code Article 4 - Land Use Districts and Plan Districts
- Section 4.0100 Residential Land Use Districts
- Section 4.0200 Commercial Land Use Districts
- Section 4.0300 Industrial Land Use Districts
- Section 4.0400 Corridor Districts
- Section 4.1000 Plan Districts
- Section 4.1100 Downtown Plan District
- Section 4.1200 Civic Neighborhood Plan District
- Section 4.1300 Gresham Butte Plan District
- Section 4.1400 Pleasant Valley Plan District
- Section 4.1500 Springwater Plan District
Development Code Article 5 - Overlay District
- Section 5.0000 Purpose and Authority
- Section 5.0100 Flood Plain Overlay District
- Section 5.0200 Hillside and Geologic Risk Overlay
- Section 5.0300 Historic and Cultural Landmarks Overlay District
- Section 5.0500 Open Space Overlay District
- Section 5.0600 Gresham Butte Scenic View Overlay District
- Section 5.0700 Natural Resource Overlay
Development Code Article 6 - Land Divisions
- Section 6.0000 Introductory Provisions
- Section 6.0100 Lot Line Adjustments and Lot Consolidations
- Section 6.0200 Partitions and Subdivisions
- Section 6.0300 Planned Developments
- Section 6.0400 Land Division Final Plat Requirements
- Section 6.0500 Middle Housing Land Division
Development Code Article 7 - Design Review
- Section 7.0000 Purpose and Authority
- Section 7.0100 Corridor Design District
- Section 7.0200 General Design Standards
- Section 7.0300 Commercial, Institutional, and Industrial Design Standards
- Section 7.0400 Residential Design Standards
- Section 7.0500 Rockwood Design Guidelines and Standards
- Section 7.0600 (combined with Section 7.0100)
Development Code Article 8 - Special Uses
- Section 8.0100 Special Use Review
- Section 8.0200 Existing and Nonconforming Uses and Development
- Section 8.0300 Institutional Master Plans
Development Code Article 9 - Common Requirements
- Section 9.0100 Buffering and Screening
- Section 9.0200 Clear Vision Area
- Section 9.0300 Easements
- Section 9.0400 Fencing
- Section 9.0500 Grading and Drainage and Stormwater Quality Control Requirements
- Section 9.0600 Height Transition
- Section 9.0700 Neighborhood Circulation and Future Street Plans
- Section 9.0800 Parking
- Section 9.0900 Projections
- Section 9.1000 Tree Regulations
Development Code Article 10 - Supplementary Development Regulations
- Section 10.0100 Accessory Dwellings
- Section 10.0200 Residential Accessory Structures
- Section 10.0300 Ancillary Dwellings
- Section 10.0400 Conversions of Units
- Section 10.0500 Home Occupations
- Section 10.0600 Wireless Communication Facilities
- Section 10.0700 Mineral and Aggregate Resource Extraction
- Section 10.0900 Renewable Energy
- Section 10.1000 Private Communication Facilities
- Section 10.1100 Shoreline Height Standards
- Section 10.1300 Temporary Health Hardship Dwelling
- Section 10.1400 Temporary, Intermittent and Interim Uses
- Section 10.1500 Variance and Adjustment Procedures
- Section 10.1600 Food and Beverage Carts
- Section 10.1700 Affordable Housing Development
Development Code Article 11 - Gresham Procedural Code
- Section 11.0100 Development Permit Requirements
- Section 11.0200 Initiation and Classification of Applications
- Section 11.0300 Type I Ministerial Procedures
- Section 11.0400 Type II Administrative Procedures
- Section 11.0500 Type III Quasi-Judicial Procedures
- Section 11.0600 Type IV Legislative Procedures
- Section 11.0700 Pre-Application Conference
- Section 11.0800 Neighborhood Meeting
- Section 11.0900 Application Submittal and Completeness Review
- Section 11.1000 Public Hearings
- Section 11.1100 Appeals
Development Code Article 12 - Map Amendments
Development Code Article 13 - Appendices
- Appendix 1 Annexations
- Appendix 2 Reserved for future appendix
- Appendix 3 Guarantee of Completion
- Appendix 4 Reserved for future appendix
- Appendix 5 Public Facilities
- Appendix 6 Sign Regulations and Sign Definitions
- Appendix 7 Vacations
- Appendix 8 Reserved for future appendix
- Appendix 9 Station Center and Town Center Mixed Use Areas
- Appendix 10 Reserved for future appendix
- Appendix 11 Reserved for future appendix
- Appendix 13 Street Naming and Property Numbering