Climate-Friendly and Equitable Communities

CFEC

On June 24, 2025, the Troutdale City Council adopted Development Code amendments for compliance with the Climate-Friendly Equitable Communities Rules. See the adopted Ordinance below. 

March 10, 2022, Governor Kate Brown issued Executive Order 20-04, directing state agencies to reduce climate pollution.  Executive Order 20-04 was in response to Oregon not meeting its climate pollution reduction goals, one of which was adopted in 2007 by state legislators to reduce the state’s climate pollution by 75% by 2050.

In response, the Oregon Land Use Conservation and Development Commission (LCDC) developed, and the state adopted, updates to Oregon’s transportation and land use planning rules. These new rules are called Climate-Friendly and Equitable Communities (CFEC). They include updated rules for reducing the minimum required parking, prioritizing ride-sharing and carpooling parking, requiring electric vehicle charging in certain situations, and other strategies that promote walkable communities. Troutdale will still recommend the community's parking standards as currently implemented for all new development projects. Please see the Troutdale's Recommended Parking Standards document at the bottom of this page.  The new CFEC rules went into effect on January 1, 2023.  

The Oregon Administrative Rules (OARs) that implement CFEC include:

OAR 660-012-0430 Reduction of Parking Mandates for Development Types

1. The City may not require more than one parking space per unit in residential developments with more than one dwelling unit on a single legally established property.

2. The City may not require parking for the following development types:

a. Facilities and homes designed to serve people with psychological, physical, intellectual or developmental disabilities, including but not limited to a: residential care facility, residential training facility, residential treatment facility, residential training home, residential treatment home, and conversion facility as defined in ORS 443.400.
b. Child care facility as defined in ORS 329A.250.
c. Single-room occupancy housing.
d. Residential units smaller than 750 square feet.
e. Affordable housing as defined in OAR 660-039-0010.
f. Publicly supported housing as defined in ORS 456.250.
g. Emergency and transitional shelters for people experiencing homelessness.
h. Domestic violence shelters.

660-012-0440 Parking Reform Near Transit Corridors

The City may not require parking within ½ miles of TriMet’s Line 77, which qualifies as “frequent service” under OAR 660-012-0400.

660-012-0410 Electric Vehicle Charging

The development code will require 40% of the parking spaces developed in conjunction with new multi-family (5+ housing units) buildings and multi-use buildings with private commercial space to have a conduit to serve electric vehicle charging stations.

OAR 660-01-00405 Parking Regulation Improvements

  1. Preferential placement of carpool/vanpool parking

  2. Allow redevelopment of any portion of a parking lot for bike or transit uses

  3. Allow and encourage redevelopment of underutilized parking for other uses

  4. Allow and facilitate shared parking

  5. New parking lots more than ½ acre in size must install 40% tree canopy or solar panels, solar/wind fee-in lieu or green energy

  6. Adopt parking maximums in locations such as downtowns, regional or community center, and transit-oriented development

OAR 660-012-0425 Reducing the Burden of Parking Mandates (June 30, 2025)

  1. Garages and carports may not be required for residential developments.

  2. Garage parking spaces shall count towards off-street parking mandates.

  3. Provision of shared parking shall be allowed to meet parking mandates.

  4. Required parking maybe provided off-site, within 2,000 feet pedestrian travel of a site.

  5. Reduce parking mandates if providing solar panels or wind power capacity, car-sharing parking space, EV parking spaces, units that are fully accessible to people with mobility disabilities.

OAR 660-012-0445 Parking Management Alternative Approaches 

The city chose to implement the Fair Parking Policy

Option 2: Fair parking policy

The city is requiring the following: 

  1. A requirement for employers of 50 or more employees who provide free or subsidized parking to their employees at the workplace provide a stipend of $50 per month or the fair market value of that parking, whichever is greater, to those employees eligible for free or subsidized parking who regularly commute via other modes instead of using that parking; 

  2. A tax on the revenue from commercial parking lots collecting at least 10 percent of income, with revenues dedicated to improving transportation alternatives to drive-alone travel.  At present, there are no such lots in Troutdale. 

For more information on Climate Friendly Equitable Communities, please visit the Department of Land Conservation and Development project page at:  https://www.oregon.gov/lcd/cl/pages/cfec.aspx

 

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