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7. The applicants should contact the Marion County Number 1 Fire District to obtain a copy of the District’s Recommended Building Access and Premise Identification regulations and the Marion County Fire Code Applications Guide. Fire District access standards may be more restrictive than County standards. 8. The applicants should contact the Marion County Assessor’s Office (503-588-5144) for additional information regarding the farm/forest disqualification process (please see #10(C) in the Findings and Conclusions below). APPEAL PROCEDURE: The Marion County Zone Code provides that certain applications be considered first by the County Zoning Administrator. If there is any doubt that the application conforms with adopted land use policies and regulations the Zoning Administrator must condition or deny the application. Anyone who disagrees with the decision may request that the application be considered by a County hearings officer after a public hearing. The applicant may also request reconsideration (one time only and a fee of $200) based on new information subject to signing an extension of the 120-day time limit for review of zoning applications. A public hearing is held on appeals subject to the appellant paying a $250.00 fee. Requests for reconsideration, or consideration by a hearings officer, must be in writing (form available from the Planning Division) and received in the Planning Division, 5155 Silverton Rd. NE, Salem, by 5:00 p.m. on May 27th, 2026. If you have questions about this decision, contact the Planning Division at (503) 588-5038 or at the office. This decision is effective May 28th, 2026, unless further consideration is requested. FINDINGS AND CONCLUSIONS: Findings and conclusions on which the decision was based are noted below. 1. The SA (special agriculture) zone is applied in areas characterized by small farm operations or areas with a mixture of good and poor farm soils where the existing land use pattern is a mixture of large and small farm units and some acreage homesites. This zone allows the flexibility in management needed to obtain maximum resource production from these lands. It emphasizes farm use, but forest use is allowed and protected from conflicts. The SA zone is also intended to allow other uses that are compatible with agricultural activities, to protect forests, scenic resources and fish and wildlife habitat, and to maintain and improve the quality of air, water and land resources of the county 2. The subject lot is located south of State Street SE approximately one mile east of the intersection of State St . SE and Cordon Road NE in the 6000 block of State Street SE. The parcel consists of two tax lots that comprise one 7.92-acre parcel of land. The subject lot is currently vacant and is relatively flat with no known geohazards or FEMA floodplains. The proposed building site is located in the southern portion of the parcel on current tax lot 3300 (072W33A003300). The tax lot has access from State Street SE from the north. The northern boundary is State Street SE and to the west is the man-made Willa Lake, and further west is the Lakeshore Terraces subdivision along 59th Avenue SE. The land adjacent to the east is an agriculture parcel and to the immediate south is a small acreage farm with a dwelling. 3. The parcel is first described in a 1979 deed (Reel 197, Page 501; dated December 31, 1979). The parcel has remained in its current configuration until the present day. In August of 1996 the Marion County Planning Department approved an Administrative Review for a single “lot of record” dwelling on the 7.92 acres for Alma Minte n. AR96- 088 found that this was one parcel of land comprised of two tax accounts. This is supported by the most recent 2007 deed (Reel 2779, Page 237; January 23, 2007) that uses the s ame perimeter description. This dwelling was never built. Then in 2018, the same parcel was part of another administrative review land use case (AR18-023) to establish a Lot of Record dwelling. This case was eventually denied by the Planning Department. Staff was not able to locate any deeds or survey information from before December 31, 1979; evidence does exist that the western boundary of the subject parcel may have been created in 1967 by the creation of the Lakeshore Terraces subdivision. Per MCC 17.114.040(A), any lot created by deed, plat or subdivision prior to September 1, 1977, is considered legally created for the purposes of applying the land use code. Based on this code section, the Planning Director has the discretion to consider a lot legally created if it was done so by deed. Since Staff could not find any legal records of property line adjustments, partitions, subdivisions, or surveys indicating a method for which the subject lots were divided, it is applicable to apply this standard in this instance. The history of land and the land use cases for tax lots 3200 and 3300 (Tax Accounts 523741, 524537,