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URBAN GROWTH IN THE ROGUE VALLEY: PAST, PRESENT, AND WHAT THE STATE PROPOSES NEXT

Fifty years of deliberate, public UGB expansion — and the rural unincorporated communities the proposed LCDC rulemaking would open to urban-style development outside any boundary, bypassing Goal 14.

Future exposure layer depicts communities eligible under the proposed LCDC Housing in Unincorporated Communities rulemaking as drafted; it does not depict adopted zoning changes.

Categories overlap by design and are documented rather than de-duplicated: era bands overlap current UGB footprints, and community or resource zoning acres are reported county-wide against their own sources. The farm+forest figure counts only land OUTSIDE current UGBs (Jackson County zoning; DLCD statewide zoning 2023 for Josephine). Areas computed in EPSG:2992.

Acreage summary
CategoryAcresCount
Inside current UGBs — Jackson County39,818
Inside current UGBs — Josephine County11,078
Inside current UGBs — combined50,89613
UGB area acknowledged before 200045,236
Added to UGBs 2000–2009149
Added to UGBs 2010–2016923
Added to UGBs since 2016 (derived)4,645
Designated unincorporated communities — Jackson County1,00218
Designated unincorporated communities — Josephine County2,2581
Designated unincorporated communities — combined3,26019
Farm + forest zoned land OUTSIDE current UGBs — combined2,590,263
Sources & provenance
LayerTitleAgencySourceRetrieved
countiesOregon County Boundaries (TIGER 2024)US Census Bureau, TIGER/Linesource2026-04-30
zoning_jacksonJackson County Zoning (County GIS, bucketed)Jackson County GISsource2026-06-26
zoning_dlcd_josephineDLCD Statewide Zoning 2023 (Josephine bbox, bucketed) — resource contextOregon DLCD / OSU Oregon Explorersource2026-07-01
rivers_rogue_growthRogue Valley Named Rivers — two-county extent (USGS NHD)U.S. Geological Survey — National Hydrography Dataset (NHD)source2026-07-01
roadsRogue Valley Highways (TIGER 2024 Roads — I-5 + Hwy 99)US Census Bureau, TIGER/Linesource2026-04-30
ugb_eras_rogueRogue Valley UGB Expansion Eras (DLCD UGB History 1980-2016 + derived since-2016 band)Oregon DLCD (history); derived band by Rogue Advocates analysissource2026-07-01
ugbs_current_rogueRogue Valley Current UGBs (Oregon Spatial Data Library, 2022 compilation)Oregon DLCD via OSU Oregon Explorersource2026-07-01
pending_ugb_amendmentsPending / Proposed UGB Amendments (point markers, fail closed)City of Phoenix; City of Eagle Point (news of record)source2026-07-01
communities_rogueDesignated Unincorporated Communities & Rural Service Cores (county designations)Jackson County GIS (zoning); Josephine County GIS (comp plan); USGS GNIS (names)source2026-07-01