Expedited UGB Expansion
Expedited Urban Growth Boundary (UGB) Expansion is a valuable new tool available to Oregon cities for addressing severe housing shortages. Estimates show the state needs 140,000 more homes now, and will fall even further behind unless more housing is built rapidly. Expedited UGB Expansion helps cities more easily bring new land into city limits for housing production–with a guarantee that 30 percent of new homes built will be affordable. Hayden Homes is now partnering with interested (non-Metro) cities to reach affordability and housing production goals using this powerful new tool.
Hayden Homes helped craft the Expedited UGB Expansion tool and led the state's pilot project in Bend at Parkside Place. We're committed to helping meet Oregon's housing goals while providing affordable homeownership and rental opportunities for wage-earners. Now we're working with city leaders across Oregon to help them evaluate their eligibility and next steps to use Expedited UGB Expansion as a transformative new tool to help solve the housing crisis in their communities.
Parkside Place
In 2020, Hayden Homes created the Parkside Place public-private partnership with the City of Bend, the state of Oregon and housing advocacy partners to pilot Oregon’s first Expedited UGB Expansion project. The 37-acre site is located just outside the eastern edge of Bend’s current UGB, with anticipated annexation in fall 2024.
The Parkside Place project is well underway with 347 rental and for-purchase units planned, creating a density of 9.4 units per acre. Of those homes, a full 40 percent will be affordable to households earning 80 percent of Area Median Income, exceeding the Expedited UGB Expansion requirement. This affordability is possible for several reasons, including land outside the UGB is cheaper, the City of Bend waived some impact fees for the affordable homes, and earnings from market-rate homes in the neighborhood offset returns from the affordable units.
This successful pilot project is creating much-needed housing and an inclusive community where everyone can enjoy the planned four-acre community park, more than five acres of open space and a beautiful new regional trail.