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ARTICLE 3: USE ZONES

SECTION 301.03 DWELLINGS IN THE EFU ZONE

A. Placement of dwellings in the EFU zone shall conform to statutory and rule provisions.

B. Dwellings located within the Big Game Habitat Overlay

The Goal 5 elk winter habitat protection maps as adopted by Baker County are inventoried as to median ownership size of parcels within the areas to be protected. Where the overall median ownership, expressed in acres, of any Elk Winter Habitat Protection Plan quadrangle map is reduced by ten percent or more from the median size calculated in the spring of 1986 and calculated May 1, 1987 and during periodic review thereafter, the following criteria shall be applied to dwelling applications within the quadrangle map. The Planning Commission has the discretion to review median ownership patterns at other times as it deems necessary.

1) A review of ownership sizes surrounding an area proposed for a nonresource permit within protected elk winter habitat areas shall be conducted.

2) The proposed parcel shall not alter the overall land use pattern found in the area by requiring that the proposed residential parcel be as large or larger than the median ownership within at least a one-mile radius review area.