Oregon local moratoria
Every local infrastructure moratorium in the inventory for Oregon, current through September 23, 2026.
5 instruments — 3 in force, 2 pending, 0 past.
State policy is tracked separately: 5 actions (5 bills) in state_legislation.csv. These are not included in the local count above.
| Jurisdiction | Type | Enacted | Sectors | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| City of Hillsboro | City | 2026-07-27 | data center, battery storage | 🟢 Active |
| Clackamas County | County | Unverified | data center | 🟡 Pending |
| Crook County | County | Unverified | solar | 🟡 Pending |
| Salem | City | 2026-09-21 | data center | 🟢 Active |
| Woodburn | City | 2026-09-14 | data center | 🟢 Active |
Detailed entries
City of Hillsboro
- Type: City
- Status: 🟢 Active
- Date enacted: 2026-07-27 (City Council adopted signed Resolution No. 2932 at a special meeting, effective immediately)
- Normalized date:
2026-07-27(exact) - Duration: 120 days unless extended or repealed, with mandatory council review before expiration
- Current end date:
— - Sectors: data center, battery storage
- Moratorium ID:
or-city-of-hillsboro-2026 - Legal basis: Resolution No. 2932, adopted by the Hillsboro City Council at a special meeting on July 27, 2026
- What prompted it: City sought time to study data center and battery storage impacts and develop code amendments; contemporaneous coverage described Hillsboro as the first Oregon city to adopt a data center land-use moratorium
- Affected projects: New or expanded stand-alone data center or battery energy storage system land-use applications submitted after July 27, 2026; does not affect applications already under review.
- Detailed status: Active as of the July 31, 2026 research date. Effective immediately upon adoption, the resolution bars submission, acceptance, processing, or approval of new land-use applications for new or expanded data centers or battery energy storage systems as primary uses. Applications already under review are not affected. Runs 120 days (to approximately 2026-11-24) absent extension or repeal, with council review required before expiration.
- Outcome: Enacted moratorium on new data center and battery storage land-use applications while the city studies impacts and develops code amendments.
Clackamas County
- Type: County
- Status: 🟡 Pending
- Date enacted: —
- Normalized date:
—(unverified) - Duration: Proposed countywide moratorium on new data centers, intended by its sponsor (Commissioner Diana Helm) to last until the Oregon Legislature takes up the issue in its 2027 session. The Board of Commissioners voted unanimously on approximately 2026-08-04/08-05 to begin the formal process for a moratorium; Oregon law requires 45 days' notice to the Department of Land Conservation and Development before a public hearing on the proposed moratorium can be held. As of a September 15, 2026 news report, Clackamas County was still described as merely 'considering' a moratorium (alongside Salem, which adopted its own that month); no report of a final Board vote to adopt the moratorium was found as of 2026-09-23.
- Current end date:
— - Sectors: data center
- Moratorium ID:
or-clackamas-county-undated - Legal basis: Board of Commissioners motion (approx. 2026-08-04/08-05) directing staff to begin the formal 45-day notice process required under Oregon law before adopting a data center moratorium; no ordinance number exists because the moratorium itself had not been adopted as of this pass.
- What prompted it: Commissioner Diana Helm reversed an earlier position welcoming data centers, citing conversations with people in the AI/data-center industry who recommended the county not allow them; commissioners cited a desire to act proactively (no land-use application for a new data center had been filed in the county, which has only one existing data center, operated by Siemens in Wilsonville) and cited Hillsboro's and Salem's moratoria as models.
- Affected projects: None; county officials stated no land-use application for a data center had been filed, and the only existing data center in the county is operated by Siemens on its Wilsonville campus.
- Detailed status: Pending as of 2026-09-23. The Board of Commissioners voted unanimously in early August 2026 to start the formal process for a countywide data center moratorium; because Oregon law requires 45 days' notice to DLCD before a public hearing, the earliest possible adoption was not before roughly mid/late September 2026, and no report of a completed final vote was found as of this pass (a September 15, 2026 article still described the county as 'considering' the moratorium). No data center land-use application had been filed in the county as of this pass. [VERIFY instrument number; adoption date; primary source (news-only evidence) not confirmed at confidence 0.55 in the 2026-09 refresh]
- Outcome: Board of Commissioners voted unanimously to begin the formal process for a countywide data center moratorium; not yet adopted as of this pass.
Crook County
- Type: County
- Status: 🟡 Pending
- Date enacted: —
- Normalized date:
—(unverified) - Duration: Proposed temporary moratorium on new commercial solar farm development (term not specified in captured sources). The Board of County Commissioners voted 2-1 (date not precisely established in captured sources, reported in late June 2026) to hold public meetings and prepare documents for a potential moratorium; officials said 'the ordinance could begin to take shape' by summer 2026. No report of a final adoption vote was found as of 2026-09-23.
- Current end date:
— - Sectors: solar
- Moratorium ID:
or-crook-county-undated - Legal basis: Board of County Commissioners motion (2-1 vote, reported ~2026-06-30) directing staff to hold public meetings and prepare moratorium documents; no ordinance number exists because a moratorium had not been adopted as of this pass.
- What prompted it: Community concern over the pace and scale of new utility-scale solar development clustered along George Millican Road (south of Highway 126 near the Prineville Airport), including impacts on wildlife migration.
- Affected projects: None specifically named as blocked; existing solar farms are clustered along George Millican Road.
- Detailed status: Pending as of 2026-09-23. The Crook County (Oregon) Board of Commissioners voted 2-1 (reported in late June 2026) to begin the process toward a potential moratorium on new commercial solar farm development, directing staff to hold public meetings and prepare draft documents. County leaders indicated the ordinance could take shape by summer 2026, but no report of a final Board vote adopting a moratorium, nor any further update on the process, was found in this pass. [VERIFY instrument number; adoption date; primary source (news-only evidence) not confirmed at confidence 0.45 in the 2026-09 refresh]
- Outcome: Board of County Commissioners voted 2-1 to begin the process toward a potential moratorium on new commercial solar farm development; not yet adopted as of this pass.
Salem
- Type: City
- Status: 🟢 Active
- Date enacted: 2026-09-21 (City Council unanimous vote at a special session)
- Normalized date:
2026-09-21(exact) - Duration: 120 days from adoption (2026-09-21 to 2027-01-19); Oregon law allows extensions of up to 300 additional days with additional findings.
- Current end date:
— - Sectors: data center
- Moratorium ID:
or-salem-2026 - Legal basis: Moratorium ordinance adopted by the Salem City Council on 2026-09-21, following an August 3, 2026 council vote to move forward with the moratorium and a resolution to begin updating zoning/land-use code; required 45-day notice to the Oregon Department of Land Conservation and Development preceded formal adoption.
- What prompted it: specific_project
- Affected projects: Verrus Group filed a land use application in late July 2026 for a roughly 600,000-square-foot data center in Salem; the application proceeds under pre-moratorium review rules, but the moratorium bars construction while it is in effect.
- Detailed status: Active as of 2026-09-23. Moratorium halts construction of all data centers (as a primary use) and accessory data centers with facility capacity greater than 2 megawatts, effective 2026-09-21 through 2027-01-19. City Attorney Dan Atchison based the moratorium on a compelling need to prevent public harm, citing the city's water supply risk from the impending deep drawdown of the Detroit Reservoir (serving roughly 220,000 water customers). The moratorium does not block Verrus's already-filed land use application for a 600,000-square-foot data center (filed late July 2026, before the moratorium), since Oregon law generally requires applications to be reviewed under rules in effect when filed, but the city attorney confirmed construction itself can be prohibited during the moratorium.
- Outcome: City Council unanimously adopted a 120-day moratorium halting data center construction while the city develops permanent zoning and land-use regulations.
Woodburn
- Type: City
- Status: 🟢 Active
- Date enacted: 2026-09-14 (City Council unanimous 6-0 vote)
- Normalized date:
2026-09-14(exact) - Duration: 120 days from adoption (2026-09-14 to 2027-01-12); the City Manager stated the council could extend it to up to six months total.
- Current end date:
— - Sectors: data center
- Moratorium ID:
or-woodburn-2026 - Legal basis: Moratorium ordinance adopted by the Woodburn City Council on 2026-09-14; the city filed the required 45-day notice of intent to consider a moratorium with the Oregon Department of Land Conservation and Development on 2026-07-30 before the council could act.
- What prompted it: specific_project
- Affected projects: No formal application received; city staff learned that data center developer Verrus was exploring a site 'in or near Woodburn,' including the 237-acre Southwest Industrial Reserve Area.
- Detailed status: Active as of 2026-09-23. Moratorium prevents city planning staff from considering any new data center land-use application, effective 2026-09-14 through 2027-01-12. Adopted after the city learned that data center developer Verrus (which had separately applied to build in Salem, where its application drew significant public resistance) was exploring development of a data center on a 237-acre privately owned Southwest Industrial Reserve Area parcel brought into Woodburn's urban growth boundary in 2025; Woodburn had not received a formal application as of adoption. The city separately adopted an ordinance in June 2026 designating data centers as a conditional use in that industrial reserve area, and has hired a consultant (Thomas Consulting Group) to help review and potentially revise its development code for data centers.
- Outcome: City Council unanimously adopted a 120-day moratorium on considering new data center applications while the city reviews and potentially revises its development code.
Source: moratorium_inventory.csv · Methodology · Codebook.