Josephine County, OR Zoning Overlays & Bonuses: Density Bonus Law (2026)

060) in the rural residential (one, two-and-one-half, and five-acre), serpentine, limited development, and community residential (two- and five-acre) zoning districts outside the Grants Pass and Cave Junction urban growth boundaries. Bonus points stack: a subdivision earns two points if none of its lots sit on prime farmland (when part of the parent tract did), two points if none of its lots sit in a floodplain (when part of the tract did), two points if none of its lots sit on a slope over 15 percent, and two points if none of its lots have granitic soils, in each case where a portion of the original tract had that constraint.

Larger four-point bonuses go to subdivisions that record a deed restriction requiring shared sanitary sewage and water facilities for all lots, that plat a new residential road serving all lots, or whose open space is contiguous to other deeded open space. 070(A), which itself is the parent tract's acreage divided by the zone's maximum residential density (for example, two acres per lot in a one-acre rural residential zone, or twenty acres per lot in limited development). Bonus lots are capped: the number of density-bonus lots on a plat cannot exceed the number of non-bonus lots on that same plat, and no resulting lot may be smaller than two acres. 090.