The Hood River County Planning Commission will hold a public hearing in September on updates to the County’s exclusive farm use and forest zones.  County Planner John Roberts says the state began a project a couple of years ago to provide technical support to help counties bring codes for their resource zones up to modern standards.  Roberts says Hood River County’s exclusive farm use code had become antiquated in its ability to use it.  Roberts pointed out one example is provisions for some agri-tourism uses, which has been allowed by state statute since 2011.  He adds the first decision is whether to allow those opportunities, and then how impacts can be mitigated.  The Planning Commission has been holding worksessions on the updates for a number of months, and a public hearing is set for September 9 at 6 p.m. in the Hood River County Administration Building.