State Ex Rel. Compass Corp. v. City of Lake Oswego

*150LANDAU, J.

Plaintiff petitions for an award of attorney fees under ORS 34.210 in the amount of $8,892.25. We allow the petition.

Plaintiff submitted to the City of Lake Oswego (the city) an application for a permit to partition a parcel of property. A lower adjudicative arm of the city denied the application, and plaintiff appealed to the city council. When more than 120 days passed without any decision from the city council, plaintiff filed a petition for an alternative writ of mandamus under ORS 227.178(7), which provides:

“If the governing body of the city or its designate does not take final…