Friends of Bryant Woods Park v. City of Lake Oswego

Petitioners appealed to LUBA from the City of Lake Oswego’s decision approving respondent Riverview Park Partners’ (Riverview) application for a 55-lot residential planned unit development. The city granted variances to the cul-de-sac length requirements and wetland development provisions of its zoning legislation in conjunction with its approval of the application. Petitioners assigned error, inter alia, to the city’s interpretation of a variance standard in its legislation, to the evidentiary support for the city’s findings concerning the permissibility of both variances, and to the city’s…