Yamhill County v. Land Conservation & Development Commission

Yamhill County seeks review of LCDC’s periodic review order under former ORS 197.640 to former ORS 197.647. We affirm.

The county had included as resources on its Goal 5 inventory, as revised for periodic review, the scenic waterway and watershed and potential municipal reservoir in the Walker Flat area. LCDC’s order directed the county to add three other resources in the area to its inventory — fish and wildlife habitat, natural areas and wetlands — and to complete the Goal 5 and OAR 660-16-000 et seq process for those resources. The county contends:

“LCDC, by making an independent evaluation…