Johns v. City of Lincoln

Petitioner seeks review and the City of Lincoln City cross-petitions from LUBA’s decision affirming the city’s denial of petitioner’s application for a dwelling. We reverse on both the petition and the cross-petition and remand the decision to LUBA for further consideration.

We note initially that both petitioner’s and cross-petitioner’s briefs violate our rules, in that neither appends a copy of LUBA’s opinion. ORAP 5.50(3). That is not simply a technical defect. The parties’ failure to furnish a copy of the opinion for the court’s review before oral argument interfered with the court’s…