1000 Friends of Oregon v. Yamhill County

Petitioner, Columbia Empire Farms, Inc., seeks review of a Land Use Board of Appeals (LUBA) decision upholding three Yamhill County ordinances. The ordinances approve exceptions to Statewide Land Use Planning Goals 3, 11, and 14, and amend the Yamhill County Comprehensive Plan text and map and zoning ordinance text and map to facilitate location of a proposed highway, the Newberg-Dundee Bypass (the bypass). Petitioner makes five assignments of error. As a principal theme, those assignments of error assert that LUBA misinterpreted applicable statutes and Land Conservation and Development…