West v. Clackamas County

Petitioner seeks review of LUBA’s affirmance of a Clackamas County hearings officer’s denial of petitioner’s application for a conditional use permit to develop a golf course and related facilities. We affirm.

Although the county denied the application on three grounds, it defended only one of them before LUBA and here. The proposed golf course site contains wetlands. Section 1011.03(B) of the county zoning ordinance requires the outright preservation of “high priority open space,” including wetlands, except, inter alia, that “Commercial or industrial developments affecting wetlands * * * may…