Lovinger v. Lane County

The owner of a 1.2-acre piece of rural property applied to Lane County to build a dwelling on the property. Petitioner, a neighboring landowner, objected to the construction of a dwelling on the ground that the 1.2-acre piece of property is part of a larger tract of land on which a dwelling already exists. According to petitioner, applicable zoning restrictions limit the number of dwellings to one per tract, and the 1.2-acre piece of land is part of a single parcel of land that has never been partitioned and, therefore, comprises a single tract. The county approved the application on the…