Jackson v. Board of County Commissioners

The defendants county commissioners issued a conditional-use permit to defendants Kalal for construction of a 110-unit.mobile-home park on about 40 acres zoned RA-1 (rural agricultural single-family residential).1 In this writ of review proceeding, the circuit court set aside the permit on the ground "that the record is devoid of proof * * * to establish a public need for the conditional use.”2 The dispositive issue is whether the Clackamas County Zoning Ordinance permits the contemplated number of mobile homes to be placed on the Kalals’ property. As best as we can tell, it does not.

The…