1000 Friends of Oregon v. Land Conservation & Development Commission

1000 Friends of Oregon (1000 Friends) seeks review of the Land Conservation and Development Commission’s (LCDC) acknowledgment of Lane County’s Rural Comprehensive Plan. Most of the assignments of error concern portions of the plan which 1000 Friends believes improperly permit the establishment of dwellings on rural agricultural and forest lands. We reverse on all but one of the assignments of error.

In its first assignment, petitioner asserts that provisions of the F-2 (impacted forest lands) zone violate Goal 4. That goal requires that forest lands be conserved for forest uses, which it…