Gould v. Deschutes County

This proceeding involves a petition and cross-petition for review of a final order of the Land Use Board of Appeals (LUBA) that remanded the declaratory ruling of the Deschutes County Board of Commissioners (the county) that a conceptual master plan (CMP) for a destination resort had been “initiated” within the county code’s time limitations. In the petition, petitioner contends that LUBA erred by deferring to the county’s “implausible” interpretation of a code provision that addressed whether a CMP had been “initiated.” Alternatively, petitioner complains that the county’s finding that the…