1000 Friends v. Land Conservation & Development Commission

RICHARDSON, P. J

Petitioners appeal and Polk County cross-appeals from the trial court’s1 remand of LCDC’s order acknowledging the county’s comprehensive plan and land use regulations. For reasons of organization, we consider the cross-appeal first.

The county’s first assignment is that the trial court erred by reversing LCDC’s approval of a Goal 2 exception to permit “rural residential development” on 6,067 acres of resource land. The county argues, inter alia, in this context and others, that its planning process had evolved to an advanced stage and it had already submitted its plan and…