Maresh v. Yamhill County

Yamhill County petitions for review of an order in a post-acknowledgment proceeding of the Land Conservation and Development Commission (LCDC). The order invalidated the county’s Ordinance 322. Respondents filed objections with LCDC against the ordinance’s rezoning of two quarry sites from an agricultural-forestry (AF) to a mineral resource (MR) designation. LCDC held, inter alia, that the ordinance violates Goal 5 and that the county is required and failed to take a Goal 2 exception to Goal 3 in connection with the rezoning. Although we find one of the county’s argument’s for reversing…