Mill Creek Glen Protection Ass'n v. Umatilla County

Petitioners seek review of LUBA’s decision affirming Umatilla County’s issuance of a conditional use permit to respondents Klicker for the extraction and processing of rock and gravel. The county found that the Klicker site was an existing gravel pit and was therefore subject to the criteria that the county zoning ordinance establishes for the quarry use of existing pits. Those criteria are different from the standards under the ordinance for permitting quarry operations at new pits.

Petitioners contend in their first assignment that the pit cannot be treated as an existing one, as a matter of…