Morsman v. City of Madras

Petitioners seek review of a decision of the Land Use Board of Appeals (LUBA) that pertains to respondent City of Madras’s annexation of 759 acres of land. Before LUBA, petitioners argued that the “triple majority” method of annexation that the city employed pursuant to ORS 222.170(1) is unconstitutional under Article I, section 20, of the Oregon Constitution, 1 and the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. LUBA rejected petitioners’ constitutional challenges to the statute, and we affirm.

This is the third time that this dispute has been before…