Gutoski v. Lane County

Petitioners seek review of LUBA’s affirmance of Lane County’s decision to reduce the required minimum lot size in a residential zone and, thereby, to enable respondent Egge to add a second residence on his property. We reverse.

Respondent’s property is adjacent to petitioners’. Petitioners’ property is zoned and used for agriculture. Respondent’s property was at one time similarly zoned, but was rezoned to its original residential designation after an exception was taken to Goal 3, the statewide agricultural goal. In the present proceeding to rezone the property again, petitioners contended…