1000 Friends v. Land Conservation & Development Commission

Petitioner seeks review of LCDC’s order acknowledging the comprehensive plan and land use regulations of Morrow County. The only assignment that requires discussion is petitioner’s first, in which it challenges LCDC’s approval of the county’s “reasons” exception, ORS 197.732(l)(c), for the industrial use of 1,889 acres which lie outside the city of Boardman’s urban growth boundary and which will comprise part of the contemplated Port of Morrow Industrial Park.

The county applied its general industrial (M-G) zone to the exception area. Petitioner argues, inter alia, that not all of the…