Stop the Dump Coal. v. Yamhill Cnty.

*700**434Intervenor-respondent Riverbend Landfill Co. seeks to expand its solid waste landfill in Yamhill County on land zoned for exclusive farm use (EFU). To obtain site design review and a floodplain development permit for the expansion, Riverbend had to meet what is sometimes known as the farm impacts test, set out in ORS 215.296. Subsection (1) of that statute precludes approval of a proposed nonfarm use when the use would "[f]orce a significant change" in accepted farm practices or "[s]ignificantly increase the cost" of those practices on surrounding agricultural lands. Subsection (2)…