Blatt v. City of Portland

The City of Portland petitions and respondents 1 cross-petition for review of LUBA’s decision remanding the city’s adoption of the Columbia South Shore Natural Resource Management Plan (NRMP). The dispositive issue is whether Statewide Planning Goal 5 is applicable to the city’s decision, as respondents argue and LUBA concluded, or whether, as the city argues, its decision was made under an acknowledged land use regulation, and, therefore, no independent demonstration of compliance with the statewide goals was required. 2 See, e.g., Foland v. Jackson County, 311 Or 167, 807 P2d 801 (1991).

The…