1000 Friends v. City of North Plains

In these consolidated appeals, LUBA remanded the city of North Plains’ amendment to its urban growth boundary (UGB) and certain related decisions by which the city would have added 306 acres, consisting primarily of farmland, to its present 418-acre UGB. LUBA agreed with virtually all of the arguments that the various petitioners before it advanced to challenge the city’s actions. However, LUBA rejected the Department of Land Conservation and Development’s (DLCD) and Department of Transportation’s (ODOT) contentions that OAR 660-12-060(4) was applicable to the city’s amendment of its UGB and…