State ex rel. Willamette Community Health Solutions v. Lane County

Plaintiff Willamette Community Health Solutions brought this mandamus action to compel the Lane County Board of Commissioners to approve plaintiffs applications for land-use permits to build a 12-bed hospice facility near Eugene after the county failed to act on the applications within the time allotted by statute. A person who owns property neighboring the proposed facility intervened. At a hearing on cross-motions for summary judgment on several affirmative defenses pleaded by intervenor, the county and intervenor asserted that the court lacked jurisdiction because, although the statutory…