Mid-County Future Alternatives Committee v. Portland Metropolitan Area Local Government Boundary Commission

Petitions for review have been filed by the City of Portland and the Portland Metropolitan Area Local Government Boundary Commission, as well as a memorandum in support of petitions filed by the League of Oregon Cities as amicus curiae. We allow the petitions and modify our former opinion in one respect. ORAP 10.10.

In our former opinion, 82 Or App 193, 728 P2d 63 (1986), we concluded by stating that ORS 199.490(2) violates Article I, section 20, of the Oregon Constitution. That section permits a governing body to initiate an annexation by resolution after receiving the consents of a “triple…