Damascus Community Church v. Clackamas County Board of Commissioners

*5SCHWAB, C. J.

This is a writ of review proceeding wherein petitioner contests the denial of a conditional use permit to operate a parochial school. Petitioner presently has a church on a six-acre site in a rural residential area of Clackamas County. A conditional use permit to operate a church was issued by the county in 1967. Since 1966, the church has also been operating a kindergarten and school for children in grades 1 through 12. The school is conducted in existing church facilities and presently has an enrollment of 102 students with five full-time faculty. In 1975, the Clackamas County…