Woodcock v. Land Conservation & Development Commission

This case requires reconciling two provisions of the state land use planning statutes. The first, ORS 197.251(1), authorizes the Land Conservation and Development Commission to grant or to deny acknowledgment that a local government’s land use regulatory devices comply with the statewide planning goals; it necessarily contemplates that LCDC might review local land use matters for compliance with the goals long after those decisions became final at the local level. The second, former ORS 197.300(2), required that an appeal to LCDC alleging that a specific local government land use decision…