1000 Friends v. Land Conservation & Development Commission

Petitioner 1000 Friends of Oregon (1000 Friends) seeks judicial review of an order that respondent Land Conservation and Development Commission (LCDC) issued on periodic review of intervenor Deschutes County’s (the county) land use plans and regulations. In the challenged order, LCDC determined that the county’s plans and regulations complied with Goal 3 (Agricultural Lands) as to minimum lot sizes and farm dwellings. 1000 Friends argues that the method that the county used to determine minimum lot sizes is flawed and that the minimum sizes that it adopted are inadequate to ensure the…