Benjfran Development, Inc. v. Metropolitan Service District

Petitioner seeks review of LUBA’s affirmance of the Metropolitan Service District (Metro) denial of an amendment to its acknowledged metropolitan urban growth boundary (UGB). The amendment would have added an area of approximately 500 acres, which petitioner wished to use as the site of an “advance performance standards regional industrial park.” That project, according to petitioner, would attract industry and jobs to the region, is akin to an industrial marketing technique which is coming into use in comparable metropolitan areas and cannot be located on any existing sites within the UGB.…