State Housing Council v. City of Lake Oswego

In 1978 the City of Lake Oswego adopted an ordinance subjecting various kinds of land development to certain “systems development charges” for the capital costs of streets, sewers, parks, and water systems. The State Housing Council petitioned the Land Conservation and Development Commission (“LCDC”) to review this ordinance for compliance with the commission’s statewide planning goals, asserting that the ordinance was an exercise of the city’s “planning and zoning responsibilities”1 reviewable by LCDC under ORS 197.300(1)(c).2 Petitioner 1000 Friends of Oregon, two associations of home…