Mason v. Mountain River Estates, Inc.

Mountain River Estates, Inc. (MRE), petitions for review of the Land Use Board of Appeals’ partial reversal and partial remand of Linn County’s decision that MRE has a vested right to complete a 111-unit planned unit development (PUD). LCDC and LUBA had held in earlier proceedings that the PUD could not be completed consistently with statewide land use planning goals. The issue, as formulated by the parties, is whether MRE had a “vested right” to complete the PUD, because its development activities were permitted under the applicable county ordinance before MRE was on notice of the goal…