Von Lubken v. Hood River County

Petitioners seek review and respondent Hanel Lumber Company, Inc., (respondent) cross-petitions from LUBA’s remand of Hood River County’s allowance of respondent’s application1 for a conditional use permit to operate a golf course in an agricultural zone. We affirm on the petition and on the cross-petition.

Petitioners argue that LUBA erred in remanding, rather than reversing, the county’s order. They also ascribe error to LUBA’s failure to hold that, or to require the county to consider whether, the cumulative impact of all of the assertedly “documented changes” in farm practices and the…