Rogue Valley Ass'n of Realtors v. City of Ashland

Petitioner seeks review of LUBA’s decision remanding the City of Ashland’s zoning ordinance amendments from which petitioner appealed, but rejecting several of the specific arguments advanced by petitioner. We affirm.

The amendments were enacted through the Hillside Development Ordinance (HDO), and they have the general effect of increasing the restrictiveness of the city’s regulation of residential development on hillside and sloped areas. Among the arguments that petitioner made to LUBA was that various provisions of the HDO lack the “clear and objective” standards that ORS 197.307 requires.…