Willamette University v. Land Conservation & Development Commission

This is an appeal from an order of the Land Conservation and Development Commission that upheld in part and invalidated in part a rezoning ordinance of the City of Eugene. The principal issues involve questions of LCDC’s jurisdiction, petitioners’ standing and whether all land within a city’s limits is, before ac-knowledgement of the city’s comprehensive plan, per se "urbanizable” within the meaning of the statewide planning goals.

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Willamette University and others (hereinafter "in-tervenors”) are the owners of the subject property which consists of about 390 acres. Intervenors applied to the…