1000 Friends of Oregon v. Land Conservation & Development Commission

This is judicial review under ORS 183.400 of a Land Conservation and Development Commission (LCDC) rule 1 amending Statewide Planning Goal 14, the Urbanization Goal.

Goal 14 specifies requirements for local government comprehensive planning for conversion of rural land to urban land. It requires classification of land into two categories, rural and urban. It also establishes a third transitional category, urbanizable land, as that rural land which is most suitable to become urban as needed to accommodate urban population growth. Urban growth boundaries are planning devices which bound areas…