Legal Opinion
Fifth Avenue Corp. v. WASHINGTON COUNTY, ETC.
Oregon Supreme Court
Decided June 20, 1978No. TC 35-107, CA 5444, SC 25233PublishedCited by 139 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtLent, J.
Plaintiff is an Oregon corporation which owns approximately 20 acres of undeveloped land (subject property) in an unincorporated area of Washington County. When plaintiff purchased the subject property in 1965, its zoning designation allowed the construction of a "district shopping center” 1 of the type which plaintiff was planning to build.
On November 6, 1973, the Washington County Board of Commissioners (Board) enacted Zoning Ordinance 125, which extensively revised the zoning system of the whole county. The new designation of the subject property no longer allowed uses as intensive as a…
2Cases cited58 opinions
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- Bauman v. RossSupreme Court of the United States · 1897
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3Cited by139 opinions
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