1000 Friends v. Land Conservation & Development Commission

The general question is whether cities, counties, and the Land Conservation and Development Commission (LCDC) must recognize in their planning decisions that land which cannot be used for commercial farming or forestry may have other uses short of intense urban development. The specific issue is what Oregon’s land use planning law requires a county to do before the county allows “urban uses”1 of lands located outside boundaries which have been established to contain future urban growth.

We allowed review of petitioner 1000 Friends of Oregon’s (1000 Friends) challenge to LCDC’s acknowledgment…