Hillyer's Mid-City Ford, Inc. v. City of Woodburn

Petitioners are three separate entities that are engaged in automotive and related businesses. Each petitioner sought to install an on-premises commercial sign, of a size and configuration that the City of Woodburn’s sign ordinance allows only for “integrated business centers.” As required by the ordinance, petitioners filed sign permit applications with the city to authorize the signs. Insofar as the record, the parties’ arguments, or LUBA’s opinion shows, neither the city council nor any inferior city official or body made a final decision to grant or deny the applications. Instead, the…