Schwerdt v. City of Corvallis

Petitioners seek review of LUBA’s decision remanding, but nevertheless rejecting most of petitioners’ specific challenges to, the City of Corvallis’s approval of Oregon State University’s (OSU) proposal to develop a “privately owned and operated” 156-room ‘hotel/conference facility with restaurant and lounge’ on the OSU campus. The principal issue petitioners raised before LUBA, and raise here, is whether the city council’s interpretation of its Land Development Code (LDC) 1 as allowing the facility is reversible under ORS 197.829 and Clark v. Jackson County, 313 Or 508, 836 P2d 710 (1992).

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