Salem, OR
Real estate Lawyer at Salem, OR
Practice Areas: Real Estate, Land Use & Zoning, Appeals
OUTCOME: Remand to City with instructions prohibiting costly condition of approval.
In representing the property owner, successfully argued the City erroneously conditioned a subdivision approval requiring construction of a road and bridge improvement. (http://www.oregon.gov/LUBA/docs ... /Opinions/2016/08-16/16025.pdf).
OUTCOME: LUBA reversed the County's decision holding that a straw compression facility was an outright permitted "farm use" in Oregon. The Court of Appeals affirmed LUBA's decision.
Linn County adopted a decision requiring a conditional use permit for a facility that compresses straw bales for distribution to market. Represented the property owner and farmer in reversing the Coun ... ty’s decision. LUBA held the use was permitted outright in Oregon’s EFU zone. LUBA’s holding was affirmed by the Court of Appeals on appeal. (http://www.publications.ojd.state.or.us/docs/A161668.pdf)
OUTCOME: Successfully obtained remand of the decision.
The City of Corvallis amended its comprehensive plan map. The Petitioner challenged the city’s determination that the zoning changes would not significantly affect a transportation facility. LUBA held ... that the city was not required to base its decision on a local traffic study, but the findings were inadequate. LUBA remanded the City's decision holding the City's incorporation of documents were inadequate. (https://www.oregon.gov/LUBA/docs/Opinions/2014/10-14/14040-042.pdf)
OUTCOME: Successfully obtained a remand by LUBA of a local subdivision denial that the county subsequently approved on remand.
Representated a property owner before the Oregon Land Use Board of Appeals obtaining a remand of the County's prior denial of a partition application and obtained approval from the County upon remand. ... (http://www.oregon.gov/LUBA/docs/opinions/2010/06-10/10021.pdf)
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