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Board reopens Thornburg Destination Resort record only for economic analysis after LUBA remand
Summary
After months of litigation and a remand from the Land Use Board of Appeals (LUBA), the Deschutes County Board of Commissioners voted to reopen the record only on the economic-analysis portion of the remand, retaining prior record material on two other remand issues.
The Deschutes County Board of Commissioners on April 16 voted to reopen the administrative record for the Thornburg Destination Resort application only on the limited issue of the required economic analysis, leaving other remand topics closed to new evidence.
Planning Manager Will Gross told the Board the remand from LUBA and the Court of Appeals returned three discrete questions: whether the county’s 2022 Fish and Wildlife Management Plan (FWMP) and its submission to the Oregon Water Resources Department satisfied the county’s no-net-loss standard for groundwater effects on fish habitat; whether the FWMP constituted a substantial change requiring new economic analysis under Deschutes County Code (DCC) 18.113.070(c)(3)–(4); and whether the 2022 FWMP violated the 1855 tribal treaty…
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