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Board agrees to reopen record on farm-use commercial activity application; staff to prepare order
Summary
The board agreed to allow an applicant to reopen the record and submit a modification for a pending commercial activity-in-conjunction-with-farm-use land-use application. Staff will prepare an order and return the matter to the board after the applicant files the modification.
The Deschutes County Board of Commissioners agreed to reopen the record for a pending land-use application that requests commercial activity in conjunction with a farm use after county planning staff informed the board the applicant requested to submit a modification.
Planning staff described the request as a procedural step: if the board reopens the record the applicant will submit a formal modification application, pay the required fee, and staff will prepare an amended staff report and decision matrix for the board's review. Senior assistant legal counsel Stephanie Marshall and Planner Nathaniel Miller told the board the code permits reopening while formal deliberations have not been finalized.
The board asked staff to prepare a short order for consideration and sign-off; staff said they would return the item to the agenda as soon as the modification has been received and processed. No substantive decision on the application was made at this meeting; the board's action creates a procedural path for the applicant to request modification and resubmission.
