Case ID: or-app_28/html/0067-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Argued December 20, 1976,
    reversed and remanded January 17, 1977
    PUBLIC INTEREST COUNCIL et al, Appellants, v. THE CITY OF LINCOLN CITY et al, Respondents.
    
    (No. 35826, CA 5986)
    558 P2d 1291
    Jere M. Webb, Portland, argued the cause and filed the brief for appellants.
    No appearance for respondents.
    Before Schwab, Chief Judge, and Lee and Tanzer, Judges.
    PER CURIAM.
   PER CURIAM.

This is an appeal from a writ of review proceeding challenging action by the City Council of Lincoln City approving construction of a sewer-pump-station facility at the 35th Street beach access in Lincoln City, Oregon.

The order to be reviewed is that of the Lincoln County Circuit Court, which affirmed the action of the City Council of Lincoln City in approving a conditional-use permit for the facility.

The dispositive question presented is:

May a city construct a sewer-pump-station structure in a dedicated public street right-of-way where the city does not own the underlying fee title, and where the structure would substantially obstruct use of the street as a public thoroughfare and would interfere with ingress and egress by abutting property owners?

The answer is no. Hyland v. City of Eugene, 179 Or 567, 173 P2d 464 (1946); Iron Works v. O.R. & N. Co., 26 Or 224, 37 P 1016, 46 Am St R 620, 29 LRA 88 (1894); Church v. The City of Portland, 8 Or 73, 22 P 528, 6 LRA 259 (1889).

Reversed and remanded.