Case ID: or-app_190/html/0395-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Argued and submitted August 4,
    affirmed November 5, 2003
    Scott COOKMAN and Laurel Cookman, Petitioners, v. MARION COUNTY, Respondent.
    
    2003-008; A121870
    78 P3d 1264
    Ross Day argued the cause for petitioners. With him on the brief was Oregonians in Action Legal Center.
    Jane Ellen Stonecipher, Marion County Legal Counsel, argued the cause and filed the brief for respondent.
    Before Edmonds, Presiding Judge, and Wollheim, and Schuman, Judges.
    PER CURIAM
    
      
       Wollheim, J., vice Kistler, J., resigned.
    
   PER CURIAM

Marion County granted petitioners a conditional use permit allowing them to use their property for a bed and breakfast but restricting its use for outdoor mass gatherings. Petitioners appealed to the Land Use Board of Appeals (LUBA), arguing that the county had misinterpreted ORS 197.015(10)(d) so as to limit their outdoor mass gatherings to one gathering of fewer than 3,000 people, lasting not more than 120 hours, in any three-month period. Petitioners contended that, properly interpreted, the statute permits an unlimited number of mass gatherings, provided that the total number of people attending does not exceed 3,000 and the gatherings cumulatively do not last more than 120 hours in any three-month period. LUBA affirmed the county’s decision, and petitioners sought judicial review.

In Landsem Farms, LP v. Marion County, 190 Or App 120, 78 P3d 103 (2003), the petitioners made the same argument that petitioners make in this case. For the reasons expressed in that opinion, we reject petitioners’ interpretation and accept the county’s.

Petitioners also raise a variety of constitutional arguments, none of which merits discussion.

Affirmed.