Title: Webb v. Dept. of Corrections

State: oregon

Issuer: Oregon Supreme Court

Document:

Filed:  March 19, 1998

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF OREGON

JOHN R. WEBB, LYNN OGEN, THE JOHN	
R. WEBB FAMILY TRUST, JAMES LITTLE,
LYNA LITTLE, THE LYNA LITTLE TRUST,
BILLY COOPER, BETTY COOPER, DEBORAH	
PHILLIPS, HAROLD WICKERSHAM, BERNARD
J. STORMBERG, DOLORES P. STORMBERG,
THE CITIZENS GROUP, PEGGIE FOY,	
ELAINE KILLEN, BRUCE KILLEN, STEVE	
ARNOLD, GRETCHEN ARNOLD, and 
JOHN L. TRAYNOR, MD,		

	Petitioners,		 

	v.		

DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS, 	
CORRECTIONS FACILITY SITING	
AUTHORITY and JOHN A. KITZHABER,	

	Respondents.

(SC S44330)

	In Banc

	On judicial review of the decisions of the Department of
Corrections, the Corrections Facility Siting Authority, and the
Governor.

	Argued and submitted March 3, 1998.

	John R. Huttl, of Frohnmayer, Deatherage, Pratt, Jamieson &
Clarke, Medford, argued the cause and filed the briefs for
petitioners.

	Robert M. Atkinson, Assistant Attorney General, Salem, 
argued the cause and filed the brief for respondents.  With him
on the brief were Hardy Myers, Attorney General, and Michael D.
Reynolds, Solicitor General.

	PER CURIAM

	The decisions of the Department of Corrections, the Corrections
Facility Siting Authority, and the Governor are affirmed.	

		PER CURIAM

This is a case of direct review of decisions by the
Corrections Facility Siting Authority and the Governor to
approve, and by the Department of Corrections to site, a prison
at Stimpson Gulch in Jackson County.(1)  Petitioners own property
in the vicinity of the proposed site.  They challenge the siting
decisions, raising several statutory and constitutional issues. 
We have considered all of petitioners' challenges, but conclude
that they either are controlled by this court's decision in City
of Wilsonville v. Dept. of Corrections, 326 Or 152, ___ P2d ___
(1997), or otherwise are not well taken.

		The decisions of the Department of Corrections, the
Corrections Facility Siting Authority, and the Governor are
affirmed.

1. 	See ORS 421.611 to 421.630 (setting out siting process
and authorizing Supreme Court review of siting decisions).